‘The Problem’

[crazyfists]

When the flowing football works, it’s great and we’ve started games (even Dover) really well this season, but haven’t been able to maintain it for more than half an hour. Then the problem with defending set pieces rears it’s ugly head and we give games away. I can’t see what’s going to happen to change things. He has been manager for 2 years.

Yeah I'm not sure myself it'll change, the players can do more though as if they are switching off at ***** times then they have to look at themselves. Is the squad we have assembled too lightweight, I think we all agree we need another destroyer in the middle and more height at the back or through the team. Have the players at our level the ability to play the way Ardley wants for 90 mins as like you say they can do it for short periods where they look great then it drops off. I worry about our over reliance on Roberts as well. Will Enzio become the player we think he can be or does he just not have that instinct in him. More questions than answers at the moment for me. All I will say is last season we had Barrow and Harrogate and this year have Stockport and Hartlepool, it's going to be harder to get up and I worry we're going to go backwards.

I believe the owners are stats men and if ours look like more shots, more possession, more passes completed then I think they will still stick with him. We need to get rid of the soft underbelly and now, as others have said you need to be pretty much a machine in this league to go up.