THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Haha, I was sat right in front of Smith's terrific foul yesterday and he was so unbelievably late even he was embarrassed. Not a great yellow to pick up but I suppose if it's that or letting him run past you I'll take the former.

Gilbey chasing down their keeper and blocking that deep cross in the last minute are good examples of what we have missed though. Get right up in the grills of the opposition and don't for a moment think you're better than them by default.

Williams, while clearly unfit, showed a lot of class yesterday in hustling some loose balls and headers Devoy wouldn't have got either. Overall it was a tetchy game and Donny were the better team for the whole of the second half but they created a sum total of zero clear chances (even their goal was a worked angle and an excellent finish and not what I'd consider a clear chance) in the second half and only one "should have scored that" type chance in the first.

Yes we are top but we have played some of the poorer teams in the division. We were well beaten by Crawley who were battered by Swindon.. so I feel we are in a very false position. However, although Saturday wasn't great, there were definite signs of improvement from the other games, particularly the last half hour of the 1st half that we completely controlled. I'm just hoping that we are still in sort of a 'pre season' phase with Alexander, and he is still in the process of instilling his ideas into the team and that we will improve week on week. The massive positive is that we are top and have been largely poor.. improvements will hopefully come and I am hoping we will start to deservedly win games and hammer teams.

We are top cause this league is dog shit. We are just at the moment least shit. I mean look last week the media were bumming Gillingham. Oohhh perfect start. No goals conceded. Four 1-0 wins. Then what do they do. Go and lose 3-0 to a team that at that point hadnt won a game. A team that we scraped by. I looked at the odd of winning the league we are 4th at 10/1 and now notts county are favourites (and rightly so in my book as on paper they did have the best squad).

We will lose some our team isn't amazing and I am glad we got the first loss out the way but September will be more challenging we just have be realistic we have had a good if not inspiring start but thats all it is. A start. Keep your feet on the ground everything will be ok.

Every club is in a false position though.

Usually the table won’t take proper shape until round 10, this season is expect it to take around 15/16 games before we get a true reflection of the division. We’re top because we’ve won 4 games despite playing poorly and long May those wins continue.

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