Chester FC V Dagenham And Redbridge MATCH THEAD

Thought Rowe-Turner was one of our better players to be honest. Gough had a stinker, although he isn't a "repeat offender" so deserves the benefit of the doubt.

First goal down to Ross Hannah thinking he can get the ball and hold stronger players off. He is trying to play in the wrong areas. After that the confidence drained out of the squad and they fell apart.
Have heard rumours about squad not happy, do not know anymore than that but de one half was gutless.

They should bloody well be unhappy - with themselves. Too many sulks in this team and the mentality - instilled by McCarthy - is weak.

Wish that was true.

The players were asked to go downstairs to The Blue Bar afterwards - hope they saw how gutted the fans would have been!

Had to be the worse half of football I can remember. We actually looked like we gave up at 2.

I want Bell to get angry - throw his weight around a bit. As another poster said, he has the perfect physique but doesn't use it.

At least the other results were ok and we get a fortnight off!

Agree with the general views on today's game, and the individual players performances.

I'm getting concerned about MB now too, though. I know we've got loads of injuries, and a small limited squad. However, I don't think he's using the players that well.

I can see why he has tried a back three. However, the front three isn't working. Two of them are effectively playing out of position. And the two left in midfield often get outnumbered. Leaving the defence vulnerable.

Hannah needs to be right upfront. We need him scoring goals. MB seems to be trying to turn into Juan Mata. Akintunde ended up playing deeper than four other players.

When you're a crap and slow at the back as we are, you need to stay compact. We just pushed more and more men forward, with no-one covering the back three/four at all. At one stage we had Halls left midfield, Rowe-Turner wide left, Gough in front of them and Dawson got the ball and realised he only had McCombe behind him. A struggling team needs to have a formation that gives them a chance to stay in games. Had we kept it at one, then pushed on, we may have done better.

The midfield doesn't have balance. Dawson is the only player who tried to be creative. But he's a young lad struggling in a team where there is so little forward movement.

I think we need the extra body in midfield, and play two right upfront.

MB makes a lot of changes during games, but they just make us more disorganised. Whether that's down to the inability of the players, or his tinkering. I don't know. But if both probably.

I know we are broke, but bringing in loads of teenagers is just a short term solution. We brought in eight(?) players. How many of them are good enough to start? Archer, Gough, Hall-Thompson? MB gets a lot of slack because of what he inherited, and the injuries we've got. Quite rightly. Question is, if everyone was fit how would he do? Truthful answer is none of us know. I keep coming back to the comments on the Grimsby forum about him constantly making changes in personnel and formation. I really hope this is only happening now, due to the injuries. Someone else posted about him losing the players, I really hope that isn't the case.

Worst performance ive seen at the deva for a long time.

 We called it Bignot Bingo. Never know who he'll play in what position or what formation. Changes during games invariably make the performance worse and are often baffling. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Quite simply his points tally didn't match Hurst's and it's just more evidence of his artistic licence with the truth.. He averaged 1.3 points per game to Hurst's 1.4. Plus under Hurst we never got hammered. In Bignot's short tenure we lost 5-1 at home to local rivals Donny, 4-0 at Portsmouth and 5-0 to a Crewe side that hadn't won in 8 games at the time. Under Hurst we were always in the game, under Bignot a lot of the performances were embarrassing. Even after three months there was no sign of any method to the play and nobody had worked out how he was trying to get us to play, the players generally looked like they didn't know how they were meant to be playing either. Even when we won 3-0 at Orient, they were the better team in the first half and had a team full of 18 year olds who won 1 game out of the last 15. He's a charlatan I'm afraid.

Rightly or wrongly MB's honeymoon period seems well and truly over for quite a number of our fans.  But I fear we have nowhere to go at the moment.  We'll have to hang in there and see where it takes us - though I fear it's down.

Everyone seems to blaming Gough and McCombe. Agree they were poor but Halls was shit beyond belief. The first two goals were scored because he stood 5 yards  off the man who put the crosses in. if you don't let the ball be come into the box you might not concede 2 tap ins.

Don’t think slaughtering the bloke who is trying to go about improving an inherited mess in the right way is the best thing to do myself, I know it’s easy to launch in to such a limp second half display but I’ve just accepted that considering where we are, we’re likely to get this sort of result and performance from time to time. Whilst I don’t think Bignot particularly covered himself in glory with his tactics on the day, I do think, generally, that he’s improved us a bit and giving a good fist of it. It’s annoying to lose such a winnable game though, admittedly. Dagenham being where they are in the league just demonstrates how undeniably shit it is.

Previously McCarthy seemed happy to take a point from every game, even at home, against anyone. Whilst the defeats might be bigger under Bignot I do think the approach gives us a better chance to take three points more often. For example I don’t think a McCarthy led side would have pushed for that late winner against Barrow, he’d have accepted the 2-2 and sat on it and we’d be sitting on two points less than we even are now.

We’re so weak at the back, that central three who started today are so bad, McCombe is the best of a bad bunch but he gets things wrong that a player of his experience shouldn’t. Halls and Rowe-Turner have sneaked back in the side due to injuries but they are a liability. Feel a bit sorry for Gough, he got plenty wrong himself but for some reason Bignot keeps switching him and Rowe-Turner every five minutes from left wing back to left centre back, can’t be ideal doing that. Gough certainly isn’t the tallest as the last line of defence in the middle. Akintunde had a decent game but sometimes tries too much and came too deep at times. Much better from James back in his natural position but he looked really tired later on. Dawson had a bit of a shocker in the second half, think his head went. Poor effort from Lynch, I like him but he’s got to show more. Bell strutted around like some precious princess up top, he has something about him but christ I’m loathed to put up with no-shows like that for much longer.

Big month coming up with a load of fixtures against similarly struggling clubs, just need to get behind them. Hopefully this little break before our next game can see a few injuries clear up.

I seem to recall LRT gifting them from a throw in. Awful judgement but then he wasn't alone. Really would have played Turnbull rather than Rainey who offered nothing

He didn't give us much but you cannot blame an official for a 0-4 defeat, which could have been more had it not been for a penalty miss and striking the woodwork.