Living down south means I've been to a handful of games this season, but every time I've been (with exception of Fax/Port over Easter) I came away telling myself, and mates that came, that we'd be ok. Tranmere at home, Bromley away, Borehamwood away, Welling away, Lincoln at home. After the last four of those games, my reaction was always that if we just win two or three of our next five or six then we'll pull away. But we've had no consistency at all (again). This has to come back to recruitment and injuries - totally agree with others who have said Ranks and Deasy have impressed, but we made mistakes with other players, and it has cost us. Obviously injuries played their part, but we played for too long with no viable substitutes.
There is also the fact that we're just not good enough, especially defensively. Too many mistakes at important times, and similarly shoddy finishing. And when we play with two centre mids, we just gift chance after chance to teams from 25-18 yards out. The idea that this is fine, it'll take a worldie to beat a keeper from there, is a nonsense - combined with defensive mistakes, it means we give far too many chances away, and failing to take our own means we deserve to be in the drop zone. The tactical ineptitude at the Shay summed this season up. Going off the games I have seen, Lawrie is the player I would have replaced with a third centre mid, but then others have said Lawrie has played well at times, so what do I know.
TLDR - we deserve to be where we are due to poor transfer dealings and being too open in midfield.