Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
To be honest, that's my biggest concern and it has been for a very long time. I don't think we have a poor squad, but we often contrive to play like we have a poor squad. It seems that when the going gets tough, the opposition get going. We seem far more concerned about countering their style of play than we do on forcing them to counter ours. We allow ourselves to be bullied, and if we do make the playoffs does anyone think we will have the guts and desire to win a key game whoever we face? We played with fear and trepidation under Ardley, and it seems nothing has changed in the short term at least. Let's just hope the long term will be better.
Agree with all of that. We occasionally look like quite a neat football team to be honest, when a football game breaks out (as it did for half an hour today!). But every team in this division knows that all you have to do against us is turn the midfield into a physical battle which we inevitably lose, and put enough long balls and crosses into our box.

There’s nothing to stop you playing nice, attacking football in this league (Barrow last season a great example), but you have to have the will, the desire and the energy to impose it on an opposition that wants the game to turn into something else. We lose that battle every single time, and have done all season.