Anyway what do I know about football, I just want to go and be entertained and If my team isn't as good as the other but the teams put a decent display in a were not completely out of their depth then you can't ask for much more than that but that isn't what we are getting and I do think with the gates decreasing and the results dropping that the chairman may make a change.
One of the main reasons for the falling crowds is the lack of entertainment - most people would keep going if there was something entertaining to watch. It doesn't have to be 4-3 every week, but we need to have a go.
There has been precious little entertainment all season - probably as bad as the season we finished 2nd in the NPL (the year we didn't file the correct paperwork). The football that season was dire and most matches were attritional low-scoring affairs - sound familiar? But even in that season we were able to defend and got enough 1-0 wins to finish 2nd. This season we can't stop teams scoring, and don't have much attacking threat - we just don't make it difficult enough for teams at either end of the pitch.
The only game I can really remember being entertaining this season was Hyde in the Trophy (I guess the Boxing Day one was entertaining, but didn't see that). Comments from the management after the Hyde game suggested we had a plan to work hard to close them down and get into them - "work hard and get into them" would be a decent approach to every match, but we just don't seem to be able to do it. Look at the way Blyth constantly closed us down on Saturday - we just didn't do the same when they had the ball!
I had the same thought as KON (worrying!) - I fear a 4 or 5 goal defeat on Saturday, after which there will surely need to be a change.
I find it unbelievable that we haven't signed a proper striker all season - when he came back last season, I'm sure Jason didn't want or expect to be playing every week, but now he is doing that through his own choice. He can't play effectively week in week out at his age and it's starting to show. Newy is having a decent season but needs a target man to feed off. From what I saw of Constantine on Saturday (and heard about last night), he's not the answer.
Most worrying of all are the managers' comments after matches - a lot of talk about going in the right direction, playing better football, being 10 times better than we were at the start of the season etc. Sorry, I know they are trying to be positive, but I just don't see it - we have some decent players but the performances have not improved. Are we any better now than we were after Solihull (H) or Kidsgrove?
If the managers genuinely think this, they need to spend more time on the sidelines watching the matches rather than playing in them - interesting that Canners gave the players more of a public blast when he'd been watching from the bench instead of playing - would he have been quite as scathing if he'd been playing himself?
I know the forum is full of people moaning at the moment, so sorry to add another one to it, but we do it because we care and it is just so frustrating to see the club that we love playing the way they are at the moment.