Elliot is getting half the job right, he is getting in lots of shots from good shooting positions, unlike a couple of other strikers, but he is not then getting the other half right of getting them in, but that accuracy will improve if he gets a run of games in attack and gets his striking sharpness.

Anointed justifying his starting place in the team is shown by his stats, hes repaying Rods confidence in signing him, played in 7 of our 9 games, on for 494 minutes the equivalent of 5.5 games - and scored 3 goals, which a goal every other game is a very good strike rate for a guy pretty much making a step up and playing his first proper season in NLS, more experienced fans than me comment on us for many years lacking a 20 goal a season striker, but if Anointed maintains his form for the rest of the season he could be it. Martells been on for 487 minutes, with 1 goal so far. I know right now Anointed and Elliot arent experienced proven NLS strikers, but it is interesting, as the season goes on and they play more games, they become proven NLS.

I think the dip is just temporary. Our big problem right now is inconsistency. Until a month ago I'd not seen us play badly with Rod, suddenly in the last month we have had lots of bad games/ bad halves. And the bad halves is a problem, as that good/ bad bad/ good is inconsistency, and previously we have been so consistent.

It feels just now as if we fall behind we panic and rush our passes, lose the ball too easily, then we are chasing the game. So against Weston we were fantastic at the start, then were under pressure and stopped passing accurately and just started kicking it wildly, so lost our control of the game.

That first half of the Boreham game was a lesson we should've learned from, also like say Chesham and Chatham, where we gave the ball away too easily, so they scored as they'd the ball and passed it around so accurately, so we couldnt score as we didnt have it. Second half we started passing accurately and improved, until the stupid sending off messed us up. I've no idea if Rod tells players to concentrate on keeping possession with accurate passing, but the root of lots of our recent problems is we lose it too easily and dont have strong tackling midfielders to win it back. And of course players give away silly free kicks and penalties and getting dumb red cards, which they didnt do last season, or at the start of this season, so they must realise they need to stop shooting themselves in the foot and giving us mountains to climb of giving soft goals away from careless play that mean we then have to score 1 or 2 just to be level. But I believe we'll learn and improve, as it was an amazing start against Weston, and Worthing haven't won any of their last 3 games, so let's hope it is our night tonight!

I always look forward to Alan's comments, but as I am a totally impartial Welling fan with West Ham allegiances, I have to say Mitchel is much better than his dad!