The only person in the starting eleven who has scored this season is Ryan Martin. That is a problem.
Whilst keeping clean sheets is all well and good (and we have to thank Bognor's Gatting and Dorchester's Crittenden for that) if we don't score we don't win.
Today i fill that some of last weeks points were proved correct ellis must have been barged out the way ten times in the second half, then stormd off when subbed - he had a bad one today, without a doubt Ryan Johnson will be going soon this lad has the x factor.
Dorian Smith was very good with his passing and it created chances but when tracking back in the second half his fitness told, he chased a guy who was jogging 40 yards and he was no where near him - Healy is improving i fill in the air every week but has he had a shot all season so far.
The teams we have played in the last three will not even make play off yet we have only got two points lets just hope this is a slight blip - anyone know who the new face was warming up!!
Agree mate, think some of the player are afraid to cross. Joe has been getting better but think he lacks some direction sometimes. Also, although Ellis had a poor game for whatever reasons we did look unbalanced after he was substituted. The new guy looked a bit tasty in the warm up, not a clue who he was though, sorry Dizzee.
Look on the bright side lads, 8 games 1 loss, who would have thought that this time last year!
In my opinion Healy is not a goal scorer never will be, his hold up play is usually top notch and if playing along side a Kedwell type forward then he would no doubt supply a hell of a lot of goals, whether Sheringham is the goal scorer we need we will just have to wait and see!
I agree with the whole ellis having a bad game but once we took him off there was no width at all and with everything then going down the left i felt it made it easy for Dorchester to cut off any supply we could get to our front men from out wide. Still i think this team is young, and still learning on their feet. I'm sure we will be up around the play offs come the end of the season
What you have to give the team and andy great credit for is... they are new and learning and thus far we havent been tanked. Andy probably has a safety mechanism in the style of play to protect them.
We have the belief and its great no ones getting too carried away with good wins or poorish results yet.
Andy is a bit of a task manager you can be sure he will be raising the bars now and saying right no effing about, ive seen what you can do express yourselfs, play how i want you to and DONT WORRY ABOUT MAKING MISTAKES as long as you learn from them and give me what i want in other areas.
You cant win the League in september or get in the play offs.
Have to laugh about can Charlie score? hes scored 10 in bout 3 months at city and here. Can he score... YES. Will he score ? Damn Right he will.
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JGFC i can only comment on the games that i have seen Sheringham play in and in those games he didnt look like he was going to score 20 odd goals this season.
I agree he has picked it up and scored 4 in the last three but what i meant was we will have to wait and see if he keeps that kind of goal ratio up. With him being the only real scoring threat up front at the minute we definatly missed him yesterday and I have confidence in the lad but i feel theres a lot of pressure on him to get all our goals thats all.
Ryan Martin and Lee Blackburn both should have scored yesterday. I agree with Fordy that if we had scored in the first 15 minutes we would have hammered them. Welling reminded me of Arsenal yesterday lots of flair but at times we were to casual to get the job done. I think that as we play the better teams in the league you will see improved performances as we will need to rise to thier level.
Disappointed not to win - we had the chances. Certainly better than Bognor but still think there are one or two players who aren't up to it - one mentioned above. I got criticised for mentioning him before but I think he has got to show something soon. His lack of effort is what gets me.
I don't think Andy Ford would tolerate anyone who didn't put in the effort. He will also ship out anyone not good enough if last season is anything to go by!