It's not over.
But, speaking (I hope) as a poster who is not prone to negativity, it's difficult to have faith that things would end well should we reach the pay offs.
It's not over til it's over, but let's face it, if we make it to the playoffs we'll struggle, because we can't field a settled, solid defence, and regardless of how good we might be going forwards, we're atrocious defensively, and will concede against any playoff opponents, and if we're not taking our chances, which is becoming an issue again, then we won't even make it to the final anyway.
When you consider how poor our recruitment has been, in terms of defensive reinforcements and specialist full backs, and no defensive midfield cover, and no genuine striker competition, until we finally brought in the quality, but injury prone Baldock, the fact we've even made it to this stage of the season, still in with a chance of the playoffs, show's how much we've rode our luck this season.
Many times this season, we've shown great heart and desire to grind out results, which has got us to this point, but you can't ride your luck all season, and the patched up sides, of square pegs in round holes, and losing already injury prone players to further injuries, and the lack of effective cover for vital positions, was always gonna come back and bite us on the a**e at some point.
For Robbo to stand there and say he can't field a settled back four, because he doesn't have the players for it is astounding, as it's HIS FAULT that we don't have suitable defensive cover in the squad, due to his insistence on bringing in multiple wingers, injured players and crocks, in place of adequate defensive reinforcements.
But that said, he had Mous and Forde on the bench in the last two games, and didn't use either, so quite what goes on in his head, I don't know, the guy speaks a lot of s**t, constantly contradicting himself, and then making outlandish comments to try to excuse his mistakes, instead of just having the guts and humility to own up to them.
Lessons need to be learned from the recruitment model of the last few seasons, and we need to start recruiting big solid units, accomplished in their specialised positions, with experience of what it takes to get out of this league, and make sure we have suitable cover and competition for EVERY position, and build a squad capable of steering us through the whole campaign, with no injury prone players, crocks, has beens, or flimsy little weaklings who can't tackle or take control of games.
I like Robbo, he's clearly a good bloke, who clearly cares for the club, but we need a quality manager to steer us through these exciting times ahead, and I'm starting to think he might not be capable of having the vision or humility to accept that his recruitment policies, squad building techniques, team selections and tactics are massively flawed, and he needs to accept what currently isn't working with his approach, and make the necessary adjustments, or I feel it might be time for him to be replaced.
Let's hope it doesn't come to that...
