shrimpsontoast wrote:Ged had 7 league games with most of the players that Billy mentions (Moore excepted I think). They generated 1 win, 3 draws and 3 defeats, including a 5-0 defeat at Notts County.
I’ve just been checking those 7 league games that took us to Christmas. Moore missing the lot. Rawson missed 5 of those games. We collected 5 points!!
Last 4 games, Moore still out and Rawson not playing, We collected 0 points and let in 14 goals. The others did play, Mellon did carry an injury the last few games thou he played. Also it was becoming clear the loan players that where playing well were going to be recalled, did that affect their performance.
My point was about the spine of the team, it has to be constant with other player coming in and out cope with specific games. DA had that spine and in fact had a whole team playing well and didn’t tinker with it if he didn’t have to, the team was very consistent in type of play and getting results. We got 26 points out of 16 games, a big thanks to DA for that, before he once again jumped.
People are comparing Ged with DA and I feel it’s slightly unfair to do that. How would DA have coped with the injuries? The suspensions and the 5 loan players going back and having to rebuild at Christmas?
It is what it is, who knows? As I have said things need looking at because it is worrying, a bad run can go on and on. I have always thought we would fall just short with the above mentioned drawbacks Ged has had to deal with, but if it carry’s on as we are, we will fall well short and I think we are all just really deflated at the moment.
Back when I came to the occasional game I came to under Jim Bentley I sounder what was being posted on here, all the struggles you all went through must have been a real roller coaster!
When I then stated to be a season ticket holder and DA took over, Results wise DA did great, the style of football was not really for me, but hey ho.
We are all fans who have differing opinions and all want Morecambe to do well.