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In that all the focus went to the cup, small squad had to play lots more games and had all the media stuff that went with the cup run. Extra travel all took a toll. From beating Arsenal until after the final our league form suffered. Losses to Barnet, Oxford a d wimbledon etc. All struggling sides we probably would have been far more worried about had it not been for the cup. We were mid table after being 4th. Once the cup was over it took a bit to refocus and only got into the playoffs due to Exeter's implosion in form and a bit of squad rotation

 

Reeves is the captain.....

 

1-0

Tyler French

 

Seasons over.

 

Is Anderson playing. Seriously, I'm struggling to remember a passage of play were he has made any sort of impact.

 

Whats all this "we" all of a sudden. You have slated GB and JR consistently over the past months but now its "we" is it? Whats changed?

 

I think McCall took us to the quarter final ?.

 

He's going off now the useless tit

 

Shocking call by Rahic but he knew football he had to be taken seriously.

 

When did we sign him.

 

God knows but someone will get crucified for it....

 

Good to see @wetherbywhaler got his wish and we're taking it seriously


Still worth paying a tenner to get in?

 

Still waiting for you to post something of a positive nature in general about the club. I wonder why you bother purporting to be a supporter.

 

Hopefully we never see Anderson or Patrick in a city shirt ever again. Abysmal performances from the pair of them.

 

You and @NorthernMonkey should get a room.

 

Same here. A cheeky fiver at 7/1 pays for tomorrows takeaway

 

Only you & @wetherbywhaler care!

The competition is a joke!

 

Ok, a huge well done to GB for selecting mainly second string so we recieved no fresh injuries to important first team players.

That's definitely positive.

 

Reeves did really well, but a few other thoughts:

GSK looked ropey. I remember reading something in the T&A a year or so ago, where it talked about how the club had high hopes for him, on the basis that his distribution was very good but that he needed to be taught how to 'keep goal'. Pretty basic flaw, right there. But all of that was shown up last night.

Longridge - some good deliveries and likes to get forward, but caught out in possession a few times. Definitely backup to Wood for the foreseeable.

French and POC. Exposed at times. Both have some promise and they'll be better for a bit of game time. AOC and BRE look more and more like our first choice pick though.

Anderson, Patrick and Oteh. All garbage. In fact, at times I struggled to tell them apart - physically similar, similar running styles and similar lack of ability on the ball. No awareness of what's around them, any of them, and little in the way of ability to pull things off. Oteh is probably marginally the better of the 3, but that ain't saying much.

Not a Devine fan, but he did OK by his standards. Think he's better as an attacking mid than a defensive one.

Ismail did ok. Cooke did ok. Taylor didn't pull up any trees, but it was his first game and he was in an unfamiliar position, so we'll see.

 

I hyped Oteh up a bit after Saturday when I thought his all round game was really good but last night he was poor and that penalty was dreadful.

Bang on about Anderson and Patrick too, especially anderson. The moment for me was in the closing stages he tried to nutmeg a rochdale player in our defensive third, failed, fouled their lad then threw a strop about it. Get rid.

I thought mellor was quite poor too which is disappointing because I think RB is our real weak area atm.