Thoughts on the FC after another defeat.

On Saturday we lost our 16th game out of the last 20. This season has been a nightmare, and it has broken my heart seeing the absolute drivel my beloved team have served up to us fans. Anyone who has read my blog regularly (if anyone has!) will know that I try not to be reactionary and have always tried to back the coach. I cannot stand some of the fans that call for the coaches head at every opportunity. I found myself reasoning in a similar way to when our last coach Peter Sharp was under pressure, that he should have a chance with his chosen team in place, with players he had brought in himself.
This, I have argued, should be the case with Richard Agar, but some of his actions are beginning to worry me.
For instance his interchanges (substitutions) are a bit lacking in common sense. The interchanges are there to give players a rest, especially forwards, who have to get through a hell of a lot of physical work. the modern game is in reality a 17 man game. Who you name on the subs bench is as important as the 1st 13.
Anyway, I digress. Mr Agar has this strange habit of leaving forwards on until they are absolutely shattered. If fans from the stand can spot a player who is struggling and is becoming a weak link because of it, why cant the head coach?
OK, it has to be said Richard has admitted he gets this wrong. He is a new head coach with not a lot of experience. But Saturdays team selections where just unfathomable.
Let me explain. The team has injuries, our stand off is injured. Now who would you choose to replace him? The man who came to the club as a stand off, and happens to have the best footballing brain in the club, or do you move the Full back (who has been playing very well there, and prefers that position, and very little experience at stand off) to SO and put the aforementioned player at Full back?
What sounds like sense to you?
Well to our coach the latter scenario made more sense.
He also dropped who to many is the player of the season, and one of the few players that shows he gives a shit, Mark Calderwood, for a player coming in after a long term injury.
Mr Agar, you are going to have to start making sense, and fast. Because if you don't you wont get the chance of your 'own' team next season.

A lovely moment

I haven't posted much lately as I haven't really had too much to say, but today I have. It's only a little thing but it made me smile.
This morning I went into the kitchen, and a butterfly had got caught between the blinds and the window. I managed to get hold of it and gently carried it outside to let it go. When I opened my hand it didn't fly straight away, but stayed on my fingertips for a couple of seconds so I could look at how beautiful it was. It then swooped high up and away.
I'm not ashamed to say that it got me all weepy for a while. I don't really know why. Maybe its because some of the smallest things in life, that you can take for granted, are the most beautiful. It's always good to stop and smell the roses.