Doncaster Rovers V Town - Tuesday (EFL TROPHY)

[kayeb222]

Sept 3, 2024 20:53:59 GMT 1 callum9061 said:

League one for 8 years again like 04 - 2012

88-95 was a lot worse. I was only young in those days so it seemed like we were there for a lot longer than we actually were (the 3rd Division/division 2/league 1,it kept changing names for a while)!!

[terriersyndrome]

Sept 3, 2024 22:50:36 GMT 1 impact said:

I don't really care about the performance, it's a nothing cup that takes up space and gives some game fitness to fringe players.

However it is another penalty given against us that we simply do not get. More penalties have been given against us in a month than we've received in nearly 3 years. Can anyone remember another team getting booked for diving in the box in that time? We've had 3 in the past year and 2 of those were stonewall penalties. It is a ridiculous situation.

"I don't really care about the performance"

After the last couple of seasons of complete dross, that's just about the last statement you'd expect from a fan of a perennial failure club?

Each to their own...

[impact]

Sept 3, 2024 23:04:59 GMT 1 terriersyndrome said:

Sept 3, 2024 22:50:36 GMT 1 impact said:

I don't really care about the performance, it's a nothing cup that takes up space and gives some game fitness to fringe players.

However it is another penalty given against us that we simply do not get. More penalties have been given against us in a month than we've received in nearly 3 years. Can anyone remember another team getting booked for diving in the box in that time? We've had 3 in the past year and 2 of those were stonewall penalties. It is a ridiculous situation.

"I don't really care about the performance"

After the last couple of seasons of complete dross, that's just about the last statement you'd expect from a fan of a perennial failure club?

Each to their own...

I don't care about friendlies either, and that's what this competition is. I care about the 2 main cups and the league, not this total waste of time with u21 teams picking 37 year olds in front of 20 fans.

[wildhogg]

Would those who are deriding this cup competition not go to the Wembley final if we happened to make it there? Guess not.

Duff's increasingly defensive, detached from reality post-game comments are a bit of a worry. Yet again we're crossing our fingers that the manager can 'Work on things' during an international break. What a downer.

[royrace]

Sept 3, 2024 21:58:06 GMT 1 Frankiesleftpeg said:

I don't know why folk have a problem with him airing his views. He's only repeating what we're all saying/feeling. If it pisses the players/coaching staff off then they need to do something about it.

Same here, it's his club, personally I wouldn't do it but I don't get the notion that it's really bad and it will somehow upset the coach and players.

Everyone has pressure, Wrexham have a film crew and people all over the world watching their every move. Brum have the most expensive team in L1 history. Town have the chairman putting out tweets which are read by a few hundred folk, so what. He's right as well.... It's not fcking good enough!

[huddersfc]

In fairness to Duff he can’t have a go at them every time in post match pressers/interviews. He has taken aim a couple of times and I don’t think it’s wise to do it every time. As a manager especially when there are a lot of young lads playing, you sometimes have to be a bit more kind and dress it up, see the positives.

I think he knows it was another below average performance but on this occasion, bearing in mind the competition we were playing in, he was right not to strip them down.

I also think he is in a bit of a no win situation with so many of last years players still here. We saw last year how quickly we capitulated and heads went down. I think he is being pragmatic and trying to keep their heads up as much as he can and not let it have a knock on effect to the new players.


If he didn’t know it yet, he has a big job on to turn this club around.

[terriersyndrome]

Sept 3, 2024 23:12:50 GMT 1 impact said:

Sept 3, 2024 23:04:59 GMT 1 terriersyndrome said:

"I don't really care about the performance"

After the last couple of seasons of complete dross, that's just about the last statement you'd expect from a fan of a perennial failure club?

Each to their own...

I don't care about friendlies either, and that's what this competition is. I care about the 2 main cups and the league, not this total waste of time with u21 teams picking 37 year olds in front of 20 fans.

Over 400 town fans these today. A bit disrespectful.

Were you happy with the last couple of performances before this one? We've been pretty average for most of the season and the last 5 games have been underwhelming to poor, gradually getting worse.

[pilgrimterrier]

Sept 3, 2024 21:02:39 GMT 1 terriersyndrome said:

Sept 3, 2024 21:00:47 GMT 1 Dan said:

Good to see DATM is having a completely normal reaction to our defeat in the tinpot reserve team cup

3 defeats on the bounce.

