[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by maccawozzagod

from what I saw;

believe it or not Stanley were the better side today. Or did Cheltenham just allow us to stroke it about?

Cisak never made a save, nor did they miss anything. I await the official stats but practrically every attempt they had went in. The big galoot up front for them (10?) did next to nowt but what he did do, undo us every time. We conceded a silly amount of goals in a few games but replaced a goalkeeper who everyhbody seemed to think was blameless for another who is less experienced. We are still conceding so the blame is either with the defenders or the midfield for not protecting.

IMHO the midfield are next to blameless as todays goals at leaszt were the result or threaded balls either over or between defenders. This seems to be a common problem, either we learn to attack the ball properly when its in the air, or we learn to stand off and defend. At the moment we are doing neither.

Up front. We have nowt. None of the strikers available to us are capable of playing the one up front game, so drop it. Let's have a look and see if any combination of Gornell (rated by most) and Boulding, McConville or Lindfield in some sort of effective combination in a more orthodox 4-4-2.

Jimmy Ryan - every time I see this lad play I feel sorry for him. He is by far and away too good for us. He has 100% effort, 100% application. He plays the right way and tries to thread balls through to players that can't read the pass. He tackles, he wins the ball , he wants to shoot (and can) but players aren't pulling defenders away to make the room for him to have a go.

I've got more say but I won't

I agree the point you make about Jimmy Ryan. We rely on him far to much. Also how did a defender get the man of the match award today.