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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Jan 3, 2015 22:47:27 GMT 1
When you see the result of Bornmuff destroying Rotherham 5-1 away...... Shows us up for that dross today, no efforts on target Impotent up front ( so no orgasm there )
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jan 3, 2015 22:54:03 GMT 1
we expect too much??
you clearly are having a laugh..
we don't expect to watch nothing happening in an fa cup 3 round tie at home for 90 minutes..
a stupid sending off and a booking or two that were pretty worthless..
one header off target and we lose to their only shot on/or off target???
said before, still true, I will support town if we go out and give it our best shot and try to win the games, if that was our best shot the manager has to walk before tomorrow and the team has to be dropped to a man and the kids have to come in.
we are not up and down either, the Bolton game after a shit start was very encouraging for thext 44 minutes..the second half wasn't great in terms of play but the energy and the fight was there and I said so at the time, we were ok and looked like a team, not a great team but a team.
today was worse than the Birmingham game and im afraid we set the bar very, very, very low that day..
friends, its not just how we win games that shows the spirit and the backbone and the ethos at the club, its how we lose and we lose very badly..
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Post by richhtfc on Jan 3, 2015 22:59:09 GMT 1
we expect too much?? you clearly are having a laugh.. we don't expect to watch nothing happening in an fa cup 3 round tie at home for 90 minutes.. a stupid sending off and a booking or two that were pretty worthless.. one header off target and we lose to their only shot on/or off target??? said before, still true, I will support town if we go out and give it our best shot and try to win the games, if that was our best shot the manager has to walk before tomorrow and the team has to be dropped to a man and the kids have to come in. we are not up and down either, the Bolton game after a shit start was very encouraging for thext 44 minutes..the second half wasn't great in terms of play but the energy and the fight was there and I said so at the time, we were ok and looked like a team, not a great team but a team. today was worse than the Birmingham game and im afraid we set the bar very, very, very low that day.. friends, its not just how we win games that shows the spirit and the backbone and the ethos at the club, its how we lose and we lose very badly.. All I'm trying to do is offer up some reasoning for your last sentence. There is something fundamentally wrong, which doesn't change manager to manger or player to player.
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Post by softboy on Jan 3, 2015 22:59:21 GMT 1
Whilst I think DH has made some crap managerial apppointments CP has to be the worst.
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Post by wildbillthetownfan on Jan 3, 2015 23:00:36 GMT 1
That was woeful today from both sides and i thought Reading were the worst team we have played this season, so were does that leave us!!. The ref was nothing short of a complete joke but we cant use that has a excuse, so what is the problem. You need to get the ball to Wells on the ground instead of just long balls against a set of defenders who are a good 6 inch taller than him and as for Vaughan, he just isn't doing the business. One goal was always going to win that game today and we just did not have any idea's against a side whose spoiling tactics were a disgrace
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Post by SaleTerrier on Jan 3, 2015 23:04:12 GMT 1
its not about improving the squad its getting a fair and honest return from the millions in wages we are already paying.. we didn't have any new pplayers, playing today and this manager like the last 2 cannot get any type of consistent effort or performance from the squad we have, why the hell would dean pay for more players that will come here and underachieve and lack the will and effort to make us a better team? I wouldn't give powell the steam of my piss after todays 'nothing' .. other than putting shirts on with the badge on, nobody has then earned their money and in the end it was just a load of lads taking the piss and taking the money.. I've been today and was disappointed with the result and the game. But I've been more disappointed with some of the comments in this thread. The players tried hard enough against a team that came to stifle the life out of the game and they achieved their aim.
Seen it before, it will happen again and contrary to other views it is impossible to produce an exhilarating attacking performance to order. Desperately need a striker who can dominate in the air when teams such as Reading arrive in Town. Did you really come away from the game thinking we tried hard enough ?
