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Post by Del on Oct 5, 2019 20:11:17 GMT
Anyone taking over from Paul Doswell was bound to be accepting a poisoned chalice.Quite apart from his success on the pitch he was also working for nothing. Mr Doswell took the club as far as possible and left.We are now in a sort of "Groundhog Day" situation (i've never seen the film but i get the idea) sort of in limbo. We keep hearing the club is punching above it's weight.Would it be so terrible to drop a division (or two) and compete properly against some of our more traditional rivals ? Relegation might be a blessing in disguise. You having a laugh ! All Paul Doswell's work would have been in vain ! Who are these traditional rivals ? |
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Post by Nick the Greek/The Speshul One on Oct 5, 2019 20:52:03 GMT
Anyone taking over from Paul Doswell was bound to be accepting a poisoned chalice.Quite apart from his success on the pitch he was also working for nothing. Mr Doswell took the club as far as possible and left.We are now in a sort of "Groundhog Day" situation (i've never seen the film but i get the idea) sort of in limbo. We keep hearing the club is punching above it's weight.Would it be so terrible to drop a division (or two) and compete properly against some of our more traditional rivals ? Relegation might be a blessing in disguise. You having a laugh ! All Paul Doswell's work would have been in vain ! Who are these traditional rivals ? Well it may have been suggested we are punching up our financial weight. And really? I would suggest Billy is implying Carshalton and Kingstonian. I’m not completely agreeing with him but I would have expected people to know who out traditional rivals are. |
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Post by Amber Aleman on Oct 5, 2019 20:53:32 GMT
This was a game that we should have won. The normally deadly Tommy Wright had four decent opportunities to score but was off-target each time. Aaron Jarvis had arguably our best opening but skied the ball over the bar. If you don't put those chances away then you're in for a season of struggle.
That's now three games without a Sutton goal.
There's still plenty of time to avert relegation. In the short term, we may need something from the games at Solihull and Fylde to avoid falling into the drop zone.
EDIT: Having read the NLP report, I think it was Harry, not Aaron, who put that shot over the bar.
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Post by halftimet on Oct 5, 2019 21:00:23 GMT
Stockport are a team that are struggling and at times we looked like the away side. Cannot understand how MG is happy with the performance surely we are not doing 95% right if the opposing goalkeeper does not have to make a save? No plan B and no changes in formation. Substitutions are always like for like. It makes you wonder what game he’s watching... And to answer Billy saying we should get relegated what rubbish like most what he says... Started 4-4-2. Finished 4-4-2. Substitutes Davis for Barden L4L, Matzusarka for Collins L4L, Reid for Randell L4L. Stockport were poor but still made Butler make at least 3 saves. What game were you watching? |
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Post by Del on Oct 5, 2019 21:17:35 GMT
You having a laugh ! All Paul Doswell's work would have been in vain ! Who are these traditional rivals ? Well it may have been suggested we are punching up our financial weight. And really? I would suggest Billy is implying Carshalton and Kingstonian. I’m not completely agreeing with him but I would have expected people to know who out traditional rivals are. Thats where we have a difference of opinion. Kingstonian ,Wimbledon , Bromley and Tooting but Carshalton were only rivals for maybe a decade or two. Traditionally they were two levels below us ! |
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Post by Nick the Greek/The Speshul One on Oct 5, 2019 21:24:47 GMT
Well it may have been suggested we are punching up our financial weight. And really? I would suggest Billy is implying Carshalton and Kingstonian. I’m not completely agreeing with him but I would have expected people to know who out traditional rivals are. Thats where we have a difference of opinion. Kingstonian ,Wimbledon , Bromley and Tooting but Carshalton were only rivals for maybe a decade or two. Traditionally they were two levels below us ! Then who are our traditional rivals? Someone that has been in the same league for more than a decade or two that are also local enough to be called rivals? How far back do you want to go? |
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Post by Del on Oct 5, 2019 21:28:47 GMT
Thats where we have a difference of opinion. Kingstonian ,Wimbledon , Bromley and Tooting but Carshalton were only rivals for maybe a decade or two. Traditionally they were two levels below us ! Then who are our traditional rivals? Someone that has been in the same league for more than a decade or two that are also local enough to be called rivals? How far back do you want to go? I think we are diverging a little from the point of the thread but i certainly would not be wanting to watch Kingstonian and Carshalton play us on a regular basis. |
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Post by steviem on Oct 5, 2019 21:34:20 GMT
It makes you wonder what game he’s watching... And to answer Billy saying we should get relegated what rubbish like most what he says... Started 4-4-2. Finished 4-4-2. Substitutes Davis for Barden L4L, Matzusarka for Collins L4L, Reid for Randell L4L. Stockport were poor but still made Butler make at least 3 saves. What game were you watching? Given that Bardem was substituted to avoid him getting set off and Collins was injured, what changes would you have made? |
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Post by os on Oct 5, 2019 22:56:36 GMT
Read the comments on here, I can only say it as I saw it:
We started well got in some good wide positions, but the final ball and crosses were woeful. Stockport started to get into the game, as they grew in confidence. We stopped getting the ball wide, started the hoof ball tactics, because we simply can't get out from the back. We went narrow and lost almost every header during that second half, Stockport luckily for us were terrible as well in the final 3rd. It wasn't until the last 10 mins of so we started to play on the flanks again, and could well have nicked it at the end.
