The questions....

[optipez]

As others have said, we've lost a lot of goals out of the team with Roberts, Thomas and Dennis. Even so we had Roberts, Enzio, Wootton and Knowles on the pitch for the last fif**** on Tuesday and the midfield couldn't feed them and they couldn't hold it up when they did get it. They created absolutely nothing.
I think Wolfe will need a run of games to get the best out of him, it's close to impossible for a young player to just hit the ground running at 100%, even Ryan Yates didn't show his best until he'd had a run of three or four games and he was clearly playing a couple of divisions lower than his talent.
Centre mid is a problem and has been for a while, Harrogate , Boreham Wood, Chesterfield all ran over us to a degree, we compete but can't dominate against teams with high energy midfields, Stockport with Rooney didn't let us settle and he bossed us last season playing for Barrow.
It's always easy to see the problems but unless we find a way to get the best out of Effiong ( 1 in 3 for Dover ) or Sam finds something extra it could be that we're going to have to slog it out with clean sheets and tight wins all season. Hope not as it won't win us the league or play offs, I think we'll come up short playing like that in the end.
One thing we should do better from is set pieces, there's enough height in the team to at least make it difficult for teams and surely Barnett or Rodriguess can consistently whip balls in rather than floaters to the keeper that we do too many of.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

As others have said, we've lost a lot of goals out of the team with Roberts, Thomas and Dennis. Even so we had Roberts, Enzio, Wootton and Knowles on the pitch for the last fif**** on Tuesday and the midfield couldn't feed them and they couldn't hold it up when they did get it. They created absolutely nothing.
I think Wolfe will need a run of games to get the best out of him, it's close to impossible for a young player to just hit the ground running at 100%, even Ryan Yates didn't show his best until he'd had a run of three or four games and he was clearly playing a couple of divisions lower than his talent.
Centre mid is a problem and has been for a while, Harrogate , Boreham Wood, Chesterfield all ran over us to a degree, we compete but can't dominate against teams with high energy midfields, Stockport with Rooney didn't let us settle and he bossed us last season playing for Barrow.
It's always easy to see the problems but unless we find a way to get the best out of Effiong ( 1 in 3 for Dover ) or Sam finds something extra it could be that we're going to have to slog it out with clean sheets and tight wins all season. Hope not as it won't win us the league or play offs, I think we'll come up short playing like that in the end.
One thing we should do better from is set pieces, there's enough height in the team to at least make it difficult for teams and surely Barnett or Rodriguess can consistently whip balls in rather than floaters to the keeper that we do too many of.

I agree about the dead ball situations in the final third. It can be easy sometimes for keepers to come and pluck the ball out of the air from free kicks and corners or we lose possession and waste the chance. I don't mind us taking short corners either if we put ourselves in a position where we are threatening. Sam must be the tallest player on the pitch on many occasions so let's use his height to our advantage, even if he can knock a header down in and around the box so someone else can put their foot through it.

Set-pieces, incisive passes, creating goal scoring opportunities, forward runs. It all comes down to quality in the final third and that is what is the difference between us being a top three team and a title winning team at this point in time in my view.

[matt_magpie]

I think on set pieces we are always going to struggle, we're just not a big side, only Rawlinson or Turner only seem to threaten but we also don't deliver them that well.

[i961pie]

We Had Noble who thought he was Beckham taking all dead ball kicks, then Doyle and now Rodders. Non of them any good.

[TSANHO]

Loads of good posts on here, thanks....given me plenty to think about anyway. I’ll try and collate some of the answers when I get chance!