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Ling had a different mind set - he won matches by not conceding - but, now, with a more attacking mindset and even with a specialist defence coach, we cannot defend, cannot keep composure to clear danger, do not win enough loose balls, and it seems impossible to keep a clean sheet against any opposi...

The last two home games have been entertaining as the visitors have tried to play an open style of football - Eastleigh, in particular, played a quick tempo passing game, often one-touch passing because they played as a supportive team. We can play also but seem to run out of steam and confidence, a...

Agree that Hartlepool were more streetwise than us, and that we get bullied too easily. We badly lack a genuine target man, an asset that most other teams have, who can both win in the air and hold the ball to bring others into play. However, we can play good football - just not, apparently, for two...

Amongst all the welcome euphoria and congratulations to playing, coaching, backroom staff, should we not also offer thanks to our owner for keeping us full-time, for reversing the disastrous decision to appoint the lacklustre GO last season, and for providing the funding behind our push for promotio...

Our young players need to remember their practice/warm-up drills/skills - controlled passing, triangles, shoot low/actually hit the target, but all went completely out the window in the first half. And we are left to wonder why/how our more experienced personnel could let this happen for so long. We...

Ignoring all the personal stuff, the poor referring, and lambasting Billericay for successfully seeing out the game, the fact is that we greatly assisted the time wasting by just lumping the ball forward instead of using the extra man to advantage and actually keeping the ball in order to create cha...

Should there not be an advantage in having a manager who has played and been coached at a much higher level.....?
Alas not in our case!

One minute Owers states he is happy with his squad, the next he spends all his time swearing at them. How difficult should it be for a professional manager with full-time pros to play to the strengths of the squad members? How can less well-known teams consistently come and show us how to be organis...

Quite frankly, apart from the joy of wondering who would want to stay and who would be wanted, it really doesn't matter whom GO signs or re-signs given that he has had most of a season to make us into a professional outfit on the pitch - he has failed. Most visiting teams have shown organisation, te...

As Portugull wrote, Fylde won because they were better, they won most aerial contests at the back and the front, and especially PLAYED AS A TEAM. In fact for most of the season we have had the frustrating spectacle of other teams showing themselves to be better organised than us. So if Owers stays w...

Before we get carried away with the best Easter results in memory, tactically we should still be better in order to take the late pressure off and to exert our own pressure during the game. And especially in a must-win situation. We began and ended the game with hoofs upfield, thus giving away posse...

Oh, I forgot the other gripe, shall we practice throwing the ball to ourselves - which does entail some support and movement - instead of lobbing it to the opposition outnumbering our two hopefuls standing up the line?

Maybe it all depends on what we do on the training pitch this week - shall we practice hoofball to make the ever-willing centre forward chase hopelessly and get nowhere near the goal or his strike partner, shall we tell the midfield never to pass to one another or move forwards together, shall we wo...

Same old same old, either can't do or won't do the absolute basics - ball control, passing, playing to feet, movement, teamwork. Full-time pros producing hopeful Sunday League stuff. And yet most opposition teams we have seen show how easy it is to control a game by doing those basics; when on earth...

How much more depressing and pathetic can it get? And Owers claims at post-match interview that he knows what he is doing... He plays a right-footed forward with little ball control on the left - ineffective. He plays a totally left-footed midfielder on the right - very ineffective. Try switching wi...