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Post by deadly on Nov 13, 2024 14:08:12 GMT
And even Dave must now admit that when a player is so shite he gets subbed on and then off again TWO GAMES RUNNING, it IS ludicrous! That wasn’t the point I made. Clearly continuing to use a player who clearly isn’t good enough is ridiculous. But to name him Ludicrous is out of order in my opinion. As I said before, he has a given name, use it. Also, I’m not gonna repeat yet again my opinion of Alexis, but I’ve read several posts on here and Facebook suggesting the goal was down to him. Whether you describe him as Ludicrous or Ridiculous, you're just splitting hairs. |
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Post by jdl on Nov 13, 2024 14:46:33 GMT
And even Dave must now admit that when a player is so shite he gets subbed on and then off again TWO GAMES RUNNING, it IS ludicrous! That wasn’t the point I made. Clearly continuing to use a player who clearly isn’t good enough is ridiculous. But to name him Ludicrous is out of order in my opinion. As I said before, he has a given name, use it. Also, I’m not gonna repeat yet again my opinion of Alexis, but I’ve read several posts on here and Facebook suggesting the goal was down to him. You're quite right (re 'Ludicrous') - just laziness on my part. I still have my doubts about our goalie too. He's good, but I don't feel 100% confident in him. Still, if we scored more than one bloody goal a game, it wouldn't matter! |
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Post by daveu on Nov 13, 2024 14:50:53 GMT
That wasn’t the point I made. Clearly continuing to use a player who clearly isn’t good enough is ridiculous. But to name him Ludicrous is out of order in my opinion. As I said before, he has a given name, use it. Also, I’m not gonna repeat yet again my opinion of Alexis, but I’ve read several posts on here and Facebook suggesting the goal was down to him. Whether you describe him as Ludicrous or Ridiculous, you're just splitting hairs. It’s not about describing him as ludicrous. It’s about using it instead of his given name. Just because he isn’t good enough is no reason to be insulting or disrespectful to him as a person. By all means say he’s not good enough because on current evidence he clearly isn’t. But name calling is unacceptable. |
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Post by stonematiz on Nov 13, 2024 14:52:38 GMT
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Post by jdl on Nov 13, 2024 14:56:32 GMT
Sorry but I can't get onboard with anyone saying this is a good point. In the context of the game it's 2 points lost. We were ahead and Torquay were poor - their commentator sounded totally dejected at times by their play. Alexis makes a big error conceding a goal that Sunday league keepers should save. Poor subs, Benton was removed (our best player) and Paps removed so Lodovica could play 12 mins and be removed. It can be seen both ways. It’s frustrating we conceded so late and so avoidably. The poor start puts a a bit more pressure on to get wins. I was looking at the live table when we were one up and it looked ok. A point at Torquay is a good point It would still have been three points if we'd scored more than one! That's the problem - when you're only 1 up, you're always just an accident or a mistake away from losing two points. OK, if we score late and salvage a draw, but when we do score early, we can't seem to profit from it. We are a pretty good footballing side at the moment, sometimes even spectacularly good, and we've got plenty of players who can score goals - but somehow we don't. Is it psychological, or a strategy/tactics thing, or what?? Sort that out and we are championship contenders. But if we carry on like this, and we'll be lucky to make the play-offs. |
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Post by pwoodstone on Nov 13, 2024 15:48:07 GMT
It can be seen both ways. It’s frustrating we conceded so late and so avoidably. The poor start puts a a bit more pressure on to get wins. I was looking at the live table when we were one up and it looked ok. A point at Torquay is a good point It would still have been three points if we'd scored more than one! That's the problem - when you're only 1 up, you're always just an accident or a mistake away from losing two points. OK, if we score late and salvage a draw, but when we do score early, we can't seem to profit from it. We are a pretty good footballing side at the moment, sometimes even spectacularly good, and we've got plenty of players who can score goals - but somehow we don't. Is it psychological, or a strategy/tactics thing, or what?? Sort that out and we are championship contenders. But if we carry on like this, and we'll be lucky to make the play-offs. Agreed. Last season we had a similar spell (most of the season), where we sat back when ahead. This season it is more inability to get the second rather than the mindset. |
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Post by nick on Nov 13, 2024 16:00:28 GMT
