Unofficial Halesowen Town FC Forum

A very ordinary display. Not many contenders for Man of the Match but again Paul Evans was one.
Back 4 were very strong, 3 clean sheets out of 4 says it all.
Midfield rarely looked like controlling the game, lacked creativity and were not incisive, Westwood very quiet.
Strikers made little impression. Despite their goalscoring deeds last Saturday, we should be looking for alternatives, if budget allows, and a midfielder.
Indiscipline, which has occurred more often since at least last winter , e.g. away at Swindon & Weymouth, was again evident.

We were short of at least one key player tonight and super sub was also missing.

See Craig Conner not on our current squad list guess he has gone then shame he did well for us in midfield.

Lets hope we have more of the key players and options for Shaun at Mango.

the midfielders do play some good stuff at times, one-twos, little triangle passing,etc. then the ball gets to one of the forwards and it either bounces off the shins
to a defender to clear or the ball is looped away to no one in perticular (usually a defender) rather than hold on to it.
The standard of refs/linemen doesnt help make a good match (yes,it is a contact sport and no, we dont go to watch `the ref show`) it seems other teams get to
know the refs` weakness better than we do and take advantage (constant shirt pulling=nothing, moan once at a decision=booking)
Also it must be hard to raise your game when you play at these, neat and tidy,`new build` country grounds but with no atmosphere, it feels so flat, lets get
back to the grove and get some `oomph`back into football!

JohnC wrote:We were short of at least one key player tonight and super sub was also missing.

See Craig Conner not on our current squad list guess he has gone then shame he did well for us in midfield.

Lets hope we have more of the key players and options for Shaun at Mango.

Yes it's a shame Craig has gone, but he was never a good enough central midfielder? should of had him down the right.