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UnitedinDevon wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 17:02 very good commentary on Radio Devon including Steve Woods, gave a very balanced and honest view on the game

Tuesday is a big game

brucie wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 15:57 Yeovil winning. Oh yes didnt they change manager.......

Bristol_Gull wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 17:29 I listened to parts of the 2nd half on Radio Devon whilst driving and whilst I don’t like to single players out, particularly when they clearly have their heart in the right place, however when I heard Ali Omar was coming on I said to my wife “listen how quickly we concede now” as the patterns are becoming predictable

Within 1 minute of Ali coming we concede 2 more.

Clearly this cannot be all attributed to Ali as the problems with our defence appear systemic to the team, but we do have weak links in the back line that if not resolved asap will cost us dearly.

It is my hope that Ellis coming in will help shore things up, Ness sounded like he put in a decent shift so there is hope if we can avoid more injuries and sendings off.

Where is Okoli now? Another loanee who plays 1-2 games and disappears?

Gary’s entire playing philosophy to date has been to win through attacking football, irrespective of how many we concede in the process. I don’t think we’ve ever had a particularly strong defence under GJ, but he’s previously made it up in goals scored.

Well, unfortunately the formula isn’t working. Unless we can consistently score 2,3 or 4 goals per game then our current defensive play will lead us to the drop so we have to improve all across the pitch.

I want to stand behind Gary, he’s clearly a manager who performs better when confidence is behind him and I truly believe he needs the support of the fans right now, but I’m torn as my own confidence is wavering as we will face a potential drop if we don’t get a decent run of points very soon.

No one really anticipated a positive result today and once again the commentators, local press and management will likely speak about work rate, positive periods of play etc but unfortunately it’s now become “same old story”.

It’s time for results.

Let’s go all in on Tuesday and see where we go from there

thebigp1 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 18:04 The problem with standing behind GJ and hoping we turn it round on Tuesday is the exact same things were said after the Wrexham game. Everyone was saying we had 2 must win home games against Scunthorpe and Maidenhead. Well since then nothing has changed, we’ve picked up 2 fortunate points. Results have not improved and we’ve gone into todays match just accepting defeat before it’s even started. He should have been gone after Wrexham but instead we’ve just waited and left ourselves even further behind.

Ultimately football is a results business. I’ve heard a lot of fans saying I ‘feel’ things will turn around or ‘back GJ and the team’. There is no evidence of things turning. All the statistics say otherwise. I fully accept that a change of manager might not solve anything but we have nothing to lose.

culmstockgull wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 17:27 Its too early in the season to even talk about six pointers, listening to the very good commentary from radio devon, I was not down, the top team who score three in most games against the bottom team who rarely score, so the result was as it should be .
a totally different back four or three with ellis and the lad ness who sounds a very good loan, midfield even with a five strugged all afternoon but with a loan striker notts could afford to play their game with out much trouble.
Oddly I feel more confident tonight than I have for several weeks, I reckon we still need more experience even short term loans but pros who know the game.