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Post by stewart on Jan 22, 2023 19:30:26 GMT
I am resigned to the relegation party, anything else is a bonus and I like a bonus. Positive vibes now boys and gals ( and meerkat)
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Post by rollingstone on Jan 23, 2023 6:02:35 GMT
I had £10 bet on a draw, I was due to get £70, at 89 minutes I could have taken a cash out for just over £50, i hung on for the £70....
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Post by bear5 on Jan 23, 2023 9:55:21 GMT
First occasion in some time that I've enjoyed a game - even at 2-0 down there was a degree of positivity. I'm not sure Wrexham were as good as you thought they should be but we did well in the second half.
Barham was excellent again but other than him I'm still finding it difficult to see how we are going to score. I think we need to find a way to help him otherwise he's stranded on his own. Alabi did well when he came on as we played to what he's good at, which is into his feet and him holding off and bringing other people into the game. I would find a way to include him from the start on Tuesday.
I'm not convinced that JBW and Galvin works: they're good players but both are essentially full backs and I don't think Galvin is entirely comfortable playing in front of JBW - I noticed Booty had to tell him to make the run for the cross that led to the first Barham goal. At other times, they both seemed to think the other was doing the job and there was too much space on the left.
A good performance and certainly breeds some confidence for the next few games but we need to win against Aldershot.
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Post by sword65 on Jan 23, 2023 10:11:53 GMT
I had £10 bet on a draw, I was due to get £70, at 89 minutes I could have taken a cash out for just over £50, i hung on for the £70.... Unlucky Sir☹
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Post by 1018 on Jan 23, 2023 10:36:14 GMT
First occasion in some time that I've enjoyed a game - even at 2-0 down there was a degree of positivity. I'm not sure Wrexham were as good as you thought they should be but we did well in the second half. Barham was excellent again but other than him I'm still finding it difficult to see how we are going to score. I think we need to find a way to help him otherwise he's stranded on his own. Alabi did well when he came on as we played to what he's good at, which is into his feet and him holding off and bringing other people into the game. I would find a way to include him from the start on Tuesday. I'm not convinced that JBW and Galvin works: they're good players but both are essentially full backs and I don't think Galvin is entirely comfortable playing in front of JBW - I noticed Booty had to tell him to make the run for the cross that led to the first Barham goal. At other times, they both seemed to think the other was doing the job and there was too much space on the left. A good performance and certainly breeds some confidence for the next few games but we need to win against Aldershot. Agree with all that. Given that Deacon seems to have lost pace but is still one of our most experienced players the I would like to see us play a 4-3-1-2 formation on Tuesday as follows...
Hadler if fit Fowler Bone Ellul JBW Corne Booty Lawson(or Galvin) Deacon Alabi Barham
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Post by grovergreenstone on Jan 23, 2023 10:37:56 GMT
12 players there that I would like to see start. I certainly wouldn't be leaving out Galvin.
I think it has to be Deacon who misses out for me, despite his experience.
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Post by nws on Jan 23, 2023 11:20:23 GMT
First occasion in some time that I've enjoyed a game - even at 2-0 down there was a degree of positivity. I'm not sure Wrexham were as good as you thought they should be but we did well in the second half. Barham was excellent again but other than him I'm still finding it difficult to see how we are going to score. I think we need to find a way to help him otherwise he's stranded on his own. Alabi did well when he came on as we played to what he's good at, which is into his feet and him holding off and bringing other people into the game. I would find a way to include him from the start on Tuesday. I'm not convinced that JBW and Galvin works: they're good players but both are essentially full backs and I don't think Galvin is entirely comfortable playing in front of JBW - I noticed Booty had to tell him to make the run for the cross that led to the first Barham goal. At other times, they both seemed to think the other was doing the job and there was too much space on the left. A good performance and certainly breeds some confidence for the next few games but we need to win against Aldershot. Agree with all that. Given that Deacon seems to have lost pace but is still one of our most experienced players the I would like to see us play a 4-3-1-2 formation on Tuesday as follows... Hadler if fit Fowler Bone Ellul JBW Corne Booty Lawson(or Galvin) Deacon Alabi Barham The JBW/Galvin thing on the left can work really well if Big George looks at things early on and concludes that an Aldershot winger is getting the better of JBW and just swaps the two around. JBW is effective going forward as well. Galvin is just better at handling tricky, turny, fast wingers.
