Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:42 pm
Dreadful game today. We were obviously set up to try to stop Oldham playing and maybe sneak a goal, but with no Osborn and no Timm it was impossible to see where any creativity was going to come from, and indeed it didn't. Game just passed out midfield by, Beckett strolled past about six of our players for his goal, the second was a Mersonesque calamity, nothing whatsoever up front. We're surely going down. The most worrying thing is that I don't know what team we could have put out today that would have beaten Oldham, who have a very poor away record despite their league position. Like everyone else who beats us, they were well-organised but unspectacular.
Whoever the new manager is has got one hell of a difficult job. We had five loanees today, only one of whom (Mills) looked like he gave a remote toss. I say get the others out of the team, get back to the bread and butter stuff, players who will actually fight for the club and for their teammates.
Today was not good enough and I can only dread to think what's going to happen next week at Southend.