Originally Posted by
Bremsstrahlung
Alright, so I feel like I’m usually pretty patient with Ernie and last year we definitely over achieved and this year underachieved where I would have expected us to be. Overall, probably a par, and short of having a top class or optimistic appointment in mind, I’ve been happy to give Ernie the benefit of the doubt.
It’s frustrating that he has come out and blamed our lack of attacking options as the reason for our lack of finals.
He comes out and says our defence was similar to last year in terms of goals conceded. Yehp. Cool.
He then goes onto say that we have the leagues best stats for some things like successful crosses etc. to then reference and defer blame and say that the reason we didn’t convert was Joey and Roy missing chunks of the season, along with Hoff.
Those excuses do not sit well.
We knew in advance we were without Roy. Nothing changed.
We knew once Joey was injured we wouldnt get him back for a while.
Hoff was an unexpected injury, but if we are relying on him to score our goals fmd, we may as wel sign Matt Simon. Ok. Maybe not. But I’d rather ya gave Thurgate those games up front.
To blame our poor efforts this season on those players missing is terribly frustrating.