[maccawozzagod]

i haven't watched anywhere near as much football this season as I would have liked but it's more than obvious that certain things aren't working. As stated by Shakermaker the defence in the first ten games was excellent - and was then chopped to pieces for one or two bad games. coleman has stated on more than one occasion that he thinks that Suntan would be a premier league defender if he was taller, and that in his mind is one of the best centre backs in the league. Why play him at full back? Football19 and a few others certainly no a lot more than me about 'football' and state the reasoning behind why Phil can't play this that and t'other, well find someone tall and with pace who can play alongside Phil rather than moving him out. 150 consecutive and consistent games at centre back then shunted out to accomodate an ageing and error prone Hessey and a borrowed defender who will go back to another club no better than what we have.

Michael Hall hasn't had a look in at all, Bateson made a stupid error for a sending off then disappeared off the radar, Richardson hasn't had any kind of run and Deano could and should have a look in at centre back if we're gonna keep chopping and changing. Jacobson could also play left if needed.

Craney, Ryan and Putterill? It's akin to the Lampard and Gerrard problem for England. Somehow Coleman managed to make it work until Razor got suspended but now that he is back we have another creative midfielder to accomdate as well. Would Capello have played Paul Scholes as well if he had gone to the World Cup? (in fact don't answer that ...)

Crosses into the box is what we are short of yet those in the squad who can deliver a ball aren't even travelling to some games. Maybe Turner isn't quite the polished gem yet, but he isn't going to be unless he gets games. He won't learn anything just training every day and needs 1st team action. Give him ten games and if he still isn't where he should be then ship him out either permanently or on loan.

All season we have deluded ourselves that we have a good squad and that we can seriously threaten in this league, well we can't. We're out of the cups and two points off the drop zone and that isn't the hallmark of a good team. Either the squad is crap or the manager is doing something wrong. We all know that Coley can be a great manager when he wants to be, but maybe he tinkers too much with the wrong things and not enough with the right things? Don't take that as a 'Coley out' call because it isn't anything of the sort, but he needs to pull his finger out this month or it is going to be a long hard second half of the season.