Not good enough.

All eleven players today worked their socks off for a deserved win which could have been by four goals had the chances offered been taken, I thought Paddy was my MOM considering he was playing out of position.
Looking forward to a win against Halifax and into the mix of the playoffs

All eleven players today worked their socks off for a deserved win which could have been by four goals had the chances offered been taken, I thought Paddy was my MOM considering he was playing out of position.
Looking forward to a win against Halifax and into the mix of the playoffs

Quoted from GrimRob

I don't believe this side is not good enough for L2 (we beat two L2 clubs in the FA Cup this season) but even if they aren't there's nothing to stop us changing most of the squad next year as nearly all the team are out of contract anyway. Let's worry about what happens next season when it comes around.

3 points at this stage of the season is job done. In football you get 3 points regardless of how you win. There are no bonus points as there are in other sports. We are obviously hard to beat (Woking thought they'd done it twice and they were wrong). Only 1 team has beaten us by more than one goal next season and we're playing them next.

We're doing well. Wake up if you think we're not!

Rob with due respect I think as one of PH's critics I can say that overall I am happy to be in third place, would like to be higher but thats life, however, I think most of us feel there are opportunities with the players in the squad to improve the quality of our play e.g. Treatment of Cook (no further comment as discussed to death) but more recently Thanoj and Paddy whose exclusion has been surprising given the form of Kerr and Dis, and as I said after Tuesday if not included why are they not brought on earlier when our midfleld clearly tires?

Thanoj in particular would benefit from being told that subject to injury you will now be playing until the end of the season. He is a creative player but if you are under constant pressure about your place are you always going to play the safe pass instead of the braver option which may create a goal.

I accept this is a new challenge for PH working alone and I believe a number of us would have expected that he would have learned from some of the mistakes made previously both with and without RS. It is as though he is the perfect coach for away fixtures but cannot handle the pressure brought about by expectations when playing at home, and with the exception of this years cup games, this has normally been when we have larger home crowds.

We all want success its just that some of us believe this can be achieved with a more positive style of play.

Quoted from pontoonlew

I'm inclined to agree. I'm sick of this 'we got the result' because eventually that attitude will catch up with you and bite you on the bottom hard against good sides. See Newport last season, it's coming again I can guarantee you.

Anybody fancy naming me 5 occasions this season where we're comfortably outplayed a team and played like Champions? Anybody want to even give me 3 occasions? We are simply not good enough to go up and it's sad people are missing that. Chester we're horrific today, I bet Hyde were just as bad against Cambridge and Barnet against Halifax. The difference in results between the 3 sides tells you all you are going to need to know. In fact the fact Andy Cook was dropped from the entire squad today yet comes on to be arguably our best player in a 20 min spell tells you exactly what you need to know about Hursts ability as a manager.

Did you even go today?  

Quoted from Caesar

Cook and Tonka was played on Thursday, would still give them another go as I felt there was promise there I felt that too often they were occupying the same areas and did not run off each other enough for me.

While people may feel we are poor, poorest team to go up if we do it?  I think not, we are hardly flying at the minute but at this level it is all about getting out of it, judging by some of the posts on here we are playing worse now then when we finished 11th and lost 14 times! Does anyone really think that this leagues has got that much worse that in 3 years we ae 11 points better off with 4 games left to play?

We were far far better when we finished 11th. We had a terrible start but for afew months we were playing the best football I've seen under s&h. If it wasn't for the bad start (first season under them) we would have cruised into the playoffs. That was a harder league that year as well surely
That's about the best thing we've got going for us - were not very good.... but then neither is anybody else!
Anyway its about time everyone got behind the team now. Last push, what's the worst that could happen?!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Rob with due respect I think as one of PH's critics I can say that overall I am happy to be in third place, would like to be higher but thats life, however, I think most of us feel there are opportunities with the players in the squad to improve the quality of our play e.g. Treatment of Cook (no further comment as discussed to death) but more recently Thanoj and Paddy whose exclusion has been surprising given the form of Kerr and Dis, and as I said after Tuesday if not included why are they not brought on earlier when our midfleld clearly tires?

Thanoj in particular would benefit from being told that subject to injury you will now be playing until the end of the season. He is a creative player but if you are under constant pressure about your place are you always going to play the safe pass instead of the braver option which may create a goal.

I accept this is a new challenge for PH working alone and I believe a number of us would have expected that he would have learned from some of the mistakes made previously both with and without RS. It is as though he is the perfect coach for away fixtures but cannot handle the pressure brought about by expectations when playing at home, and with the exception of this years cup games, this has normally been when we have larger home crowds.

We all want success its just that some of us believe this can be achieved with a more positive style of play.

Excellent post.

Quoted from Alfie

Did you even go today?  

no I don't think he did....

Quoted from Alfie

Did you even go today?  

Because I didn't go to a game I'm not allowed my opinion on the current affairs on the club? I think after 15 years of going to almost every home game, having happily said I've always vocally supported us throughout that, I'm entitled to an opinion. I travel hundreds of miles to go to games so when it's poor and as negative as it has been it's more of a bitter pill to swallow.

You may not agree with it but I'm sick of people on this board ganging up against people who have different views. I think a lot of people are naive as to how we're doing and I believe I could have a point. But anybody who doesn't share that opinion I'll have an honest debate with. Unfortunately some like to turn it into a flipping gentlemens club and jump on people who go against popular opinion.

I can't quite believe what I'm reading on here tonight. We won and I thought we played some excellent football at times today. If we don't play well in the playoffs and win then job done. Job done today.

Quoted from nightrider

We were far far better when we finished 11th. We had a terrible start but for afew months we were playing the best football I've seen under s&h. If it wasn't for the bad start (first season under them) we would have cruised into the playoffs. That was a harder league that year as well surely
That's about the best thing we've got going for us - were not very good.... but then neither is anybody else!
Anyway its about time everyone got behind the team now. Last push, what's the worst that could happen?!

When Woods was the manager we scored 7 against Mansfield then 6 away to Histon,

BUT

What happened after that ?

We are in a good position at the moment,

So lets get behind the team and hope we can do it this season.