Hornchurch v Torquay Saturday 26th

[numpte]

A poor result but people weren’t calling for half a team of replacements earlier this week. This division is pretty much of a muchness, no stand out teams as can be seen by the points difference across the top 10 (6pts). Fancied teams in Boreham Wood , Maidstone and Dorking all struggling for form. As long as we can stay there or thereabouts until February then anything can happen. The team that started the season probably won’t be the one that finishes it. I think Wottons brief when team building earlier in the summer would have been play offs. I’m glad I didnt go today as it didn’t look a great place to watch footy from, although kudos to the Hornchurch Ultras and a repertoire of quite good songs that came through on the radio.

[Yellow6]

Really takes the edge off the result on Tuesday. Thank God I didn’t pay for the coach and admission and everything else that goes with it going all that way away. A long and disappointing trip home.

[desperado]

Who's calling for half a team of replacements ?
We need strengthening up front , another more physical striker , it's obvious.

[standupsitdown]

Again we failed to defeat the classic non league set up. –
Enormous defenders
Physical midfielders
Lump up front
Little fast wide player
Bumpy pitch

We were better second half but needed to keep the ball on the ground more as their centre halves won everything.

[leetufc]

We're 5th in the table, 3 points off top, at risk of no longer being a club 6 months ago, with new owners, manager and squad. Some fans need to calm down a bit when we lose a game away from home

[UnitedinDevon]

One step forward, 2 back with this team. We wont be going up this year

Forgot that promotion was decided in October!

[brucie]

Its a poor loss - we are lower than the likes of Truro and WSM for goodness sake. Pointless stating that at least we have a club after every loss to a piss poor team that we should NOT be losing to.

Yeah yeah we have a new team but its hardly as though we are getting better. Its not a question of calming down - we just keep getting beaten by bang average teams away from home. Clearly the squad isnt good enough. Our strikers are terrible. Only Cooke is fit for purpose. The other three are not going to get us out of this league.

We are the best supported team by a mile in this league.

Perhaps this guy will strengthen the squad and its not before time:

gloverscast.co.uk/glovers-receive-offer-for-young/

[culmstockgull]

When you get a loss it is obvious and natural there will be some negativity, its the manner of the losing that is so annoying, listening to the commentary we never turned up first half, as a result we had three subs at half time, did wotton misjudge either the starting eleven so badly , or did we not do our homework on the oppositioon, or are the players not capable of listening to him, half the team are happy and comfortable playing it along the ground the other half are only capable of playing hoof ball which is ok in the western league but not for pro football, each week we seem to move between either 352 or 442 or even 532, is it any wonder the players are confused in the style of play required. Certainly players of far better quality would be confused so I hold nothing against our team in that respect.
Yes ,we need additions who have speed and guile and preferably played at a higher level than our go to clubs of bath or truro, I think Cooke will come good with the right service, the other two forwards, no they have their chance and been found wanting, today we played without a holding midfielder and it seemed to be scary rabbits in the headlights everytime they played aroud or over us.

[UnitedinDevon]

I see Cooke picked up a booking today which i think is No,5 and therefore presumably banned for Saturday?

[Griff1n]

The reports that I’ve read mention bookings for Craske, Jenkins-Davies and some also have Moxey. I haven’t seen any that say that there was one for Cooke.

[UnitedinDevon]

The reports that I’ve read mention bookings for Craske, Jenkins-Davies and some also have Moxey. I haven’t seen any that say that there was one for Cooke.

Good news

Hopefully the rumours of Jordan Young coming in from Yeovil are true but another big man up top is definitely needed
I'd also take a guy branston style player in the middle of the pitch

[notnow]

Personally my view is a lot of us are still struggling to realise how far we’ve fallen. We are not in league 1 or 2, we are not even in the NL proper. We are not really in a league that is or was known as “professional” how we got where we are is another matter. It’s hard to accept but we are where we are and it is clear that everything is moving in the right direction, that is undoubtable and that is why we have hope.

[Louis]

[Taelee73]

Ridiculous that the moaning has started already, but not surprising.

New owners, new manager, new team. 15 odd games together over 4 months is it?

What does being the best supported club have to do with anything? We have more money and more noise away from home I guess. It also means most teams seem to raise their game when they play us.

It took Wotton 5 seasons to get Truro where he wanted and we all saw what a good team they were. He had to assemble a squad in around a month here, of course some weren’t going to work out and some he signs in the future won’t either. It takes time to get the right players, right mentality, the right style of play that they all understand and is second nature. He like every other manager is looking for the right players, he said so himself, one was meant to have signed but chose another club only last week.

We are a NLS team, we are at the very beginning of the process that will hopefully get us to the FL, but it will take years, not months to get it all right. No one wants to be in this division, but if this season and the next is one purely one of building in this division, then so be it. It’s great to have ambitions of promotion this season, but you also need a good dose of realism and accept and be ok if it doesn’t happen.

[numpte]

What a garbage first goal to give away.