3 defeats on the bounce against lower league opposition and a bang average league 1 side. Plus less than impressive performances against Stevenage and Shrewsbury. Even then I don’t think that’s the issue that’s worrying fans, it’s the consistently poor performances from the ‘key’ players in the team carrying on from last season’s disaster.

[dezzly]

Watched the game and neither bad nor good.
Young Thomas should put us 1-0 up when in the as ascendancy without creating loads.
Annoyingly didn’t actually see the bloody equaliser but probably by the by.
Iorpenda played well again he must be pushing now though duff mentioned after defensively has bits to work on,think could be a while yet before we see him start a league game.
Sloppy challenge for the penalty.How we didn’t get one I’ll never know,seem to be on the rough end of a few decisions last 3 games.
Disappointed to lose though not the panic stations yet some are displaying.Thought was a chance after a tough pre season and then a decent start that some might regress,needs a change up in certain areas and picked up injuries just at the wrong time.
Midfield needs mixing up for Bolton and personally I’d switch Lonwijk to the right for his pace to cover Sorensens defensive frailties and switch lees to the left.I know it may cause a few issues when lees has the ball but even with Boltons start and 8/9 injuries they’ll be decent at home.When Spencer fit then a decision to be made.
Personally hodge into defensive midfield and I’d potentially chuck iorpenda in for one of evans or wiles(but is that too much inexperience for a big away game)
Think this all said it’s not time to panic and make sweeping statements like it’s just like last year etc.
For comparison like I say bolton have 8 maybe 9 missing and they’re struggling because of it.Birmingham played a still very strong 11 last night and lost to Walsall at home.
If performances continue to be poor and results iffy come back end of October then that’s the time to start criticising.
Side note,Kev damned if he does damned if he doesn’t but for me iv never been a fan of the social media stuff really,especially right after a game.

[Million Dollar Babies]

Don't have an issue with the penalty decision. Goes to kick the ball and kicks the man instead

[impact]

Sept 3, 2024 23:35:31 GMT 1 terriersyndrome said:

Sept 3, 2024 23:12:50 GMT 1 impact said:

I don't care about friendlies either, and that's what this competition is. I care about the 2 main cups and the league, not this total waste of time with u21 teams picking 37 year olds in front of 20 fans.

Over 400 town fans these today. A bit disrespectful.

Were you happy with the last couple of performances before this one? We've been pretty average for most of the season and the last 5 games have been underwhelming to poor, gradually getting worse.

How is it disrespectful? We take as many or more to friendlies.

And no I haven't been happy and I have said as much.

[oneneilwarnock]

Sept 3, 2024 22:36:39 GMT 1 Sio said:

Sept 3, 2024 21:58:06 GMT 1 Frankiesleftpeg said:

I don't know why folk have a problem with him airing his views. He's only repeating what we're all saying/feeling. If it pisses the players/coaching staff off then they need to do something about it.

How anyone can think this is anything but concerning behaviour from a chairman is beyond me; especially given he feels the need to take pops at anyone criticising the club.

He's so deeply unprofessional and naive given his position and unfortunately this type of behaviour directly contradicts the work that Edwards and DTS have done to improve the Club's image.

Literally no other chairman in the top 3 divisions does it or ever has, yet ours think it helps. It doesn't, how many times can you tweet its not good enough before you start having to look at yourself rather than blaming others. 

[irverino]

Sept 4, 2024 6:35:53 GMT 1 dezzly said:

Watched the game and neither bad nor good.
Young Thomas should put us 1-0 up when in the as ascendancy without creating loads.
Annoyingly didn’t actually see the bloody equaliser but probably by the by.
Iorpenda played well again he must be pushing now though duff mentioned after defensively has bits to work on,think could be a while yet before we see him start a league game.
Sloppy challenge for the penalty.How we didn’t get one I’ll never know,seem to be on the rough end of a few decisions last 3 games.
Disappointed to lose though not the panic stations yet some are displaying.Thought was a chance after a tough pre season and then a decent start that some might regress,needs a change up in certain areas and picked up injuries just at the wrong time.
Midfield needs mixing up for Bolton and personally I’d switch Lonwijk to the right for his pace to cover Sorensens defensive frailties and switch lees to the left.I know it may cause a few issues when lees has the ball but even with Boltons start and 8/9 injuries they’ll be decent at home.When Spencer fit then a decision to be made.
Personally hodge into defensive midfield and I’d potentially chuck iorpenda in for one of evans or wiles(but is that too much inexperience for a big away game)
Think this all said it’s not time to panic and make sweeping statements like it’s just like last year etc.
For comparison like I say bolton have 8 maybe 9 missing and they’re struggling because of it.Birmingham played a still very strong 11 last night and lost to Walsall at home.
If performances continue to be poor and results iffy come back end of October then that’s the time to start criticising.
Side note,Kev damned if he does damned if he doesn’t but for me iv never been a fan of the social media stuff really,especially right after a game.

