6th

[In the box]

Our fanbase in a nutshell..

We win, we’re HMS piss the league and going to beat everyone.


We lose one, we’re rubbish, tactics are wrong, players are shit, we’re not going up, we are going down.

We are 6 games in with 4 wins. Last year we didn’t win until a year ago tomorrow September 16th yet finished 5th.


Chill the f**k out

Your right …BUT  McCann says he wants to win the League , he didn’t say that last season . SO Loosing any match gets opinions UP and they way we loose matters as McCann picks the team he believes will make the difference and already teams have sussed how to pick us apart . We should loose to teams like of  Harrogate, their budget is piss compared !

[ravenrover]

Losing
Lose

[scawsby steve]

That's where we are now.

Well spotted Steve!

Come on, Pancho. Look at the time that OP was posted. There are some people on here that start threads on something we've been talking about for the past 3 days.

[Usher wide.]

Our best period will be in the second half of the season when our big squad becomes a huge advantage.

A rather ambiguous & somewhat simplistic view imo.

Yes we have a bigger squad (& certainly one with more quality than we’ve had in recent seasons) however, GM needs to ensure that the right ‘team’ is chosen in order to effect the ‘right result’ in the forthcoming matches starting Saturday in Milton Keynes.

If you’re saying we can ‘tick along’ until the second half of the season starts because we have a ‘big squad’ then with all due respect, you’re either ‘new’ to following this team in our ‘recent history’ or you’re just wanting to be upbeat. Nothing wrong with upbeat, I applaud it all day long.

Well done you young un, but a “big squad” will get you nowhere. A ‘good squad’ will take you to ‘good places’ & I believe we have a good squad for this division. Good enough to get us promoted (I have big money on it) but best not to leave it until January before we ‘kick on’ eh?

Please don’t call me young un.

I’m not sure where your quote of “tick along” was plucked from. I just said our best period will come in the second half of the season, there was no reference to how I think the first half of the season will go.

“Big money”, now that is relative isn’t it!

Apologies if you took the ‘young un’ as a slur (?) which it certainly wasn’t intended to be. I read your post & assumed you’d actually posted very little of meaning due to you being….well, young.

You’re quite correct, you made no reference to how you think the first half of the season will go. You still haven’t, so the reference to ‘tick along’ was mine because I assume you still believe we will be there or there abouts come the second half of the season?

Money, or indeed ‘big money’ is indeed relative. No one knows that better than a gambler.

[Move DRFC]

It's been a good enough start. We have enough quality for top 3 and the strength in depth is going to seriously help us out in the long run.

Couple of areas of concern defensively. But it's too early to even make a big deal out of those at this point IMO.


Win on Saturday and everyone is happy again! All part of the fun, but we are gonna be just fine

[adamtherover]

agreed, 15pts from 21 would be a fine start!!!

[pib]

We are going to lose games. Every team does. What we probably need to be better at though, is setting up differently for teams with a similar approach to Harrogate the other day. I understand and admire Grant's stance of wanting to go for it in games, but sometimes if you just keep things a bit tighter, especially away from home, and protect a bit more against being done on the break (which both Harrogate goals came from) then you might lose fewer games.

They were waiting to pick us off on Thursday and we made it possible for them to do so. They are a team that get the ball up the pitch quickly through direct passes or players who can carry the ball, and then play their football in the final third. It's not overly sophisticated but it's a trap you can fall into if you're not careful by leaving too many gaps for them to exploit. When they broke on us for the first goal, we only had 3 players behind the ball. The second goal, which was an aberration even in spite of shape/structural issues, we have such a high line for a back 4 with a general lack of pace, and both fullbacks are pushed on along with everyone from midfield except Close.

If we'd been a bit smarter and come away with a 0-0, I'm sure there would've been moans about that, but everyone would've still been pretty happy as we'd have picked up something from 5 of the first 6 games.

I still have faith we'll have a good season and I'm still fairly happy with the start, but I think we'll get to where we want to be quicker if we can adapt a little bit for those types of games and maybe view a point or staying in games as not the worst thing in the world.

[graingrover]

I am pleasantly surprised at the extent of Grant’s ambitions and beliefs in his squad .In the latest interview he says he considers we are at only 30% of our potential ! He’ll do for  me !