Last week we only started playing when we were behind. This week's new style of play was to stop playing once we were ahead, and as an extra special treat we agreed to give the visitors the winning goal. It was as if someone's cooking all this up, American wrestling style, just to get the crowds in. Four goals a week last Tuesday, five last Saturday and seven today.
The reason is that our defensive players are as bad as our attacking players are good. The list of players I'd say who had a poor game today were Lee, Doyley, DeMerit, Ward, Sadler, Williamson and unusually O'Toole. Those who played well were Eustace, Harley, Smith, Raziak and Hoskins. There doesn't really have to be any other explanation.
We started in that vain of looking like we were going to thrash them but whenever we do this it never turns out that way. A lovely back pass from Raziak after 4 minutes set up Hoskins who scored the sort of chance that last season we would've missed. Blackpool equalised with a well drilled shot after we'd cleared a dangerous looking free kick. We looked like we'd scored from a bizarre own goal which actually went just over, but shortly after Raziak headed in from a Harley cross. Just at the end of the first half Ward appeared to bring the Blackpool forward down and if the ref had thought so he might have been lucky to stay on the pitch being the last defender. However inexplicably we got given a free kick which caused much chuckling in the Upper Rous.
The second half was all about Blackpool. We were outplayed and other than winning a deserved penalty when Eustace was bundled over which thankfully Tommy Smith hit low and into the net, there wasn't much good to say. They equalised, conceded the pen, and then scored twice late on to send their small contingent mental. They deserved it and yet again we booed our players off whilst giving the Seasiders the kind of polite applause more often heard at village cricket grounds.
Aidy has got a lot of defensive questions to ponder, and it must be said that although he looked the ticket in his first couple of games, Darren Ward no longer seems like the answer.
