Quote Originally Posted by Stan Marshall View Post
To be fair, this is the way Ardley has got them to play for the last 2 years!
And to be fair to Burchnall, he has said that possession for possession's sake - which is what we have - is meaningless. Aldershot were happy for us to have the ball in our own half and then pressed when we paid a forward pass (which didn't happen very often). Or we went long, as usually happened, and we surrendered possession cheaply having done nothing with it for a minute among the back four.

Only one team played any football last night, and that was Aldershot. Made me laugh how Burchnall referenced several times their quick forwards, as if this is some revolutionary idea that was unfair on our ponderous defence.

I never realised quite how much we would miss Brindley - he's probably been as big a miss as Cal Roberts, in his own way. DKE definitely played a lot better out of position on the left than he has on the right, which is another odd one.