Do you mean missing due to injuries on a whole? The team at Barrow had eight starting from the Exeter eleven named.........I don't think we are the only team not firing at present apart from Stockport & Wrexham who are both in a possible triple promotion season.

[dezzly]

Sept 4, 2024 8:43:00 GMT 1 irverino said:

Sept 4, 2024 6:35:53 GMT 1 dezzly said:

Watched the game and neither bad nor good.
Young Thomas should put us 1-0 up when in the as ascendancy without creating loads.
Annoyingly didn’t actually see the bloody equaliser but probably by the by.
Iorpenda played well again he must be pushing now though duff mentioned after defensively has bits to work on,think could be a while yet before we see him start a league game.
Sloppy challenge for the penalty.How we didn’t get one I’ll never know,seem to be on the rough end of a few decisions last 3 games.
Disappointed to lose though not the panic stations yet some are displaying.Thought was a chance after a tough pre season and then a decent start that some might regress,needs a change up in certain areas and picked up injuries just at the wrong time.
Midfield needs mixing up for Bolton and personally I’d switch Lonwijk to the right for his pace to cover Sorensens defensive frailties and switch lees to the left.I know it may cause a few issues when lees has the ball but even with Boltons start and 8/9 injuries they’ll be decent at home.When Spencer fit then a decision to be made.
Personally hodge into defensive midfield and I’d potentially chuck iorpenda in for one of evans or wiles(but is that too much inexperience for a big away game)
Think this all said it’s not time to panic and make sweeping statements like it’s just like last year etc.
For comparison like I say bolton have 8 maybe 9 missing and they’re struggling because of it.Birmingham played a still very strong 11 last night and lost to Walsall at home.
If performances continue to be poor and results iffy come back end of October then that’s the time to start criticising.
Side note,Kev damned if he does damned if he doesn’t but for me iv never been a fan of the social media stuff really,especially right after a game.

Do you mean missing due to injuries on a whole? The team at Barrow had eight starting from the Exeter eleven named.........I don't think we are the only team not firing at present apart from Stockport & Wrexham who are both in a possible triple promotion season.

Can’t be 100% as I’m only going off what Matt on takes that chance said on the podcast but he’s usually on the money.If not blame him 🤪

[Terrier Ramone]

Overall, I've been really impressed with Duff so far, however, I cannot stand managers coming out after a game I've just watched & telling me we have dominated a match when we haven't.

We were pressing the last 10 mins for a goal but didn't trouble the GK, the rest of the game, apart from a nice move for the goal, we were, yet again, really poor & we certainly didn't dominate.

I still think there is a lot of work to do mentally on a team that is too used to losing.

[Jimuano]

A good run out for the youngsters and reserves, and this starting line up shows how serious we were taking the game/competition.

[tepidterrier]

How did the new B team lads play? All I know is Thomas missed a 1 on 1, wasn't watching or following the game. What were the others like?

[ram]

Nagle sits in his Ivory Tower in Sunny California believing every word that the people running his football club are telling him.Those after match comments from Duff are nonsense.Cartwright and Co are conning you Kev old son.Astute businessman falling for that guff,you can,t believe a word they say.You can,t run a club from 6K miles away.Get someone who can!

[Sio]

Sept 3, 2024 23:22:36 GMT 1 royrace said:

Sept 3, 2024 21:58:06 GMT 1 Frankiesleftpeg said:

I don't know why folk have a problem with him airing his views. He's only repeating what we're all saying/feeling. If it pisses the players/coaching staff off then they need to do something about it.

Same here, it's his club, personally I wouldn't do it but I don't get the notion that it's really bad and it will somehow upset the coach and players.

