Jaiyesimi

Cooper can do the silliest of things such as give the ball away near goal but then astound with his quality of winning the ball back from his mistake.
RW does get our wingers to play either side during a match.I think that switching wingers during play is a good ploy.
A great help to Orient would be a fit and well Theo Archibald,sorely missed is Mr 100%.

Despite some average games on balance, I just cannot see us ending bottom 4. Buffalobill highlighted one stat that is quite important, we are a hard team to score against.  That is true.  Look at goals conceded in the top 10/11 and we are OK. Goals scored is another thing, poor despite putting 4 past Stockport.  

But teams need to get the defence sorted and we have done that. So the opportunity for improvement is there, right in front of us you could say. We just need to score more goals and more often.  Simple. 🤔

We play so well against the good teams and very poor against teams like ourselves and below.We expect a better performance and result from those teams as they represent our best means of securing points and our tenure of League 1. Performances such as Tuesday night and at Shrewsbury frustrate so much an evokes unwanted ire.

To Thor,what is the common mood in the dressing room when results like Shrewsbury and Exeter happen.

Yeah, fair enough redshank. Clay, Hector , Pratley have all done ok but I think we’ve got better depth in there now. How we could do with someone like Vincelot or Dawson from a few years back in there though.

I prefer to call it harsh but fair!😆👍

Frustration as you know your good enough. If it continues then the mood deepens. I can’t speak for the other night, but watching more or less the rest, we’ve played well so our confidence is high. The collective group will want to put right the wrongs, improve and move forwards with confidence. It’s certainly not at the point where fingers are being pointed. 

The keepers will be separate from the players until there required and to the credit of Royce and his team and Hemmings have obviously worked on things which we’ve seen a marked improvement over the first games. Remember the keepers union are a special breed of player and are totally different as people to players, the contrast is amazing. Keepers are nuts!

As a player you rise to the big occasion and the big players say premier league do it virtually all the time hence why they play at a higher level. So when we play Birmingham, the players want it massively to prove that they can compete and are good enough. We did compete and were arguably the better team. Then when we play Shrewsbury you rock up with an attitude of we only have to turn up to win and that mindset is so hard to change once it’s in place during that game. Instead of stepping up the gears we stayed flat which ultimately cost us.

Unfortunately I think he is trying too hard and too technical for a team with very 3-4 th division players . He is a bang on average manager and his record shows it . Of course RW will be OK with us but there are better managers in our division with similar or even smaller budgets ,doing just as well if not better .

I think it’s harsh to describe him as bang average.  Two promotions is quick time shows he has ability, achieving more than some others considered good enough to move up, Slade for example won nothing. But unproven at league 1 level, yet. Such things need to be earned and he is young.

I agree with the too technical comment. When Davies took over I always felt his ideas were better than the players ability to match. JE took the same struggling bunch and made them champions. His style more suited to their ability. Ah, magic formula. My question is similar to yours but maybe kinder, are we demanding a too high a physical level than they can consistently achieve.  My opinion, a resounding yes. Evidence - we fade badly in games and follow up a decent hours football with flat performances. Without sufficient quality in depth we just cannot cope with two games a week. They damn well should be, fit young men. But they can’t.

We simply don’t have that extra few percent in depth quality that supports our work ethic. Mental fatigue for our better players rather than physical fatigue. Carrying a too heavy burden. Too many passengers along for the ride. Or not even starting the ride.  If I was working my nuts off, I’d get pretty hacked off to see others just not contributing at all.