Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Away V Barrow Sat-1st Jan @ 3.00 pm (MEH fixture??)

For reasons related to the prediction league, I am very happy with that result.

 

poor Barrow, ruined your day hasn't it @bantam316.

 

Welcome three points but Barrow can rightly feel robbed. The standard of football in league 2 is barely professional.

 

Cracking win and start to the new year with most of the squad only having had a few days training. Let’s hope this is a start of a comeback

 

Thing is, there are no half decent teams in this league

 

Under the circumstances it was a great win with players having little training coming back from a draining illness it was a big ask I fully anticipated a defeat today. Of course there is a lot to do but a good start to the year. Now Mr Adams do the business

 

Do you believe his position as manager is under threat Steve, the powers that be are not going to allow him to do transfer business in the January window if it was, don't you agree,
It was hardly a classic but we've been on a poor run lets just enjoy the 3 points and believe we can continue against Carlise next Saturday, we know sometimes once in a poor run it may take a bit of luck to stop that run and today we rode our luck at times but this result should give the player a little more belief in themselves. and a full week with no distractions.

 

Barrow had a few players out injured. If they had covid in the squad , the game would probably not have gone ahead, they could not fill the bench as it was.
Lets just enjoy the win, lots of games this year we should have won and finished up drawing. Leaders Forest green a perfect example.

 

Maybe if he has confidence in his players the tactics may change
I hope so

 

I posted before the game Radio Leeds were quoting 5/6/7 new faces so you could be right he hasn't confidence in this squad of players I thought maybe 3/4 but as many as 7.

 

Its reasonable to assume that a lack of fitness and sharpness would have been an issue today. Not just for those who've had covid, but a lack of games for 3 weeks and by all accounts, very little training, were always going to bite.

Doesn't detract from your point about the common tactical approach we seem to deploy when we're leading though.

Giving away the goal so quickly after we scored was a problem. If we'd stayed at 2-0 for longer, I think the game would have petered out more comfortably.

 

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Adams take on today and the build up from Wednesday when we only had 6/7 fit players.

 

I would have liked to have seen Vernam coming on for Angol instead of Robinson though Dave.
For me Robinson offers nothing up front (as he proved today - lazy movement for a needless offside too).
At least Vernam would have offered pace to their defence and given them something to think about.

 

You've hit the nail on the head. We have a miserable bunch of fans who simply have no patience and so know tolerance for reasons as to why a performance might be moderate.

And then when some of us, point out the sheer madness of those ignoring what is (literally!!) right in front of them, i.e. the latest Covid wave, we're apparently letting the team off the hook.

If this has been a normal build up to a game, I wouldn't even have posted tonight - except to say lucky win, need to improve, let's move on.

 

He's also been very invisible during the terrible run. Just nipping out today to celebrate the win and when the form drops again he'll go absent again.

He's like rcbantam in reverse!

 

That is a fair comment but in some way backs up Banbrotams comments, after everything that has happened we should just be happy and celebrating a City win rather than moaning about parts of the the performance.
There are people on here who beforehand stated the result was everything yesterday, but have still moaned about Adams decisions - I know it wasn't pretty but the culmination of players returning from injury and illness gave him an awful lot to think about and manage, particularly in the 2nd half.
Could be one in before Carlisle, Scout has indicated talks are well progressed (before you ask no idea who )

 

An interesting by product of having a period of no games over a number of weeks, is the impact of individual and team performance highlighted by I believe Lee Hendrie and Don Good man in the QPR V BOURNEMOUTH and NEWCASTLE V MANCHESTER UNITED games, in which several times, the lack of sharpness, awareness and basic errors were highlighted for QPR and MANCHESTER UNITED. Think it was Don Good man whom said United were playing in a "pre season mode".

Flip side, recall Spurs playing excellent against Liverpool..

But it does beg a question (I think)... Does time off against playing time actually equate as an advantage, neutrality or potentially a disadvantage?

 

Love to see said stats, associated with time off. There again, so many variables, would they be of true use?
Fickle, yeah I can buy in there....

 

I’m actually looking forward to this. Three weeks off…..absence makes the heart grow fonder etc.

If we draw the apathy will no doubt return but let’s see what happens.

Is Cook fit again?

 

According the local rag we're struggling to out a team out.

So the excuses are there for all to see.
Struggling to get a team together, fitness an issue because of the 3 week break.

Bingo.

Nothing but a win will do. Embarrassing if we don't.