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Keeper: OK, but could do with a decent back-up option.
Defence: Not enough serious back-up options.
Midfield: Lightweight.
Forwards: Lightweight, not enough serious options.
Year on year we're gettings progressively worse. It seems we are happy settling into being a decent Non-League team that wil more often than not flirt with the P/O's.
Simply not good enough: From the players, the manager or the owners.
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We've made the nightmare error of building a squad to play one formation and then having to abandon it after a few games. It looked like the plan was to use Roberts and Rodrigues in free roles to rip teams apart but sadly we discovered that Roberts can only play off the right wing, and we ended up with no pace in the team to create the space to allow us to play.
If we'd planned on playing 4-4-2 we wouldn't have kept Chicksen or DKE - neither of them look like fullbacks. Chicksen was re-born as a wide centre half or he'd have been gone. You'd also want 4 centre halves on the books especially with Lacey missing so many games and not believing Brindley or Chicksen can play there. And you'd want some more wing options, a midfielder than could protect your back 4 and a 2nd striker.
We just don't have the players to make 4-4-2 work and there's no place for Rodrigues in that formation. He's too slow to play up front with Wootton, can't play as one of a 2 in midfield, and isn't a winger. He's ended up playing in a 10 role behind a static striker with no runners from midfield basically hoping the ball drops to him on the edge of the box.
There is no easy fix to this. Either we go back to 5 at the back, can't fit Roberts into the team and have the slowest XI ever to take to the pitch or we play 4-4-2 with a lightweight midfield. There's enough rubbish in this league that we'll win games well every now and again, but equally we're prone to being turned over by any team that can sit tight and out-muscle us.
I remember when it started to go wrong for Moniz and he had to tell Mike Edwards to get match fit in his role as conditioning coach, and started playing Smith again. Doyle will to come back in and then we're back to the Doyle and O'Brien dream team that were meant to keep us in L2.
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Can I question your use of the word 'decent', Gumpy?Originally Posted by countygump
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''Decent'' as in good enough to be challenging/pushing for the match day shirt?
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