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The fashion seems to be zonal defence, especially from corners: everyone on the six-yard line, goalkeeper blocked from coming off his line to dominate in the air, no-one on the edge of the penalty area leaving the opposition 2 or 3 players completely unmarked for the inevitable loose ball. This styl...

It is the constantly dysfunctional midfield which condemns us to never imposing ourselves on the opposition, and yet this game was the ideal opportunity to boss the play and to tire a part-time team. Our two strikers made lots of runs but were largely ignored, and the fact that they made individual ...

A more encouraging performance for some of the game, a great start with pressing and playing to feet and more dynamism in midfield provided by Evans and Smith, but then we relapsed into hitting hopeful long balls, and consequently offered little direct threat to a young-looking goalie. Indeed our mo...

Yes Gary we all want things turned around. However, our pattern of play is holding us back, we have gone from a previously exciting GJ teams with flair and attacking intent to a group of individuals who are not putting into practice the very basics of football. Passing with intent, movement with int...

Indeed it is the system which is making us into a group of players set up not to concede, hence the lack of creative play and lack of goals. We have no central playmaker, we have a midfielder protecting the back 3/5, we have insufficient support from the wings and for the front men. Other teams seem...

First league game with such a different squad, so happy with that point, but not with the way we played in continually looking to go long, hence not much created in spite of the width which should come with a 3-5-2 formation. We hardly used the left wing back, the midfield dwelled on the ball and we...

Not that harsh actually - Exeter failed to convert several chances in and around our goal area and were only prevented from scoring by excellent goalkeeping and woeful finishing (and even by one of their own men running across goal and getting in the way). The Exeter front men often made space for t...

Terrific team and individual performances, wow! And mostly kept our cool despite the man in black allowing so much physical contact, his desire to book our players and ignore blatant fouls by the opposition, and despite the pathetic histrionics and simulation of injury orchestrated by the County cap...

Agree with Modgull.

As ever with referees, it is tha lack of consistency that fans deplore - compare the Chesterfield keeper, Loach, who tripped a forward who was rounding him in the middle of the penalty area prior to tapping into an empty net and only received a yellow! We should also have had a penalty in the first ...

The ref was inconsistent, and seemed to favour BW whenever a player hit the deck or complained or took a throw-in/free kick 10 yards further upfield. And he didn't blow for a handball on the edge of the BW penalty area early in the first half. Still, we set up for a draw, we hoofed and chased the ba...

We are a team in transition, and are finding it difficult to field a settled line-up. It was saddening to see both the angry exchanges between GJ and fans who were criticising the performance of AL, and also the reaction of AL to fans after his goals. AL is an enigma, obviously talented at this leve...

Or, far too often this season, defenders can just watch the ball float over everyone's heads out of play. And we fans are right to question why that happens consistently, and with such little variety (no pun intended as there is insufficient change of tactic - indeed, the set piece corner for the eq...

Huxtable is a problem because he consistently makes wrong calls, and with a bit of backbone, would have shown his yellow card more; we had 2 possible penalty shouts, first half when Armstrong was charged in the back in the air and sent sprawling (no mean feat , mind you) and the obvious handball cle...