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Post by jakeg on Aug 24, 2024 19:40:03 GMT 1
Rode our luck again today. Shrewsbury failed to convert some gobbers. Our defence is putting the shits up me. They missed one very good chance. We missed two absolute sisters. Having been on this board for many years I fear for the next few pages picking on on that typo!! 😅 |
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Aug 24, 2024 19:40:28 GMT 1
Rode our luck again today. Shrewsbury failed to convert some gobbers. Our defence is putting the shits up me. They missed one very good chance. We missed two absolute sisters. Amen Brother… |
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Post by sabailand on Aug 24, 2024 19:43:34 GMT 1
Good result. Kasumu is different gravy this season. A boxo to boxo type of player or something else? |
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Post by kennyk2 on Aug 24, 2024 19:44:00 GMT 1
They missed one very good chance. We missed two absolute sisters. Amen Brother… Know what you mean. My first wife... I really fancied her sister for a while. |
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Post by pterrier on Aug 24, 2024 19:46:28 GMT 1
Good three points but not a pretty watch. Duff praised us for winning ugly after the game, saying it’s never easy to play against a low block, but I don’t think that quite told the story. I thought we pushed up too high and condensed the playing area too much. It left us really vulnerable to their counter and it put the onus on our defenders to try and open them up rather than our midfielders. Evans and Wiles struggled to get on the ball because they were too high. On another day we’d have lost that. An excellent post |
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Post by nickhtafc82 on Aug 24, 2024 19:49:32 GMT 1
It's quite simple.
Our finishing and individual errors today will ultimately cost us as the season progresses, unless we add to the squad now.
Healey should have had 2, Marshall has to score the header, I think Hogg blasted one over from 6 yards or so, Evans has to get his header on target etc
The quality into the box from Miller in that first half was top notch.
We deserved to win, but boy we were wasteful.
We add a
Pacey left sided CB
Striker
CDM replacement for Hoggy
And id be extremely happy and i think they would potentially see us much closer to autos.
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Post by detox on Aug 24, 2024 19:53:39 GMT 1
Good three points but not a pretty watch. Duff praised us for winning ugly after the game, saying it’s never easy to play against a low block, but I don’t think that quite told the story. I thought we pushed up too high and condensed the playing area too much. It left us really vulnerable to their counter and it put the onus on our defenders to try and open them up rather than our midfielders. Evans and Wiles struggled to get on the ball because they were too high. On another day we’d have lost that. An excellent post 😂 |
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Post by Terriersmad on Aug 24, 2024 19:54:36 GMT 1
Not really. Nicholls made one tremendous save from a great effort when we switched off - when Spencer inexplicably disappeared behind Miller to leave a gap. They did bits and bobs in the first half, but they resulted in half-chances. And they had the one shot second half when Nicholls saved easily. No 'gobbers' whatsoever. People really do see things strangely. A couple of half-chances against us, and we somehow rode our luck despite missing plenty of chances at the other end. What is expected? Nobody ever has a shot against us? We're going to concede some goals this season, we're going to concede shots this season. We're three games in and we've conceded one goal, a penalty. Nicholls hasn't been flying across his goal all the time. Stevenage missed a sitter, true, but that's been it in terms of really big chances conceded from open play. We've sometimes looked shaky, and our own worst enemy, but we're also a work in progress. The ‘people see things strangely’ comment is a bit of a weird one. Do you mean ‘someone said something I disagree with?’. Thought we were pretty abject again today and couldn’t have complained had we conceded. Posh could have been 2-0 up before we got going in first game, Stevenage second half was abysmal and they missed some great chances and Shrewsbury created enough today that they’ll think they should have scored at least once. On results alone of course we’re doing well. I think performances tell a slightly different story. No, I mean some people expect us to never allow the opposition a shot, which is seeing things strangely. That isn't how football works. It is perishingly rare a side having a go - and Shrewsbury did have a go - won't have a shot and create at least something. Not saying we were perfect, but to say Shrewsbury missed gobbers tells me that someone's perception of a game is just wrong. The issue wasn't that they had chances - they had one good chance in the game, and that will happen in most games, regardless of how good a defence is - it was that we did not take ours when they came. We created six excellent opportunities to score. They created one. We were not riding luck. To say so is just plain wrong. |
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Post by NoToTrumpDonors on Aug 24, 2024 20:04:12 GMT 1
Healey is going to score more than May this season apparently 😂 there’s a good chance May will score more than Healey, Ward, Koroma and Radulovic combined.
I don’t like Brum owners - I think they’re as clueless about English football as Nagle. But they scored a blinder stealing May, albeit at an inflated price. One over on a team they saw as a main rival and guaranteed goals. And the way it’s turned out, with Town failing to find a replacement. I bet they’re delighted. They’re clueless but chuck enough money at it and you get success in modern football.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2024 20:05:15 GMT 1
I think we will improve. Every game where we make mistakes will be analysed and we will learn from them. We are not the finished article and it will take time. 4 wins from 4 when still not really clicking is not bad.
