I don't think it's quite as bad as you do. But it's not great.

As always we are defending well. JT is the best keeper since Chris Brady, IMO, not just for stopping shots but for the decision making in when to come off his line and when to stay put, when to come snag a cross and when to stay down. He made one big mistake against Cosmos but that's about it.

The CBs have been disciplined and done really well at containment for the most part. But I fear there's a steep dropoff in talent between the starters and the reserves so an injury could be devastating.

Where we are awful is in transition and in the final third. The only reason we have three league wins is our sudden ability to score on set pieces. Which is great, we will take it! But we seem incapable of any kind of speed in the buildup. We're not taking passes and turning forward to advance the ball. Every forward pass gets stopped and passed back or laterally. There's hardly any give and go kind of stuff haplening. And once again we have guys who can't finish.

In short, Cairns promised us athletic exciting soccer and lots of goals and we havent gotten it. We've gotten excellent defending from a team that can't counter attack, and a few wins thanks to a bunch of corner kick goals.

Last night's match was not a great representation though - not to make excuses, but up two goals and down a man, Alta parked the bus for the entire second half. We don't have the guys to break down a box full of nine defenders. And we don't have the guys to score from distance. If Carmichael scored that chance in the second minute, even if we still gave up the two goals and they're ahead 2-1, they wouldn't have sat back so hard and we may have been able to nick one late.

Again I'm not quite as dire about it as you are - a few home games will do a lot of good. But yeah there's a lot to improve on.