Chester FC V Gateshead MATCH THREAD

Sorry thought this was a forum where away fans were welcome? Plastic geordie why the personal insults? You sound like a child football discussion between the 2 teams that played fans no need for personal insults!

Worst performance this season by an absolute mile. We were set up wrong from the start. One up front at home was bad enough, but why start with Horwood in midfield when we had Lloyd on the bench? Alabi was completely isolated with no support whatsoever from midfield, although Richards was worse than crap when he came on. Where was Mahon today? Shaw looked like he didn't know where he was playing and is always much better with the armband on his sleeve, he should have been left as captain for me, George was dreadful today. It's a good job that we got points on the board before christmas as we look like a side without confidence at the moment and I can't see us winning many playing like that between now and the end of season. Not enough workrate, no chasing down and did we win a second ball all afternoon? Oh...can we please have Lynch back in goal? Tranmere will have a field day here. Woeful.

Very poor after the first 1/2 hour. No energy to show for a pass = lump it up in the hope that Alabi can make something of it. Never going to work.
Not sure who got MOM but I'd struggle to pick anyone,maybe Hudson for his goal and last ditch tackle. Thought Joyce had a reasonable game in contrast to some comments above.

Sorry thought this was a forum where away fans were welcome? Plastic geordie why the personal insults? You sound like a child football discussion between the 2 teams that played fans no need for personal insults!

Very disappointing today, Gateshead were there for the taking but we weren't good enough to take advantage. Draw probably would have been fair on balance of play but can't argue with getting nothing from it. We did miss a couple of very good chances though - Shaw early on at 0-0 then Alabi at 1-1 once he completely outmuscled their defender. Roberts should have done better with their first, although there did look to be a foul on Joyce in the build up.
Have to question McCarthy today - why take Horwood off for Richards then put Lloyd at left back? Richards needed to come on but I would have taken George or Joyce off.
Alabi did a good job despite being isolated. Every game he shows a moment of real quality. No one else really stood out for me. We're in a bit of freefall at the moment, much improvement needed to even finish top half.

Away fans are welcome but it's a little annoying straight after a game having this guy telling us how useless we are based on two games he's seen.

If you were embarrassed by that you must be some sort of sadist who loves to be embarrassed? I was proud of my club today on so many levels in front of a national tv audience. OK - other than the first 20 minutes, when we should / could have changed the course of the game, we were second best. But embarrassed? Fuck me.

where was mahon today . if injured why did Chappel not come on.the team lacked width and energy.durrel looked way off the pace .felt sorry for Alabi worked his socks off for nothing .I thought killock was fit enough to play and found the changes very odd waters should be a regular played in his right position. anyway moan over onward and upward

You just have to accept it . We ARE a poor team . Weve been poor in most of the games i have been to this season . The games in which we have had good results have been as much to do with the opposition being poor as it has been about us being any good .We are now as bad as we were at any stage last season and that should be a concern foe everybody 

The true disappointment with todays performance is that it un-ravelled all of the hard work which the community team and volunteers have put in, to get the kids teams in front of the camera's. I might add that the Kids playing for up from the BT Camera's was the ONLY highlight of todays game. We cannot afford another dire performance against Tranmere up coming, in fact we need the exact opposite. Plenty of people in Chester that don't attend game's will have been watching on tv today, great performances on the tv will get a few additional bums on seats, ones like today will only reinforce negative stereotypes of local non-league football.

I love Macca, but he’s had an absolute shocker today. The line-up, the formation, players out of position, all of it was just awful and it was an ugly watch. I was getting really frustrated watching it because I felt it was just so self-inflicted. He’s talked about going back to basics all week and then comes out with an overthought and overcomplicated mess on the day. It reminded me of Burr’s management last season. I felt a bit sorry for the players really, I could see them looking unsure of where they were supposed to position themselves and they were getting frustrated and started yelling at each other.

Take Wade Joyce for example, excellent last week just sitting deep in front of the back four winning the ball and passing it five yards to someone else. What you need away from home really. Today, at home, he wasn’t as deep, he was trying to drive forward and create things and it just isn’t what he’s good at. We’ve got Vassell on the wrong side, Hughes looking awkward out of position, Alabi with nobody anywhere near him and end up with Lloyd at left back FFS, just such an awful disjointed unbalanced mess. We’ve got god knows how many wingers sitting on their arses on the bench and in the stand and then go and play like that.

There’s nothing to be concerned about in my opinion, recent performances have been fine. I just think the manager has got it so so wrong today unfortunately.

Im afraid he gets it wrong too often . Even when we do play well its only ever for 45mins . He either looks like he is running out of ideas or ,more worryingly ,has has lost the dressing room ? only time will tell . PS always respect your post match summaries ,thanks 

Lost the dressing room - Superb  Did your mum help you with that one?

Think Macca needs to stop watching the DVD's so much - that was a tactical mess. That was the best squad he has had to select from since early in the season and what he put out was confusing for everyone. It almost feels like he's trying to give a few lads who haven't featured much a game. Played well in the opening 20 minutes and losing Vassell was a blow as he had opened their defence up on a couple of occasions with his forward running. After he went off it just fell apart. Need a couple of wins from next two games to steady the ship. On a separate note, the crowd was very disappointing considering it was a promoted fixture. Only just over 2,000, with 600 in the south stand.