DO WE WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH?

I was just about to reply to Pete's post and have just read weathergulls, so will reply to both in this post.

Pete we have to look at what happened in the second half of last season, after a great start and getting many good results, we soon got found out as a team who only played one way. Big long balls just thrown up the pitch and teams leaned how to stop us and as a result we stopped getting the same level of success we did up until Christmas.

This season in the first half we spend too many games trying out experiments with the team, that in my view should have been sorted in the preseason. We then got some success with playing Sills up on his own with Thompson playing just behind, but even that stopped working in the end. We did go back to that in the Lewes game, got a two nil win and then stuck with it for the Southport game and it clearly did not work in that game.

In the event of no new striker joining us before the window closes, I still feel we have players who have goals in them and if we play to their strengths better, then we will score more goals and then hopefully get the results we all hope for.

Weathergull, you fail to see just how good Green really is and as I have said before for him to score he needs to be in front of goal and not out wide all the time. Merse will say that by going out there he pulls a defender out wide and that will leave space in the middle. That is true but you then need your other forward or a midfield player in the right place around the box, to firstly use the free space and then hopefully get an effort in on goal.

I forget who we were playing, but in a recent home game the other team kicked off, hit it long and over to the left hand side, we won the ball and it was given to Sills on the halfway line. He hit a first time defense splitting pass, that Green raced onto and was then one on one with the keeper.

OK Green did not score and could have done better, but my point is that this is a real strength that Green has and its better to use is pace to make runs through the middle and onto goal, then ones from the center out wide left or right on the pitch. It was the same when we had Williams come here, he had a great scoring record, he did get a hat trick in his first game for us, but never got many after that.

Far to often he was never played the balls that his game needed and the only one game it happened, he came off the bench and scored two goals in injury time, balls played through the middle and into space for him to get onto and run at the goal. Give players the service that their game needs and the ones that suit their game better and you then will see the results and goals being scored.

Oooh I could get my teeth into this thread but I just can`t b bothered repeating myself yet again!