That was as depressing as anything I've seen in the last 2 years. How many chances were spurned tonight? How often was the man in possession in the box facing the wrong way? How many touches do the players want? Why is the passing so slow, and why does most of it go backwards or across? Then resorting to hoofball late on. Genuine relegation candidates unless something changes IMO.
I don't know. Was it that that bad? Yes, granted we've just drawn to an evo stik side but I thought we started with real purpose and playing some good stuff. We lost our flow a little bit because they were kicking us. The game got broke up, if it had been because we'd been roughed up I'd have been angry but the lads didn't shirk the physical battle at all.
I'm not complaining about the physicality here (I think it's lacking too much in the game really) but I am bemused as to referees interpretations in games between sides at different levels. They were at least two tackles in the first half that would've been straight reds in the conference without hesitation. There was one on Richman that he's been sent off for twice himself! It also seems you can grab the ball out of a players hands when they're looking to take a free kick? Surely you can't level it down, a red card tackle should be a red card. If not can someone apply it to the conference so we can tackle freely as well.
Ref was crap and lost it at one point in the second half when he just started giving alternate free kicks, he gave us one that was no different to the previous challenge.
But back to our performance we got in front and it looked like 2 or 3-0 but griff has just misjudged the flight of the ball and it's a sucker punch. Disappointing yes but I've been more frustrated with other performances over the years. We just need to be up for the battle next Tuesday.
355 was terrible though. The move to December trophy games has been a bad move crowd wise for all clubs but I think we've got to do better than this.