Taunton

[sportz]

Was I the only one who saw Mark Beard setting up a smoke machine at half time?

[paulfrake]

Pretty poor again up to we scored. There wasn’t enough evidence that we would turn it around and win.. In the ‘are’ zone and if that the case at Christmas it can usually mean one thing.

[dargiles82]

I don't think Taunton wanted to play the second half anyhow it put us in the drop zone now Mr owner make a Manager change now the longer you wait deeper in the mire we shall find ourselves

[semmysem]

The first 25-30 minutes were the worst I have seen this season, and i did not think we could get any worse. After those 25 mins we started to get back in the game and i thought it was good work from the new bloke (cant remember his name) to cause the GK to make that error that gave us our goal. i thought he worked hard the whole half. shame the game got abandoned as i truthfully think we could of got something out of that game. On a whole though i do think we are in big trouble, if we play like we did in the first 25 minutes against a better team than taunton we will get punished massively, and maybe thats what happened against torquay? I see the crowd was over a 1,000 and i am surprised as it only looked around 600ish and the atmosphere was awful.

[bigbenji]

Dec 2, 2023 23:08:59 GMT semmysem said:

The first 25-30 minutes were the worst I have seen this season, and i did not think we could get any worse. After those 25 mins we started to get back in the game and i thought it was good work from the new bloke (cant remember his name) to cause the GK to make that error that gave us our goal. i thought he worked hard the whole half. shame the game got abandoned as i truthfully think we could of got something out of that game. On a whole though i do think we are in big trouble, if we play like we did in the first 25 minutes against a better team than taunton we will get punished massively, and maybe thats what happened against torquay? I see the crowd was over a 1,000 and i am surprised as it only looked around 600ish and the atmosphere was awful.

Think the atmosphere was awful due to the conditions and performance. That being said I thought there was around 800 to 900. So 1000 is very good for the conditions.
Mcootie for them was a handful and the type of forward we need.

[martello66]

How are we going to turn this around, the players looked shell shocked in that first half No confidence! No belief! No Idea how to change it. maybe the master plan is to get the manager sacked so maybe they have a plan after all.

[paulfrake]

Dec 3, 2023 9:11:02 GMT martello66 said:

How are we going to turn this around, the players looked shell shocked in that first half No confidence! No belief! No Idea how to change it. maybe the master plan is to get the manager sacked so maybe they have a plan after all.

We are too easy to play against, if we got awarded a point for every misplaced pass we’d walk the league

[dargiles82]

It is painfully obvious that the players have absolutely no confidence in the manager until he goes we are in deep trouble

[martello66]

I agree he has clearly lost the players, even Archie was notably quite yesterday, but a positive display from new boy Collins put in a shift of merit, Brad was OK also

[semmysem]

Dec 3, 2023 12:51:57 GMT dargiles82 said:

It is painfully obvious that the players have absolutely no confidence in the manager until he goes we are in deep trouble

The players were arguing with each other. I saw Gravata moaning at Carter more than once and I have never seen that before in previous games! I think the players are getting frustrated!
Something needs to be done! I don’t normally call for the manager to be sacked im all for giving him chances but this can’t go on for much longer and I think he should be sacked!

[dargiles82]

If players are arguing this proves that there must be discontent in the dressing room only one person to blame the players seem to have no confidence in the management

[sportz]

My concern isn’t so much them arguing but them being so quiet. When they stop for a drinks break they look like year 7 kids in their first PE lesson, nobody wanting to say anything. It is really noticeable because the crowd are so quiet. It says to me they are unsure of themselves and what they are being asked to do and lacking strong leaders. They really need to show some authority, this is their ground they should be strutting around like they own the place.

[What the Dickens!?]

Dec 3, 2023 20:55:34 GMT sportz said:

My concern isn’t so much them arguing but them being so quiet. When they stop for a drinks break they look like year 7 kids in their first PE lesson, nobody wanting to say anything. It is really noticeable because the crowd are so quiet. It says to me they are unsure of themselves and what they are being asked to do and lacking strong leaders. They really need to show some authority, this is their ground they should be strutting around like they own the place.

Agree with this. You can't change the past.. we may be on an awful run of form, but all that matters is the game day. The players need to cast aside any doubt and go for it. If we still lose, so be it.