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Post by eppinggas on Mar 11, 2018 11:33:30 GMT
Right....not just back but back nevertheless. What a lovely day to watch football. Warm Mem, new tunnel, folk genuinely smiling before the game, optimistic mood and confident, most seemed to agree with starting line up (apart from Broadbent-gate) and a decent crowd. What at some point brilliant approach play (?). Yet Cobblers seemed intent on a draw and their persistent physicality insisted on this as a reality. Positives.. Kyle Bennett. My m o m not just for his goal or his bag of tricks, but for his poise, his helping back in defence, his wandering in midfield to pounce and get involved and most importantly: he actually looks like he's enjoying his football. Looked genuinely gutted his curled effort went over. I think he's a dc type player that plays with honesty and openness, maybe he'll need more man management in difficult times, maybe he'll hit off form, but today was definitely his day. This was the wide goal scoring player we were demanding before transfer window, that ironically looked more dangerous playing behind the front two! Partington. My vice m o m. Got forward so well creating space and several crosses into box. Brilliant, especially first half. Sincs. Brilliant battling performance. I'm in no doubt his contributions led directly to jj being subbed at half time (bye bye! Ha!) and his all round beard performance made him the new Luke Russe! Referee. Take a bow. Best yet. Let play carry on with numerous advantages played and conducted it fairly (Locks challenge by no19, the annoying barsteward was never a red). Issued cards at right times and didn't get carried away. I particularly like the number 28 dissent at his fair challenge by robust Sincs/Sercs(?) being rewarded with a yellow card much later when move broke down! Dc got tactics right. We dominated first half. We made all the play, and our approach football was some of the best at home this season. Very encouraging and entertaining. Their number 42. What a mountain! Strong, a menace and awkward to play against. Negatives.... Gaff. Such a shame because can't knock his effort or heart or stamina, just some of his last ball decisions left alot to be desired. I so wanted it to work today, mainly because of their physical threat and I thought gaff can outwit all that. Not particularly his game today. Our central defenders height. That's wombles and todays goal conceded that helped opposition earn points in similar way. Big bloke easily out jumps Locks/Craig for a simple goal.Our tempo. At times lacklustre when in possession. As much as we played some very easy on the eye football, beautiful in it's craft, we were undone in counter by pin point cross and simple header conducted directly. It's a minor point, but I just wish we could have injected a bit of pace, even though defensively Northampton were quite high and we were caught offside too many times. A good game today that if was a boxing match, we would've won comfortably on points. Points make prizes (someone said once) and from now on til Easter our points on paper are gonna be harder to acquire. Oh well. We have our 3rd division status almost certainly guaranteed. We compete competently with most teams in this league and margins between win, lose and draw are marginal.....next week I really don't know what to expect. We are playing well atm, and should be confident. But it's another project. What's to fear? Is it project fear!? Best thing to come out of Plymouth before next week was the gin. Plymouth Gin. After next week, the best thing to come out of Plymouth will be us. The Gas. With maybe a point or three Dare we dream? Good report . "Frustrating" is the word of the day. 100% agree with the centre-back pairing. 5 11" and 6 ft is always going to leak goals as opposition teams (even p*ss poor ones like Wimbledon and N'ton) just need lump the ball into the box to stand a chance. Locks lost the ball and then was easily out-jumped for the goal. Slocombe should have done better. Can't help but feel that Broadbent or Sweeney alongside Locks or Craig will fix this. Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back? Would help explain why he is being 'frozen out' at the moment. Frustrating frustrating frustrating. We're mid-table. Consolidation is good though. |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 11, 2018 13:01:49 GMT
