After 13 competitive games, I’m out.
I think that in the longer term, Lowe could be successful but I doubt it will be this season. I was very happy when Hallett got him but to date, he has flattered to deceive. People say it’s a work in progress, but most lower-League teams have a significant turnover of players in the close-season and don’t use that as an excuse.
Unfortunately, you don’t get any points for hype and all that positivity and talk of exciting attacking play seems somewhat hollow now. Yet again today, we were deservedly beaten by a pretty average Division 4 team that didn’t actually need to play that well to beat us.
We can’t seem to stop conceding really poor, practise match type goals due to a lack of concentration and awareness. At the other end, we are struggling to score goals, particularly the forwards who’s main job should be to do just that.
Lowe has brought a couple of good players down from Bury but crucially, we didn’t get Maynard, Adams and O’Shea who were absolutely critical to Bury’s success last season. Also, he was left with some very average, journeymen lower-League players such as Sawyer, Sarcevic, Wooton and Canavan who were always going to struggle in a Lowe team; old dogs, new tricks and all that.
I may be in the minority, but one-dimensional, tippy-tippy, walking pace football which only offers a threat on one side of the pitch doesn’t do it for me and is not going to get us to where we want to be.