Let's talk about the Stockport County game

[Chris Black come back]

Does show that fans expectations have hit a low. The point is ok but it sounds like it was more lucky/hanging on performance where we had zero chance of actually winning the game. Not a professional away performance where we gave as good as we got.

This is in L2 not the championship or top end L1. We’ve a right to be disappointed. We were told the club would bounce back decisively against that aim we’ve failed miserably for the 2nd season running

Post of the week for me.

There is a lot of truth here. We are caught with Stockholm Syndrome trying to normalise something that really shouldn’t be happening. In abstract a point away from home against a competitive League Two club looks creditable on paper given we are in League Two, but given our resources and recent history we’ve fallen so far that this is now being presented by some as sign of a success. We are playing largely poor football and still haven’t touched the play offs the entire season bar I think one weekend in August. I defy anyone to dress up being mid-table also rans in League Two as something to welcome.

[NigelJ]

Given our resources? Playing away at the biggest spenders in the league, a draw is a very credible result.

[steve@dcfd]

Given our resources? Playing away at the biggest spenders in the league, a draw is a very credible result.

Yet the chairman said we would bounce back decisively and G Mc Sheffrey said top 3. So they must have believed we had the the resources and we are always told we have resources to compete in top six. Draw away is not a bad result but we don’t look like scoring and winning which is poor.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I might have been a better player than u billy, but a professional footballer is scoring that a lot more than 2 times out of ten

Go watch the video again.

The defender has slid right across Biggin's shooting line. The angle of the defender's body means he is blocking the lines to goal to the top right and bottom left corners.

If Biggins goes to the top left, he's driving the ball straight through Lavery in a clearly offside position.

The one clear route to goal was low to the right, assuming the keeper doesn't get across to make a save. And that Biggins would hit the target.

But Biggins a) has a split second to take in and process where the defender is going to be and b) is not in a position as the ball comes across to get his standing foot close to the ball, and hence his weight going forwards which he'd need to do to get power and control on a low shot.

As it is, his standing foot is 18 inches behind the line of the ball, which pulls the shot up, right and into the blocker


You must have been some player Dickos if that's a 9/10 chance for you. Or maybe you're being a bit disconnected from a rational assessment again?

[ravenrover]

Think he said more times than 2 out of 10 not specifically 9 out 10

[ncRover]

I thought Todd Miller could have caused their defence problems and was disappointed he didn’t get on the pitch.

Molyneux was useless and has been given enough chances now.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Think he said more times than 2 out of 10 not specifically 9 out 10

He said initially Biggin's missed a guilt (sic) edged chance that he'd score 9 times out of ten. A ridiculous comment.

[scawsby steve]

Does show that fans expectations have hit a low. The point is ok but it sounds like it was more lucky/hanging on performance where we had zero chance of actually winning the game. Not a professional away performance where we gave as good as we got.

This is in L2 not the championship or top end L1. We’ve a right to be disappointed. We were told the club would bounce back decisively against that aim we’ve failed miserably for the 2nd season running

Post of the week for me.

There is a lot of truth here. We are caught with Stockholm Syndrome trying to normalise something that really shouldn’t be happening. In abstract a point away from home against a competitive League Two club looks creditable on paper given we are in League Two, but given our resources and recent history we’ve fallen so far that this is now being presented by some as sign of a success. We are playing largely poor football and still haven’t touched the play offs the entire season bar I think one weekend in August. I defy anyone to dress up being mid-table also rans in League Two as something to welcome.

That has now taken over as post of the week.

There's not a single aspect of that post that can be argued against with any credibility.

[ravenrover]

Think he said more times than 2 out of 10 not specifically 9 out 10

He said initially Biggin's missed a guilt (sic) edged chance that he'd score 9 times out of ten. A ridiculous comment.

So he did, didn't go back far enough!

[MachoMadness]

We're much improved but still not very good and wildly inconsistent. I think the solidity is the best we can hope for at the minute with this group of players. We spent ages asking Schofield to work with what he has, rather than trying to force a system onto players who can't cope with it. This is what that looks like. We aren't going to get intense, flowing football from this squad outside of a few patches, the best we can hope for is enough solidity to string a few results together and finish the season in the top half.

We have a mid table League 2 group of players. A draw away at a promotion chasing, big spending side is probably a good result in those circumstances, indicative of how disastrously the club has been run from a football perspective for several years though.