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Post by Mr Breitside on Jan 3, 2015 23:13:13 GMT 1
sorry,an absolute load of bollocks that. We don't expect to win this league, or even get promotion...we don't expect to win the cup...but we do expect a better performance than that absolute load of shite we've seen today. It doesn't take skill or brains to run around and show a bit of effort. Surely that's not too much to ask is it ? See the bigger picture, what im describing has created a malaise which results in performances like today. It's the underlying issue that results in sporadic half arsed performances like today. I think the underlying issue is we have a small club mentality that means we don't have the confidence to go out and win games. We show too much respect to nearly every club in the division and almost feel grateful if we win a game. The statements put out by the club since reaching the championship have been about 'survival' rather than ambition to get promoted. I believe this has contributed to our approach to games and the season in general. Aim HIGH not Low !!!
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Post by 52bob on Jan 4, 2015 1:18:55 GMT 1
I've been today and was disappointed with the result and the game. But I've been more disappointed with some of the comments in this thread. The players tried hard enough against a team that came to stifle the life out of the game and they achieved their aim.
Seen it before, it will happen again and contrary to other views it is impossible to produce an exhilarating attacking performance to order. Desperately need a striker who can dominate in the air when teams such as Reading arrive in Town. Did you really come away from the game thinking we tried hard enough ? Yes - they tried hard enough - but weren't good enough to break Reading down.
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Post by Jiffrtd on Jan 4, 2015 1:25:24 GMT 1
Tried!! From the warm up it was obvious they were treating it lightly.
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Jan 4, 2015 8:43:25 GMT 1
Imo they were not even bothered, I'd be angry if I was Deano watching that limp excuse, a cup run brings money in.
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Post by Stiggy on Jan 4, 2015 11:51:38 GMT 1
Like someone said, I don't think it's just the managers, something is wrong within the club. The players are on easy street. Though it doesn't help that we keep appointing similar managers with the mr nice guy approach.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 12:06:27 GMT 1
I was at the game not good performance from Blue and whites. We can concentrate on staying up if we stay up this season we have won FA Cup three times in our own right. What do you mean about winning FA Cup three times? Are you on the wrong forum?!
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Post by jl195480 on Jan 4, 2015 12:09:45 GMT 1
Yesterday, my daughter and I (both Town season ticket-holders, and in my case, a consistent follower of Town for 40 years) had a choice.
The two options were to pay £10 to watch Town play another championship team in the FA Cup or to pay £4.50 to watch Emley v Louth Town.
I think we made the right choice in that, as opposed to seeing a lack-lustre Town team who didn't muster a single shot on target, we saw a bunch of lads playing for each other with no shortage of skill and nine goals.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 12:10:18 GMT 1
Tried!! From the warm up it was obvious they were treating it lightly. Was the warm up different to usual, I've seen a couple of comments about this. (I wasn't there)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 12:12:29 GMT 1
we expect too much?? you clearly are having a laugh.. we don't expect to watch nothing happening in an fa cup 3 round tie at home for 90 minutes.. a stupid sending off and a booking or two that were pretty worthless.. one header off target and we lose to their only shot on/or off target??? said before, still true, I will support town if we go out and give it our best shot and try to win the games, if that was our best shot the manager has to walk before tomorrow and the team has to be dropped to a man and the kids have to come in. we are not up and down either, the Bolton game after a shit start was very encouraging for thext 44 minutes..the second half wasn't great in terms of play but the energy and the fight was there and I said so at the time, we were ok and looked like a team, not a great team but a team. today was worse than the Birmingham game and im afraid we set the bar very, very, very low that day.. friends, its not just how we win games that shows the spirit and the backbone and the ethos at the club, its how we lose and we lose very badly.. dont agree with your comments regarding the manager but lacklustre performances like yesterday are unaccseptable so make no mistake it was the players who let themselves the manager and fans down yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 12:16:25 GMT 1
Yesterday, my daughter and I (both Town season ticket-holders, and in my case, a consistent follower of Town for 40 years) had a choice. The two options were to pay £10 to watch Town play another championship team in the FA Cup or to pay £4.50 to watch Emley v Louth Town. I think we made the right choice in that, as opposed to seeing a lack-lustre Town team who didn't muster a single shot on target, we saw a bunch of lads playing for each other with no shortage of skill and nine goals. I'm considering this option myself
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Post by rocky on Jan 4, 2015 13:02:03 GMT 1
It's not just our attendance though is it? Most of the other clubs attendances were well down on their usual league gate.
