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Without too much disrespect to those selected,  this was surely the weakest starting X1 i've seen in  a long time.  Was it injury, illness, unavailabilty or what ? We had far too many key players missing.  Chesham looked really vulnerable for the first 10 minutes.  We gained  3 early corners, each of which we squandered... once by trying to play it short and embarrassingly losing the ball in doing sol! Pretty unforgiveable.!.... And then 2 successive corners, when despite having  Chukwu & Touray, 2 of the tallest men on the pitch,  the ball was delivered flat, nowhere near them,  and easily cleared.   Even more unforgiveable, really. We have a tendency to overcomplicate things which imight just work with quality players but not with players  with limited technical competence. it just looks naff. Example: the silly free kick we had just outside their area
Chesham then scored out of the blue from a terrific bending shot and we appeared to crumple.... all our obvious limitations exposed... and without anyone to take a grip on us and lead from the front. Our one creative force on the pitch, Tom Mehew, was battling alone to try to give us some quality.. but those around him just couldn't raise their game and we sank into a humiliating 4-0 deficit at half time .  Despite the game having gone,  Freddie did at least introduce some order and leadership on the pitch in the second half... although I would have given Callum Wood my MoTM .  He was one of of our very few bright lights... calm, decisive in the air and thoroughly deserving of his consolation goal.

This was desperately poor fare. I can only assume the players that started for us was a selection forced on the management team and not as a result of some bizarre choice.  Chesham were a very ordinary side who we should have beaten. Scratching around for optimism... i still believe that if we can put together our strongest starting X1 .. ie the one that took points off Worthing and Slough... we can claw our way out of this... But the "ifs" are stacking up and not turning into "whens"...at the moment, anyway.