Everyone has pressure, Wrexham have a film crew and people all over the world watching their every move. Brum have the most expensive team in L1 history. Town have the chairman putting out tweets which are read by a few hundred folk, so what. He's right as well.... It's not fcking good enough!

It's just a bit immature and contradictory isn't it. 

Only 5 days ago we had him arguing with people on Twitter for having the cheek to question our transfer strategy around not bringing in enough reinforcements. We now play a weakened side - partly due to the competition, partly due to lack of options - and he decides that now it's "Not good enough!!!". Surely at the very least you would hold back that opinion given a number of kids played and save it for our next defeat? 

His attitude just doesn't add up to me. No composure, no apparent strategy. I really want to like him - and I still sort of do - but too frequently he acts up like someone with zero self-awareness or control and it makes it really difficult to keep a positive impression of him. 

Also don't get me started on 'it's his club'. Yes he owns and funds it, but that doesn't mean he should just do whatever he wants with us. 

[mosher]

Sept 4, 2024 6:35:53 GMT 1 dezzly said:

Watched the game and neither bad nor good.
Young Thomas should put us 1-0 up when in the as ascendancy without creating loads.
Annoyingly didn’t actually see the bloody equaliser but probably by the by.
Iorpenda played well again he must be pushing now though duff mentioned after defensively has bits to work on,think could be a while yet before we see him start a league game.
Sloppy challenge for the penalty.How we didn’t get one I’ll never know,seem to be on the rough end of a few decisions last 3 games.
Disappointed to lose though not the panic stations yet some are displaying.Thought was a chance after a tough pre season and then a decent start that some might regress,needs a change up in certain areas and picked up injuries just at the wrong time.
Midfield needs mixing up for Bolton and personally I’d switch Lonwijk to the right for his pace to cover Sorensens defensive frailties and switch lees to the left.I know it may cause a few issues when lees has the ball but even with Boltons start and 8/9 injuries they’ll be decent at home.When Spencer fit then a decision to be made.
Personally hodge into defensive midfield and I’d potentially chuck iorpenda in for one of evans or wiles(but is that too much inexperience for a big away game)
Think this all said it’s not time to panic and make sweeping statements like it’s just like last year etc.
For comparison like I say bolton have 8 maybe 9 missing and they’re struggling because of it.Birmingham played a still very strong 11 last night and lost to Walsall at home.
If performances continue to be poor and results iffy come back end of October then that’s the time to start criticising.
Side note,Kev damned if he does damned if he doesn’t but for me iv never been a fan of the social media stuff really,especially right after a game.

Last 3 games?

Last 3 seasons (and further back) more like 

[Mastercracker]

Sept 4, 2024 11:36:32 GMT 1 Sio said:

Sept 3, 2024 23:22:36 GMT 1 royrace said:

Same here, it's his club, personally I wouldn't do it but I don't get the notion that it's really bad and it will somehow upset the coach and players.

Everyone has pressure, Wrexham have a film crew and people all over the world watching their every move. Brum have the most expensive team in L1 history. Town have the chairman putting out tweets which are read by a few hundred folk, so what. He's right as well.... It's not fcking good enough!

It's just a bit immature and contradictory isn't it. 

Only 5 days ago we had him arguing with people on Twitter for having the cheek to question our transfer strategy around not bringing in enough reinforcements. We now play a weakened side - partly due to the competition, partly due to lack of options - and he decides that now it's "Not good enough!!!". Surely at the very least you would hold back that opinion given a number of kids played and save it for our next defeat? 

His attitude just doesn't add up to me. No composure, no apparent strategy. I really want to like him - and I still sort of do - but too frequently he acts up like someone with zero self-awareness or control and it makes it really difficult to keep a positive impression of him. 

Also don't get me started on 'it's his club'. Yes he owns and funds it, but that doesn't mean he should just do whatever he wants with us. 

Agree with most of this. I like Nagle, he seems like a decent, genuine, humble guy who cares. I dont have as much of an issue with his tweeting as most, that last night (like the Norwich one last season) is a throw away come on we all can and must do better comment. It's very American corporate culture 'no I in team' type stuff and maybe gets lost in translation a bit.

I take more issue with him arguing with fans and particularly the type of moron fan who he ends up arguing with. He seems to have no filter for who he should be engaging with on twitter, then gets a bit thin skinned and ends up in 'debate' with absolute gimps, sometimes not even town fans. It gets a bit cringe at that point.

