I’ll await the hi-lights but it seems everyone knows how we play, put us under pressure from start and we’ll make a mistake…most commonly but Williams.
Just that Maidstone weren’t good enough up front to capitalise and Enfield sat back after going in front.

We’ve signed Parsons but he’s bench warming most games.

I think you slightly miss the point 96chipp. It's, of course, no surprise that Torquay and many other clubs are better resourced and better prepared than us... nor that occasionally we'll take a tonking from a good side. Those are the facts of life  for CTFC.. and lots of other small clubs.
What I think the Torquay Forum poster was highlighting was our predictability and how vulnerable it makes us. Teams much more modest than Torquay are working us out  and exploiting this blind determination always to play out from and across the back. ( I do think there's a difference between the two)
I completely applaud Gary Horgan & the management of the club generally for their highly principled " footballing" stance, but sometimes the relentless determination to only play one way makes us vulnerable and easy to take advantage of.  It also frustrates more fans than me, by the sound of it.
Occasionally it is useful to have another voice outside the Club who analyses the problem.. that's all.
 

The comments made by the Torquay fan have generated pretty consistent responses from ourselves. Agree with what Rambler hinted at that the result itself was not unexpected it was as usual our style of play that was the problem.
Based on the comments from the Torquay fan it seems that we stuck to this way of playing when clearly it wasn't working. Perhaps wishful thinking but wouldn't it be nice if in one of Gary Horgan's post match interviews he would like to explain why he sticks to a tactic which is clearly not working and plays right into the hands of the opposition

96chipp wrote:

The difference between a pro side and semi pro side. They’d have spent all of Monday preparing to play us, whilst we wouldn’t have had a single session to focus on them after going all the way vs Enfield on Saturday.

I don’t see why we’d be upset or surprised at that kind of result last night. 3000 fans in and they will be right up there come seasons end, I’m just glad we’ve got our trip there out of the way early.

Absolutely this. Bad day at the office for us, every game won't be like that. Just have to look at the games we "should be winning" and focus on those.

I think I'm still one of the only fans that prefer our style of play. I do agree we should move the ball quicker though, that is my only criticism. The proof is in the pudding (last season, played 16, lost 16, 0 goal difference), for every "silly goal we concede by messing around at the back" we score goals too by drawing the opposition in. Some games we'll win, some games we'll lose.

I would rather be entertained than watching some hoofball shite like Hungerford.
 

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