Just having a look back at the start of last season, does anybody seriously think that this squad is worse than the squad that started last season?
The team that started the season losing 1-0 at home to Stalybridge - Dibble, Price, Maguire, Ngoma, Thomas, Marshall, Chippendale, Hilliard, St Juste, Colley, Rollins: (Roberts, Fairhurst and Adams as subs). I would only have two or three of those players is this seasons squad. Again this team needs support, I'm still looking at who I think's good enough and who probably isn't, but I'm not gonna go screaming at them during the game like some do behind me on Spayne Road, why? Because it isn't supporting the team, it brings lower confidence, it brings fear, it brings less expressive football. At the end of the day I'll still be supporting this team positively.
Coming back to these stats, I'm gonna wait until we've played more this season before concluding if this team statistically is worse, and if we are I'll concede that point. My comment about last seasons dross was mainly associated to that team that started last season, which for me has a lot less talent than the one we have that's started this season, I'd personally only have Ngoma and Roberts (fitness permitting for both of them because Ngoma looked solid in midfield) and Rollins, but he's decided he doesn't want to play football this season by the looks of it.