I feel like I have watched that exact same game about 10 times already his season. Dominate a first half and take a 1-0 lead. Concede and equaliser and fall apart.

The tactics are just baffling, bring on Connor Simpson and play everything through the middle and have Rodney and Oates as our widest players. We desperately needed width and quality balls into the box with Simpson on the pitch.

How Rodney get paid money to play football is beyond me, when he made a run and just stopped when played in was just atrocious.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bit harsh I think - he at least tried to be positive on the ball. I think the one you mean is where he made the run about ten seconds earlier but Franks(?) only saw it when he was running back onside

Interesting last few comments on the game. Being home for Christmas was first live game in flesh I’ve seen this season so went in with no real preconceived ideas or mantras about individual players or the management (just seen TV games and highlights so far).

For me, after that showing I’m not sure it would matter if the cloned Hybrid of Clough/Ferguson/Shankly was in charge right now. I’m sure plenty will reply and pick apart some supposed tactics today but basically the startin 11 and bench is not really good enough either in basic talent or desire, or strength or reading the game (or a mixture of all. In the starting 11 I would put 5 of the player in that category that became 6 when Harrison came on.

We can bump gums about Harrison all day long but there is no quick fix with this squad of players and background circumstances. Obviously we can say that he signed the players (allegedly) and he may not be picking others but it is a really poor squad. Essentially r Got down the middle of the park sadly.

Unless some of the quality players come back quickly (Featherstone-yes him!!!, Watson etc the league table will start to look as ugly as our accounts allegedly do.



I am very surprised to only really see one player singled out for criticism after that on here and it being Rodney. For me he positively impacted the game and did ok, yet the couple of things that went wrong for him were more vociferously pilloried than the rest of the shit all game some of the others served up

The fact Rodney makes the bench is startling, he isn`t a winger, when he gets it and plays it to a man he just stays out on the wing when a run into the box is the obvious move, he can`t tackle and quite frankly makes Sydney Schmeltz look a world beater.
I know I bang on about Blackford but it is criminal he gets his place ahead of him, he wants to play for his home town club and is cast aside for that, pop along to a Shildon match before xmas before deriding my remarks.

Ultimately that was a soul destroying experience today

Monkeybutt if you read my post again you will see I didn’t deride your remarks directly in any way. I just remarked that I was surprised based on what I saw why Rodney has been singled out today when he did better than most of the players who had been on the rest of the match.

I didn’t and can’t comment on Blackford as I’ve never seen him play. Emotions are running high I get that

The most telling thing for me was no the play, not the crowd or the manager.

No, when the board went up for five more minutes at 2-1 down was there a roar from the crowd and a mass shout of up and at 'em, over the top lads? No instead the crowd booed the fact that we had to watch five more minutes of this shite.

In to 6/1. = 8th favourite to be relegated with 188Bet!

That and a crowd of 2,700 being so quiet that for most of the match all you could hear was 40 Maidenhead fans singing.

"Two-one to the part-timers" was pretty good though - shame we didn't all join in to let Harrison, the coaches and players know how much we appreciate their efforts.