Half’s don’t count, now entire phases of the team don’t count, what exactly does constitute a fantastic performance? Because we were battered that game.
The Wrexham game i thought our attacking play and build up play was pretty good let ourselves down defensively but overall a decent performance.
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If Stirk’s volley goes in, it would have been a different game 
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Fine margins.
They put 4 past us 
easily.
Andy is that because you believe that we are either too good, or not bad enough to fail to get sufficient points?
I can’t comment as I only follow our matches via occasional radio commentary and the match threads on here and it is nigh on impossible to glean a consensus on the squad’s ability relative to our competitors from that.
Are we more likely to improve, stagnate or decline from our current inconsistencies? I would be interested to see the opinions of others in this regard.
For what it’s worth (and it’s worth nothing), I don’t hear or read anything sufficient to tempt me back to the matches unfortunately.
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Fair enough. For me personally, being down 4-0 at half time to a former non league club who are presently bottom of the football league, before seeing a ‘reaction’ in drawing to the next team inhabiting that bottom place, having been promised exciting, expansive, attacking, front-foot football (as so many said was happening in those first 2 months!) is somewhat indicative of an unravelling.
I think most supporters were very fair in their aims this year. Most said at the start of the season, they would be happy to finish this season between 9th and 14th and have a feeling the club was finally sorting itself out structurally. My concern after recent events and their nature is that these meagre aims are again not actually happening, despite reading essays eminating from the board room about plans and footballing structures. To me, it just looks like a few marquee signings and a bunch of squad fillers, same as every year. This year lead by a rookie manager that I really feel dor.
Make no mistake, the ‘incremental progress’ on the field has not happened and is not happening at the moment. But again, I sit back and hope I will be proved wrong over the next month or 2, rather than bemoaning the latest ex-manager going on to rub our noses in it.
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If it’s this I actually agree. It’s criminal how bad you have to be to be relegated from this division. The National league deserves one, if not two more promotion spots, and some clubs in this division don’t deserve to be able to do the absolute bare minimum and feel comfortable year after year.
We won’t be relegated this year. You have to be unspeakably bad to do that.
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Morecambe was not an okay performance.
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Ah right sorry, I forgot defending isn’t important as long as we have a few attacks 
I’m not actually looking for sticks to beat Walsall with. I just say things how I see them, I am sure I am often wrong.
I’m sure there are a few positives but the reality is starting to not look so good. What is it one win in 5 or 6 games. Hopefully, we will win tomorrow and it will no doubt feel a bit better.
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I think we’d experiment less if a sequence of results put us in trouble.
Eg last Saturday we’d have played Hutch and Draper if we’d needed the points.
It’s October! We do need the points
What experimenting are you referring to?
We ‘could’ have scored 3 or 4 at Wrexham. Thing is, they could have easily got 7 or 8. Its a non argument 
Again, using a dicking as evidence of progress is just absolutely ridiculous
Same as when a winning manager praises us. Its flawed. Means nothing.
There was another game where it was the refs fault. Just rollll em outtt…
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Sadlers different line ups and formations.
If Sadler was experimenting as you suggested before, he needs his head looked at. He will always be a few results away from his job being questioned.
Sadler is the experiment.
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He’s not. They’re not dead rubbers. Sadler is putting out teams to win games now.
It’s absolute bollocks.
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Why? If it helps develop the team in the long term I haven’t got a problem with him experimenting, other than when it goes too far like against Sutton.
I remember smith played Adam Chambers in left midfield once and everyone called him clueless. Of course the reason he did this was to give Reece Flanagan game time with Adam chambers to provide some cover.
If Sadler played a weakened side against bottom of the league when a win would have put us 2 points outside the playoffs then he would need committing to an asylum.
You can’t possibly believe that he could be 5 points better off if he chose to and therefore in the playoff places but chose to experiment instead.