Prestbury c of c Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 An absolute dire game against Crawleys young kids.Highlights would be 2 mins from 90 but hey...3 points at last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kaiser Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 It was awful entertainment. Head tennis and hoof ball. League one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Still rather be at AG than at home watching the Premier League. WHOOOSH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MATT BCFC Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 All that matters is we won. Hopefully that will give us some confidence and we can push on from here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 On the second half the performance was excellent and there were signs of it in the first. I honestly can't make up my mind whether it's people who know f all about football or people who want us to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oops Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 On the second half the performance was excellent and there were signs of it in the first. I honestly can't make up my mind whether it's people who know f all about football or people who want us to fail. It's 74% the first one, and 22% the second. The other 4% are just idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS34Red Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Ffs we won that's all that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 On the second half the performance was excellent and there were signs of it in the first. I honestly can't make up my mind whether it's people who know f all about football or people who want us to fail. Was it hell. Even SOD admitted the football was poor throughout. We could hardly string a pass together and had to rely on defensive errors. Prior to JET's goal, we had two soft shots on target and two off. Carp statistics. At least, the Mr Hands-in-Pocket takes a more balanced view of the game than his disciples do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kaiser Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Agree with that. The standard was poor throughout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfcbs20 Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 For 80 minutes if was awful but right now I couldn't give a fuc# 3 points are 3 points enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Not good enough .., I want attractive free flowing losses .For God's sake people it's the performance that counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 the radio made for painful listening with the ball keep coming back at our defence. not being there to see if the back four would cope didnt help but thankfully they were alright on the night. no silly set piece concedings,how often is that said?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 I honestly thought the first 45 minutes may have been the worst performance by a City team I have seen in 50 years of supporting them. It was marginally (but only marginally) better after the break and the reaction to the first goal where I was in the Dolman was a combination of disbelief and hysterical laughter. People say that that should silence the moaners (by which presumably is meant the fans who can see how poorly City are playing). Why should it? If we are to progress we have to play well. We cannot possibly expect to play that badly every week and get three points. My worry at half time was the the team wasn't just playing badly, it was playing at the top of its capability, That is, that those eleven players simply weren't capable of playing any better. That was a pretty depressing thought. I'm pleased that we have three points, a clean sheet and are out of the relegation zone, of course, but if O'Driscoll is to do what Gary Johnson did he has to get the team to play well, and there was little sign of that last night. In particular, central midfield is absolutely woeful at the moment. I hesitate to say it, but out of all the resources we have at our disposal in that area, I would have Elliott and Kilkenny in the central positions. Gillette was dismal, and Pack continues to achieve very little at all. Joe Bryan looked scared to death and only Wagstaff seemed to be getting anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Stoke have made a success of doing just what we did last night. If this relieves the pressure then that's the most important factor surely ...how many times recently have we played well and lost / drawn? However SoD teams play football not Hoofball so here's hoping. we haven't in the last few games I wouldn't even call it football more 11 blokes run around disjointed and confused, Lets hope we build on the victory tho' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezgimed Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Ffs we won that's all that matters. Not really, because if we continue to play that badly, we won't win many more, and we'll get relegated. Understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Not really, because if we continue to play that badly, we won't win many more, and we'll get relegated. Understand? well according to some we were always that bad under some conferenace manager and that won us promotion and got us to a play-off final, It was poor we won we should be happy, Its how the team build on it is whats important, We can't judge that til after the tramere game or even the Sheffield United game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezgimed Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 well according to some we were always that bad under some conferenace manager and that won us promotion and got us to a play-off final, It was poor we won we should be happy, Its how the team build on it is whats important, We can't judge that til after the tramere game or even the Sheffield United game I said to my mate at the game I can't remember us ever being this bad, just no idea on the pitch what to do. Under Tinnion in his first season we actually won a fair few games quite comfortable and finished 7th-9th (cant remember). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kezman Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 This is the scrappy win we've been looking for! Now lets hope the boys can build on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaverface Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Thing is, if we got rid of SOD, the first thing a new manager would do is get the team playing exactly like last night - it'll be messy, tight, scrappy and not many chances. All SOD has done is produce a style of football to get a result. The guy needs time to bring in those missing players, but until the the January/summer transfer window his hands are tied, so he's relying on loans and makeshift players. It will happen over time, but unfortunately we've got to put up with the dredges. We're effectively a very very poor mans Arsenal from a couple of years ago. We've got a young, naive team learning their trade and making mistakes as they go. If we can muddle through the next season or so, we're going to be in a lot stronger position - we just need to hold our nerve and bite our tongues over performances like