Monday, April 10, 2006

Probably depends who you ask mate; we collapsed after the first goal went in, we changed the system around too much, we didn't get close enough to their players on their first touch etc etc.

However, I still think (and watching from the sidelines, am pretty convinced I'm right) that out problem is that we're playing like a team who think we are rubbish, in that we're scared to get the ball under control. We would rather hoof it out and chase the game, as if we think our sole aim is to stop them scoring, whereas it should be to score lots. In the first twenty mins yesterday, we got the ball properly under control (as in stopped it, looked around, and played an accurate pass to someone on our team) once. However, the amount of times we whacked it on our first touch, or controlled it then whacked it to no-one, were countless. All I seem to hear whenever someone on our team has the ball in our half is 'get it clear' or more commonly when I've got the ball 'don't do that there Johnny!'. All of the goals conceded were soft again, and avoidable, but as I say, it probably depends who you ask. I still get the feeling that if we scored first, we could roll some of these teams over.

Anyhow, no point blaming certain players or areas of the team, we're in it as a team and we have to get out of it as a team. 4 points from 4 games.