Right....not just back but back nevertheless. What a lovely day to watch football. Warm Mem, new tunnel, folk genuinely smiling before the game, optimistic mood and confident, most seemed to agree with starting line up (apart from Broadbent-gate) and a decent crowd. What at some point brilliant approach play (?). Yet Cobblers seemed intent on a draw and their persistent physicality insisted on this as a reality. Positives.. Kyle Bennett. My m o m not just for his goal or his bag of tricks, but for his poise, his helping back in defence, his wandering in midfield to pounce and get involved and most importantly: he actually looks like he's enjoying his football. Looked genuinely gutted his curled effort went over. I think he's a dc type player that plays with honesty and openness, maybe he'll need more man management in difficult times, maybe he'll hit off form, but today was definitely his day. This was the wide goal scoring player we were demanding before transfer window, that ironically looked more dangerous playing behind the front two! Partington. My vice m o m. Got forward so well creating space and several crosses into box. Brilliant, especially first half. Sincs. Brilliant battling performance. I'm in no doubt his contributions led directly to jj being subbed at half time (bye bye! Ha!) and his all round beard performance made him the new Luke Russe! Referee. Take a bow. Best yet. Let play carry on with numerous advantages played and conducted it fairly (Locks challenge by no19, the annoying barsteward was never a red). Issued cards at right times and didn't get carried away. I particularly like the number 28 dissent at his fair challenge by robust Sincs/Sercs(?) being rewarded with a yellow card much later when move broke down! Dc got tactics right. We dominated first half. We made all the play, and our approach football was some of the best at home this season. Very encouraging and entertaining. Their number 42. What a mountain! Strong, a menace and awkward to play against. Negatives.... Gaff. Such a shame because can't knock his effort or heart or stamina, just some of his last ball decisions left alot to be desired. I so wanted it to work today, mainly because of their physical threat and I thought gaff can outwit all that. Not particularly his game today. Our central defenders height. That's wombles and todays goal conceded that helped opposition earn points in similar way. Big bloke easily out jumps Locks/Craig for a simple goal.Our tempo. At times lacklustre when in possession. As much as we played some very easy on the eye football, beautiful in it's craft, we were undone in counter by pin point cross and simple header conducted directly. It's a minor point, but I just wish we could have injected a bit of pace, even though defensively Northampton were quite high and we were caught offside too many times. A good game today that if was a boxing match, we would've won comfortably on points. Points make prizes (someone said once) and from now on til Easter our points on paper are gonna be harder to acquire. Oh well. We have our 3rd division status almost certainly guaranteed. We compete competently with most teams in this league and margins between win, lose and draw are marginal.....next week I really don't know what to expect. We are playing well atm, and should be confident. But it's another project. What's to fear? Is it project fear!? Best thing to come out of Plymouth before next week was the gin. Plymouth Gin. After next week, the best thing to come out of Plymouth will be us. The Gas. With maybe a point or three Dare we dream? Good report . "Frustrating" is the word of the day. 100% agree with the centre-back pairing. 5 11" and 6 ft is always going to leak goals as opposition teams (even p*ss poor ones like Wimbledon and N'ton) just need lump the ball into the box to stand a chance. Locks lost the ball and then was easily out-jumped for the goal. Slocombe should have done better. Can't help but feel that Broadbent or Sweeney alongside Locks or Craig will fix this. Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back? Would help explain why he is being 'frozen out' at the moment. Frustrating frustrating frustrating. We're mid-table. Consolidation is good though. It's a weakness in our defence that I don't see us exploiting opposition defences. To see the ball come off the fellas back of head, makes it a stinker. That's why Ellis is so effective at defending set pieces (even though he completely missed a header away yesterday!). I'm not buying the love in with Craig like dc advocates. He has been easily out jumped for two vital goals conceded, was caught in possession that Slocombe had to bail him out of and I'm not sure is comfortable with the ball. The Broadbent argument was yesterday we all know Northampton set up physical, he would've been better equipped to deal with it. Don't know anything about off pitch antics, sorry. And, I much prefer Slocombe in goal. It's a nice problem to have with two decent keeps to call our own, but that's just way I see it. Frustration is about right. We are blessed that the performance far out weighed the result doesn't impact on our 3rd division status too much. Yes we have a sniff of play offs, but does anyone seriously think we're prepared or even equipped to go up? We can dream though.. |
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Post by a more piratey game on Mar 11, 2018 13:42:20 GMT
Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back? Would help explain why he is being 'frozen out' at the moment. The Broadbent argument was yesterday we all know Northampton set up physical, he would've been better equipped to deal with it. Don't know anything about off pitch antics, sorry. Bombardier Broadbean doesn't strike me as the sort who would get a bit big for his boots, especially as he's still to a large extent a newbie. His absence does seem a bit odd though |
