Sutton

[Deereyme66]

Today, I will mostly be getting real and trying to uphold forum rules, with the Undertones in Derry.

[Bhuna5]

We do need a head of recruitment now, never mind next season.
AB is a control freak i think who wants to run everything at the club, i hear he even does the nutrition side..
Getting Tahir, one ok, but not outstanding defender, then as many wingers, attackers that are available when we are letting in 2/3 goals a game is wrong..

[Deereyme66]

Hang on, Dausch, Farrell and Jones look decent signings don’t they?

[Bhuna5]

To deeryeme66, the signings are ok, though not convinced about Farrell, but the point i am trying to make is the defence is shocking, and we have added one more defender

[Deereyme66]

Agreed defence needs a new face or two

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Bhuna5

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Isn’t George Aikinhead.”head of recruitment”?

[MK Iron]

Connor Smith judging from his previous spell is a clever player with the ball at his feet. Not unlike Roberts.
Neither have a clue what to do with “fight” balls hoofed from the back.
Even our beloved centre forward who loves a fight is not very effective at dealing with fight balls.
Pre Christmas our midfield 3 won their midfield battles and passed to the forwards pretty well – at least by National League standards.
For whatever reason that has stopped happening. The alternative front players, Beestin, Hurst and Carlton (now Jones) are not exactly John Fashanu wannabes either.
During our relative success of the last 3 seasons we have struggled against teams that turn the game into a scrap. Think Tamworth, Buxton, Scarborough etc. Carlisle and Boston examples from this season.
Like it or not (and I for one do like it) we are much more likely to win games by playing some football than we are by joining in with a scrap proposed by opponents and usually aided by poor officials.
Our midfield are all decent footballers but none are capable of winning games emulating the Bishops, Murphies, Togwells etc.
Too much I fear has been made of the pitch as a reason we can’t play football – it didn’t bother York or Borehamwood too much.
Only way out of this slump with the players we have is to attempt to play football again. Yes we will make mistakes which will cost us the odd goal but if we are scoring 2 or 3 it won’t matter too much.

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[Iron-awe]

Good points MK the Tuesday night defeat by Sutton being a prime example. They chased, harried and battled for everything and they did not run out of steam doing it either as I was hoping they would. It was a horrible ugly unentertaining game of football and the 94th minute free header winner was entirely predictable.

[Bhuna5]

A worry for me is our defenders are not passing the ball out of defence, they are just route 1, hope for the best.
As MKIron said we can play football on the mud, it did not bother Boreham or York..
But watching the low-lights of the Sutton match, too many balls played high from the defenders over the heads of Ewing, Beestin, Westbrook and Rowley, all midfielders who can play on the mud, sorry i mean the grass pitch.
Does anybody remember Alfreton at home last season, the ball had snow on it, it spent that much time in the air, and the pitch was probably a lot better then.
AB tactics if all else fails play route 1..
I said at the match on Tuesday, how long till we bring Pat Jones down to our level of passing it back, the one player who looks like he can beat defenders like our Cal Roberts

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