Well the system wasn’t was it? 
It’s really not. Happened for years 
Oh I don’t know. Hoofing it up the field for a bloke to chase after is pretty basic. I think that even yow would have been concerned about the shite on display this afternoon.
Well we can agree on that and that is the problem . It is not travelling arrangements.
Used to work for a big hotel in Bristol in the 90’s, as a new initiative, I wrote to every club who were playing Bristol City & Rovers, offering discounted twin rooms, pre-match meals, use of gym, pool, conference room for pre-match briefing etc…
It wasn’t expensive then & it won’t be now. If we didn’t stay over the night before we are more skint than I thought we were & Pomlett needs to be challenged.
In the 80’s players still thought full fat milk was a good after match routine. Steak and chips as a pre-match meal? Not a problem. Pub day Wednesday - standard.
The world of physical and mental health has moved on so much in the last forty years and the margins of advantage and disadvantage so much slimmer. Data taken every second on the pitch through digital intervention. I’m sure the levels illustrated by that data will be lower today and that will in part to us preparing as you say, like we did in the eighties.
And the thing with stuff like this is that football like a lot of other industries is very small with everybody talking to everybody. As others say, doing a trip like today on the day smacks of tinpotedness for a club that thanks to its geography doesn’t need to do too many trips like today.
Today isn’t all down to that. But Matt and the players need every help. We either mean it or we don’t.
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I’d just started to post the same, but, as usual, not as eloquently as you, so I’ll just agree with your post 
I have been concerned for some time about this system but have not wanted to be too critical until I was sure the case was unanswerable. I think it is now. Sides at the top of the pyramid have players who can play it well. We simply do not have the players. I hope MT learns and learns quickly else we will be stuck in this mid table obscurity for a long time.
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I’d question if we are actually playing to George’s strengths. He is starting to look a little disillusioned with it all, and who can blame him.
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I think he could be with right players around him.
I know all that. I am not an idiot but I doubt it would have made much difference to the hoof ball we allegedly played today. That is down to other things as I set out above.
Sounds like a divorce settlement.
In terms of the squad we don’t have one, no striker to replace Miller with or join him from the bench. No real creativity to add to the midfield, no real way of changing the shape/width.
That’s the issue. To have the consistency we need to get out this league, we need to be able to adapt/change, rest fatigued or out of form players, change things mid game, have players on the bench chomping for a start.
We have none of this & this is why January is so important. And I’m talking early January not the 31st, if we are “having a good go” this year.
Just imagine 3/4 good players in right positions! Especially if they are good at set pieces.
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But you don’t know if matt Taylor was the one to decide not to stay over.
I’d be very surprised if he requested to do so and it was refused.
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Really should have thrown an extra striker on as they looked more than happy with a draw for the last 20 minutes, but we gave a silly free kick away late on and then totally switched off defending it. Paddy was our only real threat second half and also won possession on a few occasions. Labadie was awesome on Tuesday but his distribution was very poor today, I knew we weren’t going to win wearing red instead of green😂
That’s true. And fair.
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Is there any possibility that MT wanted to be at home on his 40th?
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Max melbourne
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I kind of agree in terms of creativity. But we mentally and physically switched off in the 89th minute. Tired minds and bodies doing what tired minds and bodies do.
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Last season he looked a real prospect.