Quote Originally Posted by MillersTime View Post
What an absolutely turgid afternoon of football. We never truly got going. A couple of minutes before halftime we had some concerted pressure that culminated with the penalty. We regressed to the hoof ball all too much, again. Fleetwood are the stereotypical midtable league 1 team. Average as average can be. Fair play to them for taking their chances mind you, some cracking finishing. The number 9, Morton, terrorised our back line all game. We played into their hands all game, the hoofball approach does not work. The Smudge and Freddie tandem does not work. I don't know if one or both of them is to blame, or neither, they just don't link up that well. Then again, first half they did on the break one time, when the ball was on the floor.....

Rathbone played well, credit to him, he actually played well again. Smudge was alright. That's as good as it got for me. I won't go through the rest individually but off the pace and lacking in quality sums up pretty much everyone from Ladapo trying to score from the outside of his boot at an awful angle to Chieo not being able to cross for most of the game.

We look so much better when we play on the floor, why we constantly resort to hoofing it I just don't know. We needed more guile when going forward, we needed a Dan (I know, had to say it) to get on the ball and link it up a bit. Just so poor, all afternoon. I'm getting a KFC to cheer myself up, ah well.

Lastly, Wiles MOTM, okayyyy.
Agree with much of this. Warne not doing him or us any favours. Their manager knew how we were going to play, with two wing backs that really aren't, and got his players to quickly release the ball over and into the gaps where the wing backs weren't. And they had a player perfectly placed for that role making Wes look a league 2 player. Few players emerge with credit, some occasional decent quick passing but wasteful end product.

Ah well, guess Warne deserves the inevitable gleeful kicking on this thread on this occasion. Just not good enough