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Olly wrote:Oh dear 1-4, we really need Alfie back, not good in front of goal today and to be fair to Eynesbury they've been a decent in attack.

One man team. Alfie's goal earlier in the season masked the cracks in our defence and lack of attacking options apart frm Alfie

Alfie wouldn't make any difference here, we've got nothing in midfield to give to the strikers.

We really miss Elliot Dent, the creative force in the midfield.

When does it become acceptable to criticise the team and not be mocked or labelled a doom monger? The players and vocal on here need to wake up and smell the coffee.

There are problems and the problems are glaring. Problems that Alfie Taylor couldn't solve.

I wasn't there today, so can't comment on the performance. Though i've seen this result coming, we just aren't putting in decent, consistent, performances!

BartonRaz wrote:When does it become acceptable to criticise the team and not be mocked or labelled a doom monger? The players, staff and vocal on here need to wake up and smell the coffee.

There are problems and the problems are glaring. Problems that Alfie Taylor couldn't solve.

Agreed and no one can disagree. That was awful, we need a keeper, a central midfielder and possibly another striker because Newman has been ****ing shit.

There may be problems but these problems, in my opinion, will be mainly solved by the team gelling together. That takes time not less than a dozen games.

The players talk of how great it is to play in front of our crowds but by the same token it has to be an new experience for them having dozens of fans on their backs when things aren't going well, especially when most of them will have known all the crowd personally this time last season.

Sara Pascoe wrote:Agreed and no one can disagree. That was awful, we need a keeper, a central midfielder and possibly another striker because Newman has been ****ing shit.

Rob it's often just you and I telling it how it is, living in the real world and taking the flak. (Except when Three Nips joins in and single handedly pisses off everybody at the club :lol: )

Sara Pascoe wrote:

BartonRaz wrote:When does it become acceptable to criticise the team and not be mocked or labelled a doom monger? The players, staff and vocal on here need to wake up and smell the coffee.

There are problems and the problems are glaring. Problems that Alfie Taylor couldn't solve.

Agreed and no one can disagree. That was awful, we need a keeper, a central midfielder and possibly another striker because Newman has been ****ing shit.

also lacking another winger

BartonRaz wrote:When does it become acceptable to criticise the team and not be mocked or labelled a doom monger? The players, staff and vocal on here need to wake up and smell the coffee.

There are problems and the problems are glaring. Problems that Alfie Taylor couldn't solve.

Yep, three games in a week where they've got it wrong and today wasd the icing. At 2-1 i thought we could go on to get something but the poor defending put pay to that. To make matters worse, their keeper was about 5ft7 and wore glasses!