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Post by holysmokes66 on Jan 23, 2023 11:33:04 GMT
Had a few beers post match so not read our feedback, but we dominated that one and were the better team for 90 minutes. I don't want to say there's a conspiracy but would be elated if I was a Wrexham fan tonight to be honest. Ref was one of the worst we've had in a long time. We weren’t The best team for 90 mins. Come on now. Completely stand by it. We moved the ball better, Ellul kept a league one quality striker very quiet for the majority of the game and they certainly didn't look like a side with not only Hollywood owners, but a Disney documentary to boot.
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Post by Rob on Jan 23, 2023 11:45:29 GMT
Nah. Wrexham were better team in first half but Stones ruled the roost in the 2nd half. Imo Mersin hid behind his defenders for their winning goal. Disappointing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2023 12:46:06 GMT
Nah. Wrexham were better team in first half but Stones ruled the roost in the 2nd half. Imo Mersin hid behind his defenders for their winning goal. Disappointing. I don't understand your comment about Mersin. In my view the mistake he made was coming off his line at all. In the highlights, you can see that Mersin was impeded by a Wrexham player who deliberately stood in front of him to do just that. As the ball came across Mersin had about four players between himself and the ball - I think he should have stayed on his line. Instead he's tried to muscle their guy out of the way but in the process loses his balance and then by the time he gets near where he needed to be, he isn't in a position to do anything. He certainly wasn't 'hiding behind his defenders.' he wanted to come out and take control of the situation but he simply couldn't do it (and should not have tried in this case).
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Post by jdl on Jan 23, 2023 12:59:07 GMT
Nah. Wrexham were better team in first half but Stones ruled the roost in the 2nd half. Imo Mersin hid behind his defenders for their winning goal. Disappointing. I don't understand your comment about Mersin. In my view the mistake he made was coming off his line at all. In the highlights, you can see that Mersin was impeded by a Wrexham player who deliberately stood in front of him to do just that. As the ball came across Mersin had about four players between himself and the ball - I think he should have stayed on his line. Instead he's tried to muscle their guy out of the way but in the process loses his balance and then by the time he gets near where he needed to be, he isn't in a position to do anything. He certainly wasn't 'hiding behind his defenders.' he wanted to come out and take control of the situation but he simply couldn't do it (and should not have tried in this case). It's the old 'canny EFL players' thing again, their 'gamesmanship' was just so much more cynical (and successful) than ours - and fooled the ref completely. This is not an aspect of modern football I enjoy, so I wouldn't perticularly want to see Stones players doing the same thing, but certainly we need refs to be much more aware of this sort of thing and not let so much of it go unpunished. It was the difference between draw (or even win) on Saturday and lose, and that shouldn't be what decides a football game.
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Post by Terry on Jan 23, 2023 13:17:58 GMT
The very idea that Mersin doesn't command his 6 yard box. My, oh my, oh my !
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Post by rollingstone on Jan 23, 2023 13:43:14 GMT
I had £10 bet on a draw, I was due to get £70, at 89 minutes I could have taken a cash out for just over £50, i hung on for the £70.... Unlucky Sir☹ That's gambling for you
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Post by jdl on Jan 23, 2023 13:43:16 GMT
Just caught up with the highlights. Such a pity they're so brief these days, those who weren't there missed some classy football from us after we went 2-2.
Still doesn't look like a pen to me - he went down too easily, with no real reason. And the ref bought it - as he did with Binnom-William's 'foul' earlier. Same old, same old.
As for their third, I have to say Mersin doesn't come out of it well. I've no particular bias in the Hadler v Mersin argument (Hadler just shades it for me, but only just - Mersin is stil a pretty good keeper). But that wasn't impressive. I gave him the benefit of the doubt at first because it looked like their no 10 was deliberately blocking him, but I think he was actually more concerned with tussling with Galvin, in fact I'm not even sure he knew he was blocking Mersin. But Mersin allows himself to be blocked and then moves too late and the wrong way when he does move - he can't see the ball and is in no position to even reach it, let alone save it. Perhaps a bigger, beefier keeper could have done better?
Still, these things happen, it's not Mersin's fault that we didn't take our chances and the ref was crap.
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Post by holysmokes66 on Jan 23, 2023 13:45:21 GMT
Nah. Wrexham were better team in first half but Stones ruled the roost in the 2nd half. Imo Mersin hid behind his defenders for their winning goal. Disappointing. Haha, so you're saying on halves it was effectively 50 / 50. Sounds like there's at least a case for Stones being the better side, even if they gave an extra 1% somewhere.
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