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Post by Andy K on Sept 18, 2018 20:45:54 GMT
Ended 4 0. If you thought maidenhead away last season was bad then this was worse.
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Post by os on Sept 18, 2018 21:05:54 GMT
Hopefully just one of those nights, it started badly and got steadily worse. The defending was shambolic throughout, and our attacking play was that of a toothless alligator, with the exception of Eastie's effort off the bar. I know i will get some flack for this but I think that IRN BRU trip caught up with us tonight, there is no such thing as a free lunch! Yes it should have been a penalty, but B/W will not get many more comfortable matches this season. The worst I have see us play for a very long time... But don't forget Macclesfield got spattered by Flyde last season ans still won the league  |
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Post by surreyu on Sept 18, 2018 21:15:33 GMT
Hopefully just one of those nights, it started badly and got steadily worse. The defending was shambolic throughout, and our attacking play was that of a toothless alligator, with the exception of Eastie's effort off the bar. I know i will get some flack for this but I think that IRN BRU trip caught up with us tonight, there is no such thing as a free lunch! Yes it should have been a penalty, but B/W will not get many more comfortable matches this season. The worst I have see us play for a very long time... But don't forget Macclesfield got spattered by Flyde last season ans still won the league Ummmm you realise Boreham Wood played in the Irn Bru Cup right? And don’t blame the travelling either, flying to Glasgow was almost certainly less taxing than taking the train to Gateshead and Barrow. |
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Post by trev on Sept 18, 2018 21:29:56 GMT
It's difficult to find anything constructive to say about tonight's performance. Clough, who up until this evening was one of our best players, looked uncharacteristically flat-footed, and Wishart consistently found himself out of position. Not for the first time at home this season, an away side has sought to flood us on our left flank, but unlike previous games this season, we failed to adjust our tactics to counterbalance this.
To be fair, I thought we were even-stevens on chances, in the first half at least, with Wright blazing just wide to the right with a chance that looked in from the angle I was standing at, and Lafayette missed a sitter with a chance that just required a side footed ball into an open goal, with the keeper already beaten.
In stark contrast, Borehamwood pretty much converted all of their chances, it wasn't far off three shots three goals in the first half, and judging from our fans positioned behind the goal in the first half, we had a shout of a penalty as well, although from where I was standing at the side this was far from conclusive; I'd need to see the replay to be sure either way.
Although we stopped much of the rot in the second half, arguably the softest of the Wood's four goals came in the second, with a pea roller of a shot somehow finding its way beyond Butler's outstretched right foot.
I can only assume that JC was carrying an injury, otherwise no excuses for him not being on the bench at the very least, as defensively we simply had no options to change things around in the 2nd half, although at least when Bailey came on after the 4th goal we had a bit of backbone in the centre of field which stopped Borehamwood continuing to railroad us.
What Ayunga needs to do to earn another start goodness knows, as he was arguably our best player when he came on.
As others have said, one can only hope this was a freak result as in my three seasons as a season ticket holder this is arguably the worst showing I have seen so far. I hope it isn't a case of a post-Irn Bru hangover, and given how well we came back against Havant & Waterlooville on Saturday I'd be reluctant to blame this particular tournament for our being found wanting tonight; I suspect it's more a case of Borehamwood having the good fortune to put away all their chances whereas we converted none of ours.
Here's hoping for a bounce back on Saturday, and no more allowing opponents to overrun our left flank!
To end on a much-needed positive, I thought our yoof supporters were brilliant tonight, especially in the second half. You did us proud. With support like that, our future is in good hands...
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Post by Amber Aleman on Sept 18, 2018 21:59:41 GMT
I wasn't at the game, but amongst our results so far this one sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. Our previous eleven matches were all tight affairs, either ending as draws or being settled by the odd goal (1-0, 2-1).
0-4 therefore looks to be a freak result. In statistical terms, it's just an outlier (as was our 4-0 win at BW last season). More evidence that football's a funny (or fascinating) old game!
