Quote Originally Posted by LaxtonLad View Post
This allowing other teams to develop their game while we wait and see what might come our way is no way to dominate a game, never mind win one. Time and again we do it and after six games in charge IB hasn’t stopped us doing it. The 4-2 win was three games away and is now history, your last game is the one that matters, the one you should learn from.
I don’t think this is necessarily fair, on Burchnall anyway. I think Notts went out and imposed their game on Solihull for half an hour tonight but couldn’t respond when it started going against us. A similar thing happened at Woking where we controlled the game for half an hour, played some nice stuff, took the lead and then immediately conceded two soft goals from set pieces.

I think you can see some positive signs in the way that IB wants the team to play, which we see in flashes. A similar thing happened under Ardley, where we had the odd half an hour where we looked great but could never sustain it for a whole game, let alone a run of them.

It’s increasingly clear that this group of players is inconsistent, mentally weak, loses focus way too easily and gets bullied. This isn’t something that a change of manager was ever going to solve in hindsight, at least not quickly.