Quote Originally Posted by optipez View Post
Slocombe needs proper competition for his place he has always had a mistake in him and each season has had a run where he loses confidence leading to poor choices and points dropped. He's lost his spring, if we end up in the playoffs and a penalty shoot out we'll lose it.
LW has done brilliantly this season, getting almost everything right but I am a bit concerned that he's dropped the Langstaff and Scott two up front for basically a six man midfield. Together they score lots of goals, separately they look less dangerous, Langstaff especially looks better with a partner.
Our best part of the game was when they were both on the pitch with RR just behind. That's a real handful for defences, the movement pulls them all over the place, creating space.
Bostock is very left footed, not very quick and if we're not careful he'll morph into a Mark Fotheringham / Stanley Aborah / Andre Boucaud kind of player who look good but don't create very much, always playing safe from very deep.
We're only halfway through the season, too early to be cautious trying to eke out the points and manage the games. We're a far better team on the front foot attacking teams and being dynamic.
It's a fine balance, most seasons we'd be 6pts clear on our form but this isn't panning out as a normal season us, Wrexham and Chesterfield are all averaging over 2pts pg which is unusual and ultra competitive.
Instead we are only 5 points clear.

I love how easy some are quick to criticise Slocombe. I haven’t seen the same levels pointed in the direction of Cameron. He made 2 massive school boy errors for the penalty but hardly anyone has criticised this. Marking a player is bread and butter for a CB… then to panic and haul the player down is naive as it is stupid. It won’t be the last time this season Cameron drops a clanger.
I thought Brindley looked lethargic throughout the game and his side was exposed more often than it should. Bajrami seems to be having a crisis of form.
Speaking of mistakes, how come nobody has mentioned Austin losing the ball on the edge of the Oldham box from our corner that led to further calamity for the first equaliser?
How come no one moans about the soft free kick that Nemane gives away when Oldham were going no where that leads to the penalty?
My point is that at times our performance was littered with errors, some of our own doing. A keepers error is often punished with a goal, whilst other errors can often be rectified.