How Good Are We?

[WisBee]

.............I'm not a betting bloke, Les, never have been, hopefully never will be..........let's just agree that this league is not going to be a picnic to get promoted from, and hope that we are better overall than at least two teams come end-of-season.............

 

[Alan D]

Mid to lower mid table and it'll have been a good season of consolidation. Anything better and I'll be amazed...ecstatic but amazed.

I just can't understand the attitude that this season is about consolidation. Most relegated teams only think in terms of getting back to the league from which they were relegated.

If the best we can do is consolidate our position in the basement league then its come to a sorry state of affairs. The way things are going we are due for a very long stay in this division, unless the worse possible scenario happens and we are relegated again in two or three seasons time.

 

[hanworthbee]

I really thought we would struggle at these northern grounds like today and Bury so I am pleasantly surprised

 

[Davee]

I really thought we would struggle at these northern grounds like today and Bury so I am pleasantly surprised

So am I. Seems like this league is a throw of the dice...

 

[North London Bee]

I am very confused....

I think that once we have a reasonably settled team and formation we can begin to assess where we might finish. As it is I haven't a clue.

 

[Mr Cynical]

I am very confused....

I think that once we have a reasonably settled team and formation we can begin to assess where we might finish. As it is I haven't a clue.

I think today's result shows that Butcher should ditch his disastrous 4-1-3-2 system.. At this level the players just arent good enough or bright enough to be mucking about with strange systems and constant tactical changes... Keep it simple, stick to a plan and make sure all the players know exactly what their job is and I think we'll do ok.... Oh, and Moore is an attacking midfielder and shouldnt be used as anything else.. play him there regularly and I reckon he'll get a fair few goals for us.

 

[Brentford_till_die]

If we play like we did in the second half vs Chester we will be Champions.

Excellent performance. Normally we go away to these noprthen clubs and lose heavilly

 

[Stanley]

I am very confused....

I think that once we have a reasonably settled team and formation we can begin to assess where we might finish. As it is I haven't a clue.

Your not the only one.

Was an unlike Bees performance it seems yesterday.

Maybe some of the cliches that TB has been spouting out are actually correct?

 

[Alan D]

Credit where credit is due. Any team that wins away by two goals and keeps a clean sheet in the process has done very well. I must admit I thought before the game that Chester would take us to the cleaners.

Personally I have only seen two games this season and truthfully we were not that impressive, but we will have a much better idea of how we will fare when we have played a quarter of our fixtures. Nevertheless, this result gives one a degree hope.

 

[GP200]

......the away performances have been acceptible..............good football has been played......an over-reaction to the MK.Dons game maybe,with all this negative talk..........

 

[Balders Bee]

......the away performances have been acceptible..............good football has been played......an over-reaction to the MK.Dons game maybe,with all this negative talk..........

Spot on. We've had a mixed bag of performances no doubt, the wins at Bury and Chester as impressive as the MK Dons performance was poor. I don't think TB knows his best XI or formation as yet and in the circumstances I'm not greatly surprised. Xmas time would be the time to start assessing the new management team. Unlike some on the GPG I'm relatively optomistic

 

[jlove]

Yesterday, I though we looked like there was a real structure to the team for the first time this season, which is maybe to be expected as it was the first full game with Thorpe & Moore down the middle.

It was a 4-4-2, with a bit of 4-4-1-1 given that Connell was very mobile; dropping into midfield, pulling out wide and prepared to get ahead of Thorpe. Shakes stayed out wide but Poole both plays wide and is prepared to cover across the midfield as well. The Moore-Connell-Poole triangle pulled their players around and the Starosta-Shakes combo on the right is getting to have some understanding going forward but Shakes, although he tracks back, does not have any tackling ability (cue Brooker comparison ).

With this formation, we have a lot of interchangeability and I'd like to see us building on it, always assuming we can keep Moore on loan and keep Thorpe on the pitch.

 

[VTG]

Shakes, although he tracks back, does not have any tackling ability (cue Brooker comparison ).

You won't get one from me. Shakes is still young and actually wants to play for the club, which puts him many a mile beyond Brooker in my book.

 

[wayfarer172]

You won't get one from me. Shakes is still young and actually wants to play for the club, which puts him many a mile beyond Brooker in my book.

I thought Brooker was history

 

[Mr Cynical]

You won't get one from me. Shakes is still young and actually wants to play for the club, which puts him many a mile beyond Brooker in my book.

Give it a few months....