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I thought at the time that the ref did us no favours in sending off Donnelly as Dale were going to sit back in numbers and try to hit us on the break. We just do not have the quality to open up a packed defence. It has been obvious from well before the season started that Joyce and Murphy as central midfielders are just not up to L2 standards and we won't get out of the current situation without replacing them with players who have the ability to directly take on defenders head on and thus create gaps in the defence. No one has the drive and skills to go marauding into the box from the central positions and the number of cross field passes played in front of their defence was painful to watch. I thought Naismith was very disappointing, and don't let anyone try to tell me that he's a winger. Never once did he try to go outside his man and get in a cross. I thought the new big man up front was great and I'm sure Jeffers, for one, would have had a field day getting onto his knock downs. We can still turn this round, but not unless we can find a Proccy-like player at his attacking best somewhere.