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Horror shows must stop soon
As Wanderers walked away from the defeats to Fenerbache, North Greenford and Ealing, many of us said:
“It can’t get worse than this.” This weekend, we saw another total embarrassment at Bison, as we were
put to the sword by a team that played in the Hounslow and District League last season.
Over a long hard season, people will forgive the odd slip-up against minor opposition, but Wanderers
have now put in at least four performances in the first third of the season which have been quite frankly,
junior reserve division standard at the most. This is in part, a continuation of shocking displays which date back
to last season’s debacles at Chingford and Stockley.
The away form is certainly the cause of most of the concern. While some early home displays were poor,
in general those who predicted a tough time at home have been proved wrong. Recent visitors have generally been
outplayed and allowed us to take a measure of control on the games and grab winning goals.
Until we learn to deal with different game situations – as opponents have managed to do with some success against us –
we will finish this season with a whole heap of embarrassments to remember the season by.
What really amazes me is how we keep managing to find new depths to plumb. The defeat at Bison should probably prompt us all to say
it’s the ‘final straw’. What comes after the ‘final straw’? What is underneath the bottom of the barrel?
Indeed it has got to the point now where we are so used to defeat that we are perhaps taking a morbid curiosity in what reaction
might greet another appalling defeat. I mean, if we won, we’d have the usual “Great to get back on track blah blah, put last Saturday
behind us, yawn, snooze”. Just one more horrific defeat wouldn’t do that much harm, would it? It’s hardly as though they’re protecting
a delicate unbeaten record or anything.
If we are going to get out the mess we have got ourselves into this season, the experienced players need to get themselves fit,
in form and motivated to go and take the younger lads under their wings and teach them to grind out results. The rest of the squad must
start to learn, fast, from the humiliations so far this season and start picking up points away. If it doesn’t happen, be set for a very
depressing winter and early spring.
Vip Mair |
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