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Anyone who
has followed the RRR's for any length
of time will not be surprised by this
result.
1 opponent's
get new manger
2 opponents get new loan signings
3 QPR are even money at the bookies
We were
bound to lose, but enough of fate. To
me we lost this game after about 25
minutes, make no mistake we had vast
superiority in the first half, we got
our tackles in, Connoly saw plenty of
the ball on the left hand side and overall
Wrexham were not in the game and had
little hope of stinging 2 passes together.
But on
around 25 minutes we suddenly made a
switch pushing connoly forward on the
right and moving Griffiths effectively
to left midfield. The game progressed
much the same as before but it seemed
a seed had been sown in the minds of
the Wrexham players, "Hold on" they
must have thought, maybe we have a chance
here. The inevitable happened before
half time a very rare Wrexham sortie
should have been easily cleared twice
by forbes both times the clearance went
to Wrexham and they where gifted the
easiest of chances, 1-0.
For all
Olly's talk of improving our passing
game we seem to have only one game plan,
hoof the ball into a corner for griffiths
or Thommo to chase. this is pretty poor
fare even if executed properly and doubly
so when our players can't measure their
passes. Couple this with a abject failure
to deal with Wrexhams off side trap
and the spectacle was dire indeed. The
second half progressed much the same
Dou Dou replaced griffiths after 55
minutes and spent the rest of the game
in an ariel battle with the tall central
defenders, guess what, he lost.
Eventually
bignot and connoly were subbed for Perry
and Wardley but to little effect although
wardley seemed to cause their defenders
one or 2 more problems especially in
the air, nice to see that Wrexham gave
Connoly a standing ovation when he was
subbed. Wrexham meanwhile grew in stature
and confidence despite going down to
10 after a 2nd bookable.
And we could
have lost by a couple in the end. Speaking
to Wrexham fans on the way back to the
car and in the pub afterwards they were
all as mystified as us hoops, they clearly
raised their game and were inspired
by the new manager etc but even so they
were no great shakes and we have to
look at this as 3 points lost.
So what
did I take away from the game, We are
worryingly short of fire power, Dou
Dou and Griffiths have despite excellent
work outside the box failed to provide
results, this has to be a concern because
Thommo is a Patch player and looking
at Yesterday he may be entering a barren
period, we need goals from elsewhere.
We are absolutely
awful in the air, we must play the ball
on the ground if we play the current
team, If we are going to have to resort
to ariel bombardment then Wardley would
be a more effective partner for thommo
than Girffiths.
The midfield
does not support the forwards enough,
None of the midfield commit to get into
the box if the ball is wide, also they
do not release the ball early enough
on the floor to give thommo the chances
he relishes. Connoly looked up for it
for 30 minutes then ghosted out of the
game until replaced by wardley toward
the end, I would like to see Hamid Bar
get a full game on Tuesday to see what
he can do for us in midfield.
As for the
defence well they were OK apart from
the abberations from Forbes, but he
is young and learning, we knew he would
probably make some howlers at some point,
sadly he made a batch of them yesterday
which made him look a bad player, he
isn't we just have to accept that this
will happen from time to time with youngsters
new to 1st team football.
I hope people
bear this in mind when Danny Murphy
makes his debut he will not become a
gillard or wilson overnight it will
take time for him to find his feet and
we must expect the odd cock up along
the way.
We don't
need to panic, my expectations have
grown slightly since my original prediction
of 8th at the start of the season and
the play-offs are a realistic possibility
but for anyone still thinking that we
can run away with this division perhaps
there are whiff's of ground coffee beans
in the air this morning.