Defensively I think the back 4 are doing a Stirling job, but we have not really won a midfield battle all season. Too early to blame the manager, or bring Dos into the conversation, Matt is his own man and I don't agree with excuses in interviews - He needs to sort what are repetitive issues week after week. I think we made 2 clear cut chances today against a side beaten in their 5 previous outings, and that isn't good enough.
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Post by halftimet on Oct 5, 2019 23:04:19 GMT
If the system is not working play three at the back for the last 15 mins. Make the tactical sub we had earlier, Sacrifice a winger and bring Dundas on to keep the ball up front. Keep a player on the half way line when defending a corner e.g. David Ajiboye who could cause problems with pace. Not suggesting all at once by the way.
In reality we do not have enough on the bench. By that I mean impact players. Players we have brought in during the season in the opinion of the Manager Wyatt and Reid are not good enough to start. Dundas will not get more than a few minutes. Others are there purely to cover injury. We cannot load the bench with wingers if we need to change shape
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Post by swedishchapter on Oct 6, 2019 9:36:17 GMT
Why do we not have a reserve goalkeeper on the bench? We use to have Simon Downer, but who is the backup in disguise now? 🙄
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Post by markf on Oct 6, 2019 15:49:02 GMT
There's normally an awkward reaction when things aren't going how we all would like but the one on twitter referencing the 2007/8 season and a direct comparison to this fifteen matches in is, imo, absoluely ridiculous. I recall when another such comment was made with regard the 2014/15 term and Dos came back saying that was an insult. The same applies here.
Two teams struggling to score goals and in Stockport's case, stop a run of five defeats. In their case at least they managed one of those. That in part, quite a bit actually, was down to U's shooting prowess yesterday afternoon that was generally, hard, true but off target. I thought Tommy W was unlucky with his left footed effort in the first half and when the ball just wouldn't drop quickly enough when he volleyed over in the second. Stockport tended to get a fair few of their efforts on target but only once was Jamie B really tested when they broke thanks to fine work by their right back who impressed throughout only for their no 7 to find Sutton's 'keeper a difficult barrier to shoot past.
Periods of the game saw U's struggle to get any quality ball but when they did the main threat was David A but that quality that Matt G bemoaned a lack off last week was generally missing. One low cross did find Harry B but he couldn't keep his effort down.
Kyel Reid appeared late on and gave U's a spark but he probably could have done with ten minutes or so more assuming his inactivity up to joining Sutton hasn't hampered his progress match fitness wise. Other than that Matt's substitution options were limited by the need to withdraw Jon B early on and then losing skip. Not sure what else he could do. Really need a fit Omar B but I don't think he's been fully so since picking up a knock pre-season.
Honours even and based on how the match went, probably right.
The officials too had issues with the scheduled ref getting injured in pre-match warm up and the 4th official dropped right in it. He wasn't great and in the second half seemed to pander to every call from the County players and their impressive away following while totally ignoring anything similar that County players did. Got his yellows right but missed a fair bit. He wasn't built much different to me so did well to keep up with play.
A real toughie up next at Solihull. How much will you chuck in the bucket?
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Post by trev on Oct 6, 2019 16:20:35 GMT
I was waiting on markf for a sensible, level-headed appraisal of yesterday's performance. He didn't disappoint.
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Post by markf on Oct 6, 2019 16:35:10 GMT
Thanks (blushing)
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Post by os on Oct 6, 2019 19:26:34 GMT
There's normally an awkward reaction when things aren't going how we all would like but the one on twitter referencing the 2007/8 season and a direct comparison to this fifteen matches in is, imo, absoluely ridiculous. I recall when another such comment was made with regard the 2014/15 term and Dos came back saying that was an insult. The same applies here. You reminded me of that season, we got to about this stage in the season, Dos couldn't buy a win - I met Dos in the Gents before a game, he said he had run out of ideas and his only tactic was to try a lucky p*ss, It didn't work! and people moan at Matt for his tactics  We got to give Matt the same space and time we would have given Dos, and for those who don't remember Alex Ferguson was one game away from being sacked at Man Utd in 1989 after a very poor start. We should all be behind our young manager, Dos said Matt was the man for the job, and who is anyone to argue? |
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