: Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:05 pm
Steve McNamara said: "I think discipline cost us in the first half
Yes. As it has in many games, all season long. But despite already having missed the playoffs before this game kicked off (and everybody knew it) we did not use the game as the start of a spell to drop some of the players who have been responsible week in, week out, and give some decent gametime to some deserving young lads, on a "we've now got nothing to lose basis". If He had dropped even 3 or 4 and played some young lads and lost, then I might not have been as unhappy with the scoreline.
Steve McNamara said: Every time we got them where we wanted we let them off the hook. ..
Again, this is almost a personality trait now, it happens so often. It seems to me that too often experienced players look like they wouldn't recognise a decent attacking move if it slapped them in the face.
Steve McNamara said: I am now concerned about us getting up and running for next week.
Why? What difference does it make? Why not drop 100% of those you can who deserve it, and don't play them again the rest of the season?
Steve McNamara said: I still think there were a whole lot of positives to take out of the game. ...
No Steve. There weren't. Not this game.
Steve McNamara said: It's not all doom and gloom
Actually - it is. It might not have been if we had seen half a dozen youngsters giving it a crack, but as it was we just saw the same old doing the same old, despite it being a nothing game for us.
Steve McNamara said: but we were way off the mark during the second half apart from the initial 10-minute period.
Indeed we were. Again. So why are all these off-the-markers being sent out on the pitch time and time again?
Steve McNamara said: Certainly things are not going for us and we have to stay strong. Hopefully the tide will turn.
Newsflash Steve. We just officially drowned.
