Makes it all the stranger Cully. Most thought that he would be a MOSSIVE asset this season, yet has hardly had a sniff. When he has, he has been pretty meh.
A bit puzzling.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but Taylor’s interview baffled me. Talks like we totally controlled the second half. 
I’m pretty sure they had several chances in dangerous areas that caused us panic!
I wasn’t there today so I can only go on what people who saw the match say. It appears to me that this is yet another game where we rely on the long ball to a single striker. That will only work occasionally in my view. We desperately need to change the system we keep playing if we are to score more goals. MT, who I like, needs to rethink what we are trying to do. He constantly says the players are good enough to be more consistent.If that is the case then it must be the system which is holding us back. Like others I agree we need strengthening at LFB and up front but if we continue with this system is there any point?
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I don’t think that we play very attractive flowing football and I have often stated my disillusionment and at times boredom. We aren’t a good team, yet.
The formation generally does not work with the individuals that the manager either has available, or chooses to select. Individually most, if not all, of the players in the team(s) have had some very good games, but it largely happens individually, not collectively. A reason why it rarely occurs collectively could be owing to the formation and/or the players chosen for specific positions. The midfield spine of the team doesn’t function as well as it needs to.
If you focus on that, we currently operate with Earing furthest back, Labadie ahead of him moving forward and back, with Osadebe a little further forward of him. I think we all accept that Osadebe wouldn’t be first choice as the apparent catalyst for our attack, as that would probably be Holden were he fit. Second choice would probably be Earing. Both of those are ball players who could be relied upon to take control of the ball and probably do something constructive with it, either by consistently beating a man and delivering a telling pass, or making something else happen to cause the opposition problems. As stated by others, Osadebe offers no such reliable, consistent platform.
My view is that we would be far more effective by playing Earing as the attacking midfield focal point and playing someone else deeper. I know you could argue that that has already been tried, with other players having brief spells there without too much success, but I think it’s now time to get the attack functioning and “risk” someone else as the deepest midfielder. I realise that I am singling out Osadebe as the main problem, not necessarily that I don’t rate him, but primarily because I don’t think the position suits him, or he the position.
I appreciate that I haven’t been today and have only seen the home league games and a couple of away games, so I may be unfairly making the point.
Whether Kinsella slots in for Earing and Earing for Osadebe is the solution, I don’t know, but it strikes me as preferable to what we have been doing and a step in the right direction if we are to persist with the formation.
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I hope that was transfer from the hotel nearby to the ground, not from Walsall to Carlisle some time before the game. Am I right? Please, don’t tell me it was the latter option.
Good post .I agree with most of that but as you can see from my post I doubt this system will bring us sustained success with any combination of the players we have .If Holden gets fully fit it might work but can we rely on him playing match after match after his long lay off.
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I’m sick of this shite week in week out. We’ve got a learner manager with a nice coat, backroom staff that appear to make no difference to the players development, what’s going on in training. We’ve got the biggest team in living memory and yet we are incapable of taking advantage of corners and free kicks - what’s going on? The players are either just not good enough or as I suspect are capable of performing to a better standard. Yes I know there are a few dead legs that need to be shipped out and we all know the positions that are crying out to be filled but NOTHING is done. What happened to the £2m plus ADDITIONAL money we’ve received this year, surely we can stretch to say £500k.
As for the board - same as the old board but with added YouTube. Absolute shite!!
…and how bad has it become that I’m frequently betting against my own team.
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Odd cos we stayed over before the Sutton game. Coincidence or not but we won that one.
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I’m afraid Pomlett, Taylor and Co celebrate mediocrity and basically being pretty shite. The you tube videos, the pumping the chest, the fist waving. Until that mentality changes I’m afraid we are stuck.
Overnight stays for any Saturday away fixture, bar local derbies should be a given. As the club would probably need more than 10 rooms, then you would assume that arrangements would be made well in advance.
The weather / travelling conditions today were not great, but could easily have been a whole lot worse. Players sat on a coach for 4 hours on match day beggars belief.
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Angry not so much about the performance but the missed opportunity a win today we would have been
In the top ten
3 points off play offs
6 points off automatic places
We are not far off but can’t keep turning down such chances
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We stayed over at Hartlepool didn’t help much
OK. So do you think it is acceptable to travel on the day based on the fact that we might still get turned over if we travelled the night before?
Fair enough. Although Khan had a quiet game, he is more useful than Phillips at corners and set pieces. I wouldn’t mind seeing him as a left back experiment, that position has to be a priority for MT in January.
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This staying over is a relatively new thing. I remember following the team coach to all sorts of places in the eighties. It didn’t do some of the best teams we have had any harm.
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As with all sorts of things, the world has moved on. It’s done for a reason.
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Would’ve been what, two grand for an overnight? At other, small clubs who routinely travel longer distances more frequently, this is where board members (and I mean the non salaried ones so not the likes of Mole & Gamble) chuck a few hundred quid each in. Not in loans or anything but because they are genuine fans and know that even when they did this, their proportionate (to their wealth) spend on today would have still been substantially lower than most of our fans who travelled. Gilman, Bond, Tisdale and Leigh himself. Five or six hundred quid each. Small change. And in that part of the world some decent places to stay that could have acted as a really good battery re-charge and bonding opportunity.
I don’t get it.
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You are right the world has moved on .We are now lumbered with a system the players are incapable of playing on a sustained basis. Sometimes a return to basics is a good thing 
Yes we all want and hope for better but if enjoying winning a few games here and there is celebrating mediocrity then sorry, I’ll enjoy them too cos if you don’t enjoy winning games (at whatever level) then what is the point.
It’s league 2, we’ve been here for 2 and half seasons and probably 90% plus of games and performances from both sides are going to be mediocre to crap.
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It couldn’t get any more basic than it was today 