Let's face it, the FA Cup has been on it's arse for years & is slowly but surely becoming a sideshow.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Jan 4, 2015 13:03:25 GMT 1
It's not just our attendance though is it? Most of the other clubs attendances were well down on their usual league gate. Let's face it, the FA Cup has been on it's arse for years & is slowly but surely becoming a sideshow. When the FA, the premier league and the tv companies treat it with such disdain, is it any wonder ?
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jan 4, 2015 14:21:57 GMT 1
it was a competitive match for Huddersfield town. It was a professional game and it was between 2 sides alledgedly in the 2nd tier of English football. If one side are intent on spoiling the game, why would the other(home) team join in with that and turn it into a niggly, dull, petty contest of who can earhole the ref the most??
why would the home manager just allow it to run and run in the same vein??
why would you just continue to lump stuff into their half with little or no support and watch it fail time after time??
no shite please about 'when they cross the white line et' its footballspeak for managers who haven't a clue, haven't got any control and haven't got the bollox to change it...
yesterday was a bad advert for sunday league football..its totally unacceptable and its leading up to the crowds dwindling whilst we still struggle very badly in this division.
I have seen games at town almost as bad as they produced yesterday, it was long ago, we paid peanuts and we were towards the bottom of the bottom tier. Dean may not just be old enough to have stood there and wondered why we all couldn't be professional footballers, I felt the same gain yesterday, I couldn't have done worse than some of them and I no longer have a pair of friggin boots...
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Jan 4, 2015 14:26:12 GMT 1
it was a competitive match for Huddersfield town. It was a professional game and it was between 2 sides alledgedly in the 2nd tier of English football. If one side are intent on spoiling the game, why would the other(home) team join in with that and turn it into a niggly, dull, petty contest of who can earhole the ref the most?? why would the home manager just allow it to run and run in the same vein?? why would you just continue to lump stuff into their half with little or no support and watch it fail time after time?? no shite please about 'when they cross the white line et' its footballspeak for managers who haven't a clue, haven't got any control and haven't got the bollox to change it... yesterday was a bad advert for sunday league football..its totally unacceptable and its leading up to the crowds dwindling whilst we still struggle very badly in this division. I have seen games at town almost as bad as they produced yesterday, it was long ago, we paid peanuts and we were towards the bottom of the bottom tier. Dean may not just be old enough to have stood there and wondered why we all couldn't be professional footballers, I felt the same gain yesterday, I couldn't have done worse than some of them and I no longer have a pair of friggin boots... Think we all feel the same mate. As I've said I'd rather lose 3 or 4 going for it with a couple of the best youngsters in, seeing all the classic game footage this morning and games playing at the moment in proper games makes it even harder to swallow what 8 k fans saw. A few blokes near me who don't go to many games said we look absolutely garbage, I had to agree.
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Post by AndySk on Jan 4, 2015 14:32:29 GMT 1
Not as pathetic as our attempt to get through to the 4th round. 0 shots first half (i cant remember any on target) yet lets just keep the same system and personnel throughout most of it and not make an effort to win. But hey ho its the fans fault again
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Post by ligament on Jan 4, 2015 14:47:33 GMT 1
unfortunately some town fans will find the excuse not to spend a tenner and todays result/performance gives them that perfect excuse. many of the same will expect dean to lay out his money to improve the squad. UTT Sorry but what do you expect people to do run down to the town shop spending money like they have four arms and buying part season tickets nope just a tenner. UTT
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Post by Jiffrtd on Jan 4, 2015 17:05:43 GMT 1
Tried!! From the warm up it was obvious they were treating it lightly. Was the warm up different to usual, I've seen a couple of comments about this. (I wasn't there) I don't usually see too much of it as I get there just before kick. Yesterday I got the train so I could have a couple of pints and got there about 10 past 2. It basically consisted of shooting in with the reserve keeper. This went on for about 20 minutes if not more with the crowd behind the goal getting peppered with shots. Following that they did a shuttle which lasted 3 minutes tops. IMO the whole thing was poor and more akin to messing about. Even over the microphone at half time they were taking the piss out of the performance. The game was dire! The attitude of the players very poor! And I have to agree with the poster who said that CP just hid in the dugout. No way did our club give a shit yesterday, the whole set up on the day was like a testimonial game. I have seen posts that talk about putting things into context but there is only one context. This was an FA Cup R3 tie with the chance of a big draw for the club and the fans in R4. I don't expect Messi and Ronaldo but I do expect players wearing a Town badge not to take the piss out of the club. i am now reading posts from supporters who are thinking of taking their kids to watch non league football. That says it all for me, sod the quality we would rather see commitment. It's a sad state of affairs when the youngsters going along to the games are watching a proud club run in the fashion of a pub team with overpaid, over hyped, over indulged players.
