Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Away vs Forest Green Sept 19th

Is that a bad thing ?.

Are we seriously saying with our backs to the wall with 10 men for 30 minutes then down to 9 men for 20 minutes you don't think any credit is due, not sure it's blind faith, just the game as I and other saw it, I'll repeat if Staunton had not made his mistake we could have had all 3 points, I think that's fair comment ?.

 

Bronco, It was a backs to the wall performance....in the end but BUT using "if Staunton had not made his mistake" doesn't really fly does it? If they hadn't missed their penalty? If their goalkeeper hadn't made the mistake with our second goal. If their goalkeeper hadn't dropped the ball (mistake?) for our first?

Once over the euphoria of actually getting away with a point and looking at the performance we were very, very average against another very, very average team.

We messed with the starting line up, our midfield looked anonymous, we put a striker on the wing and he looked like he had never played a game of football in his life, while having quick, 'winger' types both on the field and on the bench.

I am glad we got out of gaol in the end but there was nothing in that performance as a whole that gives me any encouragement for the season ahead and the tinkering with the team and formation..again... continues to worry me.

The phrase you use "As I and others saw it". If you look at the 90 mins, 270 across three games .. what is it you see? Improvement? Encouraging signs? Because I don't see any yet.

 

There wasn't a worse player on the pitch than Guthrie yesterday. The bloke was not only poor, he also couldn't be arsed.

 

We were doing that until mid december last year but folk on here didnt like it

 

yes big things. It’s in the jeans.

 

Bollox.

 

Two teams who didn't have a clue what they were doing gives us that shit show of a game. Entertaining but not for the right reasons. Kiwomya banging on about us deserving a win, if their keeper doesn't feck up for both goals we wouldn't have scored if we'd played till next week. Utter rubbish.

 

Ridiculous refereeing, does double jeopardy not exist anymore for AOCs?
Did he not see the blatant elbow on French?
Embarrassing from their lad and the ref to send Paudie off for that.
7 minutes of injury time?

 

No it's not. The team Jackson assembled before he went was worse.

 

Poor quality game, but entertaining second half to my surprise. Good fight when down to 9(8 really with Guthrie, god he’s useless), if Staunton doesn’t kick the floor we win with 9 away from home against a team who beat the mighty Bolton last week.

Trouble is now we’re down to the bare bones at the back and it was up front we were most desperate for new players.

This level is terrible quality I don’t actually think either team will struggle this season, but it was awful to watch.

 

2-0 I think. The scoreline masks over what was a very poor performance from both sides. If they hadn't missed a penalty and their keeper been badly at fault for both goals we wouldn't have scored. We go with a line up that sees 5 players out of position and then wonder why we look disjointed. 9 men defending because your two centre backs get sent off but thankfully against a piss poor side is nothing to write home about. There's no shape to the side at all, we had one in the first few games and McCall goes full tinker because of Tuesday. Could be a long season this.

 

I don't get it, both McCall and Wood have said that if Staunton wasn't on the deck injured, he'd have been in the centre defending the ball that came in for the goal. But it was Stauntons complete miskick that put him on his arse, and allowed the ball to get to their man. There's no way he would have got up in time and into position to make a clearing header.
Despite the red cards, we should be beating a team like this in the first 45mins, and taking control after going one up. Really confusing tactics, if we had any at all. I couldn't see any channel of play that looked liked it was part of a plan.
Ismael is worse than DMH. Watt was absent apart from his free kick/cross. Was Billy Clarke on the pich?

Novak can get a bit of credit for playing out of position, but Guthrie can't. I can understand him being hung out to dry when on the wing, but when he went back to playing centre forward and we were trying to defend the game, he should have been taken off because he was not putting any effort in at all. Blowing out of his arse, or just not caring. Who knows. Would have preferred Donno coming on rather than Guthrie trotting around.

I hope Stuart has additional memory on his ipad, because he's going to have several windows open at once now we need centre backs, full backs, strikers and a holding midfielder.

 

You should easily get a job as a motivational speaker or similar.

 

You're bang right mate Paudie shouldn't have got involved and needs to learn. This Forest Green team remind me of the Crawley team we had a run in with, a bunch of thugs looking to provoke the opposition and get a reaction, and Paudie took the bait.

 

Im opinion our two players are getting undue stick here when both have done little or nothing wrong. French gets a cheap shot but takes it in the right way, no diving about or throwing himself on the floor. O'Connor sticks up for his team mate which all good team mates should. The things that are wrong here at the game as it stands today, Adams for blatant cheating and playacting.The way Adams reacted, firstly with a blind cheap shot and then throwing himself over the advertising hoarding is the mark of a coward. It shouldn't be allowed in the game.

 

Without going into the why's and what for's of the sending off's we had to defend a lead, two defenders short for a significant chunk of the game. Ball after ball came into the box and we defended them only succumbing deep into injury time. Given the context of a heavy midweek home defeat where we couldn't defend any balls into the box it was a mammoth effort. The team of the last few seasons would have folded no question about it. Imagine getting some of our old sulky strikers switching to centre back without making a fuss or triggering some contractural clause. We end up with a solid point. Sorry it wasn't good enough for you all.

 

Forest Green have been confirmed by the EFL to allow 1000 fans in for this game

 

First league win of the season coming up on Saturday. Lincoln was a blip and a freak result against higher league oppo. 3-1 to city...... COME ONNNN

 

Forget talk of 'big club' or 'massive stadium' in this division. The likes of Fleetwood and Accrington have shown what having evryone from the top down singing off the same hymn sheet can do to teams that are supposedly small time. Our support and big capacity mean absolutely knack all, its how you're run and what message is passed down from the powers that be in the boardroom. If the desire for success is anything less than 100% in ambition and planning then you can kiss it goodbye.