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Post by Angas on Mar 11, 2018 14:40:53 GMT
Is it odd? I presume Craig has taken his slot and radio commentary seems to think his experience has helped Lockyer get back to his best. Edit - or maybe Lee Brown has taken his place, in which case ignore me  |
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Post by kingswood Polak on Mar 11, 2018 15:26:10 GMT
Is it odd? I presume Craig has taken his slot and radio commentary seems to think his experience has helped Lockyer get back to his best. Edit - or maybe Lee Brown has taken his place, in which case ignore me In DC’s interview he says nearly exactly that Craig has replaced Broadbent and it was a very difficult choice because Broadbent has been very good but he’s still learning and we needed that experienced player, in Craig, that is vocal and organises the defence. From what I’ve seen just the opposition getting a good, up close and personal, look at Broadbent has frightened them. He’s one hell of a big and mobile unit. In honesty and my own opinion, I’d rather have a team with him in it than sitting it out. He was really growing into the team. I feel he has been harshly done by. Craig is vocal and could be captain IMO but surely we could accommodate both, no ? |
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Post by a more piratey game on Mar 11, 2018 15:39:57 GMT
Is it odd? I presume Craig has taken his slot and radio commentary seems to think his experience has helped Lockyer get back to his best. Edit - or maybe Lee Brown has taken his place, in which case ignore me Odd that he doesn't seem to have had a look-in - not even on the bench |
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Post by eppinggas on Mar 11, 2018 17:08:55 GMT
Broadbent was an unused sub yesterday. IF he had come on for Locks or Craig - that would have helped shore up the defence. Although we were pretty much in total control - I always felt we might be subject to a high ball into the box and a sucker punch. And that is exactly what happened. I said this to my son at half time - he will vouch for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 19:10:24 GMT
Another excellent ref at home.
We should have been 5 up by half time.
O'Toole is a twat.
Bennett and Chrissy Lines were mint.
We're still going up.
Brought to you by Steve and Irish Rover's less chatty brother 😁
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Post by DudeLebowski on Mar 11, 2018 22:26:47 GMT
The Broadbent argument was yesterday we all know Northampton set up physical, he would've been better equipped to deal with it. Don't know anything about off pitch antics, sorry. Bombardier Broadbean doesn't strike me as the sort who would get a bit big for his boots, especially as he's still to a large extent a newbie. His absence does seem a bit odd though Odd but necessary, it was always going to be him or Locks sitting out when Craig came in. The defence has never looked more assured with him leading the back line, put the kids back together & watch the thrashing’s return. Total comedy, how everyone can see we lack experience and are crying out for a leader & the second we bring in a very decent signing to that description, he’s the fault of everything & Broaders is all of a sudden John Terry 2005. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 22:37:09 GMT
Right....not just back but back nevertheless. What a lovely day to watch football. Warm Mem, new tunnel, folk genuinely smiling before the game, optimistic mood and confident, most seemed to agree with starting line up (apart from Broadbent-gate) and a decent crowd. What at some point brilliant approach play (?). Yet Cobblers seemed intent on a draw and their persistent physicality insisted on this as a reality. Positives.. Kyle Bennett. My m o m not just for his goal or his bag of tricks, but for his poise, his helping back in defence, his wandering in midfield to pounce and get involved and most importantly: he actually looks like he's enjoying his football. Looked genuinely gutted his curled effort went over. I think he's a dc type player that plays with honesty and openness, maybe he'll need more man management in difficult times, maybe he'll hit off form, but today was definitely his day. This was the wide goal scoring player we were demanding before transfer window, that ironically looked more dangerous playing behind the front two! Partington. My vice m o m. Got forward so well creating space and several crosses into box. Brilliant, especially first half. Sincs. Brilliant battling performance. I'm in no doubt his contributions led directly to jj being subbed at half time (bye bye! Ha!) and his all round beard performance made him the new Luke Russe! Referee. Take a bow. Best yet. Let play carry on with numerous advantages played and conducted it fairly (Locks challenge by no19, the annoying barsteward was never a red). Issued cards at right times and didn't get carried away. I particularly like the number 28 dissent at his fair challenge by robust