Quote Originally Posted by eastfifearabman View Post
Massive gap from the midfield to the strikers. Midfield pair dropping deep most of the time to collect the ball which has worked well as the FB's have pushed high and moved the LW and RW up the park.

Harkes and Stanton tried but ultimately it took the part time team tiring and an non SFA Sporle to have a go to get us going.
When there is 30+ yards between your defenders arsing about with the ball and the first Arbroath defender, the midfield are on a hiding to nothing when they come for the ball, turn and find 10 Arbroath defenders and 4 of our attackers somewhere in there! But dont worry, the stats show 57% possession and the result glosses over everything!

Now i think Harkes and Stanton are our best pairing in midfield, but to single either of them out for poor performance with the workload they have is unwarranted!