It can be seen both ways. It’s frustrating we conceded so late and so avoidably. The poor start puts a a bit more pressure on to get wins. I was looking at the live table when we were one up and it looked ok. A point at Torquay is a good point It would still have been three points if we'd scored more than one! That's the problem - when you're only 1 up, you're always just an accident or a mistake away from losing two points. OK, if we score late and salvage a draw, but when we do score early, we can't seem to profit from it. We are a pretty good footballing side at the moment, sometimes even spectacularly good, and we've got plenty of players who can score goals - but somehow we don't. Is it psychological, or a strategy/tactics thing, or what?? Sort that out and we are championship contenders. But if we carry on like this, and we'll be lucky to make the play-offs. Imo luck will have nothing to do with it. If we carry on playing like this we will make the play-offs, 100% definite. |
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Post by nws on Nov 13, 2024 16:09:27 GMT
Sorry but I can't get onboard with anyone saying this is a good point. In the context of the game it's 2 points lost. We were ahead and Torquay were poor - their commentator sounded totally dejected at times by their play. Alexis makes a big error conceding a goal that Sunday league keepers should save. Poor subs, Benton was removed (our best player) and Paps removed so Lodovica could play 12 mins and be removed. To me this game was surrendered on poor substitutions. Unless Paps was injured, taking him off for Harry made no sense, regardless of whether you think Harry is any good. We were defending comfortably and breaking regularly. The subs at the end just unsettled things more. Bivesh gave away silly free kicks, one of which ended up in the net. Instead of a last five minutes where we defended then picked them off we had 5 mins of panic. Tbf we did regroup and nearly won it at the death |
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Post by jackster on Nov 13, 2024 16:23:49 GMT
Torquay's equaliser could and probably should have been saved.
Probably dived too early.
It was the bounce that beat him.
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Post by deadly on Nov 13, 2024 16:24:38 GMT
Sorry but I can't get onboard with anyone saying this is a good point. In the context of the game it's 2 points lost. We were ahead and Torquay were poor - their commentator sounded totally dejected at times by their play. Alexis makes a big error conceding a goal that Sunday league keepers should save. Poor subs, Benton was removed (our best player) and Paps removed so Lodovica could play 12 mins and be removed. To me this game was surrendered on poor substitutions. Unless Paps was injured, taking him off for Harry made no sense, regardless of whether you think Harry is any good. We were defending comfortably and breaking regularly. The subs at the end just unsettled things more. Bivesh gave away silly free kicks, one of which ended up in the net. Instead of a last five minutes where we defended then picked them off we had 5 mins of panic. Tbf we did regroup and nearly won it at the death |
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Post by deadly on Nov 13, 2024 16:25:48 GMT
But Bivesh always gives away free kicks.
It's what he does.
As for Harry, havn't you made your mind up about him yet ?
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Post by pwoodstone on Nov 13, 2024 16:35:09 GMT
But Bivesh always gives away free kicks. It's what he does. As for Harry, havn't you made your mind up about him yet ? Can we stop asking this. Every single person has made their mind up, there is no debate. Everyone. If they’re honest. Everyone. 100% of people. Anyone who says they haven’t are lying. |
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Post by pwoodstone on Nov 13, 2024 16:36:22 GMT
Sorry but I can't get onboard with anyone saying this is a good point. In the context of the game it's 2 points lost. We were ahead and Torquay were poor - their commentator sounded totally dejected at times by their play. Alexis makes a big error conceding a goal that Sunday league keepers should save. Poor subs, Benton was removed (our best player) and Paps removed so Lodovica could play 12 mins and be removed. To me this game was surrendered on poor substitutions. Unless Paps was injured, taking him off for Harry made no sense, regardless of whether you think Harry is any good. We were defending comfortably and breaking regularly. The subs at the end just unsettled things more. Bivesh gave away silly free kicks, one of which ended up in the net. Instead of a last five minutes where we defended then picked them off we had 5 mins of panic. Tbf we did regroup and nearly won it at the death I think we tried to react to their subs and their change of shape to a very attack minded one and it didn’t really work. Credit to them I guess. They out subbed us and out strength off the benched us |
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Post by pienificentgenco on Nov 13, 2024 20:25:31 GMT
But Bivesh always gives away free kicks. It's what he does. As for Harry, havn't you made your mind up about him yet ? I struggle to see what Bivesh ever brings to the team. Surely he can't be dining out on his FA cup goal still, I was amazed he got a new contract for this season |
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Post by jdl on Nov 13, 2024 22:22:40 GMT
Our last 5 games:
1-1
1-0
1-1
1-0
1-1
Goals scored this season:
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1
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4
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1
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