Quote ="Staffs FC"Were you on water duty that day? - must have been a big occasion.
Nice to get some inside knowledge for a change - what was the game plan ?
A detailed summary will do.'"
Oh no no no, you need to prove to the contrary, I watched a team get into the right areas of the pitch time and again only to drop passes at critical points, some of that panic/nerves, some of it weather related. We actually threatened them quite a bit over the 80 but don't let your imperical understanding of the game get in the way of facts
I still thought we had a chance of winning it with 10-15 minutes to go and yet we didn't. A dry day and a bit less panic & I reckon we would have won it comfortably.
For me it wasn't an embaressment as many have banged on about since, yes the performance wasn't great by any stretch & I was massively dissapointed but embaressed..hardly.
We were a patched up side, no Lineham, Millar thrown in in desperation, losing Ellis on 14 minutes was a huge loss, gambling on Crooks is a tough choice all coaches have made (remember Senior in 2005!) a fullback with 7 games or so under his belt whom almost got us right back into it.
But let's see you put to right were we went wrong in our game plan aside from the main aspect of dropping the passes time and again...