Sincs/Sercs(?) being rewarded with a yellow card much later when move broke down! Dc got tactics right. We dominated first half. We made all the play, and our approach football was some of the best at home this season. Very encouraging and entertaining. Their number 42. What a mountain! Strong, a menace and awkward to play against. Negatives.... Gaff. Such a shame because can't knock his effort or heart or stamina, just some of his last ball decisions left alot to be desired. I so wanted it to work today, mainly because of their physical threat and I thought gaff can outwit all that. Not particularly his game today. Our central defenders height. That's wombles and todays goal conceded that helped opposition earn points in similar way. Big bloke easily out jumps Locks/Craig for a simple goal.Our tempo. At times lacklustre when in possession. As much as we played some very easy on the eye football, beautiful in it's craft, we were undone in counter by pin point cross and simple header conducted directly. It's a minor point, but I just wish we could have injected a bit of pace, even though defensively Northampton were quite high and we were caught offside too many times. A good game today that if was a boxing match, we would've won comfortably on points. Points make prizes (someone said once) and from now on til Easter our points on paper are gonna be harder to acquire. Oh well. We have our 3rd division status almost certainly guaranteed. We compete competently with most teams in this league and margins between win, lose and draw are marginal.....next week I really don't know what to expect. We are playing well atm, and should be confident. But it's another project. What's to fear? Is it project fear!? Best thing to come out of Plymouth before next week was the gin. Plymouth Gin. After next week, the best thing to come out of Plymouth will be us. The Gas. With maybe a point or three Dare we dream? Good report . "Frustrating" is the word of the day. 100% agree with the centre-back pairing. 5 11" and 6 ft is always going to leak goals as opposition teams (even p*ss poor ones like Wimbledon and N'ton) just need lump the ball into the box to stand a chance. Locks lost the ball and then was easily out-jumped for the goal. Slocombe should have done better. Can't help but feel that Broadbent or Sweeney alongside Locks or Craig will fix this. Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back? Would help explain why he is being 'frozen out' at the moment. Frustrating frustrating frustrating. We're mid-table. Consolidation is good though. If you look back through the results most of several hammerings featured sweeney,lockyer and broadbent 2 of them are very big men. Since craig and lockyer have paired up the goals against have gone down. Totally unfounded rumour from you about broadbent having a tiff with dc,fact is its his 1st season,hes done well but hes not ready to play every game yet. |
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Post by a more piratey game on Mar 11, 2018 23:18:35 GMT
Bombardier Broadbean doesn't strike me as the sort who would get a bit big for his boots, especially as he's still to a large extent a newbie. His absence does seem a bit odd though Odd but necessary, it was always going to be him or Locks sitting out when Craig came in. The defence has never looked more assured with him leading the back line, put the kids back together & watch the thrashing’s return. Total comedy, how everyone can see we lack experience and are crying out for a leader & the second we bring in a very decent signing to that description, he’s the fault of everything & Broaders is all of a sudden John Terry 2005. Did someone suggest Broadbean is a violent, racist, self-centered vainglorious embarrassment? Surely not? quite the opposite, I'd say |
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Post by eppinggas on Mar 12, 2018 8:04:07 GMT
Good report . "Frustrating" is the word of the day. 100% agree with the centre-back pairing. 5 11" and 6 ft is always going to leak goals as opposition teams (even p*ss poor ones like Wimbledon and N'ton) just need lump the ball into the box to stand a chance. Locks lost the ball and then was easily out-jumped for the goal. Slocombe should have done better. Can't help but feel that Broadbent or Sweeney alongside Locks or Craig will fix this. Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back? Would help explain why he is being 'frozen out' at the moment. Frustrating frustrating frustrating. We're mid-table. Consolidation is good though. If you look back through the results most of several hammerings featured sweeney,lockyer and broadbent 2 of them are very big men. Since craig and lockyer have paired up the goals against have gone down. Totally unfounded rumour from you about broadbent having a tiff with dc,fact is its his 1st season,hes done well but hes not ready to play every game yet. Sweeney was way off the pace for the first half of the season. Seems to have got back his form and I think Sweeney or Broadbent should start. That is my opinion. The only bad result we have had with Broadbent playing was when partnered with Burn in that awful Bradford game. Teams will look at how we concede goals and will expose our lack of height at the back. If crap like W'don and N'ton can do it - then better sides will be ruthless. "Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back?" I don't know that for a fact - that is why I put a question mark at the end of the sentence. You don't know anything to the contrary either. I wondered if anyone else had heard the rumour. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 11:04:19 GMT
