Home V Cheltenham 28.01.20

Don't you think being down to 10 men only allowing them 4 shots on target is good defending ?.

 

We had an overall passing accuracy of 38% too. Woeful.

 

It looked a foul and he was the last defender so the right decision would have been a red.

 

Right, so my thoughts overall after attending tonight:

The lads were a credit to themselves, they caught Cheltenham off guard with a high press, Devitt, Connolly and Donaldson actually looked like a unit, harassing their defence and making sure they didn't play.

Devitt's first booking was a poor challenge, his second utterly stupid - the fans clapping him off should give their heads a shake - he had an impact and negated it by picking up a second yellow in the first half. Ridiculous.

The second half was all one way traffic, we chose to park the bus, and there was little chance of a breakaway - Connolly, however, was most likely to make something happen, his pace is electric on and off the ball. Oteh was awful, but up front on his own is never going to work out (issue with letting Vaughan go).

Aside from that, the lads put their bodies on the line time and again and refused to let Cheltenham have a free moment inside the final third. Yes, they had all the possession and moved the ball around unchallenged for the most part, but our area was manfully guarded.

As for Cheltenham, boy howdy were they poor - shots and crosses sailed over the bar or wide with embarrassing regularity, and if I was one of their fans I'd have been ashamed by the lackadaisical way they went about breaking us down. They were dross!

The goal was a scrappy one, unlucky on our part. Didn't feel Cheltenham deserved a point, though they did have endless chances and the law of averages probably says a goal was on the cards.

Can't really knock the players, and while you can question Bowyer's decision to go super-defensive, it actually made sense watching the game. It was frustrating watching Oteh flail about like a dying fish, but given what's happened this week, there is nothing to complain about in my opinion.

And I was expecting a car crash.

 

Think there was cover on the outside?

 

It should prove a good point for Cheltenham, they have 2 games in hand on us so win 1 of those and City are out of the playoffs.
All bets are off until City can start winning again but there aren't many teams below us looking good at the moment.
Top three is looking beyond us unless bowyer and his style of footy can take us on a run.
That is a run upwards Gary,if you are paying attention.

 

4 points from 15. .

I'll leave @Bronco and @Park bantam to think if that's acceptable.

 

David, you presume wrong. It was a snapshot of the game. Have I inferred anything negative?

 

Devitt has probably done Bowyer a favour tonight, it will be viewed as a battling point, with 11 on the pitch maybe not so. That aside at Least we showed some fight tonight

Regarding the awful Mellor, did I witness a professional player actually give up tonight, it really wouldn’t surprise me

 

Not sure he could have got to Oteh the speed he was going.

 

3 points on saturday needed,we need to start winning.

 

Normal day at the office. Bowyer will thoose stats.

 

I was asking a question why that answer, 4 efforts on target from a second half bombardment is great defending in my opinion that's all I'm saying.

 

I agree with all of that but I thought Bowyer could have made a different substitution when Mellor went off. He could have gone 4 at the back and put another body in midfield
to help us keep the ball more.
Thought we should have had a free kick for the foul on Oteh at the end and a red card for their player. Ref was pants.
Quite enjoyed it, especially after Mansfield.

 

Apologies if misread. I'm probably guilty of brain freeze and every bloody over part of my body....

 

Not at all I would have thought with that sort of possession it might have read 8/9 or 10 on target but to say with all that possession they had McGee wasn't that busy making goal saving saves.

 

Good post mate more or less how I saw it.

 

from upper JCT stand it was a clear foul, but the ref who didn't give them a yellow for literally catching the ball with both hands, surprisingly didn't give a freekick.

 

Or the lad for man handling Connor Wood over the advertising hoarding..