KoN,
I don't know why you bother arguing with MLF, he's quite obviously content with the culture of mediocrity that's been allowed to flourish this season. Poor summer signings, a realization that what we had wasn't good enough and then short term loans and panic signings are all adding up to the scenario many of us predicted but who are shot down by those 'on message'.
Fact is we lost 5 home games in 09/10 & 10/11 combined, already in 9 home games we've lost 3 matches this season. The gates are down by around 250 per game and with tricky away games to come at the 2nd and 3rd placed teams in the next few weeks my worry is we'll find ourselves in lower mid table before too long and a budget cut in the new year. And after New Year we've a tricky run of games that I have little confidence in the current side gleaning many points from.
Over the last two seasons the great strength of the side has been to grind out results, especially against the top sides and late goals became a specialty. Yesterday I saw us collapse like a pack of cards defensively after they scored, it was only Baz, some poor finishing and the woodwork that saved us from a 4 or 5 goal mauling. We had two lads at centre back who were shot by the hour mark, hardly surprising as they had a combined age of around 70. And could anyone see us scoring? Did their keeper make a serious save all afternoon? The Hyde no 8 ran the game from midfield in the same way Sleath and Church used to for us.......why has no adequate replacements been signed? Why do we create nothing from the middle of the park?
The folly of the cheap option is coming home to roost, and the good work of the last 2 years has been tossed away in a welter of sub standard signings and equally sub standard replacements.
