Sadly it does seem I "called it"
we just can't seem to perform well at home and havn't done so for several years now, why the hell that is I don't know, are the players afraid of playing at home? or is it that we just play better when teams attack us and we hit them on the break? 3 games missed and 3 home defeats for me.
We should be dominating possession and shots in home games, yesterday it seems we did neither with Exeter having more shots/corners/on targets than we did.
We really shouldn't be losing so easily to sides like these/Cambridge/Woking/Bury/Carlisle at home and often with little effort.
Beaten by a cheated for penalty obviously outside of the box and a worldy that few keepers in the world would have got close to, our best central defender going off early as well compounding it.
Our problem is "fucking obviously" not scoring enough, we don't create many good chance and convert even fewer. Someone said that McCourt needs to stop shooting every time he has the ball, well if he shoots then thats something few of his teammates seem to be doing, so good for him I say. "You can't win a raffle unless you buy a ticket" as the saying goes.
We should be peppering goalkeepers with long range shots at this level, almost every keeper we have come up against this season looks unsteady with shots flying at them, so utilise it.
Also why do we persist in playing hoofballs from Vigs/Woolf/Nelson/Taylor upfield for our strikers to lose? Bayo or Richards on their day can win a few of them but they are not the type of target man that relishes on those balls. If we keep the ball down and pass and run we will do a lot better and we do look better when we do that.
Doughty in the last 3 or 4 games looks disinterested, his body language says he doesn't want to be here despite his huge amount of talent, constantly berating or arguing with his own players and going missing in games for 30 mins at a time regularly.
As I said previously if Bayo plays well the team plays well, several of the players are not good enough for L2 football, so many such as Anderson, Bayo, Doughty, McCourt, Dunne, Iandolo and others are so inconsistant, a few moments of brilliance and large amount of moments of madness. Yes I understand they are at this level for a reason but all show flashes of brilliance at times so its down to the manager/coaching staff to get the best out of them regularly.
Anyone that fully blames Wellens for this frankly is a bit of an idiot, he has inherited a team of underperforming players, he has not been allowed as yet to sign a single player himself so to get the results he has done already has been quite good, Brown couldn't get this lot playing well and most of them are his signings or Flitcrofts.
We are no doubt in the main playing a lot better football all over the pitch with better tactics, every team will have off days and it seems yesterday was one of those, the penalty incorrectly going against us and a great goal, fine margins.
Under Wellens in the League our form has been LWWWLDDDL (11 points 3 defeats) with the same players Browns record before he was sacked in his previous 9 games was LDLDLDLWL (6 points 5 defeats) so surely Wellens has got something right.
I will see what Wellens brings to the table with the transfer window, getting in players he wants and get rid of (much) deadwood inherited, then I would give him the Summer window to finish it off before I judge him. 2 transfer windows will be enough to accurately judge him, until then we have him as manager, Power will not get rid of him unless we lose the next 10 games in a row, which we won't I am sure of that, so petty bickering on here will achieve nothing, Power and Wellens are here for the foreseeable future and only an idiot would come in and buy us in the state we are in!
Look at Notts County to see how it could be a whole metric shit ton worse and thats WITH heavy financial backing.
We are in for a mid table season which with a few more new signings and wins then who knows?
Far too early to throw the towel in yet.