NL: Torquay United v Wealdstone 7:45pm 9th February 2021

Did not make much impact, then not much service and his cross did lead to our goal.

Couple of near misses which would have gone in on another day and some possible penalty shouts turned down.

Half way point and if you step back we are in a great position. Form is not great but then like last season it is injuries pulling us back down but no reason why that when players do come back as they will very shortly we cannot go on another good run.

These sort of games are truly the hardest to watch and I didn't think we wold get anything out of it. Glad we kept going and got something from the game - cannot fault the effort but you can see our quality has dropped off with the absence of CLE, Arron Nemane, Danny Wright, Armani Little, Ben Wnter etc etc.
There's only so much a manager can do to cover for talented and key players.
Thought Olaf did a very good job on the right tonight not sure if it was tactical or injury enforced.
Umrerah wont be here long just has no technical ability and it showed tonight though he worked hard and put himself about. Some of his shooting and decision making was woeful but the manager has little choice at the moment with Street looking green and lightweight.
Have to ride out the injury storm and hope we can get players back though gawd knows whats happened to Little , Warren and Kerr etc. If we were unfortunate enough to lose Whitfield and Randell we would be sure to be heading South in the league.
Honestly didn't think we would be so devastated by injuries again this term as bad or worse than last season.

Still a nice gentle friendly to look forward to on Saturday eh?

If he did that'll be one less in the squad and likely to be sent packing.
Got enough on his plate without that sort of behavior.

Well, 33 minute substitution and furious when he walked off. Doesn’t bode well.

A few minutes to reflect on last nights game and recent form etc.
Losing so many first choice players of late has undoubtedly had a negative affect on our performances and results though try convincing some on social media FB, who consider that fact to not to be a valid reason for our tail off.
The blame game has begun, the snowflake fans are starting to melt as the going gets tough with one or two suggesting we will soon be in a relegation fight.
We see at every level of the game when squads are devastated by one injury after another and you only have to cast your eye towards Liverpool who have suffered enormously from injuries to key players.
To my mind Its ridiculous to suggest that every player in the squad is of equal quality but that is also being touted as a reason to stick in the knife.
A few positives came out of the game and I thought more than negative's on the whole. We were totally on top in the second period but struggled again fort that cutting edge to break them down in and around the penalty area as they predictably packed that area. Obvious to all I would have thought that with one or two of the missing playing we would have put them to the sword with ease as we would have with a strike force of Reid and Janneh. The quality up top without Wright has dropped off considerably.
Umerah is our best target man option currently and that really says it all for me.
When you consider how we attacked the penalty area with CLE, Reid, Kalala and Janneh in a previous life there is really no comparison. Despite the loss of three of those players we have some how managed to improve our goal scoring record over the first half of the season with goals coming from all over. Take out Nemanee, Wright and CLE who have been a huge part of our early season form and you have your answer for last nights result and our drop in form of late. A well marshaled Ben Whitfield becomes less effective automatically with those players missing though he did ok without our better players alonside. Opposing sides know his threat and feel comfortable putting two or three defender on him .
Exactly half way through the season now but feel it will be an impressive feat for us to continue to open up or even maintain a gap between us and our nearest challengers.

If you ever ran a race and went out to hard at the start to run out of steam as the finishing tape beckoned is how I feel the season is going for us.
Time will tell but with us now having to field a mid table side its going to be tough to reach that line ahead of the rest.

Taking this one game in isolation what gives me a slight feeling of optimism is that we kept on going right to the end and were justly rewarded with the late equaliser. I think that demonstrates spirit.
It has been a disappointing run of recent results, especially only picking up one point from two home games against part time sides, but I seem to remember in the Buckle era we kept getting turned over by part timers.
The boo boys are a pain, we were always going to struggle with the number of injuries we've got and the weather conditions on Tuesday only added to our problems. But overall given the circumstances on the night I thought we did ok.
Our lead at the top of the table will give a small cushion in which to try and straighten things out,a but now it is game on and I see the rest of the season being a four way battle between us, Sutton, Hartlepool and the biggest threat coming from Notts County.