last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_s Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 An absolute dire game against Crawleys young kids.Highlights would be 2 mins from 90 but hey...3 points at last. I'd reluctantly accept watching complete dross for the remainder of the season if it meant we avoided relegation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportingmad0209 Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 I honestly thought the first 45 minutes may have been the worst performance by a City team I have seen in 50 years of supporting them. It was marginally (but only marginally) better after the break and the reaction to the first goal where I was in the Dolman was a combination of disbelief and hysterical laughter. People say that that should silence the moaners (by which presumably is meant the fans who can see how poorly City are playing). Why should it? If we are to progress we have to play well. We cannot possibly expect to play that badly every week and get three points. My worry at half time was the the team wasn't just playing badly, it was playing at the top of its capability, That is, that those eleven players simply weren't capable of playing any better. That was a pretty depressing thought. I'm pleased that we have three points, a clean sheet and are out of the relegation zone, of course, but if O'Driscoll is to do what Gary Johnson did he has to get the team to play well, and there was little sign of that last night. In particular, central midfield is absolutely woeful at the moment. I hesitate to say it, but out of all the resources we have at our disposal in that area, I would have Elliott and Kilkenny in the central positions. Gillette was dismal, and Pack continues to achieve very little at all. Joe Bryan looked scared to death and only Wagstaff seemed to be getting anywhere. I thought Joe had a good game last night. Wasn't afraid to put his foot in, put in some nice crosses and scored with a fine finish. Was my choice for MoM, although Osbourne did play very well second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashton_fan Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 First half was dire until the last five minutes when we suddenly sparked into life. This carried over into the second half when I thought we had some good moves with our confidence improving. Throughout though I thought we were tight at the back and didn't look like conceding, we have slowly been improving in this area in the last few games and once So'D thinks this has stabilised we might see some more adventurous play going forward. The new loan centre-back was impressive and it's been a massive improvement since Parish has been in goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveybadger Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Wasn't at the game last night so can't comment on performance. However John Salako on Sky said we were excellent second half. Respectfully, is it the case that as we've been largely dross so far this season that we only see the poor bits in a performance, as it reinforces our pre-existing views of how good we think the team is? Really not trying to wind up anybody up, but this can and does happen in other walks of life i.e you see what you want to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfOfWestStreet Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Have to admit that I felt the standard was terrible throughout the game. Yes results are more important but play like that against more ruthless finishers, we will lose. Often. We need to play well for more than just 30mins in every game as I can't think of a game this season this has happened (league games) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Wasn't at the game last night so can't comment on performance. However John Salako on Sky said we were excellent second half. Respectfully, is it the case that as we've been largely dross so far this season that we only see the poor bits in a performance, as it reinforces our pre-existing views of how good we think the team is? Really not trying to wind up anybody up, but this can and does happen in other walks of life i.e you see what you want to see. We certainly were not excellent. I have seen us play much better this season and lose. So it was an excellent result for us, but performance wise we were, um, er, nervously committed I suppose. The players were putting the effort in but just didn't really know what to do. They were getting the ball and hurriedly getting rid if it mostly, although there were a few glimmers of hope when they did think, look and pass to each other. They would do the hard thing and choose the wrong option and give it away. Many times two players went for the same ball and messed up, lack of communication and understanding, we looked like a team pulled from the crowd who havent met eachother before. a poor advert for league one. Many times not getting even the basics right. You could have taken all the Crawley defenders off and Baldock still wouldn't have scored last night. So Salako if that is excellent, and you with your greater experience and understanding of the game should know more than me, then our ideas of excellence are poles apart. But of course I am more than happy with the points, now THEY are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kaiser Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 If people think that was good, imagine if the opponent had been Wolves or Leyton Orient. 2-0 win you reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kaiser Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 The players don't seem to want to either run with the ball or pass to feet. They just hurriedly want to get rid of it to either closest man or lump it forward. I really just don't know why we have got this bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opeth67 Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 The players don't seem to want to either run with the ball or pass to feet. They just hurriedly want to get rid of it to either closest man or lump it forward. I really just don't know why we have got this bad. Perhaps: Lack of confidence Worried to death they will make a mistake Dreading the moans and groans from the crowd (albeit possibly justified moans and groans) Dreading abuse from the crows (abuse not justified) Frightened of losing another game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfOfWestStreet Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Perhaps: Lack of confidence Worried to death they will make a mistake Dreading the moans and groans from the crowd (albeit possibly justified moans and groans) Dreading abuse from the crows (abuse not justified) Frightened of losing another game Poor things, they sound like they need a cuddle. I've got no time for sulking footballers, we need warriors not cowards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kaiser Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 The bloke who had the mod balls for us at running at blokes and putting in a challenge had the crowd behind him as a result. The fact he was our youngest player on the pitch shows the rest of them up. The crowd got behind Joe and supported him as a result of what he was doing, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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