Sutton v Swindon matchday thread

[adje]

He’s an academy coach so far removed from real football.
It’s going to all end in tears.

Agree with that mate

[WEBBERhyde]

Fuck this absolute bin-fire of a league. If the dog shit teams don’t get you, the dog shit refs fucking will.

We were poor and they were getting into our box plenty, granted, but when they get gifted an equaliser that 99% of league refs will see as a clear foul, that’s fucking tough to take.

Don’t get me started on leaving Austin on to occupy the centre circle and bringing on mr blood and guts Ronan Darcy. The bloke couldn’t even pass accurately to Khan 10 feet in front of him running down the wing.

We were better than Saturday but almost to a man, our touch and control has been absolutely awful the last few games. Have we just been watching videos in training the last 2 weeks or something?

Fuck sake

[Batch]

He’s an academy coach so far removed from real football.
It’s going to all end in tears.

I'm never sure when your being serious or sarcastic any more

[Super Hans]

It's quite hard to stomach letting someone like McDonald go and then getting done by physicality away from home with two late goals.

We'll never escape League 2 with the current approach - at least at the right end!

A sobering evening.

[adje]

Morris has just given the perfect reason why he should have left Jephcott on! Austin was knackered long before he went off

[Nemo]

Against physical sides you’ll need fresh legs. We had kids. They had grown ups. It’s the worst squad depletion we have had since we disintegrated in Wilson’s last season. Possibly worse. It has coincided with Di Michele. So yes he is to blame, but so is whoever appointed him (Morfuni, Z Austin?). A pitiful season in this shit division and with Di Michele pulling strings I’ve zero confidence it’ll improve.

It’s like having a team of Anthony McNamees. One midget was a “luxury”. 6 or 7 of them in a team…. ??

We did all dream of them. It's on us really.

That song always amused me because of how thoroughly unsuited he'd be in any other position!

[The Grim Reaper]

They had the opportunity to appoint an experienced L2 manager but chose a more expensive academy coach instead. The inevitable defeat away on Saturday will have us nervously looking at the wrong end of the table. Still no announcement on Ed Brand, a disappointing transfer window and continued shadiness behind the scenes at the club. A sorry state of affairs especially when we get a great amount of season tickets sold in the close season when there was the farce over card payments. I don’t think renewals will be particularly healthy next month, so if there is a cash flow problem this will be a proper test of Clems stewardship.

[Nomoreheroes]

Morris:
- Need to do both sides of the game better today
- You can ride pressure in different ways
- If you stop playing to our strength and just boot the ball clear, then we need to be better defending the box
- Did some OK stuff in the first half, but not happy enough with the passing
- Clear foul on Brynn. Gets given 99 times out of 100
- We played into their hands
- They cant boom balls into the box if we make it hard for them to get the ball
- Clearly we are not good enough to deal with the physicality of the ball into our box
- Wanted midfielders to screen things better
- We shouldn't be getting beaten in the box with 3 centre halves on the pitch
- We didn't deal with the threat. We should have been better on the ball
- We are conceeding too many goals from individual errors. Playing 3 at the back was to try to stop that.
- Not aiming it solely at the defenders. The mentality of conceeding a second was poor
- At the moment, you might say its cos we are on the younger side. We shouldn't have to rely on Charlie Austin running back.
- Had to take Austin off (beut didnt want to) as he was shattered from all the covering he was doing
- Even if we had won, Morris wouldnt have been happy with the performance
- Too many aspects that weren't good enough
- Though McEacheran 'done great'. He was a ball of energy. But had to come off as he was shattered because of the effort he put in
- If we aren't making passes and using the extra body at the back then we are playing into the other teams hands. Then we need to be better at defending the box
- You need to fucking (excuse my language) prepare for the game.
- Don't think we are getting the rub of the green
- Even if we'd wont Morris wouldn't have been happy with that second half.

[BambooToTheFuture]

Thought McEachran slotted into things quite nicely, so is a positive.

Without writing off Morris just yet and although I've voiced that he probably (in an ideal world) should have been employed as a No.2...if he was apparently the "brains" behind Frank Lampard then I'm really hoping Brand (whenever the club announce him) is the "brains" behind Morris and it'll just be a matter of time; won't it?! 

[BambooToTheFuture]

I'm never sure when your being serious or sarcastic any more

Probably implied sarcasm. Although had I posted exactly the same at the end of the match I'd be getting pelters. Probably from him 

[RedRag]

As was pointed out, tonight was so much a MacDonald sort of game.  Being at least one short of an experienced, gets the job done central defender will never secure automatic promotion.  What a waste of an opportunity having signed Austin.  And we have to start all over again next season.

Present form suggests the trapdoor for us.  It's still worth bearing in mind that our matchday squad is missing a number of quality players at L2 level.  No reason not to be hopeful of a turnaround in form.  But you need commitment as well as quality.  Hutton was again disinterested.

The goodwill was there last season but if we're not at least competing for the automatics we need less back slapping and more hard analysis and action.  I'm loathe to blame individuals like Sandro whom I know little about and whose role and interdependencies I have even less of a grasp for.  So interested as ever in the insights of others.

It's pain for us all though.

[Nomoreheroes]

Austin:
- Got to come away from that with at least a point
- Players have to show more on the pitch in the last 5 mins
- Massive learning curve for the lads
- Very little experience in the team. Younger lads need to grab on and learn from the others
- Panic caused it
- They scored one and the lads then dropped back a couple of more yards
- Someone has to be a leader. Can't always be Austin or Khan
- Tonight we got given a footballing lesson
- Austin was trying to put a shift in for the team
- Austin said he could say some silly things but he didnt want to do that
- Fans are brilliant and come in their numbers. The minority are drowned out
- Fantastic turn out again tonight.
- That last little bit must have been awful for them on the drive home
- We need to start showing them again and again so they keep coming
- When Austin first came to the club the team was very different. Austin had players to lean on. We don't have so many this time around.
- Three defeats and we need to put this right quickly.
- It will be tough at Salford on Saturday

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

If the new lad is the standard of Morris recruiting in a limited market then he absolutely should be in full charge of recruitment. Sandro can clean the toilets if for some reason we can't sack him. Absolutely stealing a living.

[DiV]

I'm never sure when your being serious or sarcastic any more

Maybe exaggerated with sarcasm but stand by the point that he’s the wrong choice & we needed someone with experience of managing at a level where winning games is the priority or even just some one with the philosophy of winning > style.

[BambooToTheFuture]

What's great is that Austin (of the Charlie variety) definitely ''gets'' and understands the fan - that it matters. The guy genuinely cares. I hope that can and will filter across to the rest of the squad because whilst you win nothing for sentiment, if you care that much on the pitch then you'll run that extra I0 yards even when you've ripped your spleen out.