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Post by sdg on Mar 10, 2018 18:31:13 GMT
Great result that we can hopefully build on and have a good run to the end of the season. Performance needs few words, desperation from both teams and a complete lack of composure in key areas. Our new back line looks solid which is a massive positive.
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Post by Nick on Mar 10, 2018 18:35:06 GMT
A win and probably a fortuitous one in all honesty but it's three points none the less which should stave off any fears of relegation but the amount of people streaming out before the end rather said it all. Watching that, difficult not to laugh out loud at the poverty of what was served up. Still, of those teams below us only Solihull are in any kind of form so we should be OK. How you start a home game 6 pointer with 4 centre backs is beyond me. Loza MOM for me, dynamite when he came on. agree 100% with porkystone such a negative and defensive set up for the team, wouldn't want to watch that every week but 3 points today was everything
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Post by bendubz on Mar 10, 2018 18:52:45 GMT
Credit where it's due though, the ref may have been garbo but the linos were alright. Don't think either made any mistakes all game and the river side lino helped the ref get a couple of decisions right
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Post by headstone on Mar 10, 2018 19:10:20 GMT
Next two games are real "six-pointers" now. Why is that then? Or am I being whooshed?
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Post by 61666 on Mar 10, 2018 19:17:26 GMT
After 17 games without a win, how anyone can criticise the manner of victory is beyond me. In fact, it was almost as important that we didn't lose. Next two games, against the top two teams, will be very different as they will attack and we might just have more space to do the same. Credit to Jay for engineering that win and to Lee Worgan for important saves at crucial times. Not the worst in the league, either of them, it seems.
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Post by porkystone on Mar 10, 2018 19:18:15 GMT
Next two games are real "six-pointers" now. Why is that then? Or am I being whooshed? Don't think the Sutton game is a six pointer, more like a null pointer..........
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Post by pedant on Mar 10, 2018 19:33:44 GMT
So, our winless run ends and with it we achieve our first double of the season.
With the season we've had there can't be that many possible doubles - but the next three fixtures all are. However I'm not counting poultry of any variety
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Post by Benny on Mar 10, 2018 20:18:10 GMT
Felt we deserved Tranmere more than that. Gotta feel for Torquay. Another league club destroyed by their owners. Why was their fans carried out fighting? Followed out the door by his mates.
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Post by Raymondo316 on Mar 10, 2018 20:22:46 GMT
Why was their fans carried out fighting? Followed out the door by his mates. Apparently they were Dover fans who showed up because their game was called off and then kicked off at the Torquay fans
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Post by soulstone on Mar 10, 2018 20:23:18 GMT
In truth both sides were poor and we have played better and got beaten in the last 17 games. Still a win is a win and will hopefully give the team a big boost.
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Post by hdstone on Mar 10, 2018 20:36:53 GMT
Dire first half, who cares!!!! Both sides obviously scared of losing.
All that mattered was the 3 points, nothing else.
Onwards and upwards.
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Post by jdl on Mar 10, 2018 21:24:06 GMT
Why was their fans carried out fighting? Followed out the door by his mates. Apparently they were Dover fans who showed up because their game was called off and then kicked off at the Torquay fans That explains the weird 'Dover' chant from the EE! I shall never understand the mentality of so-called fans who travel miles to a football game they've got no interest in, just to have a fight. OK, the Football League in the 70s - but this is non-league football in the 21st century! Felt for the Torquay fans today - a late win like that is always a kick in the guts, and they needed the points even more than we did. Football League just a few seasons ago, and now facing the prospect of NS football next season - and no certainty at all about their ground or even the existence of their club. More unites us than divides at this level of football.
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Post by jdl on Mar 10, 2018 21:34:18 GMT
After 17 games without a win, how anyone can criticise the manner of victory is beyond me. In fact, it was almost as important that we didn't lose. Next two games, against the top two teams, will be very different as they will attack and we might just have more space to do the same. Credit to Jay for engineering that win and to Lee Worgan for important saves at crucial times. Not the worst in the league, either of them, it seems. I got a bit tired of the criticism of the team/formation/strategy from people all around me today. OK, it was shite, but my reading of it was that this was Jay's game plan - very defensive in the first half to stifle the game and stop any accidents, then bring the striker(s) off the bench in the second half and start attacking. And it worked. In our situation, what more can you ask than that? It nearly didn't, of course, how the hell they missed that open goal late in stoppage time I don't know (and they missed it by a mile!), but it was always a gamble, so that was the chance Jay took. Had he played a more 'conventional' attacking side and we'd shipped an early goal, everyone would be moaning that he had no plan B and had learnt nothing form our previous games. A win today, or at the very least, not losing, was all that mattered. With the other results going our way, that was a massive three points - it may even turn out to be the win that turned the tide and kept us up. In Jay we trust. Absolutely.
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Post by jdl on Mar 10, 2018 22:32:48 GMT
A blacker day than we thought for Torquay today - they can now no longer reach the play-offs...
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Post by stonepaperscissors on Mar 10, 2018 23:58:17 GMT
Next two games are real "six-pointers" now. Why is that then? Or am I being whooshed? According to some people, every game has either been a must win or a six pointer since about Christmas
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