This was my first game since Worthing home, whilst Ill never give up on the club completely, nor stop going to games entirely, I've now decided down to how the club is being run and partly down to GJ's continued employment I will only attend games on an , as and when basis.
I've always tried to be both accurate and honest when sharing my opinions on our teams performance, despite having zero confidence in both the ownership local board and management of the team, this is just me being honest in what I saw.
The first 30 minutes of this game, we saw a TUFC team that looked disinterested, seem to lack energy, urgency and any desire to be first to the ball, chase down lose ball, and fight for every square inch of the pitch, both short and long passing far to often not finding it's intended target, maybe a degree of nervousness whichever way you want to call it, the first 30 minutes from a TUFC point of view was almost unforgivable.
Taking all that into account, the frustration inside me grow, because with all said and done, we could all clearly see from the out set, Welling were extremely vulnerable at the back , in fact defensively Welling were terrible, in the 1 v1 physical battles you could see TUFC were stronger player for player, so I'm standing there asking myself, how ? why? are we losing this game, and to once again such a poxy goal. The feeling between myself and my friends was, TUFC really only needed to find an extra gear to win this match.
And it took a defensive mix up between Welling defender and goalkeeper, who was very poor through out , that lead to the concession of a penalty, from that moment we saw the team find that extra gear, and from that moment it became down to how much quality the team could play with, that would determine the final result.
Any win is to be welcomed, a 5.1 win to be savoured, however in conclusion, I would rate Welling's performance as one of the top 10 worst away performances I've seen in many recent seasons, our team has only scored 1 good goal in this match, the rest were Christmas gifts.
I'm not getting carried away by this very welcome win, there's still a lot of work to do before ay corners are turned, I can only hope the team have took a lot confidence away from this result. With our record v current top seven teams including the FA cup game standing at played 4 lost 4, the WSM and Hampton games are now really key games, with Bath and Yeovil to follow.
As for the half time protest, whoever Luke 'paco' Barton is, he must be feeling quite happy this morning, with the security cordon put in place including the police, coupled with comments on the FB page, not only did his obvious wind up convince the club seems to have sucked a fair percentage of fans as well
