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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Branton Rover on September 16, 2023, 09:43:04 pm
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I couldn’t get today due to no seats left - however I’ve seen the Close goal and considering he’s predominantly left footed and he scored from a right footed ball in. IMO it’s a cross we were due a bit of good fortune for a change.
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Watching it live I thought 'that's a terrible cross, it's far too high and there's nobody there. Blimey - it's gone in!'
Watching it back on the low level highlights that Rovers put out I still think the same. If that is meant to be a cross it's an absolutely terrible one, high and looping...
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It was …….a goal who cares
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I think it was just one of those "stick it in the mixer and see what happens"
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I was crap at football but I did score an identical goal v East End Rovers.
Only difference I was on the right wing and crossed the ball and wham straight in top left. I knew it was in the second I let fly and it was a cross and imo Close too let fly and got lucky
But he deserved it and we deserved it :scarf: :scarf: :scarf:
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Probably most goals aren't scored in the way they were intended, like when the ball takes a deflection. Many are scored by means of just blasting the ball towards the goal in a hit-and-hope fashion.
Regardless of whether it was a shot or a cross, it was a goal.
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This is the view:
https://twitter.com/drfc_official/status/1703108477302755569?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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For me it was a last minute whip it in and hope someone can get something on it but it was just perfect to land in the net.
Tbh I loved it, it means we come away with 3 points and off the foot of the table
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Can we call it a cross shot?
I thought he meant it from where I was sat. Just in the seats above the cameraman but at pitch level it does look like a cross.
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It's a shite cross but who cares.
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It’s a bad cross but who cares we were seriously due some luck.
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Close looked up & saw there was only one opportunity with seconds ticking away until the ref blew his whistle for the end of the game.
Drawing on all his experience as a professional footballer, he noticed that their keeper had inadvertently left a gap in the far corner of the goal by taking up the position he had set his feet at in the six yard area.
Ben had judged the wind & atmospheric conditions in the short time he had been on. And so, he summoned up all of that ‘knowledge’ & experience, shut his eyes & ‘lofted one in’.
Being an experienced lip reader, I could tell that as his teammates ran towards him he was mouthing the words “Was that in, was that my goal, was I offside, is it Christmas morning?”.
He’ll take that one as I do!
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Don’t give a flying ……. It went in, we were due a bit of luck and we won the game. That’s all that matters to me. :rtid:
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Probably most goals aren't scored in the way they were intended, like when the ball takes a deflection. Many are scored by means of just blasting the ball towards the goal in a hit-and-hope fashion.
Regardless of whether it was a shot or a cross, it was a goal.
Lots of goals are scored with mishit shots, scuffed ones catch the keeper out.
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I used to practice scuffed shots in the back garden with me mums fluffy slippers on. Nine times out of ten I scored.
Never dare wear them come match day!
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I’m in the who cares camp.
And if it was me, I’d be telling everyone I meant it! :lol:
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Hes picked out the top corner from about 40 yards out.
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watching the goals on the highlights FG must be wondering what hit them if the rest of our game was as poor as
claimed reported
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We got some luck, great cross,
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Is a cross shot a crot? If so I’d a shot cross a shoss?
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If it was a cross it was overhit, if it was a shot it was a worldie. The main thing is it led to a winning goal.
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Guy with crutch giving the rods to the FGR fans when it went in, that crutch is for the benifits claim surely.
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Mystery solved - it was a cross (and he was too embarrassed to celebate until the rest of the team told him he should)
https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/2023/september/close-post-fgr-vid/
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Glad we were on the right side of it, conceding that in the 96th minute would’ve really been a downer. Forest green fans must feel like they have a curse at home this season
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If I remember correctly, the goal was reminiscent of Harry Kirks's goal for Darlington at Belle Vue, which gave them a 1-0 victory in the '60s.
Whether Kirks's effort was intended as a shot or a cross is still debated now, but the fact is it was a great goal that is still dead vivid over half a century later.
Hopefully, Close's great goal yesterday will be debated for a very long time also.
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I couldn’t get today due to no seats left - however I’ve seen the Close goal and considering he’s predominantly left footed and he scored from a right footed ball in. IMO it’s a cross we were due a bit of good fortune for a change.
Pretty sure he's right footed.
Anyway, clearly a shot lol, one of the world's the Pompey fans told us he was capable of.
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It was a crot a cross shot. But as Rhett Butler would say “frankly my dear I don’t give a damn” All that matters is it went in
COYR
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If I remember correctly, the goal was reminiscent of Harry Kirks's goal for Darlington at Belle Vue, which gave them a 1-0 victory in the '60s.
Whether Kirks's effort was intended as a shot or a cross is still debated now, but the fact is it was a great goal that is still dead vivid over half a century later.
Hopefully, Close's great goal yesterday will be debated for a very long time also.
This one was before my time. The closest I can remember was Gareth Roberts pinging one in from the touchline when we won 3-1 away at Ipswich in 2009.
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Perfect view from low level from your video, thanks for posting Wilt's. I think looking at that, Ben meant it as a cross, put too much loft and power on it, and got lucky!!
He should have used a club less!!
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Kyle Hurst scored a similar goal against Salford last season. Not as far out as Ben Close's, but a right footed cross, same side of the pitch, same corner of the goal.
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It doesn't matter, it went in the goal.
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Go in, I'll be the one to say it.
Spectacular goals are great and fun to watch. But good teams grind out a lot of simple, straightforward goals. The worldies are great but they should be the icing on the cake, not the bread and butter.
We've scored 7 goals in 8 league games. 4 of those have been tremendous/very lucky finishes (the two yesterday, Nixon's vs Mansfield and Molyneux's at MK). We've scored 3 humdrum goals in 8 matches. Yesterday, against the most open midfield and defence you're likely to see in professional football (possibly barring ours) we barely created a serious, run of the mill 6 yard chance.
That worries me. A lot.
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On the plus side, Close's goal was the first time this season we've looked like scoring from a cross into the box...
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I couldn’t get today due to no seats left - however I’ve seen the Close goal and considering he’s predominantly left footed and he scored from a right footed ball in. IMO it’s a cross we were due a bit of good fortune for a change.
It’s a goal !!!
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Close is not the most popular player with all the fans (including me) and if ever there was an important goal to get us going and re-ignite the support this was it. Perhaps the confidence may raise his game to what we originally expected of him, but which we have only occasionally seen.
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If I remember correctly, the goal was reminiscent of Harry Kirks's goal for Darlington at Belle Vue, which gave them a 1-0 victory in the '60s.
Whether Kirks's effort was intended as a shot or a cross is still debated now, but the fact is it was a great goal that is still dead vivid over half a century later.
Hopefully, Close's great goal yesterday will be debated for a very long time also.
22,000 plus that night, BB. I agree with you about the goal.
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As I remember it another Darlington player mishit a shot that went to him giving him the opportunity to lamp it.
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If I remember correctly, the goal was reminiscent of Harry Kirks's goal for Darlington at Belle Vue, which gave them a 1-0 victory in the '60s.
Whether Kirks's effort was intended as a shot or a cross is still debated now, but the fact is it was a great goal that is still dead vivid over half a century later.
Hopefully, Close's great goal yesterday will be debated for a very long time also.
22,000 plus that night, BB. I agree with you about the goal.
If I’m not mistaken, that 22000 crowd came after a good run of results and we did what we often do when that happens, we lost the match.