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Post by kwoodgas on Feb 1, 2015 9:38:21 GMT
- We may have occupied a place in the top 5 for a while now, but I don't think we're markedly better than many in this league. As proven by the number of drawn game. For me we've only been significantly better than the opposition in 3 games:
1) Nuneaton home - Attacked from the off against a poor team. With better finishing could've been a cricket score and they scored with a well worked/poorly defended set piece that was the only time they got near our goal.
2) Macc home - I say we were significantly better, but the first half was evenly matched and they should've gone in level missing a golden chance just before the half time whistle. In the second half we played our best football of the season.
3) Nuneaton away - A Mourinho-esque performance where we knew we were the better team and controlled the game professionally from start to finish. If we needed more goals I'm sure we could've found them.
- Lockyer is a centre half who can play right back. His distribution is not good enough to play centre midfield and if we're not going to sign somebody to cover for Sinclair/Clarke then there are other players in the squad who can do a better job there.
- Why have we spent money acquiring Blissett, when we have a better player who we've produced ourself in Harrison? Darrell's stubbornness towards him is pathetic.
- Time to accept that the best we are going to achieve is a play-off place. The team need to ensure we secure this, Darrell needs to establish his best team/tactics and we have to hope we can enter them without too many/any injuries to key players. Yes we're the biggest team is this league, Bamber will tell us we're too big for the next division up and King Kev will conveniently forget how s**t we were when he was running things and post smug twitter updates; but being a big team doesn't give you any points. We need to realise getting in the playoffs in our first season is a reasonable achievement in itself and a remarkable one after the first week of the season. It's a cliché but we need to start vocally getting behind the team, the atmosphere yesterday was really poor.
UTG
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 9:49:28 GMT
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Thatslife
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Post by Thatslife on Feb 1, 2015 10:11:24 GMT
- We may have occupied a place in the top 5 for a while now, but I don't think we're markedly better than many in this league. As proven by the number of drawn game. For me we've only been significantly better than the opposition in 3 games:
1) Nuneaton home - Attacked from the off against a poor team. With better finishing could've been a cricket score and they scored with a well worked/poorly defended set piece that was the only time they got near our goal.
2) Macc home - I say we were significantly better, but the first half was evenly matched and they should've gone in level missing a golden chance just before the half time whistle. In the second half we played our best football of the season.
3) Nuneaton away - A Mourinho-esque performance where we knew we were the better team and controlled the game professionally from start to finish. If we needed more goals I'm sure we could've found them.
- Lockyer is a centre half who can play right back. His distribution is not good enough to play centre midfield and if we're not going to sign somebody to cover for Sinclair/Clarke then there are other players in the squad who can do a better job there.
- Why have we spent money acquiring Blissett, when we have a better player who we've produced ourself in Harrison? Darrell's stubbornness towards him is pathetic.
- Time to accept that the best we are going to achieve is a play-off place. The team need to ensure we secure this, Darrell needs to establish his best team/tactics and we have to hope we can enter them without too many/any injuries to key players. Yes we're the biggest team is this league, Bamber will tell us we're too big for the next division up and King Kev will conveniently forget how s*** we were when he was running things and post smug twitter updates; but being a big team doesn't give you any points. We need to realise getting in the playoffs in our first season is a reasonable achievement in itself and a remarkable one after the first week of the season. It's a cliché but we need to start vocally getting behind the team, the atmosphere yesterday was really poor.
UTG Good post, I agree with everything you say. I look forward to the play offs.
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Post by JeffNZ on Feb 1, 2015 10:12:13 GMT
Think we had a strong case for a foul on the keeper for this one.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 1, 2015 10:15:38 GMT
Looks like nailed on backing in to me. But then I'm not a qualified ref.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 10:17:04 GMT
Looks like nailed on backing in to me. But then I'm not a qualified ref. I disagree. Mildenhall is contributing by pulling his own player by the shirt towards him.
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Post by abergas on Feb 1, 2015 10:19:41 GMT
It was definitely a foul, however Mildenhall made no attempt to alert the referee before the corner kick was taken. The player was all over him, the minute the ball was placed. If he had done, the player would have been removed or we would have won a comfortable free kick.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 1, 2015 10:25:51 GMT
Looks like nailed on backing in to me. But then I'm not a qualified ref. I disagree. Mildenhall is contributing by pulling his own player by the shirt towards him. Not sure what that means. Mildy's allowed to pull his own player, but the Dart isn't allowed to back in.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 1, 2015 10:27:38 GMT
It was definitely a foul, however Mildenhall made no attempt to alert the referee before the corner kick was taken. The player was all over him, the minute the ball was placed. If he had done, the player would have been removed or we would have won a comfortable free kick. Yeah, I think some managers tell players to ham it up for the ref and some tell them to play to the whistle. DC is definitely a whistle man.
