Torquay v Boreham Wood Sat 1st March 3pm

[portugull]

If you study the Highlights carefully for the equalizer you see 7 United players in the penalty box plus Hamon at his near post. Their player skips past Omar Mussa like he was not on the pitch.

Look at the film. ALL our players are ball watching instead of marking the players BW have in the box.

If 2 defenders had run at Abdulmalik, we had 4 men between Abdulmalik and his nearest team mate, he might not have had time to play the perfect pass to Dixon who crucially was unmarked and fired home with the last kick of the match.

Am I being unfair?

[Southampton Gull]

Secondly were does this notion that Wotton has been backed to the hilt come from......

Um from the two Co chairmen themselves. I wasn't insinuating anything other than they've backed him in every way they can within the confines of what is possible. Calm down

[Abbotgull]

We need Man management and leadership. I would like to see Neil Warnock working on the training sessions. He would not tolerate our obvious weaknesses being repeated week after week.

That would completely undermine the manager. Warnock is here to help advise the board in football matters. Having Warnock involved in training would be saying to Wotton we don't think you are the best person here to do the job.

[leetufc]

If you study the Highlights carefully for the equalizer you see 7 United players in the penalty box plus Hamon at his near post. Their player skips past Omar Mussa like he was not on the pitch.

Look at the film. ALL our players are ball watching instead of marking the players BW have in the box.

If 2 defenders had run at Abdulmalik, we had 4 men between Abdulmalik and his nearest team mate, he might not have had time to play the perfect pass to Dixon who crucially was unmarked and fired home with the last kick of the match.

Am I being unfair?

The problem starts with Cooke. Mussa clears the ball and he is too easily beaten to it by the defender. No wonder Hamon was giving him a telling to after the goal goes in!

[Taelee73]

SG you are quite bizarre, you defended the appalling sides and results GJ put out for 2 seasons and blamed it on anyone and everyone else.

Wottons has been here for 6 months and had a squad of one, which actually became a squad of zero. Just find it bizarre you blaming Wottons when he is still building the team and squad.

This time next year if we are playing poorly then yes no excuses from me.

GJ was the master of spin, yet you seem to forget that on a daily basis.

[MoxGull2502]

Just like the BBC it’s another repeat show.
Some things never change

[PainInTheGULLiver85]

Really becoming obvious we need a solid cdm. I enjoyed the 1st half yesterday, high energy battling performance with 2 bits of quality. However, we lost the plot. And feel we should have lost on possession and chances created.

An experienced cdm would be crucial to this team. Someone who knows when and how to pass or to clear and when to calm the lads. I'm really sorry buy Threlkeld doesn't appear to be that guy.

[Southampton Gull]

SG you are quite bizarre, you defended the appalling sides and results GJ put out for 2 seasons and blamed it on anyone and everyone else.

Wottons has been here for 6 months and had a squad of one, which actually became a squad of zero. Just find it bizarre you blaming Wottons when he is still building the team and squad.

This time next year if we are playing poorly then yes no excuses from me.

GJ was the master of spin, yet you seem to forget that on a daily basis.

My focus was always on Osborne, most of you just accepted him and saved your anger for Johnson and here you are STILL mentioning him, that's bizarre. It was never about Johnson for me......

BTW, he's been here longer than 6 months......

[MoxGull2502]

That would completely undermine the manager. Warnock is here to help advise the board in football matters. Having Warnock involved in training would be saying to Wotton we don't think you are the best person here to do the job.

Not sure anybody at the club would have the balls to say or do that. He needs to be judged at the end of the season.
Do the owners consider the play offs a success ?
I am sure MBC doesn’t . All the we only had one player can only be an excuse for so long.
Ash, Seymour, Tomlinson have been replaced with much better quality proving signing those 3 has proven costly. I was told that Ash has another year
God help us. We need a leader and have done since September it is clear for all to see. A captain on the bench will rarely win you a promotion .

[culmstockgull]

Really becoming obvious we need a solid cdm. I enjoyed the 1st half yesterday, high energy battling performance with 2 bits of quality. However, we lost the plot. And feel we should have lost on possession and chances created.

