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Post by tvor on Jan 19, 2019 19:14:11 GMT 1
Any Juan have a video of the goals? You'll have to beat the rush for the DVDs of our games against Blackpool from the club shop.
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Post by buryshrew on Jan 19, 2019 19:25:46 GMT 1
That was as dull as it gets. No lack of effort and commitment. Just quality. the second half was dull but whilst the quality was lacking, they at least played for most of the game and in the first half the wing backs pressing did put Blackpool on there back foot. Yea, I'd agree. The formation worked in the first half, at least we were stringing some passes and moves together, although we were utterly toothless with it. Second half looked like two poor teams slogging it out except for the one effort off the bar for them. They certainly didn't look like an 8th place team, which I suppose should be a positive as we weren't really any worse than they were, but I just don't see where enough goals are going to come from without some positive additions up front in the next few weeks.
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Post by tvor on Jan 19, 2019 19:40:51 GMT 1
The goals programme on Sky Sports News just showed their highlights from our game. They showed one very tame shot by Laurent that barely troubled the keeper and said that was literally all they could find to show.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Jan 19, 2019 19:44:22 GMT 1
Let’s get a couple of things sorted.
The opposition is as poor as you make them and for long periods we made Blackpool look poor. They are clearly a decent team based on position in table. We pressed and constantly won the ball back and broke with pace
Our problem today was we were totally toothless in the last third. I lost count of the number of times we got laurrentt away against one or two remaining defenders, but he doesn’t have the skill to finish the job. We were reluctant to get shots away and when we did Blackpool got blocks in. We again continue to hit high balls to Mr O which is a total waste
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 19, 2019 19:51:22 GMT 1
the second half was dull but whilst the quality was lacking, they at least played for most of the game and in the first half the wing backs pressing did put Blackpool on there back foot. Yea, I'd agree. The formation worked in the first half, at least we were stringing some passes and moves together, although we were utterly toothless with it. Second half looked like two poor teams slogging it out except for the one effort off the bar for them. They certainly didn't look like an 8th place team, which I suppose should be a positive as we weren't really any worse than they were, but I just don't see where enough goals are going to come from without some positive additions up front in the next few weeks. true but hitting high balls to Ferjiri is a waste of time.
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Post by Pilch on Jan 19, 2019 19:51:31 GMT 1
a draw and a clean sheet away to the side in 8th is always good
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Post by venceremos on Jan 19, 2019 19:56:47 GMT 1
The goals programme on Sky Sports News just showed their highlights from our game. They showed one very tame shot by Laurent that barely troubled the keeper and said that was literally all they could find to show. Didn’t Blackpool hit the bar late on? Sounded like they were about to score. Ricketts is certainly not working any magic. Never mind new signings, this squad had enough to look like it could achieve a comfortable mid-table finish when Coyne & Ramsay were in charge. Still, on the bright side, it was surely a better performance than last Saturday, plus we didn’t concede and we got a point. For all that Ricketts was bigging up Blackpool being 8th in his interview, they’re only 7 or 8 points ahead of us. The bottom teams aren’t only closing the gap on us - there are 18 or 19 teams at risk of relegation just now. I can’t be alone in finding us a really boring team to watch though. If the league is our bread and butter, the bread’s gone stale and we’ve run out of butter.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 19, 2019 20:03:52 GMT 1
a draw and a clean sheet away to the side in 8th is always good yes it and considering our poor form when playing away then it is better than we have been doing , however whilst the first half was the better half in the game and we looked the better team for 75 minutes. we have to find a way of scoring more goals and making the most of the chances we do get. that is something they need to sort out on the training ground .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 20:08:22 GMT 1
So does no one see this as a good away point?
****except Pilch****
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Post by bobbytheblock19er on Jan 19, 2019 20:16:36 GMT 1
a draw and a clean sheet away to the side in 8th is always good its only a good point if you win your home games . Getting dicked 3-0 by Charlton makes it not as good .
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Post by londonshrew75 on Jan 19, 2019 20:21:08 GMT 1
"We did well to nullify a team sitting in 8th"....That is a worrying statement to me? Well Sam "nullifying" is all well and good when you are actually in front(maybe) but sooner or later this "over my dead body" attitude is going to have to loosen up a bit. All I'll say is remember when the player's walked off after the Plymouth home game ? Alot of us were thinking, that's one of the four places ! There one point behind us now.......
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Post by tvor on Jan 19, 2019 20:23:41 GMT 1
"All I'll say is remember when the player's walked off after the Plymouth home game ? Alot of us were thinking, that's one of the four places ! There one point behind us now....... They're very likely to have moved above us before we next kick a ball in a League 1 fixture.
