Well we brought in what was it 11 new players?
I say brought, rather than bought, because I certainly hope we didn't pay for the majority of that new shower of rubbish today!
I think the only one that can hold his head up with any pride was Jack Bonham, other than that, we were relying on the old guard as usual...Barry Fuller.
There was a point in the second half when we had no subs left, when I actually wanted to take our number 12 off. Not because he had done anything wrong, I just wanted to see if the team were capable of managing without him.
Other than Fuller we also had to rely on the ever active Hanlan, so I suppose not bad, three players out of eleven get some credit from me, problem is we are supposed to be a TEAM!
Apart from Bonham saving the penalty and keeping us in the game , he couldn't be blamed for Burton's first, although I need to see both their goals again - Then Hanlan's energy and Fuller playing from the back, nothing else was offered. Absolutely NOTHING.
No fight, no spirit, no energy, no inventiveness, no movement all bar Cisse's one goal.
Some will say it's only the first home game or only the second game of the season, but this team have had all preseason to prepare - Pegleg even warned after what he saw at Dover, was concerning, and was he right, I now see why he predicted the defeat, he wasn't being negative, he actually knew what was about to come.
Has far as I'm concerned, Evans can offer me no excuses or no apology for that shower today, it was RUBBISH...I never come on here and speak detriment of the team but that was absolutely dire, certainly fitting of the windswept pitch.
Steve Evans do us a favour, show them what I've wrote and tell them to either up their game or ship them out, I actually cannot remember the last time I watched something that bad!
They left to applause, The Rainham End were being respectful to a new team, but to throw it away for a second consecutive game just before half time is NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
We might as well just have left Lovell here, at least he kept us up and had a clue, because with that showing I'll start looking forward to League Two next season shall I?
Marshall tries, oh he tries but then gets disheartened when it's not working for him, the Burton players were on him each time, bigger and stronger, his head dropped and I felt sorry for him, but you then have to look at the opposite side of the coin is he strong enough, does he have the strength and mobilty to hold his own in L1.
Cisse, great to see him get the goal but his movement was about as swift as watching the lad we dumped on Charlton, what was his name, I've even managed to erase him from memory? He couldn't be asked either!
Jakubiak, did he really get a goal last week, is his job to be a striker?
And two of the three substitutes said it all, Gillingham old boys List and Byrne.
Lots of pre-season talk, high hopes, maybe Evans is a genie, well he's going to need a bloody big bottle to pull any surprise out this bottle.....because we had no bottle whatsoever today.
I say brought, rather than bought, because I certainly hope we didn't pay for the majority of that new shower of rubbish today!
I think the only one that can hold his head up with any pride was Jack Bonham, other than that, we were relying on the old guard as usual...Barry Fuller.
There was a point in the second half when we had no subs left, when I actually wanted to take our number 12 off. Not because he had done anything wrong, I just wanted to see if the team were capable of managing without him.
Other than Fuller we also had to rely on the ever active Hanlan, so I suppose not bad, three players out of eleven get some credit from me, problem is we are supposed to be a TEAM!
Apart from Bonham saving the penalty and keeping us in the game , he couldn't be blamed for Burton's first, although I need to see both their goals again - Then Hanlan's energy and Fuller playing from the back, nothing else was offered. Absolutely NOTHING.
No fight, no spirit, no energy, no inventiveness, no movement all bar Cisse's one goal.
Some will say it's only the first home game or only the second game of the season, but this team have had all preseason to prepare - Pegleg even warned after what he saw at Dover, was concerning, and was he right, I now see why he predicted the defeat, he wasn't being negative, he actually knew what was about to come.
Has far as I'm concerned, Evans can offer me no excuses or no apology for that shower today, it was RUBBISH...I never come on here and speak detriment of the team but that was absolutely dire, certainly fitting of the windswept pitch.
Steve Evans do us a favour, show them what I've wrote and tell them to either up their game or ship them out, I actually cannot remember the last time I watched something that bad!
They left to applause, The Rainham End were being respectful to a new team, but to throw it away for a second consecutive game just before half time is NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
We might as well just have left Lovell here, at least he kept us up and had a clue, because with that showing I'll start looking forward to League Two next season shall I?
Marshall tries, oh he tries but then gets disheartened when it's not working for him, the Burton players were on him each time, bigger and stronger, his head dropped and I felt sorry for him, but you then have to look at the opposite side of the coin is he strong enough, does he have the strength and mobilty to hold his own in L1.
Cisse, great to see him get the goal but his movement was about as swift as watching the lad we dumped on Charlton, what was his name, I've even managed to erase him from memory? He couldn't be asked either!
Jakubiak, did he really get a goal last week, is his job to be a striker?
And two of the three substitutes said it all, Gillingham old boys List and Byrne.
Lots of pre-season talk, high hopes, maybe Evans is a genie, well he's going to need a bloody big bottle to pull any surprise out this bottle.....because we had no bottle whatsoever today.
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