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Post by Hobhead on Mar 4, 2023 16:39:11 GMT
We seemed to start brightly but lost the midfield battle after the opening ten minutes and Hughes never reacted. Now he has he’s stuck East on the wing and we’re still not controlling the midfield.
We can talk about the players at home all day long but Hughes seems to save all his tactical clangers for Valley Parade.
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Post by tetchyarse on Mar 4, 2023 17:05:45 GMT
Phew!
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Post by Hobhead on Mar 4, 2023 17:10:20 GMT
Talk about getting out of jail. Awful performance but it’s in the books as a two nil win. We’re still riding our luck too much though.
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Post by bantam147 on Mar 4, 2023 17:21:08 GMT
We need to get top 3, because we can't be trusted on the playoffs.
That was shit. Properly random.
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Post by Dick on Mar 4, 2023 17:39:31 GMT
Bizarre result in terms of the performance but you can't not love it.
So much juicier after all their time wasting.
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Post by bantam147 on Mar 4, 2023 17:52:17 GMT
Best points return in the league over the last 6 games.
What a shite league this is.
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Post by hobbes on Mar 4, 2023 19:03:16 GMT
The thrill of injury time and sticking two past the time wasting fuckers was worth sitting through the previous 90 minutes.
Most promising aspect was that Hughes really went for it, stuck all his attacking threats on and took off the three slowest players in League 2. We might’ve got lucky but fuck it. In the past he’s seemed to settle for a point, but not today. If that’s going to be his attitude for the rest of the season it’s the most optimistic I’ve been in years.
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Post by benitocarbone on Mar 4, 2023 19:06:52 GMT
How much better did the subs make us today? Why the fuck did we persist for so long with the turgid starting line up and tactics? I want to see that balls out line up which finished the game from the start of games at home from now on.
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Post by sedg on Mar 4, 2023 19:14:03 GMT
Jamie Walker celebrating in front of Akinde's face made my day.
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Post by Hobhead on Mar 4, 2023 19:20:58 GMT
We need to get top 3, because we can't be trusted on the playoffs. That was shit. Properly random. This team would turn up at Wembley and put in one of those thousand pass no shot performances. It’s frustrating as fuck because when we go at teams we look good and the opposition look overwhelmed.
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Post by Hobhead on Mar 4, 2023 19:43:27 GMT
Would like to add that Scott Banks is a lovely footballer.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Mar 4, 2023 20:50:10 GMT
No idea how we managed that but it's a great result and about time we had a win like that. Chuffed for Banks and Chapman getting on and reminding Hughes they still have a part to play. Lewis and Platt were a big reason we still had a chance today but fuck me why are we still shite at home.
We looked leggy, static, cumbersome and there were huge holes all over the pitch that they were getting into but we were nowhere near.
Expecting 7 points from next 3 before Carlisle setting up a huge top 3 clash with them
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Post by Neshead on Mar 4, 2023 20:55:22 GMT
No idea how we managed that but it's a great result and about time we had a win like that. Chuffed for Banks and Chapman getting on and reminding Hughes they still have a part to play. Lewis and Platt were a big reason we still had a chance today but fuck me why are we still shite at home. We looked leggy, static, cumbersome and there were huge holes all over the pitch that they were getting into but we were nowhere near. Expecting 7 points from next 3 before Carlisle setting up a huge top 3 clash with them Should market the Carlisle game like this one today. If they are where they are now they should bring 2,000 or so. Could beat the crowd record again.
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Post by You can't beat a double dip on Mar 4, 2023 21:31:27 GMT
For me that was always gonna be the hardest game we played in this run. They don’t concede many and defend well. Hughes knew how important that game was and you could tell by the subs he made.. whe we go up top 3 we’ll look back on this game as the turning point. The fact we can bring those players off the bench shows how strong this squad is. We’re turning into an international cricket team.. one team for your away games (test team) and a completely different team for your home games (ODI team). Start with a deep lying midfield of Clayton and A N other and an attacking 4 of Banks Chapman, cook and Walker and I’m convinced we’ll easily get top 3
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Mar 4, 2023 22:28:58 GMT
For me that was always gonna be the hardest game we played in this run. They don’t concede many and defend well. Hughes knew how important that game was and you could tell by the subs he made.. whe we go up top 3 we’ll look back on this game as the turning point. The fact we can bring those players off the bench shows how strong this squad is. We’re turning into an international cricket team.. one team for your away games (test team) and a completely different team for your home games (ODI team). Start with a deep lying midfield of Clayton and A N other and an attacking 4 of Banks Chapman, cook and Walker and I’m convinced we’ll easily get top 3 Said it all season,best squad in this shitty league but Hughes has held us back. Probably left it far too late to be champions but top 3 is minimum requirement for me.
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Post by You can't beat a double dip on Mar 4, 2023 23:09:22 GMT
For me that was always gonna be the hardest game we played in this run. They don’t concede many and defend well. Hughes knew how important that game was and you could tell by the subs he made.. whe we go up top 3 we’ll look back on this game as the turning point. The fact we can bring those players off the bench shows how strong this squad is. We’re turning into an international cricket team.. one team for your away games (test team) and a completely different team for your home games (ODI team). Start with a deep lying midfield of Clayton and A N other and an attacking 4 of Banks Chapman, cook and Walker and I’m convinced we’ll easily get top 3 Said it all season,best squad in this shitty league but Hughes has held us back. Probably left it far too late to be champions but top 3 is minimum requirement for me. Think we have to accept Hughes is learning what this level is all about so is bound to make mistakes… it does appear like he’s realised what’s required… Leyton Orient will be champions they’re too far infront. However 2nd and 3rd is easily achievable.. we win in Tuesday and I think those places are ours
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Post by Hoochy on Mar 4, 2023 23:44:21 GMT
I like your confidence but I still see us as very vulnerable. They were decent and could, maybe should, have scored at least once today. That would have put our lads and the crowd on a downer that would probably see us lose yet again today.
As it stands it's a great 3 points and a great week we've had but I'm not fully convinced we're top 3 quality.
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Post by Hobhead on Mar 5, 2023 7:29:45 GMT
I like your confidence but I still see us as very vulnerable. They were decent and could, maybe should, have scored at least once today. That would have put our lads and the crowd on a downer that would probably see us lose yet again today. As it stands it's a great 3 points and a great week we've had but I'm not fully convinced we're top 3 quality. Same. Obviously a 2-0 win is welcome but, aside from the result, there wasn’t much in the way of positives we could take from that game. Colchester dominated large parts of it and we failed to take advantage when they faded. The Gillingham game had me believing, yesterday has brought back the doubts for me. We need to be better.
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Post by You can't beat a double dip on Mar 5, 2023 9:28:52 GMT
I like your confidence but I still see us as very vulnerable. They were decent and could, maybe should, have scored at least once today. That would have put our lads and the crowd on a downer that would probably see us lose yet again today. As it stands it's a great 3 points and a great week we've had but I'm not fully convinced we're top 3 quality. Most of the teams in and around us are up and down also. It seems no one wants to get those last 2 auto spots. No reason we can’t with the fixtures we have. Especially considering all the top 7 have to play each other still
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