San
Marino 1, Wales 2
(Story
by
Vince Elm)
First half we did ok.
Without really taking them apart, they should have
scored a couple of goals.
San Marino put 2 up front instead
of 1 and started getting hold of the ball and
causing us problems.
Pretty inept
second half performance for professional
footballers. The team is not clicking, most have
retired and no strength in depth, we have problems,
no big target men.
If Tosh
goes, not a tosh fan, not going to slag him off he's
doing the best he can, no one else could make much
difference. A lot of welsh team not playing first
team football and seem a yard short of the pace, not
moving the ball quick enough and ball watching
They are
slow and labored in their play, which lack of first
team does to a player.
We could do
just as well as Northern Ireland and Scotland, with
our team playing first team football,
Positives
from the game are the young right back had a good
steady game, moved ball around, Oldham lad.
Negatives, senior players who haven't performed in
the last few games, not really good enough not
naming names, Joe Ledley did well in centre midfield
Ireland
struggling and Germany probably the best team in
Europe at the moment, Ireland similar to Wales in
transition and retiring players, not too keen on the
manager. Germany we can simply right off, far too
big a challenge.
At the
moment British football is suffering too many
foreign players in the big leagues, causing others
to play second fiddle and not much game time.
The
commitment of the players has not been spot on.
International football getting worse each game,
until something is done about the influx of foreign
players, and putting in these homegrown players this
will continue.
None of the
British teams can look forward to the world cup,
none of us have strength in depth, Wales always had
the Ian Rush's, Ryan Giggs, but where are they going
to come from now?
All we can
hope for is an improvement from the youngsters
coming through, we got to give them a chance, Gareth
bale/ Joe Ledley etc, the Wolves keeper missed in
the last 2 games, got to allow them to come through.
The way for
the future is going to be with those players, a
couple of them showing they are good enough for
international level. The Cardiff City academy seems
to be working; Ramsey will be good for Wales,
Gunter, Ledley etc, all from Cardiff.
If we can
get into the premiership, and the academy keeps
going, we'll be producing players for Wales at all
levels, continue doing this and this will be a
positive for Wales and Cardiff.
The manner
of the win tonight was not good enough; the players
need to know that the fans are upset... |