FL2: York City v Torquay 24 November 12

We could not ask anymore of our players today, who after playing poorly last week, have put that behind them and won today’s game that was never going to be easy game to win. Our defence sounds to have played very well and Poke made a number of good saves. We do need to try and build on today’s results and try and carry all that was good about us, into our next home game.

A good encouraging away performance, well done lads, well done Martin Ling

Great stuff. Tough match today - glad for those Gulls up north to be able to enjoy a solid away performance.

Relief ;D Well done one and all - sure the journey home will be joyous!

The internet certainly attracts some numptys !!!!

Three points further away from the drop zone thank goodness and that in essence is my only concern at this point in the season.
Looking at the result a goal in each half and a win on the road, a rare beast this season but then you have to look at the match stats
(Posssesion 61 to 39% - shots 14 to our 2 with 7 of theirs on target to our 2 both of which went in! 12 corners to our 2 It sounds like daylight robbery.)
Its then you realise that this was a less convincing performance in footballing terms and it looks like hard work, a resolute defence and lady luck played a big part.
So a big well doe to all of the players who dug in and ground it out it was a very important result.

People having a pop are missing the point I was making

It's not about this result - my posts were before the match had finished, for a start. It's about the last one. I saw with my very own eyes Easton and Nicholson deliver terrible performances. In any other team they would have been dropped - because that is what managers are supposed to do; if a player isn't playing well, he shouldn't be picked

Picking them again for this one sets a dangerous precedent - it's a big "f**k you" to Lathrope and Cruise, who have done nothing wrong so far, and it's effectively saying to Easton and Nicho "you can play as awfully as you like but you'll still have a place on the team sheet". How can anyone say this is anything but utterly ridiculous? I just cannot understand why he's doing this. Experience? Nonsense. Experience is the second most overrated attribute in football (behind "passion"); it's why the vast majority of World Cup-winning and Euro-winning sides have been young and inexperienced at that level. A wise old head is only as useful as the body it's attached to. If Ling doesn't realise this, he's an even bigger fool than I thought

It's been my point continuously since the summer - the squad is nowhere near deep enough, especially if Ling is flat refusing to pick half the squad, and therefore there's not enough competition for places or motivation to play particularly well. I really feel sorry for Cruise in particular because he played well when he came on against Southend and deserved a place in the team. Yes, he signed a centre-back on loan (at last) this week, but by this point surely there are other areas that need strengthening. Given the fact that Nicholson was terrible last week and yet he refused to play Cruise today for whatever reason, surely alarm bells must be ringing that we need a left-back. You don't need to be a professional football manager to see that - you just need common sense

Finally, it's also treating the fans with a hell of a lot of contempt - it's Ling effectively saying "hey, you know that terrible performance you saw last weekend? I don't care, and I'm going pick pretty much the same team again. And you won't care because you'll support the team anyway." Well, I'm not buying into that - I saw that performance last weekend and I know what to expect from a manager and a team, and continuing with the same under-performing players is wrong. I can't find it within myself to support a team taking such liberties with its fans - I object to that as a matter of principle, regardless of today's result or performance. Because that's no better than what Abramovich has done this week at Chelsea. I'm sure if it were Buckle taking these decisions rather than Ling, there would be uproar

So if you want to keep being treated like s**t then fine, that's your choice. But I'm not accepting that. Ling will probably come up with some nonsense like "proving the doubters wrong" but it's totally missing the point. As long as he keeps making these decisions, we will continue to lose games - we might have won today, and we may win again next week, but I worry more for the longer term precedents that have been set today by the team Ling picked. That says more about the direction the team's going in than the result

So I'm done. I can't be bothered with this any more