Swindle v The Gas. Official match day thread.

Whilst I do not suggest for one moment that this is the case, or even hint that it is, I suggest that everyone who rubbishes our new manager should remember the start that Sir Alex had at Man Utd. You never know what might happen - so my message is 'give the guy a chance' before passing a verdict.

First thing Tisdale should do on Monday is make each player sit down and read this thread from start to finish. They should be ashamed of that performance

How many can read? - they are footballers!

Today is not Tisdale's fault, he's inherited a confused and poorly set up bunch of players, probably to comfortable on long contracts and a good wage to put a shift in on match day. You have to look at the wasted last 11 months as the root cause, poor judgement on all fronts, we need Red Adair in now to turn things around starting at Wigan next Tuesday.

Well that was as bad as last Saturday Swindle are garbage and we lost, cant criticise Paul but the substitutions were baffling.

We are left so light up front but have 100 midfield options ffs

On another note Yeovil are bottom of national league, heading to Conference South.

I bet Cogs will get offered the job and take it!

2 lady gardens together, good luck.

What concerned me about todays game, only the 3rd game I’ve seen granted is that the defence does not look at all at ease at trying to play the ball out from the back.

Numerous times today a defender would recieve the ball without being under pressure and the pass a made to the next player while it may not have been wayward it seemed like the ball was a yard or 2 behind the player or instead of playing it just the front so the player could run onto it he would either have to check his run or go back slightly to recieve it and then by that time the player was getting closed down and it had to be played back to the keeper who would clear it or the full-backs had to clear it. I was and still am for playing the ball out from the back but i think the defenders seem to panic when they get the ball and if Tisdale decided to tell them for the next half a dozen games to * playing the ball around at the back which gives the oppostion time to put pressure on them and just to try to get the ball forward first I would not at all be against that.

Harries was said to be our best ball playing defender but instead of him trying to bring it out and play simple he IMO tries the cross field diagonal ball too many times which is either played too far forward or the ball just goes out of play!!!

One of the first things I would do if I was PT is tell Grant to concentrate on keeping it simple by winning the ball back and play it to the nearest player instead of trying to go for that killer pass, Today his passing was very error prone and I think thats probably where he has been switched from a centre-back to midfield.

Think we need to go back to the basics first and then let PT set his tone for how he want the team to play. I know a few fans have said about Ogogo coming back into the team and to be honest I think he would give us that bite in the middle, might not be flashy but I think every team needs a player like that to get stuck in.

The conumdrum could be - is it better to spend on better players who will play on sub standard pitches? or spend the money on excellent pitches while saving on the standard of players?
Personally, I would opt for better players paid well because only 50% of matches are played at home.