Hi there. <\/p>\n
As promised a blog, win lose or draw, an honest appraisal from me.<\/p>\n
We as a team were well below par in performance levels tonight. The personnel was changed with certain “Fringe” lads in the squad given a starting berth. Several reasons for this, firstly to give them an opportunity to show they are worthy of a place and secondly to give regular first team players a rest in order to ensure “Fresher legs” in future matches.<\/p>\n
The only lads to come out of the encounter with any credit were the players not playing because the lads involved tonight badly let themselves down.<\/p>\n
I have to publicly confess to making a mistake from the start by telling our lads to retain the ball from the outset and not to stretch the game as we normally do. I felt that we had enough good players to keep the ball, move the ball quickly and wear down a Chalfont team and let the chances come in due course.<\/p>\n
Sadly this simply didn’t happen. Too many individual errors, not enough work rate and hardly any quality when it really mattered.<\/p>\n
Disappointing to put it mildly. My vision was to put these lads in and expect a lung bursting, competitive match and for them to show what I’ve been missing!<\/p>\n
A practice game is how I would describe our performance!<\/p>\n
In every match played at any level you have to compete and earn the right to play. We simply didn’t and it baffles me why not!<\/p>\n
I know I will take some stick for not sending out a stronger team but all these “Fringe lads” have performed well either in training or coming on as sub.<\/p>\n
Not the end of the world IF these players learn from it!<\/p>\n
We need the whole squad playing at a good standard. With injuries and suspensions we will need everyone. Believe me we have a strong squad. When these boys get another opportunity they need to take it with both hands!!<\/p>\n
A negative blog you may say and yes unusually it is but as I’ve said before the players have all set themselves high standards and when it drops I need to remind them of our expectations!!<\/p>\n
Cheers Hi there. As promised a blog, win lose or draw, an honest appraisal from me. We as a team were well below par in performance levels tonight. The personnel was changed with certain “Fringe” lads in the squad given a starting berth. Several reasons for this, firstly to give them an opportunity to show they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-crows-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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