I think the bigger problems are underestimating the cut throat nature of English football and not realising just how underfunded we had been for years and how quickly this needed addressing just to put the anchor down nevermind turn the ship. As we all know from 2019-2023 this club was run on life support by two town fans of all people. All that mattered was the end of year accounts, the football a dim and distant 2nd. But even prior to that, ever since we got into the Championship in 2012 we didn't really invest and were largely absolute arse, as all these worst GD over 10 years/least wins in 10 years tables you see show. Bar 2 freak seasons we've been mostly getting pumped for over a decade. Fans of plenty other clubs would have been rioting at points in our recent history.

It seems to me he naively thought that because he had existing experience in Football with some success and because the club had recent top flight history all he had to do was assemble a team with experience of English football, throw a few mil at the footballing side of it for 3 or 4 years and we'd be back in the top flight. However, there's probably 55-60 clubs in England capable of playing in the premier league. We're clearly one of these but it takes much more than the above to achieve this. Most are already doing the above if not more and still dont succeed. You either need hugely clever owners (Brentford, Brighton), huge investment (various) or the least likely method - a manager pulling off a minor miracle, usually by doing something a bit different and it coming off 100% (Wagner). We're not fitting into the first 2 and the chances of the 3rd happening again are very slim.

The squad Nagle inherited from Hoyle was embarrassing for a championship club, even more so for one that was 4 years outside the top flight. I'd argue it was worse than what we arrived in the championship with in 2012. But then we've spent 1 window doing nothing, the second its increasingly looking like buying players of no use for various reasons and the third missing out on our 2 key targets.

I just ultimately dont understand what he is looking to achieve. What legacy he wants here. He's 69 so logic dictates he's not around for the length of time Hoyle was yet everything seems a bit slow. Most new owners seem to come into a club with a plan - big investment and quick success, stabilise a club on a financially poor footing, improve the infrastructure etc. I'm sure he has a plan but I'm struggling to see it, we just seem to be drifting along a bit not too dissimilar to how we already were. There's massive extenuating circumstances but ultimately all we've had in pushing 18 months so far is off pitch drama, very little improvement to the quality of player we possess and a relegation.

[Frankiesleftpeg]

Sept 4, 2024 10:37:41 GMT 1 tepidterrier said:

How did the new B team lads play? All I know is Thomas missed a 1 on 1, wasn't watching or following the game. What were the others like?

I don't think Ashia touched the ball in the first 15 mins but he grew into the game and at 17 looks a decent prospect. Vost did ok but nothing of real note.Thomas should have buried his one on one with the keeper but worked hard alongside Ward up front. Iropenda was the stand out player for me & deserves a start in the league.

[Terrier Ramone]

Out of the 3, Ashia was by far the most promising, he looks a very decent prospect for 17. He grew into the match, showed energy, some ability on the ball & a lovely turn in the box (theirs, not ours, quite surprisingly). The other 2, especially Vost, gave the impression they are nowhere near ready for this level yet.

[royrace]

Sept 4, 2024 8:39:09 GMT 1 oneneilwarnock said:

Sept 3, 2024 22:36:39 GMT 1 Sio said:

How anyone can think this is anything but concerning behaviour from a chairman is beyond me; especially given he feels the need to take pops at anyone criticising the club.

He's so deeply unprofessional and naive given his position and unfortunately this type of behaviour directly contradicts the work that Edwards and DTS have done to improve the Club's image.

Literally no other chairman in the top 3 divisions does it or ever has, yet ours think it helps. It doesn't, how many times can you tweet its not good enough before you start having to look at yourself rather than blaming others. 

I don't think he thinks it helps. I think he's just a passionate guy, doesn't like losing and thinks fuck it, it's my club, I'll say what I want.

[Bilo the Bantam]

Sept 3, 2024 21:04:18 GMT 1 terriersyndrome said:

I see the loser mentality has crossed over to the fans now and think it's fine to lose 3 on the bounce.

Graham Alexander, yesterday.

"If we put that shirt on and go out onto that pitch, it does not matter what competition it is.
"It does not matter what team we are playing, what day it is or what competition it is, we have a duty to go out there and represent so many people. We must give 100% unconditionally.
"If we want to be successful this season, we cannot take any short-cuts.”

