Chesterfield throw it away

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Another up and down week for Chesterfield then, win away and then mess it all up by losing at home, not only losing, but falling to pieces against a team in Eastleigh that should have been sent home on the end of a sound beating. Thankfully our next 2 matches are away from home, where the team seems to play better, let’s hope that we get points against Bromley and Havant and get closer to safety.

Against Eastleigh Chesterfield were OK in the first half and having scored our only real chance should have made it to half time one goal up, but if you let the opposition have a free cross and don’t challenge for the subsequent header they are going to score. Second half, we scored and it looked plain sailing, then mighty Eastleigh, put an extra man up front, worked harder than Chesterfield in midfield and we crumbled. 

Watch Tom Denton commit a "foul" 

The opposition’s second goal was amateur stuff from our defence and goal keeper and as for their third if you do let someone run 40 yards with the ball and have a free shot, they’ll get a goal. Why none of our team put in a tackle or even committed a foul for the good of the team is a mystery. Certainly John Sheridan put on subs to try and win the game going three up front but taking Robbie Weir off meant there was no-one to protect our back line and that was certainly crucial in the last goal of the game.

After John Sheridan announced post-match that players aren’t listening to him and aren’t doing what he says, it can only mean that he’s busy drawing up a list of who he’s going to get rid of come May. So fans at the Proact are now drawing up their own lists of players that won’t be good enough to be in a team that should challenge for promotion next time around. We still have players on the books, who aren't good enough, signed by the previous three managers, and the biggest culprit of all Guy Branston

Out of contract in 2019 are Reid, Ofuegbu, Weston, Dodds, Barry, George Smith, Anyon, Ugwu, Wakefield, Binnon-Williams, Talbot, Muggleton, Nelson, Fortune and Weir. I couldn’t blame the manager one bit if he got rid of all of them. We have 5 loanees at the club who will probably go back to the clubs who “own” them. 

That would leave 12 players on the books, which looks daunting but it gives John Sheridan an opportunity to bring in maybe 8 players with some quality, or at least with some pace.

Martin Allen indicated at the start of the season that you needed a powerful hard-working team to get out of this division, since he failed to do that, we looked like we were going to get out of the National League at the wrong end, the only decent player he signed was Charlie Carter. It’s now over to John Sheridan to see if he can recruit a decent side for next season.

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