MotM: 25-10-25. Spennymoor (H)

[tonythescout]

What a total abysmal game of football, yes 3 points is great, however, 85mins of both teams diving, and hoof, after hoof, after hoof, long throw, after long throw, after long throw, topped off with Dibble play acting. What does Kiddy style of play even mean anymore, it seems gone are the days of actually playing on the ground, this is going to be a very long season under the AM helm, I only hope it is limited to one season!

Exactly! What happened to the swagger and confidence of the home performance against Hereford last season?

Manager was sacked and seemingly not replaced well
Load of players left and seemingly not replaced well

Change the record please or go and watch Peterborough sports

I merely answered a question.
Did I say I wanted brown back? Did I say we’d “have kept some departed players”
No
Just stating my observations
So relax dude

[Dr Shrimp PuertoRico]

15 games into the season in all competitions and we've only scored more than 1 goal twice. You can discuss anything you like however until that statistic changes significantly we're going nowhere and nothing I've seen so far suggests that is likely.

In a bizarre statistical quirk we have also scored in every game so far this season but that counts for little when 13/15 games resulted in exactly 1 goal.

[harry211]

Interesting given Dibble's timewasting. Referee gave a corner against Brentford tonight for Kelleher's timewasting. Wonder if we'll see that happen against us...

[TWG85]

[Harry Aire]

Why did we become so negative once we'd scored? I am amazed it didn't finish 1-1 (again) as we seemed to invite their pressure.

Agree with the comment above about our apparent lack of fitness. Why did it take AM so long to bring on fresh legs?

A welcome 3 points and a few good performances as stated above. Ugly game for the most part.

Interested to hear AM now referring to his aim as getting a top 7 finish as well as his now familiar reference to prayer power, of which I think I have heard enough. He's starting to sound like an evangelist.

[TWG85]

15 games into the season in all competitions and we've only scored more than 1 goal twice. You can discuss anything you like however until that statistic changes significantly we're going nowhere and nothing I've seen so far suggests that is likely.

In a bizarre statistical quirk we have also scored in every game so far this season but that counts for little when 13/15 games resulted in exactly 1 goal.

Indeed. Bottom half on Goals Scored. Bottom ten, I think. No good at all. Lot of us were sceptical regarding the fire power brought in, looking at player's records. And chickens come home to roost.

Grinding out performances across a season not sustainable at all, you'd think. At first you say "well, at least they're creating chances. Tide has to turn soon." But a 3rd of the way through a season, I think it's natural to draw some greater conclusions at this stage.

[andrewb]

if the league was on goals scored - we would be 18th out of 24 teams
on the other hand - if it was on goals conceded we would be in 4th place !

[tonythescout]

Murray “Tunni has been importsnt to us” lol he dropped him and was looking to shipping him out not long ago
Bad if he and DD are out longish term tho

[TrialistA]

Interesting to her AM say that Ryley had to bide his time to get his chance in the team. I think it was more of a case that AM took two months to realise that he'd got a good player on his hands. Many of us had been crying out for his inclusion for weeks and our recent upturn (in points gathered rather than quality of football) has coincided with Ryley starting.
Not to mention Kalambayi's arrival in the heart of defence.

[Pershore Harrier]

I don’t get why, being a full time team, we are the ones that always look knackered at the end of games, even against the part timers???

Thankfully I don't bite my finger nails but if I did from minute 85 till the final whistle would see me down to my knuckles. Why on earth do we seem to just run out of steam in the last 10 minutes or so and allow the opposition to dominate the game in search of an equaliser or winning goal. We have form on this I have no idea why. Answers on a post card please.

[HarrierN2]

I did see that correctly, right... We kicked for touch from the kick off?

[Sheffield Harrier]

15 games into the season in all competitions and we've only scored more than 1 goal twice. You can discuss anything you like however until that statistic changes significantly we're going nowhere and nothing I've seen so far suggests that is likely.

In a bizarre statistical quirk we have also scored in every game so far this season but that counts for little when 13/15 games resulted in exactly 1 goal.

Indeed. Bottom half on Goals Scored. Bottom ten, I think. No good at all. Lot of us were sceptical regarding the fire power brought in, looking at player's records. And chickens come home to roost.

Grinding out performances across a season not sustainable at all, you'd think. At first you say "well, at least they're creating chances. Tide has to turn soon." But a 3rd of the way through a season, I think it's natural to draw some greater conclusions at this stage.

One conclusion is we are just in the play-offs despite some very poor performances.

I, like nearly everyone, find his interview style really difficult to enjoy. But he seems to have hit upon a better starting 11. He’s shown he’s able to make changes (some forced I grant you).

I do think we like being miserable!