Any concerns with regards to the recent downpour?

I will answer my own, appears all good

-- Edited by Wallop on Tuesday 14th of November 2023 03:27:54 PM

Gonna be a tough night. 1-0 down. Awful defending. Awful person with a hooter in the ground.

3-0 home time. Toot toot

Can we seek an immediate abandonment of this match on the grounds we are playing in the wrong league? National League tv have this match billed as being "National League NORTH". Sums up the NL admin but clutching at straws perhaps?

No miracles 4-1 F/T

Wallop wrote:

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Sorry to bang on about how poorly I rate Taylor Curran, but lets be brutally honest here, his distribution is poor and the defence does not look confident with him in it.
Yes, he can put his head on a ball, but when ball to feet, was finding time and again a player who was man marked.
If that wasn't the case, it was a simple long ball.
Yet to see the goals yet (as standing at the other end makes it difficult to call).

Don't get that Burchell was brought on when 3-0 down.
I would have started with him and Byrd. They seem to have grown an understanding, and thrown pap on as right back following the warm up injury.

We played football from the back more consistently & confidently with this defensive pairing.

Hope Adom is OK as so far in this season, he has been the stand out player who can make something happen (in my opinion).
Would still like to see him as a centre forward, as it appears he could teach a few others how to finish a ball.

Yet again, feel Bloor has to hold his hands up for partial blame here.

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 Burchell is carrying an injury I think?  I agree his loss has been massive 9 goals past us since Curran and byrd starting at cb.

 

Not sure why paps isn't isn't starting in that CAM role any more?

A little "anorak" peculiarity for you.  Taken from the programme last night (which was an improvement on last year, both in quality and value, but still not great) * :

Attendance on 4th November v. Havant and Waterlooville - 603

Attendance on 7th November v. St Albans City - 603

Last night however they had an interloper and the attendance was 604

 

Note * : at least they had one.  What has happened to our programme?

Our home attendances are around the 550 mark, which disappoints a little as I hoped the new manager and squad would attract fans. But results play a part in this. YouTube unexpectedly helped also show part of the problem, as it recommended a blog by the Erith keeper, which I watched even though I have no interest in that club, and then looking into how they are doing, to see they are in the relegation zone, and surprised they are getting attendances of 80 - 108, way below the 256 that watched the one Erith home match I went to last season as we were playing one of my son's local teams Tonbridge Wells. Financially keeping a club afloat on attendances of 80 - 108 must be a real challenge. And their lower numbers show that the bad economy means fewer fans in general are going to games, so that is partly why we get less watching ours at present.

Taylor Curran always looks not up to the speed of our games, which is why he makes mistakes, though whether that would change if he played more often and so was more match fit is something that may only become clearer in time. But playing him and Antony in defence meant half our defence was not at all regular, and the opposition fully exploited that. The commentary suggested Chambers was taken off for tactical reasons, to put on an extra experienced defender after we had conceded 3 early goals. The opposition having the creativity to play with 3 in attack, and scoring 4 as a result, is something well worth thinking about, as there are lessons there.

We are looking good in the cups, P5 W3 D1 L1 and our recent form is better than Taunton's, so looking forward to Saturday!

Jimmie wrote:

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Our home attendances are around the 550 mark, which disappoints a little as I hoped the new manager and squad would attract fans. But results play a part in this. YouTube unexpectedly helped also show part of the problem, as it recommended a blog by the Erith keeper, which I watched even though I have no interest in that club, and then looking into how they are doing, to see they are in the relegation zone, and surprised they are getting attendances of 80 - 108, way below the 256 that watched the one Erith home match I went to last season as we were playing one of my son's local teams Tonbridge Wells. Financially keeping a club afloat on attendances of 80 - 108 must be a real challenge. And their lower numbers show that the bad economy means fewer fans in general are going to games, so that is partly why we get less watching ours at present.

Taylor Curran always looks not up to the speed of our games, which is why he makes mistakes, though whether that would change if he played more often and so was more match fit is something that may only become clearer in time. But playing him and Antony in defence meant half our defence was not at all regular, and the opposition fully exploited that. The commentary suggested Chambers was taken off for tactical reasons, to put on an extra experienced defender after we had conceded 3 early goals. The opposition having the creativity to play with 3 in attack, and scoring 4 as a result, is something well worth thinking about, as there are lessons there.

We are looking good in the cups, P5 W3 D1 L1 and our recent form is better than Taunton's, so looking forward to Saturday!

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 It's easy to keep a club afloat when you hardly have any overheads