Could well be a long season indeed as nothing I witnessed yesterday blew me away and made me think any different from what I witnessed in the friendlies. (see my old post 'Pre season and I'm worried')
Yes the ref was poor the grass was short and the team is new...oh yea and it was hot.
BUT
Lost count of the number of corners we had and never felt like we would score from one if we were still playing now.
Only plusses for me were Fairhurst was sharp when he came on and looked up for it.
McGuire is solid...Jay was the biggest threat we had.
As much as Green likes Hlliard as his playmaker he gives us absolutely nothing when the opposition have it and we play like having one in the middle of the park.
Get Robbo back out there and lets play 4-4-2 at home.
Ill be at Harrogate just hope we can dig something out but fear the worst.
Real concerns , only 41 matches left and 3 points behind leaders
Lets look for positives ,
After being poor in PSF Fairhurst comes on and made impact as you say . Others will do the same hopefully.
Maquire along with a fit Nat Brown will make a better pairing than Pidge and Garner , less yellow and red cards, and more importantly the ball will be past out of defence instead of hoofed .
Corners were wasted , real hope that the return of Brown and Smith will eliminate this .
Get Robbo back ... who is Robbo?
Turning the clock back 2 seasons I don,t recall anyone predicting Southwell to become a Div 2 player , what I do recall is most of us saying that Kaine Felix was only good enough for a sqaud player at best .
Thats the real hope , there,s things there that football people can see and the fans don,t .