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Post by Bubbles on Aug 24, 2024 20:08:13 GMT 1
The ‘people see things strangely’ comment is a bit of a weird one. Do you mean ‘someone said something I disagree with?’. Thought we were pretty abject again today and couldn’t have complained had we conceded. Posh could have been 2-0 up before we got going in first game, Stevenage second half was abysmal and they missed some great chances and Shrewsbury created enough today that they’ll think they should have scored at least once. On results alone of course we’re doing well. I think performances tell a slightly different story. No, I mean some people expect us to never allow the opposition a shot, which is seeing things strangely. That isn't how football works. It is perishingly rare a side having a go - and Shrewsbury did have a go - won't have a shot and create at least something. Not saying we were perfect, but to say Shrewsbury missed gobbers tells me that someone's perception of a game is just wrong. The issue wasn't that they had chances - they had one good chance in the game, and that will happen in most games, regardless of how good a defence is - it was that we did not take ours when they came. We created six excellent opportunities to score. They created one. We were not riding luck. To say so is just plain wrong. Nicholls made two good saves first half and they also had a couple of decent half chances as well. It certainly wasn’t just one chance they had. |
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Post by lookner on Aug 24, 2024 20:12:10 GMT 1
Good three points but not a pretty watch. Duff praised us for winning ugly after the game, saying it’s never easy to play against a low block, but I don’t think that quite told the story. I thought we pushed up too high and condensed the playing area too much. It left us really vulnerable to their counter and it put the onus on our defenders to try and open them up rather than our midfielders. Evans and Wiles struggled to get on the ball because they were too high. On another day we’d have lost that. I'm really not sure our players should be getting high before important games!  |
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Post by iangreaves on Aug 24, 2024 20:14:53 GMT 1
Rode our luck again today. Shrewsbury failed to convert some gobbers. Our defence is putting the shits up me. Not really. Nicholls made one tremendous save from a great effort when we switched off - when Spencer inexplicably disappeared behind Miller to leave a gap. They did bits and bobs in the first half, but they resulted in half-chances. And they had the one shot second half when Nicholls saved easily. No 'gobbers' whatsoever. People really do see things strangely. A couple of half-chances against us, and we somehow rode our luck despite missing plenty of chances at the other end. What is expected? Nobody ever has a shot against us? We're going to concede some goals this season, we're going to concede shots this season. We're three games in and we've conceded one goal, a penalty. Nicholls hasn't been flying across his goal all the time. Stevenage missed a sitter, true, but that's been it in terms of really big chances conceded from open play. We've sometimes looked shaky, and our own worst enemy, but we're also a work in progress. Our defence was opened up in first couple of minutes. Nicholls pushed another onto the crossbar. Nicholls saved another with his feet. Brodie Spencer gave the ball away at least twice at the back, allowing them to break on our defence. Evans similar. Our defence still puts the shits up me. |
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Aug 24, 2024 20:18:09 GMT 1
Good result. Kasumu is different gravy this season. A boxo to boxo type of player or something else? Today once he came on was one of his bisto showings in a Town shirt. Better than Marcus Browning. |
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Post by Tim Nice But Dim on Aug 24, 2024 20:20:49 GMT 1
I thought we would give the Shrews a jolly good spanking today and what worries me is that some players can play so badly, you can't compensate for that or put it right.
The second half against Stevenage and todays performance worries me, i mean do we think we are actually better than what we are.
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Post by isitjustme on Aug 24, 2024 20:28:15 GMT 1
Completely understand the, "A wins a win....3pts etc etc !". But that is such short term thinking. Here and now. We don't buck our ideas, auto won't happen. And wouldn't be confident in playoffs either. However, a couple of better recruits next week, and things could change quickly. Here's hoping.....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2024 20:34:02 GMT 1
Healey is going to score more than May this season apparently 😂 there’s a good chance May will score more than Healey, Ward, Koroma and Radulovic combined. I don’t like Brum owners - I think they’re as clueless about English football as Nagle. But they scored a blinder stealing May, albeit at an inflated price. One over on a team they saw as a main rival and guaranteed goals. And the way it’s turned out, with Town failing to find a replacement. I bet they’re delighted. They’re clueless but chuck enough money at it and you get success in modern football. Who’s on 9 points and who’s on 7? Clearly lots of success going on there😂 |
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Aug 24, 2024 20:42:06 GMT 1
Completely understand the, "A wins a win....3pts etc etc !". But that is such short term thinking. Here and now. We don't buck our ideas, auto won't happen. And wouldn't be confident in playoffs either. However, a couple of better recruits next week, and things could change quickly. Here's hoping..... The wins a win thinking us, for me anyway, we hadn't played well, we won, we kept a clean sheet and we move on to Walsall, forget about it. If it keeps happening agreed it's not sustainable, then it needs addressing but today, we played crap, we take it and move on. |
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Post by dxterrier on Aug 24, 2024 20:43:14 GMT 1
We did ride our luck a bit today, but 3 wins is 3 wins, 9 points is 9 points, you don't get that on luck alone. We are creating chances but we are missing sitters. The defence is shaky to say the least, even though we are not conceding. Big, big week ahead. We need a left sided defender, preferebly with pace as the biggest issue with the defence is its slow, and a quick attacking side will expose it badly. In an ideal world we get a defender with pace who is also has a nasty no nonesense streak. The striker situation also needs sorting out, I don't think any of our current ones are 10+ a season(jury still out on Marshall). We need a Grant Holt type, one that scares defenders sh*tless, that can score goals but also draws defenders away.
