Benfleet Blue
First XI
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2004
- Messages
- 575
What swear filter circumvention? The whole word comes up as asterisks if you type it in, circumvention is when you, yourself take it upon yourself to change a couple of letters so it's obvious what the word is.
Were you at Tranmere or Yeovil? If so you'd know that Moussa last night was clearly better than on either of those occasions. If Ibehre used his fist why wasn't he booked, and if that was a pen, why wasn't Macca booked? As I said I haven't seen replays just my impression at the time.
Scannell does this repeatedly, and has to a number of players, most often Barney. As to Macca getting on the wrong side of officials, well, he does, doesn't he? Shame the guy ran into his elbow as it goes, but didn't think he had a lot of option but to make the challenge in the box.
If Moussa was worse at Tranmere and Yeovil, then I dread to think how bad he was. He really seems to think he's better than he is. He was quite simply awful and didn't look too bothered about it.
As for Simon Francis, he was simply awful. He looked disinterested and really is a liability when defending, not being alert and not looking to mark, challenging when he should be holding up and constantly putting the rest of the defence in trouble.
Christophe and Macca in the middle constantly gave the ball away and really offered nothing going forward. With the 2 of them and Moussa we really were, and indeed are, in a no win situation. And with Tilly still insisting in playing so deep what chance have we got.
I feel so sorry for Lee Barnard who had to come deep every time to get the ball. He simply had now service whatsoever and it's no suprise he won't sign a new contract. Who can blame him.
And as for Macca's challenge in the box, it was between the goal and the corner flag and there was absolutely no need whatsoever for the challenge which was suicidal. Having seen it on SSN it certainly was a penalty.
So many people think we were not 3 goals worse than Norwich but I can't see it. If Norwich had converted their chances it could have been 5 or 6. We were awful, playing so deep that we were always going to be under attack for the entirety of the game.
For ST to say we matched them and things didn't go for us astounded me. He must have a different view from the touchline and with no options it's hardly suprising he doesn't move from the dugout wall. I truly feel sorry for him as he really does the best with what he's got but BBC Essex said that we CANNOT make permanent signings as we are under the transfer embargo. Hope I heard it wrong but they even appeared to state that this applied to January.
Without Laurent we have no width and no hope of servicing the strikers.
Dreadful lackluster performance. Lack of quality, lack of effort and lack of hope. So disappointed to see what has happened to the team and feel desperately sorry for ST who's reputation must be diminshing through no fault of his own.