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Taunton play Hemel Hempstead on Saturday, so something has to give in our favour ...

Injuries or not the basic facts are that we started the season with much the same squad as got us relegated, and with the same long ball tactics which saw us relegated. Without Jarvis we cannot play long ball, but spent all the first half v Truro passing between the backline and the goalkeeper, then...

Our lack of teamplay and of desire for the ball at feet is just so obvious, so what do we do in training? When we warm up there is shooting practice, mostly at the goal - in a match mostly over the bar; there is give and move and passing - in a match there is hoofball and both the forward line and m...

Maidstone were allowed to control most of the first half last Saturday, mainly because (unlike other teams) our midfield is not compact and is easy to play through; our forwards are rarely close enough to play with one another, and most attempts at kicking the ball forwards are in the air instead of...

Pre-match we warm up with triangles, give and move, shooting practice. Why bother when we don't play as a passing team but opt for long hopeful balls, and then hardly have an attempt on goal. Pity we couldn't learn from last season's failings, and from watching other teams play us off the park. The ...

We need a tracksuit player/manager with modern ideas and tactics to develop whoever we can sign!

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory again, pathetic second half display showing no idea about game management/controlling a winning situation for those vital and elusive 3 points, expending so much energy to win the ball then just hoofing it anywhere, hoping the ever willing Jarvis will somehow...

A valiant performance by the 10 men indeed. I wondered what was the difference between Lapslie's lunge from the ground and their player's lunge from the ground to kick Halstead in the head - both going for the ball with a high foot as they were sprawled, and yet no action taken other than a late pol...

A spirited valiant performance but another defeat because we cannot turn possession into goals - then again, we tend to go consistently long with our possession, hence lose it. As said above, what was our game plan apart from going long against a tall defence. We desperately need an experienced cont...

Jarvis
Donnellan
Moxey
De Silva
Halstead (good handling and blocking under pressure)

Good last summary. Crucial 3 points but what a disjointed performance. Having just signed a player from Maidstone we should have had a comprehensive game plan for dominating and winning the match; however, we persist with long hopeful balls in the air, long hopeful throws-in where we are outnumbered...

Until the sending-off the pattern of play was disappointingly similar to the rest of the season - we played long-ball and long throws and lost possession, Taunton played to feet and threw to feet and kept good possession, and carved us open for their 2 tap-in goals (where was the defence?). It seeme...

Do we even know how much we gained from the FACup? Or how much is likely to be available for signings or for normal running expenses/debts?

What a contrast in styles last night - we, battling, chasing, hoofing /looking for the long ball over the top; they, total football, fluid passing and moving, cutting around and through us, a joy to watch but so sad to see us being shown how to play as a team. We badly lacked a midfield playmaker, u...

Somerset Live reckons Hargreaves persisted with a 3-5-2 formation which didn't seem to be working with the squad he inherited...