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Post by shrewswolf on Jan 19, 2019 20:26:43 GMT 1
The goals programme on Sky Sports News just showed their highlights from our game. They showed one very tame shot by Laurent that barely troubled the keeper and said that was literally all they could find to show. Didn’t Blackpool hit the bar late on? Sounded like they were about to score. Ricketts is certainly not working any magic. Never mind new signings, this squad had enough to look like it could achieve a comfortable mid-table finish when Coyne & Ramsay were in charge. Still, on the bright side, it was surely a better performance than last Saturday, plus we didn’t concede and we got a point. For all that Ricketts was bigging up Blackpool being 8th in his interview, they’re only 7 or 8 points ahead of us. The bottom teams aren’t only closing the gap on us - there are 18 or 19 teams at risk of relegation just now. I can’t be alone in finding us a really boring team to watch though. If the league is our bread and butter, the bread’s gone stale and we’ve run out of butter. Certainly not the only one. Thank god we had that 2nd half at Stoke because it’s been a tedious bore watching Town for weeks. Before we get all happy with making Blackpool look poor, they were 22nd in the form table over their previous 6 league games, so that’s just them at the moment. We certainly put the effort in and the formation helped us string some things together but we were never scoring & the 2nd half turned into an absolute nothing game. Maybe just maybe we could gamble a little on 3 5 2, today was some form of 3 5 1 1, or 3 4 2 1. Put someone with a Fejiri ffs. The top 5/6 are miles ahead and the rest could slip into the trouble we’re in with a dip in form.
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Post by wayahead on Jan 19, 2019 21:01:13 GMT 1
Yea, I'd agree. The formation worked in the first half, at least we were stringing some passes and moves together, although we were utterly toothless with it. Second half looked like two poor teams slogging it out except for the one effort off the bar for them. They certainly didn't look like an 8th place team, which I suppose should be a positive as we weren't really any worse than they were, but I just don't see where enough goals are going to come from without some positive additions up front in the next few weeks. true but hitting high balls to Ferjiri is a waste of time. Exactly getting Laurent away, a CM again playing in a forward position. Who else is making the runs.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 19, 2019 21:27:54 GMT 1
"We did well to nullify a team sitting in 8th"....That is a worrying statement to me? Well Sam "nullifying" is all well and good when you are actually in front(maybe) but sooner or later this "over my dead body" attitude is going to have to loosen up a bit. All I'll say is remember when the player's walked off after the Plymouth home game ? Alot of us were thinking, that's one of the four places ! There one point behind us now....... out of the last five games town have only managed three points Plymouth have managed ten. a number of the teams below us have improved and put points on the board.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Jan 19, 2019 21:31:36 GMT 1
The goals programme on Sky Sports News just showed their highlights from our game. They showed one very tame shot by Laurent that barely troubled the keeper and said that was literally all they could find to show. Didn’t Blackpool hit the bar late on? Sounded like they were about to score. Ricketts is certainly not working any magic. Never mind new signings, this squad had enough to look like it could achieve a comfortable mid-table finish when Coyne & Ramsay were in charge. Still, on the bright side, it was surely a better performance than last Saturday, plus we didn’t concede and we got a point. For all that Ricketts was bigging up Blackpool being 8th in his interview, they’re only 7 or 8 points ahead of us. The bottom teams aren’t only closing the gap on us - there are 18 or 19 teams at risk of relegation just now. I can’t be alone in finding us a really boring team to watch though. If the league is our bread and butter, the bread’s gone stale and we’ve run out of butter. Hang on a minute.......we were far from looking like Brazil last season either !
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 19, 2019 21:32:03 GMT 1
So does no one see this as a good away point? ****except Pilch**** it is in comparison to our poor away form but this was a game we needed to win Blackpool have lost there last three home games and prior to this game were 22nd in the form table.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Jan 19, 2019 22:26:57 GMT 1
The performance deserved 3 points but we failed to take our chances
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 19, 2019 22:29:36 GMT 1
The performance deserved 3 points but we failed to take our chances unfortunately when we have played well how many times could we say that.
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Post by shrewswolf on Jan 20, 2019 0:12:08 GMT 1
The performance deserved 3 points but we failed to take our chances What chances? Blackpool had more than us & they had naff all of the ball. As for ‘not being Brazil’ last season - the winning was fun, the scoring in most games was fun, holding onto leads, high press, Whalley, Nolan & Rodman (sometimes), a keeper who released us into attacks early, late winners, against all odds away league victories (what even are they) was fun. Brazil we were not, but it wasn’t boring. This is.
