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It would be good to be able to concentrate on the positives, a chance of an exciting and lucrative cup run, ample first half possession, terrific work by Lolos to set up the tap-in second goal. However, the possession didn't translate into goal threats (even with an injury-hampered keeper and his se...

Whitfield, Nemane, Cameron were very good last season, until injuries robbed us of a great season...however, they had not reached that level overnight so we have to bear with the fact that we lost half of last year's team and have to rebuild again to make younger players better. As said above, we ar...

What a treat it was to have 2 teams trying to play modern football on the deck, alas for Wealdstone their naivety and lack of cutting edge left them exposed to our pressure, once we had tightened up on their playmaker and stretched their midfield. It was great to see our teamwork and hunger for the ...

Fully agree about experience versus the good prospects. In the last 15 minutes we showed what we could do by keeping the ball to feet instead of knocking it over the forwards heads, and we even had a delivery to the near post causing the havoc for an equaliser.. no wonder Chesterfield were surprised...

Spot on Gloomy Gull, especially a - c above. Beaten again by our own tactical ineptitude and inability to do the basics. The Grimsby front 2 combined really well, came off their markers to get the ball to feet of supporting teammates, solid back 4 easily able to deal with our one-dimensional style o...

Yet again shown how to do the basics, whereas we can only hoof high and long; what on earth do we do on the training ground? Apparently not anything to do with teamwork or passing. Comprehensively outmuscled, outplayed, and, alas for our sole tactic, outheaded. How do we expect to control games and ...

Altrincham showed us how to play the basics - defend in depth, break quickly but with control/purpose/passing, close down opponents and support one another with or without the ball. They also frustrated, aided by a referee who thought that only the home team committed fouls, that wrestling and flail...

The recently televised matches showed one thing in particular - if you shoot straight you can benefit from goalkeeping errors or deflections. So COYY stop hitting the ball high and wide, make the keeper play!

Thoroughly agree with you Brucie...and with Nick earlier that we are a young team still learning. Having said that we looked tired both physically and mentally in the second half, and Barnet looked most likely to score as they took control of midfield and coped easily with our aerial approach; Barne...

Well, what a result to steal a point with 10 men.. A for effort as usual, but we were outplayed for much of the match by opponents who hunted in packs and moved the ball comfortably on the deck when controlling the midfield. In contrast, we made our strikers chase long balls into touch, gave little ...

No goals yet again says it all, lots of effort but no real threat or even attempts. And a dreadful penalty, stocky right-handed keeper so AH put it halfway to the corner and at waist height...! But at least a clean sheet (just) against some lively attackers.
So how does one coach ruthlessness????

We have to work better with what we have - a group of players who are good enough for this league and who can get us promotion. But Hartlepool negated our most lively attacker, BW, by putting 2 or 3 on him, maybe in the knowledge that we didn't have real threat from the right. When JU came on he cut...

The first 30 minutes of hit and hope park stuff just wasted most of the first half.
Yet again at home the visiting keeper has had very little to do; why are we so shot shy, especially when we have again failed to penetrate a massed defence?

We have to set up to control games again from the midfield, and to make chances on the deck. Against Halifax in the first half with the wind we had loads of possession but no meaningful attempts near goal or incisive balls into the danger area. Halifax's first goal came from a quick breakaway and an...

I agree with the above comment about set-pieces, however, it is also our general play letting us down - even when we got into good positions for whipping a ball into the danger area all we did was float hopeful high balls - on that surface, in that wind, with no great header of a ball. That is just ...