Silk Purse out of a Pig's Ear

It is quite obvious that we are not good enough.

That said through all of our tribulations we have, basically, played Ness, Sarcevic, Fox, Carey, Lameiras, Ladapo and Taylor either in midfield or up front. Sometimes we have had Songo'o in midfield too. Sometimes Joel and Conor Grant have played.

Whatever the variations this has been quite settled and we know what to expect from (most of) them and it could be argued that Ladapo has been a roaring success.

Behind them we have had Macey virtually every game so settled there too.

It all goes to pot with the back four (occasionally a back five like today - Songo'o is something of an enigma when he isn't an obvious CB selection...)

Just look at this representation of our defence for the season so far.

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Whether it be injury, tactics, lack of form that's a whole host of changes with no fewer than 8 differing CB combinations having been used! Namely Edwards/Wootton (3 times), Canavan/Wootton (4), Edwards/Sawyer (2), Edwards/Canavan (3), Edwards/Grant (6), Songo'o/Canavan (9), Peck/Grant (1), Songo'o/Sawyer/Edwards (1).

On top of which it is unclear whether Moore or Riley is preferred at RB and Sawyer or Smith-Brown (and possibly Wylde and C Grant too!) preferred at LB.

In reality, with the possible exception of Smith-Brown, it doesn't appear as though Adams trusts any of them enough to hold down a regular starting spot in a Wotton/Coughlanesque fashion.

Are any of them up to it or do we need an entire new back four when the transfer window opens?

Whatever the solution if we carry on as we have done so far we are going to continue to be a shambles and relegation is a racing certainty.

Squad is shite. Riley and Moore or Sawyer and Smith Brown.theyre all cack.

End of the day if a player who starts in a postion in a game where we play poorly or lose badly he's out and the next guy is in, I would do the same.

Too many shite players.

sawyers lack of pace has been evident for years no idea why he is still here
must be cheap

Thought it was obvious what was going to be a critical weakness this season ?

The writing was on the wall as early as the Yeovil friendly.

Matthews, Vyner. Threlkeld and Bradley all departed, to be replaced by cheap options.

Hopefully there will be a large swathe of fans who now realise that trusting in Brent is not going to help.

Doubt it. The wannabe culture is deeply rooted.

Despite the obvious weaknesses across the defence, the one area where we've had bad luck is Conor Grant getting injured. By luck or design, Adams put him at LB and it seemed to work. He was there for wins against Gillingham, Scunthorpe and Stevenage.

Smith-Brown was targeted again yesterday to good effect for Wimbledon.

Earwegoagain wrote:

Hopefully there will be a large swathe of fans who now realise that trusting in Brent is not going to help.

No point most are being turned by nool and the gang on the farm to fire at hallett
and freakchat no hope thats a shitshow

If they want generations of Plymouth footballing shite they can have it, geddon Simon give Derek a longer contract get
Porky in the directors box put in more Portakabins and charge more to get in and stop POTD.
ENJOY

After the Burton defeat, lets hope for a mass boycott of the Oxford defeat let the Comunity boyz know the Communitys not happy.

Don't worry well sell out the new corporate facilities when we get to the conference then make a push for the prem. In the meantime women and children in the lifeboats first please.

akagreengull wrote:

If they want generations of Plymouth footballing shite they can have it, geddon Simon give Derek a longer contract get
Porky in the directors box put in more Portakabins and charge more to get in and stop POTD.
ENJOY

that’s proberly more nearer the truth than you would like to think GG the clubs a complete and utter shambles from top to bottom and don’t even me started on that dick

akagreengull wrote:

If they want generations of Plymouth footballing shite they can have it, geddon Simon give Derek a longer contract get
Porky in the directors box put in more Portakabins and charge more to get in and stop POTD.
ENJOY

Yeah thanks for that....