Ultimately this seasons issue for our players has been to focus against the poor teams in the league and play as well as they do against the better teams. Yesterdays game highlights this problem again and the real need for our players to step it up a notch or two when faced with these weaker teams.
Another problem I've noticed about our play is the way in which we score. We've gone from being able to only score from open play at the beginning of the season to now only being able to score from set pieces. Surely, if we're going to continue to move forward, we need the ability to score from different types of play. We're in danger of beign a one trick pony with our corner stratergy with Person for example.
I wasn't impressed by Frost, he seemed quite lost in the game. Agree with comments about Yates and Cully, they got sold time and time again down the wing by their pacey forward. I thought personally, even though we didn't play well in the second half, I still believed we could hold out for a 2-1 win. The backpass from Austin was a shocker and ultimately lead to Bazza giving the penalty away.
First half we edged it, but the second half display was lacking and in my opinion, we were lucky to come away with a point. I'd of had no complaints if we lost yesterday. Fair play to Hyde, you could barely tell they were down to 10 men and really persued the game with the kind of attitude and performance we should of seen from our own players. At times, they bullied our lads off the ball and we had very little to respond with.
It's so disappointing to see us repeatedly making the same errors against teams like Hyde. We've played many similar games and still failed to learn from the mistakes that are bing made. It would be awful to fall at the last hurdle now, after all the positive work the team have done. We've the right squad for the job, I have every faith in them, lets just hope they do what we all know they're capable of.