Gainsborough

Complete sh*te today. Kayden Crapson and Reece Styche in particular were shocking. Styche spent more time stationary than the corner flags. Their 2 centre halves, a fat bloke and a pensioner made mugs out our strikers. Completely embarrassing, and against a very poor Gainsborough side.

Edited by abcdefg - 04 Apr 2015 at 7:01pm

Actually I thought Belshaw played well, and Hibbert ran his socks off and played well. The others not mentioned played badly, and the two mentioned in my original post were so shocking as to be almost unbelievable. Agree the ref was horrendous.

I thought Dom Smith had a very good game fortunately. He made two superb last minute tackles that kept us in the game. Wilkins for Thornton I thought was a strange substitution unless he was injured and had to come off. Not convinced that Wilkins is good enough.

Totally agree with above posts , Dom was impressive as he should be and tactics were all wrong,
Not too sure what the forum thoughts are but if we are not careful our exciting end to the season may not happen.
We have phil trainer sitting patiently( and players ready to come back) trainer is ready to step up to any occasion and continually overlooked for a start.
He's been involved in the best of non-league games but I think it's time Andy to play your trump card
He knows what's expected and a player for the big occasion
Dawn1

I am no in way having a pop at AM but I do believe that yesterday was the 1st time this season that he got his team selection and tactics wrong, I could not actually make out what the game plan was except to pump the ball forward hoping that Hibbert would win it in the air and that Styche (who for me looks uninterested or out of his depth, he spends more time protesting with referees than getting on with the game) would maybe make a run and get on the end of a knockdown.

From the 1st minute it was apparent that this was not going to work as their centrebacks were both going to win everything in the air, the subs were introduced too late, and to be honest the game was already lost by then as the whole team didn't believe that they were going to score, we could still be there today and wouldn't have scored yet.

I think that AM will go back to basics for the Boston game and try to keep it tight at the back and maybe try to snatch a 1-0 win which I think we are more than capable of, for me he needs to start Mettam and Taylor who I believe offer more going forward than Styche and Jackson, whilst Taylor offers more defensively, I would also get Sampson back in the defence and I would possibly try C Smith at right back if Vidal or Green are still out, however I'm not sure if he can play this role or not.

At least the talk is about us making the play offs and not staying up as I thougth it was going to be before AM took, so I will look on the bright side and say we have the nucleus of a very good side should we need to build again for a promotion push next season, and with a few signings one that may be able to compete in the prem.