Just managed to bring myself to these pages and face up to the reaction. What a truely abysmal performance, and one I lay at squarely at the feet of OG. He hasn't done much wrong in his time here, but how you can send a team out so drastically underprepared mentally and technically. They played as though it was a forgone conclusion, and could win it at 20%. no urgency, no desire, no focus. they looked like a team who have not played together before (and due to the amount of games we've had recently, and the apparent lack of training/preparation of the first teamers, they probably haven't). That's not an excuse though. OG is the one to manage that and put 11 players out on the pitch who are prepared to play the game. Everyone of our 11 were 2nd best to their Macclesfield counterpart. It didn't even improve after the break, where his move was to take off the youngsters. no evidence of motivational ability.
You can say the players on the pitch should have enough, but their attitude stank. Macclesfield on the other hand wanted every ball, and were much more effective than were were, passing moving us around. when they had the ball.
We had no ideas with the ball and resorted to over the top long balls often over (or under) hit, which gave the ball back to them. when we weren't doing that, we simply passed it straight to them along the ground.
I don't think OG should go. but this is a bad sign that he is starting to reach his limit with this side. I expect him to turn this around, but it doesn't look good.
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