I am broadly in agreement with Oxo. The plain and simple truth is that all 12 [sic] Morpeth men wanted to win more than us. Setting aside the contribution of the referee which was signidicant IMO, there were many deeper issues evident. Watched the warm up in detail and Leesley very vocal almost in manager mode. This carried over into the game with JL berating Duxbury at every twist and turn which saw some unpleasantry exchanged between the two. Duxbury then proceeded to have an awful game and was caught napping at the back on multiple occasions. Leesley was little better despite his assertions of 'coach' status and this led me to feel he is quite a disruptive influence in the squad. Elsewhere there was the usual sloppiness in defending (allowing several well crafted/grafted Morpeth goals) and despite the 3 goals in our favour a lack of urgency and speed in building moves from the back that allowed them to get men behind the ball and defend doggedly. Yes it was a good cup tie with a nice high scoreline and a decent crowd but it is not a game that we should have lost. Disappointingly I see the same attitudes and behaviours now that I saw in the CE days. Nothing has changed. The chairman needs to find us a powerful and charismatic manager who is going to be less nice in the dressing room, concentrate on getting players with sheer will, motivation and determination in the first instance and be be prepared to ship out where he sees these characteristics lacking, even if this means we lose some players with higher technical skill levels. Mindset trumps absolute skill most of the time. I would finally add that having 5 players intermittently out with gambling dodginess in one small squad has also hampered team stability and those players have also contributed.