[artysid]

Sept 4, 2024 11:36:32 GMT 1 Sio said:

Sept 3, 2024 23:22:36 GMT 1 royrace said:

Same here, it's his club, personally I wouldn't do it but I don't get the notion that it's really bad and it will somehow upset the coach and players.

Everyone has pressure, Wrexham have a film crew and people all over the world watching their every move. Brum have the most expensive team in L1 history. Town have the chairman putting out tweets which are read by a few hundred folk, so what. He's right as well.... It's not fcking good enough!

It's just a bit immature and contradictory isn't it. 

Only 5 days ago we had him arguing with people on Twitter for having the cheek to question our transfer strategy around not bringing in enough reinforcements. We now play a weakened side - partly due to the competition, partly due to lack of options - and he decides that now it's "Not good enough!!!". Surely at the very least you would hold back that opinion given a number of kids played and save it for our next defeat? 

His attitude just doesn't add up to me. No composure, no apparent strategy. I really want to like him - and I still sort of do - but too frequently he acts up like someone with zero self-awareness or control and it makes it really difficult to keep a positive impression of him. 

Also don't get me started on 'it's his club'. Yes he owns and funds it, but that doesn't mean he should just do whatever he wants with us. 

I’ve no doubt he cares about the Club, but that doesn’t mean his decisions will always work out to be in its best interests, but he’s not the only one. Take the Cowshed Loyal for example. There’s no doubt they love the Club, and maybe some of them really believe the ‘atmosphere’ they create makes a difference to the number of points we win over the season, but how many of them would kick up a hissy fit if they were asked to vacate the stand on those occasions when we could fill it with away fans and create extras revenue for the Club.?

[terriersyndrome]

Sept 4, 2024 22:31:02 GMT 1 artysid said:

Sept 4, 2024 11:36:32 GMT 1 Sio said:

It's just a bit immature and contradictory isn't it. 

Only 5 days ago we had him arguing with people on Twitter for having the cheek to question our transfer strategy around not bringing in enough reinforcements. We now play a weakened side - partly due to the competition, partly due to lack of options - and he decides that now it's "Not good enough!!!". Surely at the very least you would hold back that opinion given a number of kids played and save it for our next defeat? 

His attitude just doesn't add up to me. No composure, no apparent strategy. I really want to like him - and I still sort of do - but too frequently he acts up like someone with zero self-awareness or control and it makes it really difficult to keep a positive impression of him. 

Also don't get me started on 'it's his club'. Yes he owns and funds it, but that doesn't mean he should just do whatever he wants with us. 

I’ve no doubt he cares about the Club, but that doesn’t mean his decisions will always work out to be in its best interests, but he’s not the only one. Take the Cowshed Loyal for example. There’s no doubt they love the Club, and maybe some of them really believe the ‘atmosphere’ they create makes a difference to the number of points we win over the season, but how many of them would kick up a hissy fit if they were asked to vacate the stand on those occasions when we could fill it with away fans and create extras revenue for the Club.?

How many would bring 4k? Bolton, Birmingham?

[melbourneterrier]

Extended highlights.

I didn't see the game, so notes from this is:

Peter Thomas did well to get a decent 1 on 1 chance, but he puts it wide

Their first goal came from their backline with a decent passage of passing, then a through ball Ruffels got outpaced on the outside. Chapman to his credit stopped the initial effort but the rebound was neatly taken. Looks like both Ruffles and I think its Headley both momentarily paused or at least slowed down when Chapman made the initial save, leaving their player Yeboah with the finish. Disappointing defending

Ashia put a decent switch pass to Headley, then put it for Iopenda who played it wide to Turton, good cross to an open Danny Ward to taps it in. Ward was completely open

We were forced to defend back to back corners shortly after Vost gave a free kick in a fairly dangerous position. He just about stopped playing to look at the ref waiting for his whistle. Headley got nutmegged in the box too

Another corner, somehow their player was able to cross despite having Evans and Turton there.

Evans with a good switch, taken neatly by Sorenson who then sets up Evans with a good chance but straight to the keeper

Yet another corner which led to the penalty given by Wiles. Chapman did dive the right away, but couldn't get a hand to it.

Sorenson with a decent cross, but it goes to Headley at the other side, manages his own cross. Iopenda goes down in the box but deemed nothing in it, also an appeal for a handball but looks to be more ball to hand.

