[Exile on Spencer St]

Woeful, listless display from Stanley today. Dagenham fully deserved their points and made easy work of stopping any attacking threat, such as it was. Brushing off our players became so easy that Daggers didn't have to use a brush in the second half; they just needed to blow them over. Pitting three forwards whose combined height was probably less than either Daggers' CBs was perhaps contributory. Midfield was no better, with Whitehead trying hard but looking like he'd never played with the team before (has he?). Joyce reverted to one of his impact-less displays, and Windass looked like he was somewhere else. Which, if he repeated that performance, I'd suggest he should be. And the defence was beyond naive at times.
At the beginning of the season, with both these teams being the bookies' favourites for the drop, the prospect of this game being a nail-biter was on the cards. Thank heavens it wasn't crucial, but it would have been nice to see some fight, effort and desire however 'meaningless' the game may have seemed to some players. I felt a bit sorry for the two young lads who got on as subs as they got no support or example from the others.
The fans outperformed the team by a country mile, never stopping for 90 minutes. However, the fact they ended up singing for "a shot on target", as opposed to a goal, said most about Stanley's performance.
The only consolation today was that, despite being stuck in a traffic jam at the bottom of the M11 for one and a half hours, there was an ice-cream van trapped next to us. He at least had a successful day.