lindave, on 14 April 2017 - 06:12 PM, said:
I don't care what any of them have to say,all I know is that once again we witnessed a totally unacceptable performance from a clueless bunch of p.+63assionless players. We have a Manager who is supposed to be one of the top young managers in the lower leagues, but even he seems bereft of any positive ideas and passion on the bench.I predicted 5mins before Dion got sent off, that he would be out to clatter someone because the idiot ref failed to give him or any of our players any protection whatsoever.He's one of the few who actually show passion for the shirt. Jones was my motm and never stopped running but Caldwell will probably show him the door.Tom, Sam,Lawrence & Connor worked hard but poor young Jo never got the service or support he deserved, he looked gutted on the bench at the end with his top covering his face.Give the young ones a fair chance in the last 3 games, we have nothing to play for now, German, Beesley and even Wakey deserve a little run out. Hopefully Novak will be playing next weekend to give us a little interest.Come on Caldwell, even with this poor squad of players, we should be able to expect one shot on target over the 90mins,did we have a corner today? I can't remember.
Thought both McGinn and Jones were poor, actually. Jones's defensive positional sense was non-existent leaving big gaps behind him on the left. I'll accept, at full stretch going forward he got the odd last ditch cross in to nobody but, as for composure, it was non-existent. In fact, the best cross/pass into the penalty area was from Simons but he hardly touched the ball after coming on.
In reality, if one of their players shouted out the ref gave them a foul, but that apart in yet another "must win" game GC's tactics handed the initiative to them from the kick-off even though he had told us, in his pre-match interview, that Southend are a team that like to start matches on the front foot. Well, surely, he should have set up to stop them doing what they like to do not just sit back and let them do it. Why not try and attack teams, Mr Caldwell, we were at home and their keeper had nothing to do whilst we never even had a corner?