The good news is, according to Morell after the game, we’ll be more than competitive once 6 players return from injury (I think it was 6, by the end of the interview it might have been 9).
The bad news is, even if he’s right, that means the squad he’s assembled is carrying a high number of duds, unable to fill in and ‘do a job’. Or should that be Ifill in?
Today he no doubt sent the boys out with plenty of fine talk about building on Monday’s defensive performance and keeping it tight. Well they managed that for nearly a minute, until Fleetwood’s first attack. I cannot remember a worst opening 45 from a Poppies team - certainly not one boasting an ex Real Madrid player, who on this evidence looked unlikely to shift too many replica shirts. We were disjointed, dejected, a bunch of triallists masquerading as a team. If it wasn’t just so easy and the Codmen had been more ruthless, we might have seen discounted season tickets flung at the home dugout.
Our second half rally gave MM enough to talk another good game and argue that with more of his first choices available, it will be a different story. But the more he banged on about that, the more it exposed the dross he has signed to make up the numbers.
Time is already running out for Maison. No matter what his commercial connections may be, will they outweigh the cost of ever increasing gaps in the stands and terrace?
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