It's not doom and gloom.
It's just that final piece in the jigsaw (we are so close) being a quality finisher, will lift us another level.
Otherwise, all O'Driscoll and others have to do is to let the 'rope a dope' routine work, see us run of energy and ideas and grab a point or three from us...
Radio Sx pundits blamed Hoskins & Crofts for school boy errors of not keeping in the opposite corner / avoidable offside .... that without, would have seen the clock run down.
I was always aware that happens, but a near empty bus (until today) always mopped up stragglers in Withdean and Patcham at c. 2.40pm.
Strange how there was none today!
He was great.
Without over-reacting, he strongly indicated that the goal finishing (lack of) issue, has now come to a head.
And that the squad quality must move up a level, to be able to incentivise Bruno to stay.
I see a quality finisher joining the club in January. 5 months too late, but...
Normally, these make their way through Valley Drive, Withdean, as late as 20 minutes to go to kick off. No problem.
Today, I got to the Withdean Stadium normal halt at 2.20. By 2.50, not one had come, so we ended up getting a taxi, and got to the game late.
The taxi driver said they'd done...
But on this basis, these stats for clubs like Liverpool and Spurs don't reflect their true massive support yet, until the capacity catches up with the demand.
Whereas, Aston Villa or Southampton rarely sell out, so the stats give the true fan base.
The same type of survey, that alleges 40% of Spaniards are fans of Real Madrid.
Of the 2 billion odd people that like football, no way do 1/3 of them support Manure.