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Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Some further thoughts:
The team that finished yesterday were not playing as well as the team that finished at Lincoln.

Changing the whole midfield was a big risk too far.  

We have no cover/fit cover for the keeper and the 2 miss-firing strikers. These 3 players were the main reason that we lost.  Hurst has tried to get new strikers in but they have gone elsewhere (the Rovers striker) or Hurst said that he won't settle on second-best.

Why not start yesterday with the 10 that finished Lincoln (plus 1) and see you they do? We have 3 subs to use.   We might be defending a lead at HT instead of being behind.

Too many changes between games has left the players unsettled. The changed are not producing wins.  

Agree with most but not all of that. Our midfield should not have been changed in a wholesale way - Robinson was a passenger for most of the game and his lack of effort meant Clay worked double in the first half so was knackered after an hour.

Mackreth was having a lot of success in the first 20 minutes without finding the killer cross and then we stopped feeding him and instead played more through Marshall, who, like first time he was here, flattered to deceive and started passing back to Robertson who was equally ineffective.

All of this was brought on by the manager who made too many unnecessary changes either by trying to be too clever or out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

Mckreth was having a lot of success first20, that depends on how you classify success ....yeh he could outpace his man but if you can't do the next bit (cross a ball with some degree of accuracy) being a winger why are you on the pitch ? In my eyes he's not good enough

Just think Macca has only a few of the main attributes for a good goalkeeper and I have always thought he was not good enough even at this level:
1. Short stopping - excellent except for part of last season when he let in a few from long range efforts mid season
2. One on ones- excellent as per his display at Wembley
3. Positional sense - Pretty good normally
4. Crosses - poor. He puts the rest of the defence in a panick as soon as the ball is lifted in to our box. He puts pressure on  our defenders to win the first ball at all costs which often means they are more susceptible to conceeding from the second ball as everyone is in a panick, especially when the opposition have a big lad up front.
5. Distribution  - Terrible either from quick throw outs or long kicks (straight out, no distance or procrastinates until too late))
6. Command of Area - awful and again puts the rest of the defence/team on edge.
Throw in to this his current capacity for howlers and I think we need to look at a more permanent solution to our problems. #
Last season I would not have rated Macca in the top 10 of goalkeepers I saw at Blundell Park and yet we finished third.What could we achieve with a goalkeeper who commands his box, takes most balls pumped in to our box and can start an attack with a quick throw out or accurate punt upfield?

Quoted from sausage rolls

Just think Macca has only a few of the main attributes for a good goalkeeper and I have always thought he was not good enough even at this level:
1. Short stopping - excellent except for part of last season when he let in a few from long range efforts mid season
2. One on ones- excellent as per his display at Wembley
3. Positional sense - Pretty good normally
4. Crosses - poor. He puts the rest of the defence in a panick as soon as the ball is lifted in to our box. He puts pressure on  our defenders to win the first ball at all costs which often means they are more susceptible to conceeding from the second ball as everyone is in a panick, especially when the opposition have a big lad up front.
5. Distribution  - Terrible either from quick throw outs or long kicks (straight out, no distance or procrastinates until too late))
6. Command of Area - awful and again puts the rest of the defence/team on edge.
Throw in to this his current capacity for howlers and I think we need to look at a more permanent solution to our problems. #
Last season I would not have rated Macca in the top 10 of goalkeepers I saw at Blundell Park and yet we finished third.What could we achieve with a goalkeeper who commands his box, takes most balls pumped in to our box and can start an attack with a quick throw out or accurate punt upfield?

Fair assessment

Looking at the Cheltenham keeper yesterday on BT Sport,

If we had him in goal this season we would be unbeaten and near the top of the league.

we discussed the keeper situation yesterday and agree with S,D&SR
said every keeper we have faced this season so far has looked better than ours