An experienced cdm would be crucial to this team. Someone who knows when and how to pass or to clear and when to calm the lads. I'm really sorry buy Threlkeld doesn't appear to be that guy.

Something we have been lacking all season, I am no fan of threlkeld, he does not earn his salary, he never encourages, he never shouts, he never leads by example all basic requisites of a captain, we have plenty of talent in midfield positions but they are all physcially lighweight, we need a fit version of lapslie or dawson, a terrier who knows how to tackle and disrupt.

[standupsitdown]

I think a draw was a fair result but so frustrating that yet again we’ve conceded very late when 2.1 up – Slough, Chelmsford & now Boreham Wood.

I can understand strengthening the midfield but overall the substitution weakened our team, especially taking off Zanzala.

Poor defending for their late goal.

Wood are probably the best team in this league but that last ten seconds means that realisitically we’re now playing for the best play off position.

[Brixham63]

Yep I saw the player limping and wandered why he wasn’t subbed, buy tbh did he let the manager know he was injured, we only saw it just as the sub was coming on, I can’t remember now if it was the final substitution and so it was then too late.

The subs were all the correct ones in my opinion, bringing on defensive players, a striker for a striker and then a attacking player when the opposition were pushing forward and we needed to catch them on the break. The players coming off, none I think have played 90 minutes in the last month, although I agree WJD still looked full of running. Wotton makes his mind up quickly, someone made a mistake and he immediately got the sub ready. For me. Carson is a weak link, defensively he is often caught out and offensively he gave the ball away too often.

Unfortunately none of the subs did their jobs. Oscar has one good game in 4, Mussa one good run in 40 minutes, Cooke won no headers and just can’t hold the ball up like Jarvis did (to me he needs to bulk up a stone or two).

We have no game management skills that is obvious, seeing them hoof the ball away to no one was maddening I agree, but it must be difficult to practice managing a game out when we have no reserve side practice it. It is costing us dearly.

Wottons Truro side played attractive attacking football, I feel he knows the squad he has and has adapted it to play a certain way. In time he will bring in the players to replicate that side. But it takes time, not 6 months after being given a squad with 1 player in it. I’ve also read we have a budget half of Borehams, so fgs give them some slack. We have lost the fewest times in the division I think, but yes too many draws from winning positions, it’s that game management again.


Morons booing Wotton, clueless absolutely clueless. If we are playing that way in 12 months time then yes get angry and let them know it’s unacceptable, but in their first season? Was I fed up conceding 2 seconds from time, of course. We could all see it coming. The sensible ones however among us knew being champions in his first season would be a real stretch. I am sure a top ten finish with possibly a play off position would have been the owner’s instructions for this season and that’s exactly where our team is. Unfortunately our away form isn’t good enough, so realistically we have to be second or third. I am certain in the next 12 months we will continue to bring in the right players to boost the first team and the squad.

The players he has bought in are mostly doing just that, Young had an off day yesterday but is quality, Jay is a class above anyone in the squad.

It’ll take time, more than 6 months.

[gullsgullsgulls]

My focus was always on Osborne, most of you just accepted him

Is this for real?

[Brixham63]

Looking at the BW squad....very experienced, older wiser....they are strong and proven with a core that's been together for a couple of years. We didn't get beaten by them. We lost 8 games when we won the league in 2018-19 currently we have lost 6...we're averaging the same number of losses...obviously too many draws. Every manager needs time and money...less money requires more time. With half the budget of BW it's going to take time. If we're in this division in 2027 with a solvent sound club then Wotton and the players will have had his chance without bankrupting us and like all clubs we would all move on (The next Messiah etc). Yes..I put survival over ambition given the past few years. 100% behind every player who pulls on a shirt, the Manager and the Board.

[Southampton Gull]

Is this for real?

Nicely edited, try using it in context of the whole post

My focus was always on Osborne, most of you just accepted him and saved your anger for Johnson and here you are STILL mentioning him, that's bizarre. It was never about Johnson for me......

BTW, he's been here longer than 6 months......