BerlinBlue

The FA/PL know they can get away with this. Most football fans don‘t care. Decisions like this should surely be made in consultation with the clubs it affects. They keep chipping away at things. How long will it be until we get the suggestion of B teams in the league again? Surely a solution to this could be like the FA Trophy, where teams can agree before the game to either extra time/pens or a replay after 90?

Yes, and our "traditional" scouting methods have made it so we haven't been in 30 years of decline either...! My word, what is so scary about stats and incorporating a bit of data analysis into our scouting methods? We don't even know for sure how we use this information. Just something else to moan about, even though there's no proof as to what the moan is about.

10 games without a win. Utter shambles.

Yes, I agree. The main issue for me has been recruitment over the past 18 months. Some signings not working out is ok, it happens. I just don't understand the imbalance in the squad, and the fact that has not been addressed and we seemingly signed players that it did not look like we needed. We need some width and a bloody right back. Hopefully, we can sort that out this summer.

Garner and Fondop went through a bit of a purple patch... but, Fondop has scored 7 goals this season. He scored 4 goals in 3 games, then started the next 3 without scoring. Not saying their partnership was not promising, but Fondop has shown he can not score consistently throughout his career and I think Mellon prefers him as an impact sub. Even so, with the hoofball tactics employed, Fondop is clearly the only kind of target man the ball can stick to. Norwood has been pretty disappointing since returning from injury. He was a shoe-in for 20 league goals this season and now I am confident he will not reach that target (unless we change our style of play).

The replay looked worse, it definitely looked like he knew what he was doing controlling it. oh well. We‘re not losing because of the ref, he‘s just making it worse.

I‘m sorry this ref. How he has not given handball there. Surely when it is so obvious you‘ve got to question the integrity of him as a professional.

Oh ffs.

Yea, we are looking awful again. No composure on the ball as per… and Hogan having a shocker. They are all over us. Oh and they can actually pass it around.

So are we!

Perfectly put.

It was a poor game. Just no pattern of play. It‘s been the same all season really. We were getting wins and now they are turning into draws. I still have hope of the playoffs (the fan in me will hope til it‘s no longer possible). But to be honest, I really can not see this team winning four games - which may not even be enough.

How did we not score there.

Pereira been the best player on the pitch going forward. Very lucky we are not one down. Still think we can nick this…

Finally, a half chance. Nice ball from Gardner. Need more of that.

We really cannot put more than two passes together before we hoof it to no one. Both sides lacking quality.

Why would you do that to yourself

Think some people enjoy moaning more than celebrating. Always the same piss boil when we lose and crickets when we win. (It’s ok to moan a bit, but sometimes it really is a bit melodramatic). Obviously our home performances haven’t been great, but Mellon‘s overall record is. Even if the performances are inconsistent, the results really aren‘t. (I‘m sure we‘ll figure out the home form eventually) We are on course to finish in the playoffs, we all would‘ve taken that after the start to the season and we should celebrate that!

Great win and performance.

How‘s he not given a free kick to them there? Come on boys, we cannot give this away.

Total football! What a flick from McGahey, Hogan driving forward and another good finish from Garner! E I E I E I O…

McGahey had a great half. We really imposed ourselves there. Hopefully more of the same in the second half.

Get in! Great header from Sheron to set it up and a cool finish from Garner. If only we could play away every week!

He‘s got the same amount of league goals as Dickenson (according to the BBC)… not exactly a high bar. Not to get on the Sheron hate train again, but anyone watching our midfield constantly struggle can see he is part of the problem. It‘s so obvious at this point and a rather strange hill to die on. Even so, he‘ll be part of the starting eleven til the end of the season, and so we‘ll need to rely on hoofball getting is the results we need.

Another poor performance. For how defensive we set up, and having most of the team play as defenders, we are shit at defending. The midfield is unbelievably poor. Today was just utterly clueless. Long ball after long ball. What was the plan? The recruitment has been so poor since we‘ve been in this league none of the new players off any improvement. Next home game, we have to be set up different, but I doubt anything will change. Even so, if Lundstram had buried his one-on-one, we‘d have been 2-1 up… instead two mins later we were 2-1 down! Ah… football.