This time last season we went into a Tuesday night League Trophy game against Oxford, won 2-1 and went on a run of 6 wins in 7 games. Can history repeat itself?
If we don't then the Curle apologists won't be able to say we are in a better position than last season for much longer.
With the greatest of respect I think you’re wrong to refer to “Curle apologists” - I think a better term would be Curle realists. I’m certainly not in the minority of those who were underwhelmed when he was appointed but realised there was nothing to do except buckle in and hope that he could put together his team/squad and try to support him as much as possible. I think it’s starting to sink in now that there are major issues and it is depressing to think that we might have to write the season off in early October. Having said that we seem to have been here before and KC then pulls a couple of results out to buy more time - looking at the potential returnees for the weekend there is every chance of this happening again but we have no consistency so I fully expect it to recur. As others have said the main reason we’re not getting anything out of the likes of lines, warburton and Adams is possibly to do with the direct style of play KC is employing - at least in the Newport, Plymouth and bits of the Crawley game we mixed it up a bit but on Saturday we just reverted back to hoofing it and playing for knockdowns which is depressingly primitive.