Rockford's Love Child
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- Joined
- 15 Mar 2010
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- Jason Koumas / John Morrissey
- Manager
- John King
Oh dear. One step forwards and two steps backwards.
In the first half today we played pretty well after a slow start, and were actually edging the game. We looked solid at the back and I really fancied us to take three points the way the game was developing.
Unfortunately, an idiotic penalty given away and our usual tactical limitations sent us to another damaging defeat. The foul on Simpson was made on the edge of the box in a position where it is better to simply let the striker hit it than attempt to tackle him. After conceding we threw men forward and huffed and puffed but never looked like equalising. Oldham kept men behind the ball, Brunt was too isolated and on the several occasions where Devaney got decent balls in from wide areas there was nobody in the eighteen yard box.
Substitutions made no sense. Brunt and Wallace were two of our better players, Wallace our best midfielder. The like for like subs did not result in any change in the system and the striker remained too isolated. We continued to fail to create any chances. Robinson was ok but Enoch did nothing, likewise Labadie when he appeared (although he did give away about four free kicks). The failure to change formation resulted in a furious response from the SWA, and not only the Parry Out element (although roughly 50% of our fans were calling for him to go throughput the second half).
Oldham caught us on the break on two or three occasions and should have extended their lead, despite being relatively unimpressive through the game as a whole.
While not wishing to get involved in a pro / anti Parry slanging match, I fear that if Les remains in charge we are certain to be relegated. We have won one in nineteen and are regularly losing to bottom eight sides. We need to win five of the remaining fourteen. It is not going to happen.
Soul destroying really, to watch us slide towards inevitable relegation.
In the first half today we played pretty well after a slow start, and were actually edging the game. We looked solid at the back and I really fancied us to take three points the way the game was developing.
Unfortunately, an idiotic penalty given away and our usual tactical limitations sent us to another damaging defeat. The foul on Simpson was made on the edge of the box in a position where it is better to simply let the striker hit it than attempt to tackle him. After conceding we threw men forward and huffed and puffed but never looked like equalising. Oldham kept men behind the ball, Brunt was too isolated and on the several occasions where Devaney got decent balls in from wide areas there was nobody in the eighteen yard box.
Substitutions made no sense. Brunt and Wallace were two of our better players, Wallace our best midfielder. The like for like subs did not result in any change in the system and the striker remained too isolated. We continued to fail to create any chances. Robinson was ok but Enoch did nothing, likewise Labadie when he appeared (although he did give away about four free kicks). The failure to change formation resulted in a furious response from the SWA, and not only the Parry Out element (although roughly 50% of our fans were calling for him to go throughput the second half).
Oldham caught us on the break on two or three occasions and should have extended their lead, despite being relatively unimpressive through the game as a whole.
While not wishing to get involved in a pro / anti Parry slanging match, I fear that if Les remains in charge we are certain to be relegated. We have won one in nineteen and are regularly losing to bottom eight sides. We need to win five of the remaining fourteen. It is not going to happen.
Soul destroying really, to watch us slide towards inevitable relegation.