[Kitto]

Our PSFs had Wright and Parker playing closely together, which seemed to work at the time to some extent - might not have been the most impressive partnership but it was functional.

We quickly abandoned that in the league, went with Freemantle who was far from match fit, and in the process seemed to destroy the confidence of both Parker, and Williams - he scored almost 40 goals last season and I think in a better system we'd have seen him score at least 10...

Beresford arrived next, followed by Theo. Both knew where the back of the net was but not sure either have looked entirely comfortable in our system.

Throughout the whole season we've looked lesser than the sum of our parts...

[RJS]

Throughout the whole season we've looked lesser than the sum of our parts...

This sums it up for me (along with fitness as mentioned in other threads).  I find it hard to point to more than the odd player and say they are obviously out of their depth, but as a collective we were massively short. 

Harry Williams was an odd one, you don't score the goals he has at the level below and be an awful football player, but he just looked ineffective and lost whenever he played.   I fully expected him to be playing off DW and reaping the benefits of his hard work, but he either seemed to be on the bench or shunted out wide.  Which again was odd for me as surely a team containing DW was crying out for some more conventional wingers.

[HeathBrewer]

Maybe in a F1 car. It’s 310 miles.

Have to love Google maps. Are you sure there isn't an autobahn between those two metropolises?

[Neil]

One thing about going down, which no doubt will please some, will be that we wont get these stats next season as they only go down to NLN/S level.

Not sure about pleasing but what do they really tell us other than we were shite and what do we learn from them when we lose again and again?

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The stat that doesn't surprise me at all is DW's headers won, which makes it all the more baffling to me that for large parts of the seasons he was left isolated with no one playing off him.

Imagine if you had a striker that had scored 41 goals the season before playing off of his shoulder?

[drbob]

Not sure about pleasing but what do they really tell us other than we were shite and what do we learn from them when we lose again and again?

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Imagine if you had a striker that had scored 41 goals the season before playing off of his shoulder?

There's not enough 'and agains' in that!

[Neil]

This sums it up for me (along with fitness as mentioned in other threads).  

Given that we were part time with some players doing a days work before a game then I would suggest that it was more to do with fatigue than fitness.

[Darran]

Given that we were part time with some players doing a days work before a game then I would suggest that it was more to do with fatigue than fitness.

Didn't seem to bother the Tamworth players.

[RJS]

Imagine if you had a striker that had scored 41 goals the season before playing off of his shoulder?

This is what I'll never get about TF's reign.  Rightly or wrongly he had a brand of football, and that brand was predicated on getting it forward quickly, but it was getting it forward to no one other than DW.  Why did he never set up as a 4-4-2 if that was the way he wanted to play.

You also have to question a team on an artificial surface deciding to play that way anyway, its getting rid of one of the few competitive advantages we should of had.  This is where the Chambers really did let themselves down - you have to assume they would have asked Tim about how he planned to play, and as soon as he said "I actually think route one isn't direct enough" they should have said thanks, but no thanks!

[Neil]

Didn't seem to bother the Tamworth players.

would be interesting to see who did what though? We had one player once who told me that he'd done a full day on the building site and then we went to play away at Corby in the eveing and lost. He didn't have a great game up against a young striker who grew to be very good. 

I'm not doing that again he said.

Whilst it could be argued that our full time players were on easy street, someone who I spoke to the other week said he was shocked at how little they actually did in full time training there's also an argument that you have no chance competing using properly part time players when they have to give their all to their primary source of income.

In all fairness no club outside of the football league should be full time, if that were a rule then clubs would be so much better off but that's not going to happen any time soon!

[Daveangel]

. He didn't have a great game up against a young striker who grew to be very good. 

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