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Cody McDonald good man

BBC site says we have had 42% possession our site says 60% go figure!!

anybody know how i can get radio commentary up in Peterborough?

Looks pretty even to me http://www.citystats.org.uk/team.asp?selTeam=Colchester+United&btnSubmit=View+Summary

ah well move on to Tuesday

I don't get that argument, the game is over 90 minutes, if we score the same number of goals we deserve the point surely?

is the pitch on a slope or a strong wind blowing or something?

yes they do, there are always surprise results every season.

Any season when you beat Peterborough 5-0 over two games is a good season, any time you beat a Ferguson Jr side 5-0 over two games is a better one, now lets finish the job and make it a great one!

After both games against them, I am left wondering how the Ferguson Jr remains in a job. They played like a side trying to keep the score down from the minute we scored, I will be amazed if MK don't tear them a new one on Saturday. They seem to revel in making a point of trying to thrash teams, which to my mind is wasted effort. As for us, it's all about game management and energy conservation, for such a young side we show so much maturity, we didn't need to get into third gear even, so we didn't, we won it at a canter and looked as fresh at the end as the beginning. I am so glad, we didn't rest Joe, (as per my suggestion on another thread), compared to Saturday he was an absolute revelation. I thought Pack was excellent for 70 minutes, but needs to get out of the habit of turning towards the defence as he did in the last 20. i would have no qualms with him starting Saturday though. I expect another comfortable win there too.

Really? every time? I am quite a fan of repetitive humour, but the key word in that sentence is humour.......

My company has a main office in Peterborough and I have need to visit it on a regular basis and despite that I am still not sure where it is! Local people don't appear to be too clear on where it is either. It's not far enough south to be outer London, not far enough North or West to be incorporated into East Midlands, not far enough East to be East Anglia and apparently not all of it is in Cambridgeshire, somewhere off the A1 seems to be the best anyone can come up with . I basically drive sort of North and East until appears, Brigadoon like, out of the mist. Once I get there I wonder how quickly I can leave again. 3-1 City..........

I think they will attack and bring an open game, we like open spaces and we can defend....... could be a good match.

Yes. probably, I am not as blinkered as some and I understand that a referee cannot see everything in a split second rather than over and over again on "vine" or whatever.

Why because he doesn't have x-ray vision? Think about it, look at the angle Ayling is at and where the referee would be standing, he would have seen Ayling go full length but have no idea what part of his body it hit.

More a case of vital that MK win from their perspective, I believe we still are holding the nap hand no matter what the result. A 2-2 draw would be a good day out.

I believe yesterday results may work against us, West ham will be a far more wary outfit now and they are not really the "precious" types of the Premier league, they are more of a side built on work ethic.

I'd like to see JET get on the score sheet, judging by Saturdays game he is benefitting from a run of games. I remember a few people saying that he would have his part to play come December/January, they were right, now we need to see a real impact from him.

I saw a quote from their chairman saying about us, "the big brother is in town" Big brother? SInce when?

I would be concerned that in trying to shore up the defence we sacrifice our ability to attack, I've seen that happen before. I don't agree that additional defenders are necessarily the answer, although Fielding doesn't match my personal taste when it comes to goalkeepers. I am not criticising his form, but I don't think a player of his size will ever be the kind of dominating goalkeeper that the modern game demands. However, I think there is one thing we have that cannot be underestimated and that is the current team/squad spirit, and Frank seems to fit well into that. I believe that as long as we continue to play in the style that SC has been keen to use we will always concede goals, most of the sides in this division have the ability to score goals, and because of where we are currently situated, I think every team sees us a team they need to raise their game against.

I also remember when we were winning games in previous periods where people moaned it wasn't entertaining enough. You can't say that games that have a minimum of four goals in them are boring surely?

No but I dislike your intrepretation of realism. You say the goals will dry up and our defence will then let us down. I am more optimistic that our proven strikeforce will continue to score goals and that our comparatively young defence will learn from their errors and how to improve as individuals and a group. I don't see that a change in personnel or formation is needed to achieve this.

Oh my god, we might drop to second? What on earth will we do? The start of this season this forum was full of people who said they would be pretty happy if we were top ten after the way things have gone in recent years. Now we have to win every week to keep everyone happy. I think there has been a need to use our substitutions better but that has improved in recent games. As I said in another thread, there are two teams in every game and to expect us to walk over every team in this league is not realistic, despite your claims.

Yep, Little should be dropped, Joe Bryan (assist today) should be dropped, Ayling should be moved out of defence, Cotterill out if he can't see that we will be lucky to stay up this season playing like this.

Great, idiot on the radio now wants change everything, talk about some people never being satisfied.