Our defence is worse than last year.
Our central midfield is alot worse.
Our strikers are injured.

I'm right.

We created little tonight and conceaded loads of chances. Results mean nothing but performances do.

Tonight was certainly the worst of the psf performances thus far.

I agree that there is more to psf's than results but the worrying thing about both the VCD and Dartford games is our difficulty in dealing with physical teams.  We showed what we can do in the Charlton and Gilllingham games because neither side relied upon the physical side of things. 

We desperately need an injection of steel into the midfield.

Funny how we all have different perspectives on the game.  I thought we played a good passing game, with some neat and tidy stuff and some degree of intelligence and skill.

I think we were thrown a mite when James was stretchered off and it took a long while to match a very physical Dartford side.  It seems to me that Dartford has always favoured tall, robust, players - even going back to the days when Alf Ackerman was manager.  This side was no exception - built like the proverbial brick outhouses almost every one of them!

We are a slight, generally short side, and I think we are going to come unstuck against teams like Dartford - especially on heavy pitches not as good as those at Park View Road and Princes Park.  And there are a lot of robust teams in the Conference South.

Exactly ELB.

The team is too soft.

Pretty, pretty passing game but always one pass too many and always looking for the perfect goal (Arsenal of the BSS). The one time we passed it with pace and had a direct shot on goal we scored.

We have lots of pace and lots of style and will be attractive to watch but we badly lack substance - a couple of big, nasty players is what is required imo.

Best wishes to James Lawson - looked a nasty one and he was clearly in pain. if it is only weeks and not months then that is a big relief to club and player.

 

whats with the short corners?

MarkX wrote:

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So we lose a game against a team below us and everyone gets heated

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As Tom O'Connor used to say "Say what you see" and that is all that has been said above.  Nobody has got heated calling for the head of  Fordy or any of the players, they have merely commented on what they saw and in my case what I have seen in the psf's we have played thus far.

I would strongly suspect that Fordy himself was none too happy with last nights performance, particularly the first half.

 

Wingnut wrote:

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Exactly ELB.

The team is too soft.

Pretty, pretty passing game but always one pass too many and always looking for the perfect goal (Arsenal of the BSS). The one time we passed it with pace and had a direct shot on goal we scored.

We have lots of pace and lots of style and will be attractive to watch but we badly lack substance - a couple of big, nasty players is what is required imo.

 

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Agree substantially with what you have said Wingnut, where we differ is that I'm not sure that it is a matter of one pass too many looking for the perfect goal.

 

Said the man in the orthopedic shoes!
Happy to oblige! haha!

I remember a very poor game at Hornchurch pre-season last year and it didn't turn out too bad.