MATCH THREAD | Chester v Eastleigh

Going to Tuesday game instead. 2 other fans I spoke today are doing the same

Commentary on www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/39173118

Fair play to the Harry Mac lads today.

5-3-2 isn't working, desperately missing the extra man in midfield. Jonny Hunt has been outstanding up to now.

Good commentary. Thanks

You can hope

Richards has a great chance and ........ yes it's wide.. commentators says Chester are 1 of the best supported teams dispute there postion in the league. 1600 not good tho.

Are you at the game or just spouting rubbish about one player behind your PC? He wasn't even that bad, no worse than Durrell or Obrien when he came on.

Deserves a draw, got beat. Didn't capitalise early second half dominance and that's what happens.

There's a reason why the crowds have dropped and today was a perfect example of bit.... Utter poor

Yet another 90th minute defeat and it's all we deserved. No wonder the crowd was only 1,600. People are not going to pay £18 to watch shite like that.

Utter dross and worrying. My mate described Richards as like a motor boat without a driver. There must be someone better in the Youth team.

6 defeats from our last 7 matches and 50 points seeming miles away.

More worryingly Eastleigh looked like a team out of form.

I worry a bit about the confidence of this team with these late defeats. I think three of our last four losses have been down to goals in the 89th minute or later.

That Dagenham game was a real crusher and I feel like we're still licking our wounds from it. You can't play well every week but recently it feels like whether we play well or not, the end result is the same. It's like when you're playing Football Manager and you get those spells where whatever you do, the computer's decided you're going to lose.

At the moment ? Its been poor in most games over the last 3 months !

It will read suicide on the death certificate, why on earth did we panic late on

Poor game from two poor teams
Almost felt like an end of season encounter which is a horrible thought in mid-March, where's a decent performance going to come from to keep our dwindling band of fans interested?

Desperately looking for positives and the best I can come up with is:

Dawson looks promising; another presence in midfield to go alongside Shaw, also a hint of creativity there and my God don't we need it!
50/50 between him and Hunt for MoM - Hunt excellent in first half especially
An improvement from Richards - still not good enough but an improvement!

But overall we looked what we are - a lower mid-table team, short on confidence and praying for the season to end

On to Tuesday and hope as always that I see a performance to make me go home happy

I can pinpoint the moment this season started to go downhill, it was when Johnny Hunt was sent off at Solihull on Boxing Day. McCarthy had to reshuffle almost for the first time and he hasn’t stopped since, week after week. He’s abandoned what brought him success in the first place and now much like Steve Burr exactly a year ago he’s trying something different every week to see if it works to get us going again. Five at the back today against another really out of form side at home, I can’t have that myself, it’s terrible. I really do like Macca but he’s made so many poor decisions since Christmas. It’s no wonder the players are low on confidence or that crowds are down.

We didn’t deserve to lose as Eastleigh were really poor themselves but we’re the architects of inviting pressure. It galls me how we bring everybody back to defend set pieces leaving us with absolutely no outlet. There’s not much else to say about the game as pretty much nothing happened. I will mention Lucas Dawson though who was really good on his full debut in fairness. He has a good looking range of passes and one in the first half was magic. Shame we just didn’t have anybody forward for him to aim many more to.