Of course. It’s like an arms race. One side gets better at winning possession so the other side has to get better keeping possession and so on.
Just home and still a bit flabbergasted.
If I was Sadler I’d say to the team “forget that happened. Wipe it from the memory. There will be no post match analysis or post Mortum. We’ve had a great start - we put tonight right on Saturday”.
He and his staff should watch it back mind. Definitely some learnings for them but no point burdening the players with tons of information and negativity.
Loads of players well off it tonight. Gordon, Allen, Dave, Stirk, Lakin, Jellis, Earing, Matt all nowhere near their levels. And Simkin - I’ll just say what I did after Saturday. We don’t know what his standard is yet as he’s had very little to do so far this season. He’s been busy in one game and come up very short. But it is just one game.
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Haven’t just watched the goals back bar the first which was a decent move the others were shocking goals to concede . I’d argue the 3rd goal is a clear foul on simkin though if you watch it back .
We were bad tonight but fleetwood didn’t carve us open the goals we conceded were individual errors and avoidable ,
I’m hoping this was simply a one off but how we bounce back will be key
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What annoyed me was their players celebrating in front of our fans like they did. It could have caused trouble the way they behaved.
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And if he had have done and we had lost, he would be slated for changing a winning team .
Hindsight eh .
Just got home, left after fifth one went in and not surprised to hear on radio in car we had conceded another. Not read any other comments but for me the game turned when we were 1-0 up and Lowe was running on to a through ball, the defender pulled him to the ground, no free kick given, they equalised almost immediately. We were never in it after that. Our second was against the run of play. Stirk had an off day I thought, and Fleetwood were closing down our wing backs all game. Hopefully just a bad day at the office.
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They’ll be some changes on Saturday for sure…chill. 
Daniels been on the bench for two games now so probably ready to play. Didn’t work when he was thrown back in end of last season after similar absence but Chesterfield will be tough with what they have in attack so logical to put him in with his organisation.
Not sure where Comley is with his fitness but again if you’ve shipped 6 a proven DM at this level sitting on the bench might be worth a start soon, probably be Earing though. Think Adomah will also get a start for a tricky away game.
The good thing compared to previous seasons is there are now 3-4 proven players at this level ready to come in for some of the younger players who seemingly struggled with the pressure of going top tonight so up to Sadler to produce those changes now.
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Well, except the people that said it beforehand 
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Fleetwood are a good side. Reckon they’ll be up there at the end of the season.
Credit to us as we were all over them first 20 minutes.
Clumsy challenge from big Dave changed the game and gave them a lift just after half time. Similar to the one he gave away against Fulham.
Credit to Sadler for having the confidence to try and chase the game. It just back fired on us badly. For the first time this season, us having a 19 year old keeper and a young defence showed as they lost their heads a little.
Not too downhearted as it’s just one loss against a decent team.
Would be a statement by Sadler to go with the same team on Saturday but personally I’d make some changes. DD for big Dave for sure and maybe a few others.
Jamma my man of the match but thought Cleary looked decent when he came on.
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The first twenty minutes we looked really sharp and things were going for us.
Fleetwood looked all over the place at the back and we deserved to get to half time in the lead.
It’s possible that the Tuesday Saturday run of games finally caught up with us but whatever the reason that’s as poor a second half performance as I’ve ever seen.
We were woeful, absolutely terrible.
The game on Saturday is going to show us what this team is made of.
Hopefully it will turn out to be just a blip because that defeat was shocking.
The one thing that the referee ought to have done something about was a number of their players taunting the home supporters because acts of stupidity like that can very easily get out of hand.
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It was a joke that was allowed to happen really. You get booked for kicking the ball away, taking your shirt off, breathing on another player yet virtually the whole team are allowed to go up to the home fans and taunt them. I don’t know why they were giving it the big un like that, go down the other end and celebrate with your own fans, who I thought were brilliant, kept singing even when they conceded. I think a few of them had been on the sesh!
I was a bit disappointed with some of our fans. I am always the first to stick up for our fans, and defended some of the gallows humour at games over recent years. It was a shambles last night no doubt, but no need for the sarcastic “we’ve got the ball” type chants, not the right time. The team has been brilliant so far this season, we haven’t become rubbish overnight.
One of those nights against a very good side where it all just went wrong. We’ll be back.
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Left it till this morning to comment and haven’t read any posts so apologies if I repeat any, this was a very bad day at the office.
Young Simkin was as poor as any keeper I’d seen in years however he is 19 and deserves our backing and not any of us slaughtering him for it, he will know he was poor, we will see what his character strengths are now in Saturdays game assuming he starts, he can’t have no complaints if he’s left out thou.
