Worcester Owl

Decent attendance today, considering last week's shambles.

And it's 5!!

And it's 3

2-0!

Emmanuel Dieseruvwe puts Hartlepool 1-0 up v Gateshead.

February 18th, v Maidstone. He's come on as a sub a few times since.

According to Wikipedia his full name is Lee David Brent Johnson. If that isn't a wind up, then never was a guy so aptly named.

You’ll think of something, BP.

Well could you start bigging up Mr Unsworth in that case?

I’ll put up with the latter if we get the former!

Yes that is down there with people who start every answer to a question with "So...."

What we didn't see was DU off-camera threatening him with being put in goal against Aldershot

Your points there are spot on. As you say people spent a lot of time and money on Saturday, added to which the usual new season optimism was boosted by some decent transfer activity over the summer. Unsworth can’t guarantee 3 points v Aldershot, but he could admit that last Saturday was poor and say that at least next time the effort and application will be far better.

I know we've been starved of success for over 30 years, but that is (literally) going a bit far!

To be fair you possibly have to be insane to have followed Latics for over 50 years as some of us have. Well, except for the good times under Frizzell and Royle, of course.

I'd be happy for Wild to come back, but Barrow finished 9th in L2 last season. Is there evidence that their ambitions are less than ours?

Was it 5 yellows or 6 that we ended up with? I’m splitting hairs I know, either is too many.

Well I hope you have a better day than you did on Saturday! I saw SLF at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge in the late 70s. God they were loud - and I was young then!

On the other hand, they're never wrong........

To be honest, at the moment if we had time travel and could get Cafu at his peak into the side, I worry about what Unsworth might do with/to him!!

Good point Monty. I've posted on another thread that a worry I have about Unsworth, Ebbrell & co is that I can't see evidence that they've developed any of the players since they took charge. Mindset is a big part of that - where is the winning mentality? I also agree it's not to be confused with yellow and red cards - refs have been told to clamp down on indiscipline this season and our lot need to learn that lesson very quickly.

That's an interesting view. I would say that most people (including the bookies) looked at the squad ahead of the Southend game and thought we'd recruited decently over the summer and so we looked on paper a decent promotion bet (I know bookies' odds reflect weight of money staked, but they are also usually a reflection of consensus views). What I find worrying about Unsworth and the coaching team is that there is scant evidence since his/their arrival of players being improved by him and his team. Whether that's down to playing certain players out of position, or an overly risk-averse mindset, I'm not sure. It's important to recruit well , of course, but it's also important to develop players and I just can't think of an example of Unsworth achieving that. In fact you could argue that some players have declined under his management.

Only one less?! That doesn’t often make such a difference. It’s not as big a handicap as in rugby union.

That’s as lame as the team’s performance yesterday.

They had 2 pre-season friendlies, we had, six was it? They certainly shouldn’t have been as match fit as us. Yet they managed to score 3 goals in the last 10 minutes. Go figure.