Another Accrington Nightmare

We've won one away, drawn at home to the league leaders and lost away 0-1 at another top of the table side.

I am not worried. We are going to lose games in a season. We may lose again, and again, and then string 5 wins together.

We have a few new players.

We have added players in small quantities at each juncture with DC, and often there is a small adjustment before us pushing on some more. I take this as another small adjustment.

We have some players yet to hit form. Lines, I believe, will start motoring when it starts getting more serious towards the end of the year. He is a big game player if Wembley and FGR was anything to go by. We have some much needed experience and a good attitude in Lawrence and fallon, and gafney has a track record of scoring in quarters.

I also believe Montano will come into some form now. He's consistently whacked good quality crosses in at pace and gafney and fallon are good targets to aim at. He's been hampered by our lack of players who attack the ball in the air.

There are a lot of really positive things happening and I think the new players will bed in and we will push on.

Happy with playoffs. Auto would be incredible.

Topper Gas, my problem is not with the way we have been playing when we win or when we lose. My problem is how we are going to integrate new players we are signing into the team when to do so will mean a reduction in the amount of support to the back four, Creative players can by their nature sometimes be called luxury players and we now have more what I would call luxury players. I am not saying they won't give as much effort but their game play would veer more to attacking than defending and our very successful defence will need to change a bit to play these experienced additions who have not signed to warm the bench. As I see it we will need to add the pace of Leadbitter in the back four and move up as a unit quicker to support more experienced and cultured midfield players who do not have the enrgy of a lot of our players.

The one thing that screamed out to me when I read the lineup before kick off was NO PACE.

We had a dreadfully slow side the season we went down from L2 and yesterday's side was also lacking in the sort of pace that hurts/scares defences.

Taylor, Gaffney and Bodin aren't slow, but I wouldnt call any of them quick either. Lawrence is slow.

Only Leadbitter and Montano possess genuine pace in our squad IMO, and when they don't play I think we can look a little one-paced in certain games.

Good point, we all suddenly become football experts when we lose but keep quiet about tactics when we win! I guess what we don't get is DC's insight into why he picked a certain team, for all we know he could have looked at the pitch/weather and thought it wasn't a game for Leadbitter.