Sloshed Joe

New pie supplier on Saturday.Had the cottage pie, was decent.

Agreee YardDog, but if ST didn’t want to bring on Kurt for Dickenson then he needs to vary his options on the bench. Hope or Tollitt need to be on there, so if Green or Dickenson have a shocker (like today) we have some width on the bench. And Hope’s best goal scoring season in L2 was playing wide in a front three, so he gives us good options. Kurt was playing more as a CAM today and it’s not his game. I thought he really struggled when he came on and made us worse.

Shelton coming on for Green at RWB would’ve been my move (unless Sheron was running on empty). Green was awful today. He didn’t affect the game at all.

No-one ever seems to mention Hope any more. Tons of league experience at a higher level. Looked effective last season b4 the Chesterfield incident. Can play wing or front three. Works hard, can hold it, can finish. Attitude is apparently good. Looked back to sharpness in recent cameos. Was sub a couple of times but now omitted again. I think he should be an option.

One day we will be able to say we’ve beaten Wealdstone in a league match I hope

Solihull (2nd) Bromley (5th) Rochdale (8th) Woking (9th) have all played away at Kidderminster this season. Only Solihull won. Only Solihull and Rochdale managed to score, just once. We scored twice. I’ll take the win and be pleased with it. Despite all our v.poor performances under Unsworth, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we hold on to win at Gateshead, put away early chances and win v Solihull, nick a win v Dorking with Kurt’s sitter. Get the late Fondop penalty v Halifax. Fine margins in this league. We could be 8 points better off. Likewise, there’s an alternate universe where Chesterfield didn’t manage all their last minute winners. Could be battling it out with them in the top 3 without having played any differently. Confidence breeds wins and momentum. Let’s move!!!

How did Hallam Hope look when he came on?

Maybe the players have commented on how flat it feels having a completely empty stand behind one of the goals. A few hundred people cheering us on that end could make a small difference.

I think Norwood got booked after the Solihull game once the final whistle had gone. So should be on 5 bookings and a ban.

What about if I get into a parked car, start it up & then reverse it backwards into a wall?

If you want to see the net ripple that often you need to go and watch basketball. Personally, I’d love to see us try the basketball approach that Unsworth looks to avoid. You attack, we attack, open & high tempo. Back ourselves to come out on top with attacking talent. Might not work but would be worth a try as things stand. Feels like that’s how Chesterfield are playing and are getting the rewards with victories and late winners.

I hope it’s 0-0 so Dave can talk about his delight at getting a clean sheet.

Yes he was played much more in that period (where we actually looked like competing). Often started with Nuttall which looked like our best combo. Reid said on the Radio Mcr interview the other day that he prefers to play upfront in a 2 alongside a big striker…

Is there a rule where we have to include at least one home grown talent in the match day squad or have I made this up? Sutton is the only one really, now that Vaughan & Couto aren’t around.

We got very lucky v Halifax (h) when Norman got injured in the warm up. Hudson wasn’t named as a sub that game but the rules allowed Hudson to swap in. That injury happens after KO & we’re screwed. Still lost though. Bradford (a) a few seasons ago we stuck with an injured keeper which cost us. I think we actually had a keeper on the bench that day but he was an untried kid so we didn’t make the change. Now that was a waste of a sub keeper on the bench.

Confidence is a preference for the Dorking owner Of who is known as (Marc White) Dave’s got brewer's droop He gets intimidated by the dirty home fans They love a bit of it (Talk Shite) We feed the Norwood, we sometimes feed his teammates too It gives us a sense of enormous squad rotation (Boundary Parklife) Who's that gut lord marching? You should cut down on your 4-5-1 mate Get some exercise (and some decent midfielders) All the piss boils So many piss boils But we’re all still Oldham fans Oldham fans who think we’re shite. Know what I mean

John Rooney scored for Macc today

Recruitment has been strange. This time last season, Tollitt & Hope had both scored about 3 goals each and looked our main source of goals. That was with a supporting act of Cooper, J.Clarke, Stobbs etc. Now neither can get on the bench, but we’re playing central strikers Kurt & Nuttall in wide roles which would be much better suited to Hope & Tollitt. Unsworth’s only doing this because he’s overloaded with new players and doesn’t know how to use them. Mad to think that we had Kurt, Reid, Nuttall, Raglan, Freeman, Norman, Tollitt, Hope all available yesterday but could afford not to start any of them. Yet an injury or suspension to a midfielder and we look exposed.

Think Norwood is one yellow away from a suspension already. Good job we have a collection of forwards as cover.

I also thought we should’ve kept Reid on and brought Norwood on for maybe Gardner. In those situations, chasing the game with 10 men you need some legs and players who can put pressure on the opposition. Unsworth said on Saturday that he’s never been able to get 95 minutes out of Dan Gardner because of his fitness issues. It was about managing his minutes and building him up with 30 min appearances etc. Then two days later he plays him for 95 minutes when we only have 10 men ! That to me made no sense. Yes he’s technically better than Sheron & Shelton, but in the situation we were in yesterday Gardner should have come off.

Does anyone know if Norwood was given a yellow card after the match. Saw him in conversation with the ref and looked like he might have gotten booked but wasn’t sure.

He got asked a question about playing Solihull on Monday and failed to answer it at all and just talked about Chesterfield dropping points v Alty. Was weird & cringey. On the phone in, part of the argument for keeping him was coz of all the work he does on the infrastructure behind the scenes. If that’s the only benefit then give him a DOF role and bring in a proper head coach that can properly manage a team.

And we must have so many unhappy players in the camp. Norwood will be pissed off. Nuttall gets booed all the time. Reid and Kurt hardly get picked. Hobson’s gone from team of the year to bench warmer. Tollitt’s form has been shot to pieces. Hallam Hope hasn’t made a squad yet this season. John Rooney exiled. All these players would be pretty much guaranteed starters in most other teams in this league and are being woefully mismanaged.

DU will say “After losing 4-0 to Southend in our opening game, to now be 6 points above them in the league shows how far we’ve come and improved as a group”

Disappointed. Also, Boreham Woods manager said post match that they only had 12 fit professionals available. They only named 3 on the bench and one was injured and could only play 5 mins, the other was a kid who would never have got on. With our resources compared to theirs, it is slightly embarrassing that we scraped a 0-0.