Quote Originally Posted by RU66 View Post
Time to get behind the side. There's hope.
Specifically 'Bob' and 'no'.

Positives: Great support again, especially considering how we're doing. Plenty of effort went in from the lads. Cann looked okay after a nervous start. We made a promotion contender look pretty poor.

Negatives: No creativity at all. Very little width. Piss poor defending for the goal, which should have been a routine clearance. One of the lads (I'm not singling them out by name) is clearly either not good enough to play L1 football or has zero interest in being here, but coasted for the second time in very recent memory. No changes made at any stage to our approach despite trailing for 80 minutes.

Lots of effort, but with games piled up in the coming days, we'll have tired players who are just fed up of running for no reward. At this stage we need something (any-f***ing-thing) to reset us and get them playing with a bit of freedom. It's all very sterile and safe, and smacks of deteriorating confidence. There's ability in there, and we've seen the quick passing, movement, attacking intent earlier in the season... that needs to come back so we go at this like it's a lost cause. At the minute they're playing like we're on a knife edge and nobody wants to be the reason we fall off.

Let's play some football, let's get back to inventive set pieces, let's see the players show off a bit and mug these limited defenders off.