25.1.09

Blyth Spartans at Home

Now even those with rose tinted spectacles have to sit up and notice that we have some serious issues and I see from the forum the revolution is maybe on the way.
The team selection from the start was simply wrong,it was based on paper facts and nothing else.Where do i start on this ... there were so many faults.
Why did a not played a competitive match in 18 months Johnson /and a very poor not wide player at all Fisk get a start ahead of either
Camm who played very well last week and the fit again Mitchell or even a returning to form Joe Francis.
We were at home yesterday and played an entirely negative side.For fucks sake we had not won in 9 games.Surely attack attack attack is the option .. we are always going to ship goals so we simply need to score one more than them.
Hurran who played well last week when he had a real worker beside him ( Camm) was made to look awful in his first home game by playing him along side a massively never at the races not got the legs but probably still a football brain Johnson .. Shocking ..
Johnson did eventually show how good he could be when Mitchell came on and worked his arse off allowing Johnson the time on the ball...Fuck,just who is our
manger when even i can see these things.I bet Mark Camm is mighty pissed off and rightly so.
JJ and Frew up front with Fisk and Smith as the wide players . what what what ! ....It didn't work in any way last week and that was away from home so a more defensive option was more likely ... Did either Fisk or Smith get forward yesterday at all ?? JJ and Frew does not work. Why leave Jack on the bench ?? Frew has been all ego and arrogance with no contribution the last few weeks .. how does he keep his place? The balance of the team is all wrong and we are playing players because of some ratings out of ten that they have been given.... somewhere!!
Is Graham a full back .??? no he isn't then why play him there ? He is woefully out of position and it showed yet again yesterday . Mitchell is listed on all the football sites as a defender so that must mean full back,why not play him there??
The match itself , first half was amazingly awful and we should of been 3-1 down ... Can Crane head a
fuckin ball... another free header in the penalty area to make it 1-1 and he heads over .. more of him later ..Second half was awful to start with again we came out with little idea until the subs came on and by that time we were 3-0 down.
The game then turned into a neutrals ideal game,good entertainment,crashing challenges, some ham
fisted acting by the Spartans ..Panto next year guys all dressed in those Geordie little white belts that pass as skirts and refereeing that made the premiership referee Attwell look good.
Francis should of walked for an awful challenge,Mitchell did more work in his
time on the field that any of the other players. Jack was just Jack... & we nearly salvaged a draw against a side that had not won away all season and had only scored 4 away goals ... does that sum us up...Yep!!The result does not reflect how bad we were against a side that were poor but had been coached by Christopher Biggins.
Greg Crane ... well, oh dear.As well as being poor during the game the guy is a
liability .. why oh why ??... get rid of now .. why we play him when Graham, Thomas and Peters are available i don't know and then he does that on the field after getting the free kick.Bye Bye.. I am waving
Conclusions ... Webb has no idea and has to be sacked as simple as that .. he has very good senior players that are close to leaving the club because he is inept at managing a real club.He may well be a good coach of young players where winning doesn't matter but at this level he had no idea... Pieces of paper and tactic boards and not enough.After all this time he still does not know how to get the best from each player that he has or how they play together.
We now face the top two sides and have amassed the 6
pts from 30 ... As said before that is relegation form... Off we go to Tamworth with furrowed brow.