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Post by earthwormjim on Feb 1, 2015 10:40:12 GMT
6 of one, half dozen of the other. Poor goalkeeping, not the 1st time Mildenhall has been bullied at set pieces.
Great shot stopper, dealing with crosses and distribution is questionable at best.
Would Puddy have dealt with that ball in differently? Who knows. All I know is that it was extremely harsh to drop him after another good performance and another clean sheet.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 11:03:10 GMT
6 of one, half dozen of the other. Poor goalkeeping, not the 1st time Mildenhall has been bullied at set pieces. Great shot stopper, dealing with crosses and distribution is questionable at best. Would Puddy have dealt with that ball in differently? Who knows. All I know is that it was extremely harsh to drop him after another good performance and another clean sheet. Exactly how I saw it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 11:06:15 GMT
Its such a weak punch. Spiess-esque.
The free kick would have beaten most keepers. The fault was with Parkes for the needless handball. Whether it hit his shoulder or his arm is debatable but you shouldn't be trying to shoulder the ball on the edge of your own box.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Feb 1, 2015 11:18:04 GMT
I don't know how you came to the conclusion Blissett and Harrison are the same sort of players, when they obviously bring completely different attributes? I think your attitude towards Clarke might be the one that is a bit "pathetic"
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kwoodgas
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Post by kwoodgas on Feb 1, 2015 11:22:06 GMT
They're not carbon copy players, but we've spent money on a player who's pushed a superior one we produced ourselves down the pecking order.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Feb 1, 2015 11:29:42 GMT
They're not carbon copy players, but we've spent money on a player who's pushed a superior one we produced ourselves down the pecking order. Good on you for liking Ellis, but as he has proved when starting matches this season he isn't very good and certainly not superior to anybody.
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kwoodgas
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Post by kwoodgas on Feb 1, 2015 11:44:22 GMT
They're not carbon copy players, but we've spent money on a player who's pushed a superior one we produced ourselves down the pecking order. Good on you for liking Ellis, but as he has proved when starting matches this season he isn't very good and certainly not superior to anybody. Err when has he started matches? His goals to minutes on the pitch ratio must be streets ahead of anyone else in the squad.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Feb 1, 2015 11:50:31 GMT
Good on you for liking Ellis, but as he has proved when starting matches this season he isn't very good and certainly not superior to anybody. Err when has he started matches? His goals to minutes on the pitch ratio must be streets ahead of anyone else in the squad. Yes that probably is true, but he is definitely most effective when coming on against tired/tiring defenders. -There is also no need to make Blissett a scapegoat for us being crap away from home as we we were long before he arrived
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Post by kwoodgas on Feb 1, 2015 12:13:30 GMT
Err when has he started matches? His goals to minutes on the pitch ratio must be streets ahead of anyone else in the squad. Yes that probably is true, but he is definitely most effective when coming on against tired/tiring defenders. -There is also no need to make Blissett a scapegoat for us being crap away from home as we we were long before he arrived I struggle to see how we can make the judgement he's better against tiring defenders when he's never been given a bloody chance from the start!! I'm not making Blissett a scapegoat I just fail to see why we paid a 'substantial fee' for him rather than giving Ellis a proper run in the side. What's the point of the effort and expenditure of a youth set-up if we're not going to give our own players a go?
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Feb 1, 2015 12:19:55 GMT
Yes that probably is true, but he is definitely most effective when coming on against tired/tiring defenders. -There is also no need to make Blissett a scapegoat for us being crap away from home as we we were long before he arrived I struggle to see how we can make the judgement he's better against tiring defenders when he's never been given a bloody chance from the start!! I'm not making Blissett a scapegoat I just fail to see why we paid a 'substantial fee' for him rather than giving Ellis a proper run in the side. What's the point of the effort and expenditure of a youth set-up if we're not going to give our own players a go? Ellis has only just turned 21, I'm sure his time will come. I make my judgement having seen Harrison many times over the past 2 years and I have actually watched him start for the reserves a couple of times this season in which he really didn't stand out at all.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Feb 1, 2015 13:58:38 GMT
Good on you for liking Ellis, but as he has proved when starting matches this season he isn't very good and certainly not superior to anybody. Err when has he started matches? His goals to minutes on the pitch ratio must be streets ahead of anyone else in the squad. For the record, Ellis: 574 minutes, 4 goals - a goal every 143.5 minutes, but one was a penalty, which I know some don't count, so that would make it a goal from open play every 191 minutes. Taylor: 2414 minutes, 10 goals - a goal every 241 minutes, but take away the four penalties and it's one from open play every 402 minutes. Blissett: 789 minutes, 4 goals - a goal every 197 minutes BUT, you have to give Matty some serious credit as since he lost his place in the side for the Kidderminster match his record is 981, minutes, 7 goals - a goal every 140 minutes. Two of these were pens, so that makes it one from open play every 196 minutes. So if you take out Taylor's nightmare start to his Rovers career, all three strikers have an almost identical record of goals per minute open play.
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