Talky Tuesday

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So, our first double of the season - indeed, treble even.
Well done everyone.

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Well we made hard work of that. Three very good goals, possibly goal of the season from Sam Corne. However we looked dodgy at the back and both their goals were preventable. Having said that, Torquay were nothing like their forum lead us to believe. I expected a team with no spirit or fight. What I didn’t expect was a team of battlers who bullied us at times and would probably have felt hard done by not to get at least a point. All may not be right at the club, but on the pitch at least, they looked a decent side and on that evidence they should still challenge for the playoffs.

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Feb 6, 2024 18:09:36 GMT andrewthehat said:

Just seen a tweet from MUFC that the club shop will be closed tonight due to a “shortage of stock and staff”.

For god's sake - that’s like seeing the local restaurant with a sign saying “Closed for lunch”.

Sometimes, swearwords are not enough.

The lady who runs the shop was taken ill with gastro enteritis at short notice. 

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I think we took them a bit lightly and each time we went ahead on our foot off the pedal: they were half decent though to be fair and as an away performance I thought they deserved a point.

The goals have started to flow now which is timely. Still a bit too easy to score against.

All in all we are still riding that wave of adrenaline I feel.

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Feb 6, 2024 22:48:36 GMT pwoodstone said:

I think we took them a bit lightly and each time we went ahead on our foot off the pedal: they were half decent though to be fair and as an away performance I thought they deserved a point.

The goals have started to flow now which is timely. Still a bit too easy to score against.

All in all we are still riding that wave of adrenaline I feel.

Good summary - although I'm hoping your last point isn't true! I think we effectively have two sides at the moment - the FA Cup one and the NS one, and I'm working on the theory that the league 'side' is different enough (ie it has forwards!) from the Cup 'side' that the fall-out from the Cup run (good or bad) isn't affecting them too much. George seems to have rebuilt the squad very well, so we aren't really missing Amantchi. Hopefully there won't be anywhere near as much of a negative reaction to us (eventually!) crashing out of the Cup as we'd normally expect.

As you say, Torquay were not the rubbish side we might have expected, they had the same quality as Yeovil displayed on Saturday - keeping going, no matter what happened. Without that wonder strike from Sam Corne, it would have been a (probably deserved) draw. But it wasn't - and that's just how football is!

Good crowd for a rainy Tuesday night too, especially as the Met Office were predicting winds of 40mph+ (which mysteriously didn't appear). And they will have gone home (well, the local ones!) wanting to come back. After Saturday's 'antics' I was afraid we might have put many of the new FAC fans off. Respect to the Torquay fans too - a long way to come on a Tuesday evening in February, and they didn't really deserve to see their team lose. They were also a wonderful contrast to the Yeovil nutters. I can understand, after Saturday, why we were segregated, but there was utterly no reason for it in reality.

As for the 'treble', rare as it is to see that, we could well be claiming only our second ever 'quadruple' if we and Torquay both make the play-offs. The only other time we managed this was against Truro in 2015/16 when we did the double over them and then beat them twice in the play-offs - an impossible feat to repeat ( a league quadruple), as the play-off format is no longer two-legged.

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And I forgot the ref!!! He managed two yellows for (rather minor) kicking the ball away, but watched moments of utter carnage and criminal levels of 'gamesmanship', without even blowing his whistle. That no. 19, for instance, was a complete thug and a wind-up merchant, and should definitely have gone for a double yellow at the least. I don't know how Covolan put up with him - made me wonder if, given his disciplinary record, they'd deliberately told that player to push him (actually, as well as metaphorically) as far as he could.

Oh - and our goals. Blinders, every one. And Corne's was a goal of the season candidate - worth the admission for that alone. If you don't normally watch the highlights, definitively watch them this time.

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Feb 6, 2024 23:19:27 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

And I forgot the ref!!! He managed two yellows for (rather minor) kicking the ball away, but watched moments of utter carnage and criminal levels of 'gamesmanship', without even blowing his whistle. That no. 19, for instance, was a complete thug and a wind-up merchant, and should definitely gone for a double yellow at the least.

19 was the player who got sent off against us playing for Hungerford two seasons ago. First yellow for elbowing Gavin in the stomach. Second for a hand in Sam Corne’s face. We came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

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Feb 6, 2024 18:35:03 GMT nws said:

Lots of places struggle for staff now, despite 2022's record 745,000+ net migration. I'm surprised this army of British we were promised haven't come forward

its now more than ever, and expensive thing hiring staff and very difficult firing them nonce they are a spent force...

..unless its a zero hrs contract or you're P&O and ultimately owned my the Saudis. 
Again, on that front, sun-loving Brits all were happy to get their ferry crossing, despite .

Same as the Im Backing Britain campaign in the early 70's , trying to stem the imports by loyalty to fellow workforce. That too worked out well. 

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Feb 6, 2024 23:24:52 GMT daveu said:

Feb 6, 2024 23:19:27 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

And I forgot the ref!!! He managed two yellows for (rather minor) kicking the ball away, but watched moments of utter carnage and criminal levels of 'gamesmanship', without even blowing his whistle. That no. 19, for instance, was a complete thug and a wind-up merchant, and should definitely gone for a double yellow at the least.

19 was the player who got sent off against us playing for Hungerford two seasons ago. First yellow for elbowing Gavin in the stomach. Second for a hand in Sam Corne’s face. We came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

I thought he was familiar. Typical Hungerford thug!

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Feb 6, 2024 22:35:54 GMT @61666 said:

So, our first double of the season - indeed, treble even.
Well done everyone.

Thank you

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A great victory tonight.

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Highlights.

youtu.be/Ne5FoMoJkyM?feature=shared

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Had to chuckle at this comment on the Torquay forum

"Not what we deserved though really. Maidstone are ultimately a poor side and we've lost to them 3 times this season"

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Feb 6, 2024 23:24:52 GMT daveu said:

Feb 6, 2024 23:19:27 GMT @johndaubneyslegs said:

And I forgot the ref!!! He managed two yellows for (rather minor) kicking the ball away, but watched moments of utter carnage and criminal levels of 'gamesmanship', without even blowing his whistle. That no. 19, for instance, was a complete thug and a wind-up merchant, and should definitely gone for a double yellow at the least.

19 was the player who got sent off against us playing for Hungerford two seasons ago. First yellow for elbowing Gavin in the stomach. Second for a hand in Sam Corne’s face. We came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

He turned out for both Hythe and Sittingbourne last season and Concorde this season

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Feb 6, 2024 18:09:36 GMT andrewthehat said:

Just seen a tweet from MUFC that the club shop will be closed tonight due to a “shortage of stock and staff”.

For god's sake - that’s like seeing the local restaurant with a sign saying “Closed for lunch”.

Sometimes, swearwords are not enough.

Next time you spend 6 hours in A&E I'll expect you to be in work within hours,