One player who wouldn’t be starting is Liam Gordon last few games he’s been off it and it’s hardly surprising when you look to the bench and don’t see any one keeping on his toes, Evan Weir as vanished off the face of the earth, he needs bringing in and Gordon needs resting.
Big Dave was idiotic lunging in for tackle that led to the penalty, then had the audacity to claim it was out the box when he was 3 yards inside, a night to forget for him and imo a chance for someone else to stake a claim, the whole idea of a squad is to create hunger and rivalry for places, leaving him in doesn’t set the right example for me.
DJ must once again be fuming Albert and Clearly once again introduced before him, his header was one to forget thou, that goes in its 4-3 and a different game, he’ll score more difficult goals that that this season, whilst on strikers Lowe once again left nothing out there whilst Jamma imo looked off it, he could barely walk round the pitch after being taken off Saturday yet finds himself starting again, don’t understand that one.
Fleetwood deserve plaudits for that performance they stopped our attacking threats from wing back positions and hassled Stirk every time he had the ball, a real class outfit backed by 79 diehards who never stopped singing and getting behind their team, fair play to them, what is slightly worrying is a rookie manager like Charlie Adam out thought Sadler and co.
Like I said earlier a bad day at the office, now it’s time to put it right on Saturday, we’ll see what these lads and Matt Sadler are made of then, they need to dust themselves down and put it right and not let their early season efforts go to waste, come on you reds.
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I was expecting a cup hangover when we played Colchester, and during the first half it looked like it… at one point we were consistantly half a yard too slow, but then somehow managed to pick it up.
I was very surprised by the unchanged line up and I’m not surprised by the reports on here of the lads being knackered. Sounds like after 25 mins the lads had simply run out of steam, which is understandable given the amount of games they’ve played. The fact that Sadler waited until they levelled before playing any subs is a headscratcher as we’ve got quite a strong squad that deserves to be utilised. A result like this was bound to happen at some point but hopefully Sadler will use his squad intelligently enough to get 3 points from Saturday before the boys get a couple of weeks without a game.
I thought it was the 1st, not the 31st October last night. A few harsh lessons, it felt like a strange evening from the start what with the sparse and subdued audience.
We need to protect Simkin, he;s a goalkeeper with huge potential and for me he’s going right to the top but as a young, inexperienced keeper it’s the one position where your individual mistakes get shown up more than any other, it will be a test of his character to bounce back and the players and supporters will rally round him.
Obviously something of a reality check and in the long run it may not be the worst thing to happen to us, it demonstrates as much as we have put together a talented squad if you are off it then you can get found out and we’ve achieved nothing yet. Really important we bounce back on Saturday and get last nights horror show out of ur system at the earliest opportunity, we know what the consequences of dropping our high standards are now.
Learn the lessons, take the medicine and move on…
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Well that was as bad as it gets. Weaknesses highlighted to our next opposition so a game as tough as any now on Saturday, but a chance to put things right and put this one behind us.
Embarrassed by some of our fans booing or sarcastically chanting we’ve lost the ball etc. when we’ve done really well up to now.
Not worth losing our heads over and I’d limit the amount of changes on Saturday, give some a chance to put it right IF their fitness levels allow.
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Awful second half. Hopefully gives them a kick up the arse. Worst half I have ever seen in 33 years and I have seen some dross. Shows that we will be upper mid table only
So you’re going to base that prediction on one half of football and ignore the other games? This shows the overreaction. Yes it was poor but they’ve been brilliant up to now.
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Still felt that one in the gut waking up this morning so the players must be feeling it 10 fold. Hopefully it doesn’t damage their confidence too much. I’ve been saying all season I wasn’t going to get carried away and we’ve had a good start, nothing more, but this Saturday is the first real test of character and grit of this squad. Pick up a result and my confidence in this team is more than restored. Lose, then I start to worry habits and winless runs like last season start to creep in. Still a long way to go yet and I won’t be making any solid predictions until Christmas.
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Be interested to see the cash savings we make by closing the away end. I doubt its more than marginal. What is significant is having to now frequently kick our way first half. Its clear that our main stand and core support is a huge factor for players of Tiny Town FC , evidenced by those daft celebrations when they scored in front of us. Putting oppo fans in the side stand is removing any incentive they may have of kicking towards the away stand in the second half. The club needs to rethink this.
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The TV availability is going to hammer the midweek games. Watch for nowt / next to nowt with a couple of cans versus shelling out 40 or 50 quid, especially when the weather is shite (which is most the time).
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