Rockford's Love Child
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Wimbledon one nil up at Rotherham.........
Let's be honest we deserve to go down we have simply not been good enoughWimbledon one nil up at Rotherham.........
This is why I said the postponement was bad news. If they open up a nine / ten point gap in the next week, it is all over for us.Let's be honest we deserve to go down we have simply not been good enough
I am an eternal optimist, but I just can't see it.If Rovers win all our remaining games, we will stay up. Not expecting us to manage that and I’d prefer Wimbledon to lose today, but it is still in our own hands.
Well that would surely help yes I agree but think through the first goal against Portsmouth. That was nothing to do with our players not being up to L1 standard but basic schoolboy errors. Manny was standing in front of 2 players so he had no idea where they were going or when. The ball looped across and all their 3 attackers did was run toward the goal - nothing more than that! They had 3 players nearer our line than any one defender when it was headed in. To my mind that is poor organisation pure and simple. If we get roasted in midfield or down the channels with sublime passes and get outplayed fair enough that is likely down to player quality but that is not an isolated incident and sadly so many other set pieces this season have just been down to such slack defending.Perhaps Jackson needs our best defender (Clarke) on the pitch to 'sort the defence out'.......
Our defending will ultimately only be as good as the players that are available.
I think that's about right RLC - a defeat for them at Oxford is pretty essential for us. Realistically if we are to have any chance I would say that when Clarke comes back next Saturday he has to stay fit for the rest of the games and Woods and Wilson have to be fit soon and also stay fit for the rest of the season. That gives Micky a chance then to play a settled side at the back finally. Knowing our injury fortunes however I won't hold my breath...I think we need to be within five or six points of Wimbledon when we play them at the end of next month. If we can beat them, there will be everything to play for in the last four or five matches (which are very tough for us on paper).
I would say the need for concentration and awareness of the movement of attacking players increases as you go up the leagues. So, yes, I would say that individual errors of that nature by Ray and Caprice (or Monthe to an extent) reflect the fact that they are not really good enough to play at this level.Well that would surely help yes I agree but think through the first goal against Portsmouth. That was nothing to do with our players not being up to L1 standard but basic schoolboy errors. Manny was standing in front of 2 players so he had no idea where they were going or when. The ball looped across and all their 3 attackers did was run toward the goal - nothing more than that! They had 3 players nearer our line than any one defender when it was headed in. To my mind that is poor organisation pure and simple. If we get roasted in midfield or down the channels with sublime passes and get outplayed fair enough that is likely down to player quality but that is not an isolated incident and sadly so many other set pieces this season have just been down to such slack defending.