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Sickening levels of effort, determination and urgency. Absolutely embarrassing.

A pity for those that worked so hard to get the game on, the pitch was far better than last week much to my amazement.

I'd like to know why the hell Starms continues to play Greg Ling every week? The guy doesn't cross, tackle, track back and as for his finishing, i'll leave it at that. With a player like Koriya on the bench you have to ask question. He wasn't the only one to have a bad game today, where as also Tom Cross doesn't live up to his name as he seems to have a fear on crosses. You have to say fair play to St. Andrews they came to us as big underdogs and cruised through in the end. Their number 5 had a great game winning every header and number 9 caused problems to the defence. With Spalding having a freak season, It looks like ours ended today but maybe we improve our performances and keep scoring.

total Rubbish, embarrassing!!!! Everyone loses but that was probably the worst performance from a team I have seen for years. Why cant we shoot, pass, header do anything!Easiest passage into the last 16 for anyteam. only 4 or 5 players good enough for going forward. time to drop cross, talyor and questionably a few others. angry?, very much so. pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheIncognitoKid wrote:I'd like to know why the hell Starms continues to play Greg Ling every week? The guy doesn't cross, tackle, track back and as for his finishing, i'll leave it at that. With a player like Koriya on the bench you have to ask question. He wasn't the only one to have a bad game today, where as also Tom Cross doesn't live up to his name as he seems to have a fear on crosses. You have to say fair play to St. Andrews they came to us as big underdogs and cruised through in the end. Their number 5 had a great game winning every header and number 9 caused problems to the defence. With Spalding having a freak season, It looks like ours ended today but maybe we improve our performances and keep scoring.

Ling couldn't finish his dinner but at least he puts a shift in. One of few that bothered to today. Another player you mentioned is costing us and will continue to.

TheIncognitoKid wrote:I'd like to know why the hell Starms continues to play Greg Ling every week? The guy doesn't cross, tackle, track back and as for his finishing, i'll leave it at that. With a player like Koriya on the bench you have to ask question. He wasn't the only one to have a bad game today, where as also Tom Cross doesn't live up to his name as he seems to have a fear on crosses.

Are you for real with Koriya??? Bottles every tackle, won't jump so can never win a header and has little strength so will almost always fail to get in the box.
As for Cross, that was the second major error in a cup game. If you cannot catch under pressure then punch the damned ball as far away as possible.
Very disappointed is an understatement, the volunteers must be wondering why they bothered today as they were the only people that did any work on the pitch.

BartonRaz wrote:

TheIncognitoKid wrote:I'd like to know why the hell Starms continues to play Greg Ling every week? The guy doesn't cross, tackle, track back and as for his finishing, i'll leave it at that. With a player like Koriya on the bench you have to ask question. He wasn't the only one to have a bad game today, where as also Tom Cross doesn't live up to his name as he seems to have a fear on crosses. You have to say fair play to St. Andrews they came to us as big underdogs and cruised through in the end. Their number 5 had a great game winning every header and number 9 caused problems to the defence. With Spalding having a freak season, It looks like ours ended today but maybe we improve our performances and keep scoring.

Ling couldn't finish his dinner but at least he puts a shift in. One of few that bothered to today. Another player you mentioned is costing us and will continue to.

I just cant see how he can be picked over Koriya and to think we lost Wiz to him. I think his reputation from previous clubs is what gets him the nod. I was all behind him given the first run of games he had, but im losing patience with him now.
I remember how a lot of people on here slated Quincy last season, but the guy we have in goal at the minute is no better and probably weaker in certain area's. His distribution was poor today, but maybe the pitch played its part on that one.

rudolph_hucker wrote:

TheIncognitoKid wrote:I'd like to know why the hell Starms continues to play Greg Ling every week? The guy doesn't cross, tackle, track back and as for his finishing, i'll leave it at that. With a player like Koriya on the bench you have to ask question. He wasn't the only one to have a bad game today, where as also Tom Cross doesn't live up to his name as he seems to have a fear on crosses.

Are you for real with Koriya??? Bottles every tackle, won't jump so can never win a header and has little strength so will almost always fail to get in the box.
As for Cross, that was the second major error in a cup game. If you cannot catch under pressure then punch the damned ball as far away as possible.
Very disappointed is an understatement, the volunteers must be wondering why they bothered today as they were the only people that did any work on the pitch.

I wouldn't say Ling wins headers and as for goals, 20+ goals from mainly that position, tells me i'd rather have him than Ling. If your happy with his performances then you enjoy that for the rest of the season!

We are carrying too many passengers at the moment, I'm not going to name them but I think people know exactly who they are. Although the pitch was a massive leveller we were incredibly shit and deserved nothing.

Long time since I've been this devastated after a football match, they've let themselves down today and there's no doubt in my mind the right team won, it was the underdog syndrome again, they were so up for it, it was embarrassing at times how many balls they got to before our players, they defended well, they broke well and could have easily had a few more and our attitude just wasn't right, that away support must have really motivated them and I can honestly say I wish we had got Spennymoor away this round, at least we would have gone out fighting to a good team.

Of course Wembley was going to be a massive ask, it was really going to get tough from here on in, but to go out to a step 6 team when we've beaten teams like Cambridge City this season is so incredibly frustrating and I'm gutted we're not going to get to take on a big NL team, not going to have a trip up to Spennymoor and play in front of an even bigger crowd, cause we know we could have beaten anyone in this competition on our day.

I guess that's football for you, you could almost say we've been spoiled up to now supporting AFC R&D, but we can't expect everything to go our way unfortunately :(

TheIncognitoKid wrote:

rudolph_hucker wrote:

TheIncognitoKid wrote:I'd like to know why the hell Starms continues to play Greg Ling every week? The guy doesn't cross, tackle, track back and as for his finishing, i'll leave it at that. With a player like Koriya on the bench you have to ask question. He wasn't the only one to have a bad game today, where as also Tom Cross doesn't live up to his name as he seems to have a fear on crosses.

Are you for real with Koriya??? Bottles every tackle, won't jump so can never win a header and has little strength so will almost always fail to get in the box.
As for Cross, that was the second major error in a cup game. If you cannot catch under pressure then punch the damned ball as far away as possible.
Very disappointed is an understatement, the volunteers must be wondering why they bothered today as they were the only people that did any work on the pitch.

I wouldn't say Ling wins headers and as for goals, 20+ goals from mainly that position, tells me i'd rather have him than Ling. If your happy with his performances then you enjoy that for the rest of the season!

I'll settle this ;) Given a choice I wouldn't have either of them.