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I feel a bit for Cundy. He's taking the brunt of the criticism. From what I ve seen I wouldn't want to be playing in front of both our keepers. Rotating keepers is ridiculous. How is any defence able to build an understanding when the keepers are being swapped every game. Losing Liam Davis is a huge loss. Cameron's display has been way down. I honestly question whether Cameron is able to compete at this level because I m really doubtful on what I ve seen. Wynter went through a tough period last season and at the moment he is probably the first name on the team sheet.

A positive from yesterday, yes only one!! I thought McNulty did very well. Quick feet and direct. In the first half most of our positive play came through him. I was a bit surprised to see him replaced so early.

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That was just pathetic. Stockport couldn't believe their luck, Xmas come early for them. Defensively a complete shambles.
I just don't get it, why are we rotating GK? Why was Reid starting??He was hobbling around from the start. I m not Keating's biggest fan but how did he not feature in some way.
Today's performance was summoned up completely when McDonald took a free kick 20yards inside our half, totally skyed it and only made 20yards into the oppositions half.

From what i saw of Jared Lewington when he played against us you could see he had potential, he was strong and direct and caused our defense difficulties. He now has the opportunity to take a couple of steps up and i think he does have that potential. I m sure he has been on our radar ever since we played Truro. Lets see if he can take his opportunity. Good luck to him.

Looks like a good signing considering our injuries. Provides our midfield with some energy.

I don't know of any team that would be able to function normally with the amount of injuries that we have had to deal with. At the start of the season Buse wasn't even making the matchday squad, many even couldnt see Vincent making the starting 11 with the players we had. So to me those two lads have been incredible. To then lose the most experienced player in Liam Davis is a massive loss. And then we lose our top goal scorer Jamie Reid.
Lets take Salah and 6-7 other superstars out of Liverpool's side and see how they do.

tomogull wrote: ↑19 Nov 2019, 23:11 Ruari Keating was playing very well at the end of last season until his nastly injury, and don't forget he was scoring goals in this league when Kevin Nicholson signed him. For whatever reason, he has not been given much playing time this season. If he has lost confidence since his injury, it seems to me that it would make sense to loan him out to, say, a National League South side where he would get regular games to help him get his confidence back, rather than having him sat on the bench doing nothing.

Personally I think Keating will leave soon, he's down the pecking order with GJ and you can see his frustration. If Jamie Reid is not 100% and he still selects him than that says everything about what GJ thinks of Duku's ability to lead the line.


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We were playing against a Sutton team that haven't won in a while, they are struggling in the bottom 4 regardless of where people think they should be currently placed. Rotating goalkeepers and selecting a back 5 at home which included Niate who to be fair to him hasn't played much football recently and a new kid at LB, he did ok he wasn't sure whether to go forward of stay back. Reid coming out starting his warm up 20min before KO shows there is something clearly not right. If he's struggling and not 100% then he should not have started. So why did he start??I don't think that GJ has any confidence in Duku or Keating??
The first 10-15min we were strong but it soon fell apart. We just didn't have any natural width and it wasn't great to watch.
Regardless of our injuries I believe we still had enough to get something out of that game. The two goals we conceded were extremely poor, we need to deal with situations like that defensively. I ve not seen a performance that looked so poor in every department under GJ before. What was going on with the subs I have no idea.
I m sure GJ is disappointed and I certainly back him to get things right.

Very poor today. I don't know what was going on at 1440 when Reid comes running out with Kai and starts his warm up?? Surely there was a problem??
We really should have been 3 up after 15 min, after that we were poor, never really got hold of the ball. No width just back to front and poor.
Yes the ref was poor and Sutton spent most of the afternoon rolling around. But we never deserved anything from that game. If you are Keating now you know your time is up. Duko had that final opportunity and the keeper saved it.
We are decimated in midfield with injuries now. Reid is definitely not 100%.
One shinning light was Ben Wynter who deservedly got the mom. His goal was about the only bit of quality today.

I would expect Ryan Dickson to be recalled from his loan if Liam Davis is going to be out for any considerable time.

Should be no excuses, as far as I m aware we prepared very well using S.Devon College.

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Like others have commented a really poor first half, we really could have been 2 down at half time. We couldn't string 2-3 passes together. Credit to Wrexham they pressed well and were by far the more dangerous. To be honest i really thought it was going to be one of them off performances and i would have taken a point at HT.
Defensively in the first half we were not great, moments of indecision, lack of concentration and errors. During the HT break no TUFC subs came out to warm up until a few minutes before the Wrexham players returned so whatever was said needed to take effect.
The first 5-10 min wasnt great until from out of nowhere pops up Liam Davis with a fantastic goal. From then on it was far improved many chances and we really should have made it 2 or 3.
I have to mention the pass from Ben Wynter to put Jamie Reid in was absolutely class. JR will be disappointed with blasting that chance over the bar. The introduction of Janneh and Opi just gives us so much energy and pace. You can see Jamie Reid looks even more effective with Janneh.
We still had our wobbles however on the 2nd half performance i think we deserved the victory.
I thought our full backs were excellent. How Cameron was named MOM is ridiculous, he was better in the 2nd half but his 1st half performance was poor. Cundy wasnt much better either in the 1st half either. Busey did well, he has some engine that lad. Whitfield did well in the 2nd half.

A big shout out to the Ground staff who have once again delivered a good playing surface considering the weather.

Yellow army excellent tonight, good atmosphere considering the weather.

Is it just me or are the flood lights poor??

The pitch was fine on Saturday and we haven't had any major rain since then. The wind is strong which helps drying and with the improved drainage i see no issues.