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Post by Hobhead on Dec 15, 2020 21:02:55 GMT
We look like we’re trying to break at least - there’s movement up front when we win possession. Pritchard and Sutton are shite. Cousin-Dawson has shown flashes of promise and Paudie’s getting a bit of the cunt back about him. Mixed bag but I think we’ll go on to lose this by the odd goal. Pritchard has been anonymous but I’ve thought Sutton has been ok. Nowt special but ok. He’s put in a few good tackles since then and one Hollywood pass to Pritchard so I’m upgrading him to ‘average’. We’re playing well at the minute.
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Post by edin on Dec 15, 2020 21:04:31 GMT
Two guilt edged chances fluffed.
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Post by mikehunt on Dec 15, 2020 21:05:22 GMT
Pritchard has been anonymous but I’ve thought Sutton has been ok. Nowt special but ok. He’s put in a few good tackles since then and one Hollywood pass to Pritchard so I’m upgrading him to ‘average’. We’re playing well at the minute. Best five minutes of the season. That pass from Sutton was lovely
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Post by Dick on Dec 15, 2020 21:15:13 GMT
Crawley haven't had a shot on target yet.
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 15, 2020 21:25:20 GMT
If these manage to score we’d only be one point ahead of Southend.
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Post by edin on Dec 15, 2020 21:40:29 GMT
AOC should've gone down in a heap and got their lad sent off
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 15, 2020 21:42:08 GMT
Much better performance that. We’ve needed a bit of fight if nothing else for weeks now.
Suspicious that they never did it for McCall.
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Post by bantam147 on Dec 15, 2020 21:48:50 GMT
Much better performance that. We’ve needed a bit of fight if nothing else for weeks now. Suspicious that they never did it for McCall. Thats the first League 2 performance we've put in all season.
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Post by Lofty on Dec 15, 2020 22:08:20 GMT
We looked solid and organised for the first time this season. People seemed to know what their job was.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Dec 15, 2020 22:15:57 GMT
Much better but still quite evident we're very low on quality. Watt is starting to really piss me off, he's got it in him but he's so fucking hollywood
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Post by hobbes on Dec 15, 2020 23:53:51 GMT
Was surprised at the lack of tweets condemning the players for suddenly turning in a performance noe McCall has gone.
But I think some fans underestimate how shit it must be playing out of position, or playing a system that doesn't suit you and your teammates. Even if it's not a conscious thing, if your gaffer is fucking thing up in his job, must be hard to still give a good performance.
Tonight's set up had every single player in a role they are comfortable with, plus gave us some defensive solidity, set pieces and shit own goals notwithstanding.
Throw in a bit of pAsSiOn and shithousery, and bingo, a decent point to stop the rot.
I actually gave a shit for the first time this season.
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Post by edin on Dec 16, 2020 7:40:15 GMT
I was quite pleased to see shithousery its never been McCall to have that, Paudie mastered the arts of it last night.
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Post by Dick on Dec 16, 2020 7:48:41 GMT
Why was it that in 3 goes as manager, not once did McCall ever set us up to be the kind of aggressive, bullying, time wasting, frustrating side we come up against especially in League 2? He had enough losing runs to try and set us up in a different manner to try and grind out a result.
We all know he's a nice guy. Unfortunately I think it translated into his management and playing approach too much. He just didn't read the room in terms of what was going on in general and how we should try to fit into it - asking 4th division players to be things they're not was never going to work.
Even when we went down in 2019 Paudie at least looked like he made for L2 in that regard and being his age everyone was happy we signed him. So if McCall tried to encourage that side out of him, why?
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 16, 2020 8:20:26 GMT
I retract my earlier Sutton comments. I still think he started slowly but from the midpoint of the first half he was really good. Second half he was consistently in and around the action all half. Odd that he looked much more up for the fight given he’s a McCall player.
Paudie MOM for me.
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 16, 2020 8:25:16 GMT
The start of that scuffle was comical. Paudie challenges one of their players and pulls him to the floor on the sly. AOC is heading back towards the incident blissfully unaware and takes a kick from their grounded player who’s got the wrong man. AOC takes umbrage and their player, possibly still thinking he has the right O’Connor, stands his ground. AOC and their lad get a yellow while Paudie gets away Scot free.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Dec 16, 2020 9:25:12 GMT
Don't get me wrong half the team still needs replacing but last night showed that formation suits us and it will work. Clarke and Evans if he shows any form either side of Cooke and we might have won that.
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Post by hobbes on Dec 16, 2020 11:15:04 GMT
The start of that scuffle was comical. Paudie challenges one of their players and pulls him to the floor on the sly. AOC is heading back towards the incident blissfully unaware and takes a kick from their grounded player who’s got the wrong man. AOC takes umbrage and their player, possibly still thinking he has the right O’Connor, stands his ground. AOC and their lad get a yellow while Paudie gets away Scot free. I enjoyed that too. Paudie stayed away long enough to ensure he wasnt identified as the root cause of the incident then steamed in after French to "protect" his teammate
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Post by edin on Dec 16, 2020 12:45:54 GMT
The start of that scuffle was comical. Paudie challenges one of their players and pulls him to the floor on the sly. AOC is heading back towards the incident blissfully unaware and takes a kick from their grounded player who’s got the wrong man. AOC takes umbrage and their player, possibly still thinking he has the right O’Connor, stands his ground. AOC and their lad get a yellow while Paudie gets away Scot free. Paudie is thr master of the dark arts, on last night alone id give him captaincy
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Post by Hoochy on Dec 16, 2020 12:47:29 GMT
The start of that scuffle was comical. Paudie challenges one of their players and pulls him to the floor on the sly. AOC is heading back towards the incident blissfully unaware and takes a kick from their grounded player who’s got the wrong man. AOC takes umbrage and their player, possibly still thinking he has the right O’Connor, stands his ground. AOC and their lad get a yellow while Paudie gets away Scot free. Paudie is thr master of the dark arts, on last night alone id give him captaincy It's about time we had a fucking thug. Far too nice over the years.
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Post by hobbes on Dec 16, 2020 12:54:27 GMT
Paudie is thr master of the dark arts, on last night alone id give him captaincy It's about time we had a fucking thug. Far too nice over the years. I've just watched it again and fair fucks to AOC - when him and Nadesan are head to head, AOC looks strong as fuck and is leaning into him, Nadesan is almost bending over backwards. Watch it again, its funny as fuck. Makes him look a right twat.
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