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Post by pigbag on Oct 5, 2019 22:00:35 GMT
At the risk of upsetting Shammy, it's not enough that we are better than last season and we're in the 4Q. We showed how we could play in the first half hour, and, after our second goal, HT must have been collectively shitting themselves, but then we throttled right back, lost our way completely, and very nearly gifted them a replay. Hopefully we'll up our game next Saturday, but those who think we're doing OK and just need to apply ourselves a bit more need to give Dave's back his black and amber glasses. But leave that aside, I know I'm wrong - what bothered me more was the old chestnut of just pumping long balls up and hoping. OK, some of these just happen to land in the right place and look like clever forward passes, but the rest are just the same old, same old. We have a lot of talent in this side - skilled players in the middle, on the wings, and up front, and we play on 3G FFS. So why don't we use all this skill and talent, bring the ball down and play on the ground? When we do we look really good. And, at the risk of getting even more stick, this appears to be mostly down to Big George. Most of the time, the rule at the back seems to be get the ball, pass it to George, and he'll thump it up the pitch (or out of the ground). No disrespect to George, he's a superb defender, and marshals the defence very well, but his constant thumping the ball forward is such a waste. There is no pleasing some folk. This week George gets the stick for clearing his lines and last week the back 4 were rightly criticised for passing the ball sideways until either Pennell made a bad pass or the ball was given to Clovis with 2 men on him and we lost possession. we need wingmen up the field to aim at as we did with Turgott or a striker like Pigott who could hold up the ball. On a different note the person next to me had not noticed Edwards had come on about 10 mins from time and commented "That player needs to be substituted, he looks nackered" I cannot understand why the management persist with Edwards when they could be giving minutes to Jake Embury.
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Post by pwe on Oct 5, 2019 22:06:56 GMT
Not a good performance over 90 minutes, probably the worst of the season at home. Excellent for 20 minutes after Hitchin got their fluke goal but what happened after that ? So flat, so poor, Hitchen must have come away feeling very disappointed. Terrific penalty save by Cole and 2 excellent goals by Chesmain and Akanbi. After that all very forgettable. No punch up front today and not good enough in midfield again. Johnson also deserves some credit for the follow up to Cole's save. Their player looked destined to put in the rebound, but fantastic alertness and a superb sliding tackle kept us in the lead. I wonder if today might have been last chance saloon for Chei. Not sure he actually contributed a great deal and looks far too lightweight. Justin did more in 20 minutes than Nana did in 70. I’m far from Nana’s biggest fan, but both our goal scorers were on the end of his passes
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Post by Better things to do in life on Oct 5, 2019 22:54:32 GMT
Why didn’t we carry on as we were when we scored our two goals, laying siege to Hitchin, and kill the game?
How did we let them get back into it?
I’m sure Hak and John will not be happy with the performance and we certainly have to up our game for the next league outing.
As for losing players(like Nana?) we have to have new ones lined up first!
I think therefore we are stuck with who we’ve got and they need to learn to play in top gear for more than twenty minutes each game.
Also, thank God for Jake Cole!
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Post by ade on Oct 6, 2019 1:22:52 GMT
Why didn’t we carry on as we were when we scored our two goals, laying siege to Hitchin, and kill the game? How did we let them get back into it? I’m sure Hak and John will not be happy with the performance and we certainly have to up our game for the next league outing. As for losing players(like Nana?) we have to have new ones lined up first! I think therefore we are stuck with who we’ve got and they need to learn to play in top gear for more than twenty minutes each game. Also, thank God for Jake Cole! I am sure John and Hak will not be happy with that performance. It makes you wonder what they said at half time, as the second half was a lot poorer than the first half 😉
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Post by shamstone on Oct 6, 2019 1:57:07 GMT
At the risk of upsetting Shammy, it's not enough that we are better than last season and we're in the 4Q. We showed how we could play in the first half hour, and, after our second goal, HT must have been collectively shitting themselves, but then we throttled right back, lost our way completely, and very nearly gifted them a replay. Hopefully we'll up our game next Saturday, but those who think we're doing OK and just need to apply ourselves a bit more need to give Dave's back his black and amber glasses. But leave that aside, I know I'm wrong - what bothered me more was the old chestnut of just pumping long balls up and hoping. OK, some of these just happen to land in the right place and look like clever forward passes, but the rest are just the same old, same old. We have a lot of talent in this side - skilled players in the middle, on the wings, and up front, and we play on 3G FFS. So why don't we use all this skill and talent, bring the ball down and play on the ground? When we do we look really good. And, at the risk of getting even more stick, this appears to be mostly down to Big George. Most of the time, the rule at the back seems to be get the ball, pass it to George, and he'll thump it up the pitch (or out of the ground). No disrespect to George, he's a superb defender, and marshals the defence very well, but his constant thumping the ball forward is such a waste. It’s not about upsetting. I think a few are missing my point JDL. We are playing shit, but we’re still winning. No
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Post by jdh80 on Oct 6, 2019 2:04:38 GMT
Why didn’t we carry on as we were when we scored our two goals, laying siege to Hitchin, and kill the game? How did we let them get back into it? I’m sure Hak and John will not be happy with the performance and we certainly have to up our game for the next league outing. As for losing players(like Nana?) we have to have new ones lined up first! I think therefore we are stuck with who we’ve got and they need to learn to play in top gear for more than twenty minutes each game. Also, thank God for Jake Cole! With regards to players coming and going didn't we hit the budget with our current squad?? If so then new arrivals would only be coming in if we let one/two go, as you'd need to free up the budget space.
