What the hell was that on Saturday teatime, did Sky without informing anybody decide to broadcast a Blue Square South game, because what we viewed on the pitch was nothing sort of utter rubbish from both sides.

The ninety plus minutes in which we all suffered was poor in quality, lacking any ideas and resembled a game from Chantry Park.

The problem I with Town at the minute is our lack of ideas and when all fails the 'boot' it method seems to dictate our play. On Saturday we actually started quite well, fluid passing from the back, through the midfield, spreading it out to the wings and knocking crosses in. Fifteen minutes in and because we hadn’t scored we reverted to long ball tactics which in all honestly screams “we haven’t got a clue”.

Now I know people will say we played the conditions and tried to get lucky with a defensive error, but have we really sunk that low in confidence and belief that we need to rely on errors or misjudgement to win games. We could and should have won on Saturday; even the wind tried its best to help us on our way but once again we failed to put the ball in the onion bag.

So what is the problem? The problem we have is clear, we need a striker/strikers and we need them badly. It is all very pretty playing neat triangles in the middle and crossfield balls on your own 18-yard line, but that will not win you games and will take you only one way, down. I hear people say there are no strikers out there who we can sign, that’s not the problem. The problem is we are second bottom and players don’t want to come to us and be in a relation battle.

Personally if I was in charge I would make a bid for a certain Simeoe Jackson from Gillingham, he can score is quick and would fit well into are team when we play the passing game. If we continue to hoof the ball up front we might as well try and get Ian Marshall out of retirement.

The team at the minute is so low on confidence we are just trying not to concede and the attacking element of our game is faltering badly. On Saturday, the few occasions we did get crosses in we had two or three players in the box looking to get on the end of the cross, the rest held back in case Wednesday broke.

I am unsure on how the confidence can be restored and I guess the only way is to win games but as we all know we are in a vicious circle. No confidence to attack but confidence required to win games.

I am still backing Keane as I believe he is still the right person to take us forward. I know we are in an awful position at the minute and I don’t believe we will finish higher than 14th. But what Keane is doing is remodelling the team and once he is finished I think we will have a very good team.

Two examples are Leadbitter and Edwards, both these players are quality and if we can model the team around the experienced players we will be OK and see improvements. However, none of this will happen if we don’t sign a striker.

As I am finishing this blog it appears we have lost the loan keeper, well come on Wrighty show us you haven’t lost that talent you had first time at PR.

What I will say this season is that it has shown all of us how well Magilton did with the resources he had, if he stayed would we be where we are, who knows. But come May I think Magic may be smiling and Marcus may be frowning.

Keep the Faith – Up the Town

Fatcatevans added 20:51 - Nov 23 Whats with all the commendation for Edwards.? His best work was done defensively. He rarely threatened, hasnt scored since he's been here and delights in slagging his team mates off in the local press. The other week, the defence, now the strikers. He should look at his own game before having a pop at his 'mates'. Bet he's loved in the dressing room
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Paddy39 added 23:28 - Nov 23 John & Edward
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Nevadablue added 01:16 - Nov 24 On the one hand you note how dire we are playing and then you rush to Keano's aide. We're not far from Christmas and there is no sign of a team playing with purpose and, indeed any apparent focus on correct build up play. Saturday's hoof-fest was a shambles, made worse by the fact that RK seemingly still has no idea what his best side is. Witness the return of Garvan who I felt did more quality passing than the rest of the team put together. How appaling it has taken all this long for Keano to realise what an asset OG is. I really think something drastic has to happen to avoid the drop and right now a change of manager seems to be the best solution.

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