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Post by Feedo Gnasher on Jan 20, 2019 1:24:37 GMT 1
We’ve drawn our last two away games against top half teams. Keep it up and start finding those home wins again and we’ll be sound.
I see progress.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Jan 20, 2019 8:39:50 GMT 1
The performance deserved 3 points but we failed to take our chances What chances? Blackpool had more than us & they had naff all of the ball. As for ‘not being Brazil’ last season - the winning was fun, the scoring in most games was fun, holding onto leads, high press, Whalley, Nolan & Rodman (sometimes), a keeper who released us into attacks early, late winners, against all odds away league victories (what even are they) was fun. Brazil we were not, but it wasn’t boring. This is. Blackpool had more chances than us....really? Were you there? Norburn first half should have slotted it away. Lost count of how many times Laurent broke into their box only to cock it up. Blackpool hit the bar , that was their contribution,and couldn’t get out of their half for most of the game due to the ‘press’
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Post by shrewswolf on Jan 20, 2019 10:43:57 GMT 1
What chances? Blackpool had more than us & they had naff all of the ball. As for ‘not being Brazil’ last season - the winning was fun, the scoring in most games was fun, holding onto leads, high press, Whalley, Nolan & Rodman (sometimes), a keeper who released us into attacks early, late winners, against all odds away league victories (what even are they) was fun. Brazil we were not, but it wasn’t boring. This is. Blackpool had more chances than us....really? Were you there? Norburn first half should have slotted it away. Lost count of how many times Laurent broke into their box only to cock it up. Blackpool hit the bar , that was their contribution,and couldn’t get out of their half for most of the game due to the ‘press’ OK. Fair enough, Norburn/Laurent should have done better after about 5 minutes & then Laurent put a fairly decent half chance over the bar. 2nd half they cracked the underside of the woodwork & put a header wide they really should have scored. So in the 10 minutes they did anything of note, they came closer than we did. Laurent running into the box with the ball is not a chance. It’s sad we even think that.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 20, 2019 10:54:14 GMT 1
we dont know what the tactics and instructions given to laurent prior to the game were.but he seemed to be doing that a lot more than he normally does , whilst he should have scored the point made by the commentators was on a number of occasions, he either had the extra touch or tried a shimmy,(resulting in the chance been lost ) when they wanted him to just shoot straight away. we all know confidence has a big impact on what players will or will not try.whilst he is an attacking midfielder he is not a forward. which comes back to a regular theme a lack of a cutting edge and a forward who can get us some goals. just a pity Ferjiri did not get the chances that laurent did.
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Post by Dale on Jan 20, 2019 15:10:27 GMT 1
Good first 15-20 minutes and we looked slightly the better team although we have just nothing up front and the longer the game went on the more I could see Blackpool nicking a winner and they were mightily close to doing that.
I’ll give the Blackpool team credit though, they were very fit and well drilled and seem to cover everything we tried to do albeit we did the same to them, must be hard motivating themselves to play in a virtually empty ground every other week, really hope the Oystons will **** off soon and the Blackpool fans will finally get their club back.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 20, 2019 15:34:11 GMT 1
in previous games Ferjiri moved from left to right but listening to the commentary it seemed predominantly laurent coming in on runs from the right but that may not be the case and more to do withe commentary. either way we are going to have to have more variations in attack and more of a cutting edge if we are going to beat teams.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Jan 20, 2019 15:48:08 GMT 1
in previous games Ferjiri moved from left to right but listening to the commentary it seemed predominantly laurent coming in on runs from the right but that may not be the case and more to do withe commentary. either way we are going to have to have more variations in attack and more of a cutting edge if we are going to beat teams. Laurent came in on goal from left throughout
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jan 20, 2019 16:17:57 GMT 1
in previous games Ferjiri moved from left to right but listening to the commentary it seemed predominantly laurent coming in on runs from the right but that may not be the case and more to do withe commentary. either way we are going to have to have more variations in attack and more of a cutting edge if we are going to beat teams. Laurent came in on goal from left throughout senior citizen moment on my part !!
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Post by tvor on Jan 20, 2019 18:42:54 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 21:52:26 GMT 1
a draw and a clean sheet away to the side in 8th is always good Was painfully dull and highlights just how poor we look going forward.
Looked a bit better in defnce but was disappointed with Smith, who seemed more interested in mouthing off to opposition players.
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