I am no fan of Davis but let's be real! Our team was missing at least 4 of its most experienced, and key, first choice players.
...and other squad men like Ray and Bingham are also not available to fill in
A lot of our attacking threat comes from Dagnall, Lowe, Turton and Bakayogo. It's not always great but none of them were there to start tonight and it showed
Lads like Udoh, Ainley, Ng, Wintle and Saunders cannot suddenly appear and set the world alight and some of them probably never will! We needed Cooper, Kiwomya and Garratt to play at their very best to have a chance because we do not defend well.
The manager has to take his share of the blame but Cheltenham were physically stronger and got the type of weak referee they would have hoped for tonight
Credit to Jones, Hollands and Ainley tonight. We will not sack the manager while sitting in play off position but our next few games will be a struggle because our squad support players are youngsters who cannot step up en bloc to compete consistently at this level