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Post by eppinggas on Feb 24, 2019 17:16:38 GMT
Would you believe it: Just four years today on 24 Feb 2015 Rovers were playing Braintree in the Conference at the Mem. We managed a narrow 2-1 victory with goals from Matty Taylor and Ellis Harrison watched by 6,471 fans. In the Rovers number four shirt was Tom Lockyer. On 28 Feb 2015 Sunderland were at Old Trafford playing Manchester United in the Premiership. United won 2-0 with two Wayne Rooney goals. 75,344 watched the game. In the number six shirt for the Black Cats was Lee Cattermole. Yesterday in front of 10,009 at the Mem the Sunderland number six was Lee Cattermole while number 4 for Rovers was Tom Lockyer! And the Braintree goal was a "worldie" from Simeon Akinola. He received a generous ripple of applause from the Gas. Strange what you remember...
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 24, 2019 17:56:26 GMT
Would you believe it: Just four years today on 24 Feb 2015 Rovers were playing Braintree in the Conference at the Mem. We managed a narrow 2-1 victory with goals from Matty Taylor and Ellis Harrison watched by 6,471 fans. In the Rovers number four shirt was Tom Lockyer. On 28 Feb 2015 Sunderland were at Old Trafford playing Manchester United in the Premiership. United won 2-0 with two Wayne Rooney goals. 75,344 watched the game. In the number six shirt for the Black Cats was Lee Cattermole. Yesterday in front of 10,009 at the Mem the Sunderland number six was Lee Cattermole while number 4 for Rovers was Tom Lockyer! And the Braintree goal was a "worldie" from Simeon Akinola. He received a generous ripple of applause from the Gas. Strange what you remember... Yes, evening match which we just about scraped through. Akinola went to Barnet but that overhead kick remains in the memory. UTG!
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Post by DudeLebowski on Feb 24, 2019 18:13:00 GMT
Would you believe it: Just four years today on 24 Feb 2015 Rovers were playing Braintree in the Conference at the Mem. We managed a narrow 2-1 victory with goals from Matty Taylor and Ellis Harrison watched by 6,471 fans. In the Rovers number four shirt was Tom Lockyer. On 28 Feb 2015 Sunderland were at Old Trafford playing Manchester United in the Premiership. United won 2-0 with two Wayne Rooney goals. 75,344 watched the game. In the number six shirt for the Black Cats was Lee Cattermole. Yesterday in front of 10,009 at the Mem the Sunderland number six was Lee Cattermole while number 4 for Rovers was Tom Lockyer! And the Braintree goal was a "worldie" from Simeon Akinola. He received a generous ripple of applause from the Gas. Strange what you remember... Lovely technique but aided by a massive deflection. Many Gasheads calling for us to sign him off the back of said goal. Love our fan base sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 22:49:06 GMT
So disagreeing with you means i am a troll? Just run it past me again how coughlan could change the wall and keeper position from inside his technical area? I mean would the ref and the sunderland players have waited while coughlan sorted things out? Once again, have you never seen a manager attempting to communicate with defenders and his goalkeeper during a game? Obviously not or you wouldn't be attempting to make such a puerile point. OK, let's assume that you've guessed and got something right, which you haven't, but let's just play along and pretend that you have and managers can't communicate with players during a game. Why is it then that after so many crosses and corners in the first half being hit far too deep we didn't get anyone coming round the back in the second half so that when the exact same thing happened again, which it did, we could recycle the ball? The manager had his team sat in front of him all through half time. I hope he's sat at home watching and re-watching that game because if we can set up how Sunderland did and press the opposition midfield in the way that they pressed us we'll be a harder team to play against. PS. Masters is still a wittering twit and we need someone better than Gorringe. You have to trust your keeper to set his wall up correctly,i don't think coughlan could have changed anything. The corners were awful but you have to have your players attacking the space where you are planning to put the ball not where it might end up if the corner is badly over hit. With Your "press the ball" point,not sure if you mean we should play a pressing style? all the dc years and now under coughlan we have got behind the ball and not really pressed until our opponents got into our half which is a legitimate way of playing but maybe we should play a more high pressure game? I do think leadbitter and cattermole totally dominated in the centre midfield but they have both played plenty of premier league football and are good players.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 22:51:53 GMT
And the Braintree goal was a "worldie" from Simeon Akinola. He received a generous ripple of applause from the Gas. Strange what you remember... Yes, evening match which we just about scraped through. Akinola went to Barnet but that overhead kick remains in the memory. UTG! Mensah played for braintree that night and was very quick and dangerous.
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 25, 2019 10:24:59 GMT
I hadn’t made that connection. Thanks. UTG!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 11:29:41 GMT
Once again, have you never seen a manager attempting to communicate with defenders and his goalkeeper during a game? Obviously not or you wouldn't be attempting to make such a puerile point. OK, let's assume that you've guessed and got something right, which you haven't, but let's just play along and pretend that you have and managers can't communicate with players during a game. Why is it then that after so many crosses and corners in the first half being hit far too deep we didn't get anyone coming round the back in the second half so that when the exact same thing happened again, which it did, we could recycle the ball? The manager had his team sat in front of him all through half time. I hope he's sat at home watching and re-watching that game because if we can set up how Sunderland did and press the opposition midfield in the way that they pressed us we'll be a harder team to play against. PS. Masters is still a wittering twit and we need someone better than Gorringe. The corners were awful but you have to have your players attacking the space where you are planning to put the ball not where it might end up if the corner is badly over hit. Again, watch what other teams do. If balls are being over-hit a player will come 'around the back'. Players don't just decide to do that, the manager decides who it will be. Then somehow, by magic, he gets that information to the players on the pitch. Keep looking and learning. I know it's complicated for you, all those bright colours, noises, and things moving around so quickly, but just try to concentrate on one little thing at a time and you'll pick things up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 11:59:39 GMT
So disagreeing with you means i am a troll? Just run it past me again how coughlan could change the wall and keeper position from inside his technical area? I mean would the ref and the sunderland players have waited while coughlan sorted things out? PS. Masters is still a wittering twit and we need someone better than Gorringe. The Masters point is a given and strange that you should say that about Mt Gorringe. I was in the bar on Saturday talking to three millionaires who were discussing the fact that despite being in the executive boxes they had never had a visit from Mt Gorringe. Strange that because to be fair to Barry Bradshaw he was always visiting the corporate areas trying to smell new money. That was how he found Mike Turl.