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Post by pinewalker on Sept 18, 2018 22:34:59 GMT
I wasn't at the game, but amongst our results so far this one sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. Our previous eleven matches were all tight affairs, either ending as draws or being settled by the odd goal (1-0, 2-1). 0-4 therefore looks to be a freak result. In statistical terms, it's just an outlier (as was our 4-0 win at BW last season). More evidence that football's a funny (or fascinating) old game! The merit of homework. Boreham Wood had done theirs. For whatever reason Aswad was not in the squad and Dan Wishart is not a left back. Dan looks quite pacy when he is on the ball and attacking, but he was yards off the pace defending against BW's right winger. He was not alone in that though, Charlie Clough found the BW 20 could just run away from him while on the ball and did so for their third. As I said homework - BW had a speed advantage right across our back line. They used it to intercept telegraphed passes by our keeper and defence. Given a choice they overloaded their right figuring Dan could not tackle them and Charlie could not catch them. We simply did not learn the lesson and continued to play a high back line. Add to that the miss of the season from all of 1 yard. Their keeper had been passed and wasn't attempting a save. Ross has the chance to make it 1-2 if he can hit an open goal, he hit the post. Hopefully it was a freak result against a bogey side, but the same thing will happen again if we don't alter the squad and tactics against a quick and skilful attack. BW outclassed us today. |
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Post by os on Sept 18, 2018 22:41:05 GMT
Hopefully just one of those nights, it started badly and got steadily worse. The defending was shambolic throughout, and our attacking play was that of a toothless alligator, with the exception of Eastie's effort off the bar. I know i will get some flack for this but I think that IRN BRU trip caught up with us tonight, there is no such thing as a free lunch! Yes it should have been a penalty, but B/W will not get many more comfortable matches this season. The worst I have see us play for a very long time... But don't forget Macclesfield got spattered by Flyde last season ans still won the league Ummmm you realise Boreham Wood played in the Irn Bru Cup right? And don’t blame the travelling either, flying to Glasgow was almost certainly less taxing than taking the train to Gateshead and Barrow. I have got to come back on that, Wood played in the IRN BRU but at home, and they followed that up with another home match last Saturday, we have traveled well in excess of 1000 miles. We were also missing JC tonight because of a knock he picked up at Airdrie. That has an affect, and I think we saw that tonight against a far sharper Boreham Wood side.. |
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Post by trev on Sept 18, 2018 22:44:27 GMT
I wasn't at the game, but amongst our results so far this one sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. Our previous eleven matches were all tight affairs, either ending as draws or being settled by the odd goal (1-0, 2-1). 0-4 therefore looks to be a freak result. In statistical terms, it's just an outlier (as was our 4-0 win at BW last season). More evidence that football's a funny (or fascinating) old game! The merit of homework. Boreham Wood had done theirs. For whatever reason Aswad was not in the squad and Dan Wishart is not a left back. Dan looks quite pacy when he is on the ball and attacking, but he was yards off the pace defending against BW's right winger. He was not alone in that though, Charlie Clough found the BW 20 could just run away from him while on the ball and did so for their third. As I said homework - BW had a speed advantage right across our back line. They used it to intercept telegraphed passes by our keeper and defence. Given a choice they overloaded their right figuring Dan could not tackle them and Charlie could not catch them. We simply did not learn the lesson and continued to play a high back line. Add to that the miss of the season from all of 1 yard. Their keeper had been passed and wasn't attempting a save. Ross has the chance to make it 1-2 if he can hit an open goal, he hit the post. Hopefully it was a freak result against a bogey side, but the same thing will happen again if we don't alter the squad and tactics against a quick and skilful attack. BW outclassed us today. Homework is the word. They exploited our vulnerabilities with ruthless efficiency tonight. |
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Post by surreyu on Sept 18, 2018 22:52:46 GMT
