City were easily the better side in the opening hour of the game and we could have so easily made it three or four before half time, and that's where our main problem is. None of our strikers look either hungry or capable of changing a game. Take Ben Wright for example, I've said it many times since his arrival at the club but if he doesn't score then you don't really notice he's there. He wins a poor amount of headers for his height and doesn't get in nearly as many shots as you would expect for a striker who was our leading goalscorer last season.

As for the other strikers, Lenny has given the ball away quite often in his first few games, Kevin Gall runs around a lot but generally doesn't actually do anything at all and David Graham doesn't look even slightly match fit.

Then we get onto Lee Frecklington. I'm generally a big fan of Freck but considering he was practically begging for a start during the week, he hasn't done a lot so far this season to suggest that he deserves to start a game. Freck had a brilliant 2006 at this club but since then he has been fairly average to be honest. It seems very strange that a year ago the thought of Frecklington leaving was undesirable, and yet now I wouldn't really feel that bothered as his non-impactful performances are easily replacable.

However, my main culprit for not performing is Dany N'Guessan. Now in his third season with the Imps, Dany puts in poor and lethargic performances in 9 out of every 10 games and you always get people defending his consistently poor performances by saying he has "potential".....I'm sorry but saying that they have potential is effectively saying that they aren't good enough now and might never be good enough. Dany has consistently been selfish on the ball and I'd be very surprised if he knew what the word pass meant. I'm sorry but he now has to start performing or he could easily start finding himself out of the side.

Now, I know that people will accuse me of using his as a scapegoat but quite frankly, I've been saying this about N'Guessan for the better part of 19 or so months. If it was a one-off and I had accused him of being awful then I'd understand the accusation, but he has been consistently poor, uninterested and quite frankly arrogant on the pitch. He clearly thinks he is better than everyone else but just ends up just wasting good opportunities because he's too greedy to pass to players who are in better positions.

The defence is still a joke. The amount of times that Kovacs and Beevers have underhit passes back to Burch is just verging on ridiculous. Our defence looked organised in the 25 or so minutes that Sinclair played against Dagenham, but it's no surprise that our defence fell to pieces after he was replaced by Beevers.

However, there have been quite a few promising aspects of the opening few games of the season. I feel that we have never properly replaced Peter Gain. Gain was easily the best technical player we've had in recent times and we've really missed the creativity that he provided, but Stefan Oakes looks like the player to finally fill Gain's boots. Oakes has looked fantastic in pre-season and the opening two games of the season.

We have had at least one spell of dominance in each game so far. We were the better side for 70 minutes against Dagenham and Redbridge, the same could be said about the Rotherham game and we more than held our own against Derby. We seem to be sitting on a lead far too often and that will probably continue until we bring in a striker who actually looks dangerous.

I think that once we get our first win then we'll be fine. Maybe it's just a confidence thing that's affecting the players. I think Jackson's "Envy of League Two" comments might have gone to the player's head a tiny bit and that is a very dangerous thing.

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