I confess to not having been to The Walks for quite a while, and just watch whatever is available on video. I’ve see enough, however, to wonder why Crane is always on the bench.  He appears to have some of the pace and skill that we completely lack on too many occasions, and he seems to fall into the trap suffered by Barrett when he was here and clearly the best player in the club at the time.  Managers often convince themselves that they possess some kind of tactical knowledge that makes them rely on their Subbuteo Board formations in which the most skilful players are surplus to requirements. It’s complete nonsense!  Successful teams are those that, believe it or not, actually pick their best players!  You might not win with them, but you sure as Hades won’t without them!

I feel that SC has done a great job since he has been here, even a miraculous job for a club which has never progressed as far as most of its opponents from the day the Main Stand was opened, to put a time relevance to my point.  I believe the lack of further ground development has caused disinterest in the club for locals and beyond, because we haven’t reached the level to attract them.  But SC has kept us in with a chance of progress, even now….

Two things bother the Dillathon computer.  1) Mall and others, myself included, were gutted when we were relegated from NLN, and more so when we dropped into the UCL.  But talk of getting a local team with local players is, to me, dropping down to those levels voluntarily, which imho would be tragic, and kill off a lot of interest.  2) Our complete lack of development of the ground is a hindrance to attracting new investors.  This time of the year we see FA Cup ties at similar level clubs to ours, and can see how their infrastructure has starkly outgrown ours over the years.  I feel that without proper terraces and cover behind both goals, most potential investors would find it difficult to imagine enough potential to attract their interest and investment.  I realise it’s a chicken and egg situation.

The commentator on SS Radio said at half-time KL had only managed one shot at goal throughout, and that went wide.  However many wins or draws we manage to “grind out”, it is obvious we have a poor team that can only hope to stay at this level as their current ambition.  I don’t know what is the matter with the club.  We’re still about the only club at this level with no stand behind the goals.  Progress over the decades has been hopeless…. The patience of the fans, albeit the dwindling number, is surprising.  But we all still live in hope…..

Great win at Spennymoor.  I hope and think there is room for optimism at last!  Three things enthusing the Dillyputer - Six games without defeat, up to 2nd in the league, and most encouraging of all, I’ve spotted that there has been mention of the team having plenty of speed in it, (imho, for the first time for ages).  With the arrival of speed, we will pin opponents back more often than we have for some time.  On personnel matters, is Hamami injured?… and Boston won’t have a problem getting a new manager, because they all speak the same cliches, and availability of money is the only tactic that counts… COYL….

Academies and “local lads” don’t work at this level because if they are good enough they will be picked off by bigger clubs, which most are, at the level we’re trying to achieve.  That system would only work if the crowd are happy to simply be better than Wisbech!

Few teams with three centre-halves keep clean sheets.  Plus, do we have attacking midfielders?  The “sitting” variety makes any team a man short….

Don’t know these players yet, but the selection looks top-heavy with defenders as usual,  That always means the opponents spend far more time attacking us than vice-versa.  Hope I’m wrong, but we only appear to have had about 4 attacking players on the pitch.