Ummmm you realise Boreham Wood played in the Irn Bru Cup right? And don’t blame the travelling either, flying to Glasgow was almost certainly less taxing than taking the train to Gateshead and Barrow. I have got to come back on that, Wood played in the IRN BRU but at home, and they followed that up with another home match last Saturday, we have traveled well in excess of 1000 miles. We were also missing JC tonight because of a knock he picked up at Airdrie. That has an affect, and I think we saw that tonight against a far sharper Boreham Wood side.. The lads spent an hour on a plane, that 1000 miles excuse doesn't wash. Sure Airdrie's pitch isn't up to standard but that is what happens when you go away from home, i'm sure we can find an awful local pitch in the FA cup too |
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Post by timbo on Sept 19, 2018 0:52:25 GMT
I have got to come back on that, Wood played in the IRN BRU but at home, and they followed that up with another home match last Saturday, we have traveled well in excess of 1000 miles. We were also missing JC tonight because of a knock he picked up at Airdrie. That has an affect, and I think we saw that tonight against a far sharper Boreham Wood side.. The lads spent an hour on a plane, that 1000 miles excuse doesn't wash. Sure Airdrie's pitch isn't up to standard but that is what happens when you go away from home, i'm sure we can find an awful local pitch in the FA cup too In a game of fine margins recovery from a long trip away, especially involving a different routine, can be difficult, it is not just a question of one hour in a plane. We looked jaded and add in Pinewalker's comments re homework means a bad day all round |
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Post by johnnykwango on Sept 19, 2018 5:46:32 GMT
I have got to come back on that, Wood played in the IRN BRU but at home, and they followed that up with another home match last Saturday, we have traveled well in excess of 1000 miles. We were also missing JC tonight because of a knock he picked up at Airdrie. That has an affect, and I think we saw that tonight against a far sharper Boreham Wood side.. The lads spent an hour on a plane, that 1000 miles excuse doesn't wash. Sure Airdrie's pitch isn't up to standard but that is what happens when you go away from home, i'm sure we can find an awful local pitch in the FA cup too What was wrong with Airdrie’s pitch?? It was.....well a bit like ours. |
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Post by Del on Sept 19, 2018 6:08:18 GMT
I have got to come back on that, Wood played in the IRN BRU but at home, and they followed that up with another home match last Saturday, we have traveled well in excess of 1000 miles. We were also missing JC tonight because of a knock he picked up at Airdrie. That has an affect, and I think we saw that tonight against a far sharper Boreham Wood side.. The lads spent an hour on a plane, that 1000 miles excuse doesn't wash. Sure Airdrie's pitch isn't up to standard but that is what happens when you go away from home, i'm sure we can find an awful local pitch in the FA cup too Someone mentioned to me on Saturday that we took the train up to Scotland then flew back. However i don't think that affected our performance today. One of the worst defensive displays i've witnessed from a Sutton team.The Boreham Wood forward line were big,strong and too quick for us. We had chances to score and didn't take them. If we play like that against Wrexham the scoreline won't be much different. |
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Post by steveo77 on Sept 19, 2018 7:05:41 GMT
Well that was pretty dire..
Only thing I can compare it to was when we lost 5-0 at home to Woking a few years ago.
Highlight of the evening was probably watching Spurs conceed two late goals in Milan in the bar just before kick off!
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Post by timall on Sept 19, 2018 7:43:33 GMT
I think it's unwise to extrapolate too much from a performance when you are 2 goals down after little more than 5 minutes. Games at this level are usually tight in terms of scorelines so this was certainly an unusual game. We could have levelled the score before half-time in terms of chances, but in honesty it looked like our lads were shellshocked.
One result, and below par performance, doesn't make us a poor team, nor does any individual suddenly become a mere average player.
Wrexham were a solid defensive team last year, but found it difficult to score. This season the goals appear to be coming so it will certainly be a tough test on Saturday, but as the cliché goes there are no easy games at this level anyway.
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Post by brisfitboy on Sept 19, 2018 8:42:02 GMT
In simple terms three things I thought last night: 1) The ball was in the air too much 2) In the first half their use of the right win was amazing, even more so when we seemed to ignore their quick response each time 3) In the second half we seemed to totally ignore the right wing but keep pumping the ball down the centre.
Tommy Wright ran his socks off and was I thought, SUPERB.
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