If you look back through the results most of several hammerings featured sweeney,lockyer and broadbent 2 of them are very big men. Since craig and lockyer have paired up the goals against have gone down. Totally unfounded rumour from you about broadbent having a tiff with dc,fact is its his 1st season,hes done well but hes not ready to play every game yet. Sweeney was way off the pace for the first half of the season. Seems to have got back his form and I think Sweeney or Broadbent should start. That is my opinion. The only bad result we have had with Broadbent playing was when partnered with Burn in that awful Bradford game. Teams will look at how we concede goals and will expose our lack of height at the back. If crap like W'don and N'ton can do it - then better sides will be ruthless. "Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back?" I don't know that for a fact - that is why I put a question mark at the end of the sentence. You don't know anything to the contrary either. I wondered if anyone else had heard the rumour. Broadbent had a shocker at home to wimbledon. The manager made a decision to sign an experienced defender. I think its bad practise to put that sort of rumour about broadbent unless you are sure of such a thing happening. I dont get the agenda against craig or this fixation with height some have,like i said we had the height before but were letting in goals for fun. |
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Post by eppinggas on Mar 12, 2018 19:47:52 GMT
Sweeney was way off the pace for the first half of the season. Seems to have got back his form and I think Sweeney or Broadbent should start. That is my opinion. The only bad result we have had with Broadbent playing was when partnered with Burn in that awful Bradford game. Teams will look at how we concede goals and will expose our lack of height at the back. If crap like W'don and N'ton can do it - then better sides will be ruthless. "Apparently Broadbent and DC had a bit of a training grounf tiff a couple of weeks back?" I don't know that for a fact - that is why I put a question mark at the end of the sentence. You don't know anything to the contrary either. I wondered if anyone else had heard the rumour. Broadbent had a shocker at home to wimbledon. The manager made a decision to sign an experienced defender. I think its bad practise to put that sort of rumour about broadbent unless you are sure of such a thing happening. I dont get the agenda against craig or this fixation with height some have,like i said we had the height before but were letting in goals for fun. It's not a fixation about height. It's the bleedin' obvious and decent teams will exploit it. Barring Lines (who isn't exactly a warrior) we also lack physical presence in mid-field. Sercombe 5 10", Sinclair 5 7" and Bennett 5 5". Choosing to play the shortest centre-back pairing in Division 1 will obviously exacerbate the problem. If crap teams like W'don and N'ton can take advantage then we are going to get a stuffing from physically big top side. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 22:47:07 GMT
Broadbent had a shocker at home to wimbledon. The manager made a decision to sign an experienced defender. I think its bad practise to put that sort of rumour about broadbent unless you are sure of such a thing happening. I dont get the agenda against craig or this fixation with height some have,like i said we had the height before but were letting in goals for fun. It's not a fixation about height. It's the bleedin' obvious and decent teams will exploit it. Barring Lines (who isn't exactly a warrior) we also lack physical presence in mid-field. Sercombe 5 10", Sinclair 5 7" and Bennett 5 5". Choosing to play the shortest centre-back pairing in Division 1 will obviously exacerbate the problem. If crap teams like W'don and N'ton can take advantage then we are going to get a stuffing from physically big top side. Try and get used to it because barring injury or suspension craig and lockyer will be 1st choice centre-backs for some time to come. |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 13, 2018 4:54:46 GMT
JFH entitled to his views but talking tosh on yellow cards (why wasn't their number 19 booked for kicking ball away numerous times?!) post match:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2018 17:11:23 GMT
JFH entitled to his views but talking tosh on yellow cards (why wasn't their number 19 booked for kicking ball away numerous times?!) post match: Must be hard to stay awake during his team talks! |
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