I think this is why so many fans are so annoyed. We know that we are capable of playing such good football.
The key to the way we play is all the moving parts need to be in sync. For much of the 1st half of the season the defence and goalkeeper were not. Through not having a settled back 4, no pace at CB and no voice. The confidence, something so elusive yet so important in football, disappeared and naturally we sat back an extra 10 yards. Also Sawyer out for so long didn't help. He is Mr Consistency. 7/10 most weeks. Not too attacking and suspect with pace at him but his positional awareness is excellent. That in turn helps with the CB next to him. ASB has a lot to like about him and looks quite good at RB as well as LB, but he hasn't learn't that 'nous' yet.
The goalkeeper thing has been done to death. Macey has a lot of ability, but needs to open his gob. Even against Southend we went quiet amongst the back for and keeper & DA was getting miffed by it. Even sent a message to Lamerias on the wing to tell them to speak up. (and that was with Letheren in goal)
When we click like that then all the moving parts of the team are in Sync and we attack in quite a dynamic way.
Lamerias, from what I noticed, switches off a lot. He keeps having to be reminded to track back, cover, get into position to launch a counter etc etc. When he does all these things, well, wow. He really can unlock teams. Such quick feet. He wasn't doing this earlier in the season, thus getting dropped.
My 2 penneth worth.
We still need a pacy CB and a Quarterback style player to replace Foxy.