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Post by steveh21 on Oct 6, 2019 6:33:25 GMT
It was a cup game..we were there to be scalped..we won..we won £11000...into the next round. Move on.
After last season's shite i'd take the above every week.
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Post by Bernie on Oct 6, 2019 6:52:27 GMT
Who do we want in the draw?
Whyteleafe Billericay Dartford Bristol Manor Farm/Wealdstone Canvey Island/Bowers and Pitsea Chichester City Chippenham/Slough Dulwich Hamlet Haringey Havant and W Hayes and Yeading Kings Langley Kingstonian/Weston Super Mare Carshalton Maldon and Tiptree Oxford City Royston Town Margate Poole Potters Bar Welling United Weymouth Bromley Yeovil Town Woking Barnet Dagenham and R Dover Torquay Boreham Wood Eastleigh Maidenhead Sutton United Aldershot Ebbsfleet
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Post by Nick on Oct 6, 2019 7:27:18 GMT
Is it too much to ask for a home draw against lower league opposition again ? Probably as the cream rises to the top, there are not so many comfortable looking ties. But a home match v Margate would be rather nice.
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Post by 61666 on Oct 6, 2019 7:46:22 GMT
Nobody from the NL, except perhaps Fleet and preferably a home game against lower league opposition. Going back to yesterday, we did play a vast amount of hoof ball into the channels and it seemed that HH and JS2 were happy to keep it that way, despite it not working. That style of play can work well when the opposition come at you and you hit them on the break. Leicester do it with some success. However, credit to Hitchin, who sussed out what we were doing and set up to counter it - which they did very well - by a combination of tight marking and discipline in their back line. For once, all our players looked stronger than theirs, but we didn't overpower them. Meanwhile, players who could have changed things simply warmed the bench. Had Hitchin equalised, could we have stepped up again? Not sure, though they have proved they can, as per H&W. The problem was, we lost momentum, couldn't get it back and allowed Hitchin to grow in confidence instead of running up a rugby score that the first 20 mins promised. Wasn't at the St Alban's game, but can see why folk were somehow dissatisfied after a 4-0 win. All the more strange after last season, when we would have been more than happy with yesterday. Playing badly and still winning is not the worst habit to have!
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Post by 1018 on Oct 6, 2019 8:16:35 GMT
Hitchin didn't offer much in the first half but obviously decided to give it a go in the second half and could/should have earned a replay. We still look poor in midfield, presumably Corne wasn't selected following his knock in the St.A game. Important thing is that we are in the next round where the winners get £18,750 & even the losers get £6,250. Home draw against a lower league team again please.
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Post by jakeyboi on Oct 6, 2019 8:18:26 GMT
Next round for me would be home draw against lowest ranked club possible.
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Post by porkystone on Oct 6, 2019 8:22:23 GMT
Next round for me would be home draw against lowest ranked club possible. On the other hand, some nice / rare away grounds we might not otherwise get the chance to visit - Royston would be good, or Haringey, or Kings Langley ?
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Post by rollingstone on Oct 6, 2019 9:33:25 GMT
Going back to the game yesterday, i think that their number 7 looked like he should be on the Olympic diving team!
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Post by pedant on Oct 6, 2019 10:38:17 GMT
Who do we want in the draw? Whyteleafe Billericay Dartford Bristol Manor Farm/Wealdstone Canvey Island/Bowers and Pitsea Chichester City Chippenham/Slough Dulwich Hamlet Haringey Havant and W Hayes and Yeading Kings Langley Kingstonian/Weston Super Mare Carshalton Maldon and Tiptree Oxford City Royston Town Margate Poole Potters Bar Welling United Weymouth Bromley Yeovil Town Woking Barnet Dagenham and R Dover Torquay Boreham Wood Eastleigh Maidenhead Sutton United Aldershot Ebbsfleet At the risk of being "shouted at" because this has been asked and answered before are all the Qualifying Rounds regionalised?
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