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Post by detox on Jan 4, 2015 17:30:33 GMT 1
spot on there...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 17:42:03 GMT 1
Was the warm up different to usual, I've seen a couple of comments about this.
(I wasn't there)
I don't usually see too much of it as I get there just before kick. Yesterday I got the train so I could have a couple of pints and got there about 10 past 2. It basically consisted of shooting in with the reserve keeper. This went on for about 20 minutes if not more with the crowd behind the goal getting peppered with shots. Following that they did a shuttle which lasted 3 minutes tops. IMO the whole thing was poor and more akin to messing about. Even over the microphone at half time they were taking the piss out of the performance. The game was dire! The attitude of the players very poor! And I have to agree with the poster who said that CP just hid in the dugout. No way did our club give a shit yesterday, the whole set up on the day was like a testimonial game. I have seen posts that talk about putting things into context but there is only one context. This was an FA Cup R3 tie with the chance of a big draw for the club and the fans in R4. I don't expect Messi and Ronaldo but I do expect players wearing a Town badge not to take the piss out of the club.
i am now reading posts from supporters who are thinking of taking their kids to watch non league football. That says it all for me, sod the quality we would rather see commitment. It's a sad state of affairs when the youngsters going along to the games are watching a proud club run in the fashion of a pub team with overpaid, over hyped, over indulged players.
That sounds like the normal warm up routine to me... but I wouldn't read too much into it, the shooting and brief shuttles are just a wind down at the end of the session.
Agree with the last paragraph, the club has died a bit on match day over the last couple of years, my lad had a season ticket since age 3, just about remembers that League 2 season, and now if I say "do you fancy going today/tomorrow"...he's simply not that interested.
And if he doesn't go, guess what, that means that I don't go. I bought a Take 10 this season as we can't get to Tuesday games anyway as of this season... we've been to 4 home games so far, and I'm struggling to see when else we'll attend, and I'm someone who has regularly done 20+ games a season for the last 20+years.
I really did enjoy the Bolton performance though... and note I (and my lad) and not people who demand excellence and victories every week... the previous game we went to was v Birmingham and yet we still bought tickets for Bolton!
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Post by teddytheterrier on Jan 4, 2015 19:56:55 GMT 1
For me the team made no effort to win, but it's up to a manager to make changes and tweak systems. Powell has to take some blame for the dire performance!
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Post by Jiffrtd on Jan 4, 2015 20:22:46 GMT 1
Professional athletes these. Paid to do nothing but prepare for a game. 14000 fans singing your name if you show a little commitment.
Do they think to themselves, I am paid to play football and every week less and less are turning up to watch? Stupid question really, they would just be off to suck the life out of another club.
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Post by trailingleg on Jan 5, 2015 2:57:10 GMT 1
I was at the game not good performance from Blue and whites. We can concentrate on staying up if we stay up this season we have won FA Cup three times in our own right. What do you mean about winning FA Cup three times? Are you on the wrong forum?! I think he means that if we manage to stay up again this season it would be our equivalent of winning the FA Cup three times in a row. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Post by teddytheterrier on Jan 28, 2015 13:17:15 GMT 1
I was at the game not good performance from Blue and whites. We can concentrate on staying up if we stay up this season we have won FA Cup three times in our own right. I'm afraid we have only won the FA Cup once sadly, but we have been runners up on a few occasions!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2015 13:27:51 GMT 1
I was at the game not good performance from Blue and whites. We can concentrate on staying up if we stay up this season we have won FA Cup three times in our own right. I'm afraid we have only won the FA Cup once sadly, but we have been runners up on a few occasions! Correct. And even when we won it we played crap. Some fans on here seem to think we should be playing like Real Madrid ..
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