It certainly should, because absolutely everything was in our favour. It was explained away by some that "the grass was too long", or "there are often freak results on opening day". We were bloody lucky that it didn't count in the end.
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This allowing other teams to develop their game while we wait and see what might come our way is no way to dominate a game, never mind win one. Time and again we do it and after six games in charge IB hasn’t stopped us doing it. The 4-2 win was three games away and is now history, your last game is the one that matters, the one you should learn from.
Just listened to IB interview. Don’t understand why folk are critical. The points he made were correct.
Just watched the post-match interview with IB and he’s talking - as he did against Woking - of how Notts were the only team to create “open play” chances. Welcome to the National League, Ian. Teams are invariably going to stick the ball into the box every chance they get, especially when we keep on conceding goals from set plays. Also, the last time I checked, you don’t get marks for artistic merit in this sport.
I don’t think this is necessarily fair, on Burchnall anyway. I think Notts went out and imposed their game on Solihull for half an hour tonight but couldn’t respond when it started going against us. A similar thing happened at Woking where we controlled the game for half an hour, played some nice stuff, took the lead and then immediately conceded two soft goals from set pieces.
I think you can see some positive signs in the way that IB wants the team to play, which we see in flashes. A similar thing happened under Ardley, where we had the odd half an hour where we looked great but could never sustain it for a whole game, let alone a run of them.
It’s increasingly clear that this group of players is inconsistent, mentally weak, loses focus way too easily and gets bullied. This isn’t something that a change of manager was ever going to solve in hindsight, at least not quickly.