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Post by Igitur on Feb 25, 2019 12:01:10 GMT
The corners were awful but you have to have your players attacking the space where you are planning to put the ball not where it might end up if the corner is badly over hit. Again, watch what other teams do. If balls are being over-hit a player will come 'around the back'. Players don't just decide to do that, the manager decides who it will be. Then somehow, by magic, he gets that information to the players on the pitch. Keep looking and learning. I know it's complicated for you, all those bright colours, noises, and things moving around so quickly, but just try to concentrate on one little thing at a time and you'll pick things up. Putting aside the unpleasant jibes, long corners are fine if there is someone beyond the far post to head it back (I say "head" as most of them were high). We've gone back years where we regularly over hit corners to no effect.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 12:14:50 GMT
Again, watch what other teams do. If balls are being over-hit a player will come 'around the back'. Players don't just decide to do that, the manager decides who it will be. Then somehow, by magic, he gets that information to the players on the pitch. Keep looking and learning. I know it's complicated for you, all those bright colours, noises, and things moving around so quickly, but just try to concentrate on one little thing at a time and you'll pick things up. Putting aside the unpleasant jibes, long corners are fine if there is someone beyond the far post to head it back (I say "head" as most of them were high). We've gone back years where we regularly over hit corners to no effect. Just ignore the childish stuff we do, it's just how we communicate. I talk to him as if he's an idiot, he lies about things I said about our last manager, we wouldn't have it any other way
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 12:18:33 GMT
PS. Masters is still a wittering twit and we need someone better than Gorringe. The Masters point is a given and strange that you should say that about Mt Gorringe. I was in the bar on Saturday talking to three millionaires who were discussing the fact that despite being in the executive boxes they had never had a visit from Mt Gorringe. Strange that because to be fair to Barry Bradshaw he was always visiting the corporate areas trying to smell new money. That was how he found Mike Turl. Yep. I know someone who, the second Geoff got a sniff that he may have had money, was invited to watch a game from Box 1. But hey, we have new hand driers.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 15:05:48 GMT
Don't you mean to whom are you referring? Craig of course it was right in front of us and the linesman on the west side Apologies, yes I do mean that. Thanks, I forgot the 'to'. I presume you mean "both" instead of "bother"? But "2nd half bother" might mean something to you Westonians.....? I'm on the East side. Ah, ok Craig. Now that you mention it, I do remember one. I'm guessing as he got away with that, you see that as a fundamentally bad thing? Ok, he has flaws, isn't perfect, but I thought he coped admirably yesterday and had a very decent match. Overall. I'm taking it you disagree. That's fine and dandy and great we are engaging. Thank for correcting my typing I have now corrected it
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Post by eppinggas on Feb 28, 2019 21:33:25 GMT
And the Braintree goal was a "worldie" from Simeon Akinola. He received a generous ripple of applause from the Gas. Strange what you remember... Lovely technique but aided by a massive deflection. Many Gasheads calling for us to sign him off the back of said goal. Love our fan base sometimes. Well Dude... I don't know about "massive deflection". On review however it does look like it comes off of Leads. But credit where it is due, it would have been a worldie anyway. I prefer my memory to fact anyway. I am pretty sure that is one of only two goals scored against the Gas that I have actually applauded over the last 40 years. The other was at Twerton in about 1992-1993, hit from about 40 yards and went in like a bullet. No idea who it was and lost in the mists of time. YouTube can't help me as it was created in 2005 (although obviously some 'old' analogue footage has been uploaded from the previous millennium)... UTG.
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Post by DudeLebowski on Mar 1, 2019 17:43:22 GMT
Lovely technique but aided by a massive deflection. Many Gasheads calling for us to sign him off the back of said goal. Love our fan base sometimes. Well Dude... I don't know about "massive deflection". On review however it does look like it comes off of Leads. But credit where it is due, it would have been a worldie anyway. I prefer my memory to fact anyway. I am pretty sure that is one of only two goals scored against the Gas that I have actually applauded over the last 40 years. The other was at Twerton in about 1992-1993, hit from about 40 yards and went in like a bullet. No idea who it was and lost in the mists of time. YouTube can't help me as it was created in 2005 (although obviously some 'old' analogue footage has been uploaded from the previous millennium)... UTG. Definitely not as heavy as it looked on the night. Cracking tekkers mind!
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Post by eppinggas on Mar 1, 2019 21:26:09 GMT
Well Dude... I don't know about "massive deflection". On review however it does look like it comes off of Leads. But credit where it is due, it would have been a worldie anyway. I prefer my memory to fact anyway. I am pretty sure that is one of only two goals scored against the Gas that I have actually applauded over the last 40 years. The other was at Twerton in about 1992-1993, hit from about 40 yards and went in like a bullet. No idea who it was and lost in the mists of time. YouTube can't help me as it was created in 2005 (although obviously some 'old' analogue footage has been uploaded from the previous millennium)... UTG. Definitely not as heavy as it looked on the night. Cracking tekkers mind! I was there on the night and swore blind it flew in without a touch. Like I said, I prefer my memory to any unnecessary things like facts getting in the way of my narrative.
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