System working. Send new system. We are getting killed by them in wide areas. No protection for our full backs who are also too narrow. This could end 12-1. We haven't changed it. If you don't change some thing that doesn't work. Expect the same results.

We should have been 2-0 up which makes it even more bizarre.. And yes the ref is an idiot but he's not getting us anihilated

Injuries and (lack of) fitness becoming issues yet again.

Bring yer boots next week - might get a game at centre half...

dan wrote:

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Whoever we get willl gave a tough job getting a squad together to compete from day one. Squads who win leagues tend to be 2/3 years of gradual progression, as we did. This should have been this year. 

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 I thought it was common knowledge who the new player manager is! 

dan wrote:

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Perhaps I am not one of the "lucky" few who are privy to this information. 

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 Not sure about the lucky few nonsense...deary me.

If you had been at the open meeting with MG then it was obvious who he was referring to from the clues Mark was giving!

As I said earlier in this thread injuries and fitness remains an issue. 

You could say it was unlucky to lose so many centre halves in a short space of time but could/should that have been avoided?? Lea**** was doing us a favour but lasted a game and a half on his return to the squad. Hayles has probably not been 100% fit since the start of the year but we keep wheeling him out there - surely he should have been properly rested for a couple of weeks earlier in the year and then brought back when fully fit. How many times have we either had to start or move our best midfielder back to centre half - well we won't have his services next week at all for the biggest game of the season after his latest stint as an emergency centre half.....

It is no coincidence that we had our best run of form when we had a manager who knew how to organise and motivate the players and a part time fitness coach - since we lost both of those we have gone backwards. Walker got in a few good positions on Saturday and then had to wait 20 minutes for someone to arrive in the box?! He should be able to knock it across without even looking and expect two or three blue shirts to at least be trying to get there. Cathline may have some potential (although the jury is still out for me) but he is woefully short of fitness. Look at the size and shape of Kedwell on Saturday but also look at the closing down and chasing he did on Saturday when his team didn't have the ball. The back three for Ebbsfleet (even before the sending off) had their feet up and were strolling through the game!

And don't get me started on the other money grabbing waster who manages to get injured when running up and down the touchline and was apparently too "poorly" to play in the KSC even though he was desperate to play....yeah right pull the other one. I bet he doesn't pull too many muscles when he is bounding up the stairs at PVR on a Saturday to collect his wages...