We get another couple of corners, Turton heads over the bar. Turton in turn supplies a good cross only for Pearson to head wide.

[dezzly]

Sept 5, 2024 2:05:07 GMT 1 melbourneterrier said:

Extended highlights.

I didn't see the game, so notes from this is:

Peter Thomas did well to get a decent 1 on 1 chance, but he puts it wide

Their first goal came from their backline with a decent passage of passing, then a through ball Ruffels got outpaced on the outside. Chapman to his credit stopped the initial effort but the rebound was neatly taken. Looks like both Ruffles and I think its Headley both momentarily paused or at least slowed down when Chapman made the initial save, leaving their player Yeboah with the finish. Disappointing defending

Ashia put a decent switch pass to Headley, then put it for Iopenda who played it wide to Turton, good cross to an open Danny Ward to taps it in. Ward was completely open

We were forced to defend back to back corners shortly after Vost gave a free kick in a fairly dangerous position. He just about stopped playing to look at the ref waiting for his whistle. Headley got nutmegged in the box too

Another corner, somehow their player was able to cross despite having Evans and Turton there.

Evans with a good switch, taken neatly by Sorenson who then sets up Evans with a good chance but straight to the keeper

Yet another corner which led to the penalty given by Wiles. Chapman did dive the right away, but couldn't get a hand to it.

Sorenson with a decent cross, but it goes to Headley at the other side, manages his own cross. Iopenda goes down in the box but deemed nothing in it, also an appeal for a handball but looks to be more ball to hand.

We get another couple of corners, Turton heads over the bar. Turton in turn supplies a good cross only for Pearson to head wide.

Pretty much it.Everything in between was pretty even Steven with us probably slightly shading the possession without doing an awful lot with it.

Side notes for me…it’s a penalty on iorpenda,turton should score,Pearson should at least hit the target and the evans shot though more difficult should make the keeper work harder at least.
Duff didn’t think theirs was a penalty but it looked clumsy to me although slightly unlucky also.
Iv seen folk on twitter say we looked worse when the starters came on,I agree for maybe the first 5 or so minutes they were on but after that but after that they settled in and we carved out those 3 chances when they were on the pitch.
As another side note on league form,yes performances have looked to have dropped but perspective needed from many,we’ve taken 3 wins from 4 and although the performance was not the best we would probably have taken a point on Saturday had the referee not given that penalty.Were we to win one,draw one and lose one from the next 3 we’d be on 13 points from 7 games,or 1.85ppg.If taken across the entire season that’s 85 points.Which over the last two seasons in the division sees you comfortably in the playoffs.Anyone writing the season off after 4 league games maybe wants to calm down a touch.It’s been a bad 10 days.

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Sept 4, 2024 22:31:02 GMT 1 artysid said:

Sept 4, 2024 11:36:32 GMT 1 Sio said:

It's just a bit immature and contradictory isn't it. 

Only 5 days ago we had him arguing with people on Twitter for having the cheek to question our transfer strategy around not bringing in enough reinforcements. We now play a weakened side - partly due to the competition, partly due to lack of options - and he decides that now it's "Not good enough!!!". Surely at the very least you would hold back that opinion given a number of kids played and save it for our next defeat? 

His attitude just doesn't add up to me. No composure, no apparent strategy. I really want to like him - and I still sort of do - but too frequently he acts up like someone with zero self-awareness or control and it makes it really difficult to keep a positive impression of him. 

Also don't get me started on 'it's his club'. Yes he owns and funds it, but that doesn't mean he should just do whatever he wants with us. 

I’ve no doubt he cares about the Club, but that doesn’t mean his decisions will always work out to be in its best interests, but he’s not the only one. Take the Cowshed Loyal for example. There’s no doubt they love the Club, and maybe some of them really believe the ‘atmosphere’ they create makes a difference to the number of points we win over the season, but how many of them would kick up a hissy fit if they were asked to vacate the stand on those occasions when we could fill it with away fans and create extras revenue for the Club.?

That's a bizarre analogy but I'll humour it: if you want to get into the depths of that discussion, you have to first accept that finances might occasionally be outweighed by other benefits.

Ironically, the Kevin discussion isn't dissimilar. He's providing finances no doubt, but perhaps his decisions elsewhere might begin to outweigh the impact of the money he's putting in.