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A prophetic post by dknward2, my thoughts entirely when I heard that Ennis was not playing my heart sank a little, and we do seem most seasons to get decent teams out of ruts on a regular basis, both things I pointed out before this game, either on this thread or another during the week. We are not as good in front of goal as most teams fnacied to do well in this division. Luck deserting us,lack of natural goal scorers, silly mistakes, combined to bring about the result, and lots of pretty football although mainly in areas of the pitch that a team is quite happy for us to have the ball, and help to pull our side out of shape and cover players, all were on show. In a game of football, you can do what you want on the field with a ball within the rules of the game, you could run around with the ball stuck to your forehead for 90 minutes if you want to, the only thing that counts is putting the ball in those two onion bags at each end of the field. The team we fielded yesterday don't have a player who does that on a regular basis, and is the reason we should have beaten two top sides in this division in the last two games and have only got one point from six. Whatever else this club does, the main thing we have to do is try and address this situation if we are to have any success this season and get a couple of goal scorers in.
Could have, should have does not win games and only winning will get us into the playoffs, which in itself does not guarantee us promotion as we saw last year.The defence of Moore’s failure to adequately replace Marquis much sooner has sunk into apathy amongst fans who say we are playing good football but losing and that is ok. We are 10th in the table with no guarantee that the games we have outstanding will be won. As long as we have Moore in charge we will not reach the playoffs at the end of the season because he procrastinates too much.
Newdonny' we may have a team full of goalscorers, but on the day they scored more than us, we did play pretty football, mostly in front of their two banks of four, we were unlucky with the two shots that hit the bar, and we were caught out on a breakaway goal when we lost shape and cover. Add the fact that they fielded three strikers who have probably scored more goals in a season than most of our team has in their careers, and I would say that they as a team had more goals in them.
Quote from: selby on October 06, 2019, 09:11:15 am A prophetic post by dknward2, my thoughts entirely when I heard that Ennis was not playing my heart sank a little, and we do seem most seasons to get decent teams out of ruts on a regular basis, both things I pointed out before this game, either on this thread or another during the week. We are not as good in front of goal as most teams fnacied to do well in this division. Luck deserting us,lack of natural goal scorers, silly mistakes, combined to bring about the result, and lots of pretty football although mainly in areas of the pitch that a team is quite happy for us to have the ball, and help to pull our side out of shape and cover players, all were on show. In a game of football, you can do what you want on the field with a ball within the rules of the game, you could run around with the ball stuck to your forehead for 90 minutes if you want to, the only thing that counts is putting the ball in those two onion bags at each end of the field. The team we fielded yesterday don't have a player who does that on a regular basis, and is the reason we should have beaten two top sides in this division in the last two games and have only got one point from six. Whatever else this club does, the main thing we have to do is try and address this situation if we are to have any success this season and get a couple of goal scorers in.Good post Brian, and I agree with most of it. The part I don't agree with is when you say we should have beaten Coventry. I know they equalised late, but I thought they battered us for much of the game, and missed more chances than us.I was grateful to come away with a point.
Quote from: Michael Shaw on October 06, 2019, 10:48:51 amCould have, should have does not win games and only winning will get us into the playoffs, which in itself does not guarantee us promotion as we saw last year.The defence of Moore’s failure to adequately replace Marquis much sooner has sunk into apathy amongst fans who say we are playing good football but losing and that is ok. We are 10th in the table with no guarantee that the games we have outstanding will be won. As long as we have Moore in charge we will not reach the playoffs at the end of the season because he procrastinates too much.You are trying hard to prove yourself a d**k or really are a d**k - I can't work out which.
Amazing how differently people can see the same game. To dismiss it as just pretty football is really insulting to the work that went in. We moved them about and got into the channels behind their back four so many times it was incredible. So many good positions and openings, but few could argue that we lacked the cutting edge to make the most of them. At the end it looked like we’d run out of ideas a bit. They sat in and it was all a bit bunched up. But still we created constant pressure around their 18 yard box. It absolutely was not just pretty passing for the sake of it. We’re putting together an excellent team that still desperately needs a fit and available striker.