Still I said after Peterborough that it wasn't pretty but it was 3 points and i'd take another 45 games the same, well its now only 43 the same we need
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Aug 24, 2024 20:56:58 GMT 1
I’m in the ‘could do better, but glad we’re still winning while finding our feet’ camp right now…
We do have some tougher games ahead on paper, but maybe those sides will be more adventurous than our last 2 opponents, both of who are probably kicking themselves for not playing with a bit more positivity. It feels like we could easily have been looking at having only 3-4 points on the board now had those sides been more bold against our seemingly fragile defence.
But then again our fragile defence has only conceded one goal in 4 games and that was a penalty.
It feels like we’re in some bloody twilight zone just now…
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Aug 24, 2024 21:06:06 GMT 1
I’m in the ‘could do better, but glad we’re still winning while finding our feet’ camp right now… We do have some tougher games ahead on paper, but maybe those sides will be more adventurous than our last 2 opponents, both of who are probably kicking themselves for not playing with a bit more positivity. It feels like we could easily have been looking at having only 3-4 points on the board now had those sides been more bold against our seemingly fragile defence. But then again our fragile defence has only conceded one goal in 4 games and that was a penalty. It feels like we’re in some bloody twilight zone just now… It's about time we started getting the rub of the green... We've been rubbish for the previous two or three seasons, but we also has some ridiculous decisions go against us. Perhaps there's some truth in the old saying "You make your own luck"? |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 24, 2024 21:24:41 GMT 1
I’m in the ‘could do better, but glad we’re still winning while finding our feet’ camp right now… We do have some tougher games ahead on paper, but maybe those sides will be more adventurous than our last 2 opponents, both of who are probably kicking themselves for not playing with a bit more positivity. It feels like we could easily have been looking at having only 3-4 points on the board now had those sides been more bold against our seemingly fragile defence. But then again our fragile defence has only conceded one goal in 4 games and that was a penalty. It feels like we’re in some bloody twilight zone just now… Think shrewsbury played exactly how they planned to. On the break. We had 5 minutes where we pressed properly and held them in their box, other than the goal, which they assisted with, it went to plan for them. That it might have been 4 2 to us is only ok now because we won 1 0. Crap wins need almost as much looking at as losses. For periods today and last week we were fucking horrible. Lets hope we get better for longer from here on. |
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Post by rab030 on Aug 24, 2024 21:24:55 GMT 1
We also have to remember that the standard of football in this league is pretty poor. Most sides lack pace including us - because let’s face it anybody who is really quick and also has decent football skills is playing in the Championship or better.
We do have decent depth in the squad compared to other clubs and a lot of our players have played at a higher level.
We don’t look like world beaters but we don’t have to in this league. One more signing and I would be happy but if I was being greedy and given it’s not my money then maybe 2, with at least 4 out the door sold or on loan.
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Post by Up the Duff. on Aug 24, 2024 21:29:13 GMT 1
The opposite is true actually, midfield sat in front of defence... Not what I saw, or Matt Glennon in summary, be interested to see the heat map Nor me, I saw a big gaping hole between Wiles /Evans and Hogg. |
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Aug 24, 2024 21:30:19 GMT 1
Thought Koroma did well when he came on, some nice passes to set Healey up.
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Post by theterrier42 on Aug 24, 2024 21:32:14 GMT 1
Not what I saw, or Matt Glennon in summary, be interested to see the heat map Nor me, I saw a big gsping hole between Wiles and Evans to hogg. Question is was Hogg too deep or wiles/Evans too high? |
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Aug 24, 2024 21:33:09 GMT 1
Thought Koroma did well when he came on, some nice passes to set Healey up. Not sure why he was dropped to the bench in the first place. |
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Post by boooothy on Aug 24, 2024 21:33:34 GMT 1
It’s impossible to lose a game in this league. The opposition can’t score goals no matter how easy the chances.
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Aug 24, 2024 21:34:48 GMT 1
Thought Koroma did well when he came on, some nice passes to set Healey up. Not sure why he was dropped to the bench in the first place. I’d be starting him and Marshall next game. |
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Post by ShortbreadPete on Aug 24, 2024 21:34:54 GMT 1
Nine points is a great start but can you imagine when we actually start playing well
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