Haven't read previous posts but here are some of my thoughts:
We were poor. Injuries have caught up with us and we have lost the fluency/shape of our play. Also, some of those who have played most/all the games looked tired with Fosu standing out (he has become a bit greedy recently as well). This is worrying going into the Christmas period.
Good to see Cam Bran and Shandon back yesterday and at least they got some minutes in their legs.
It stood out how we missed James Henry tying defence and attack together with his playmaking and movement off the ball. And the movement off the ball was poor yesterday.
I have no complaints with the result even though they only had 1 shot on target. We weren't good enough. I think Dongs will continue to improve under their new manager as they have been getting better anyway results wise.
We have to learn to do the dark arts more and cope with others doing it to us. Fosu should have gone down when caught in the box, rather than try to stay on his feet as Kettle looked like he was going to blow his whistle for the penalty.
And that ground, it looks good but that is as far as it goes. If the designer deliberately wanted to create an atmosphere sponge then they succeeded. Any attempt to get a chant going was ruined by the noise being inconsequential which was highlighted by the distant Dongs drum going into nothingness.
I really hope IF we get a new stadium that this is given as a model not to follow. It made the Kasstad seem like having a good atmosphere. This shows building a smaller capacity with the ability to expand easily is the way to go for me.
Also, Dongs fans (however many/little were there) have little chance of creating an atmosphere when all the key moments (goals, teams coming out etc) were killed by very loud music over a godawful tannoy system.
Splitting the away fans and closing off the area behind the goal was laughable and clearly Dongs themselves don't care about atmosphere.
One thing Dongs had right was the traffic management after the game for me. Although it took a little bit to get out of the car park, I thought it was well managed and relatively quick.
Finally, unless it is a vital game, I won't be going back to that stadium.
We were poor. Injuries have caught up with us and we have lost the fluency/shape of our play. Also, some of those who have played most/all the games looked tired with Fosu standing out (he has become a bit greedy recently as well). This is worrying going into the Christmas period.
Good to see Cam Bran and Shandon back yesterday and at least they got some minutes in their legs.
It stood out how we missed James Henry tying defence and attack together with his playmaking and movement off the ball. And the movement off the ball was poor yesterday.
I have no complaints with the result even though they only had 1 shot on target. We weren't good enough. I think Dongs will continue to improve under their new manager as they have been getting better anyway results wise.
We have to learn to do the dark arts more and cope with others doing it to us. Fosu should have gone down when caught in the box, rather than try to stay on his feet as Kettle looked like he was going to blow his whistle for the penalty.
And that ground, it looks good but that is as far as it goes. If the designer deliberately wanted to create an atmosphere sponge then they succeeded. Any attempt to get a chant going was ruined by the noise being inconsequential which was highlighted by the distant Dongs drum going into nothingness.
I really hope IF we get a new stadium that this is given as a model not to follow. It made the Kasstad seem like having a good atmosphere. This shows building a smaller capacity with the ability to expand easily is the way to go for me.
Also, Dongs fans (however many/little were there) have little chance of creating an atmosphere when all the key moments (goals, teams coming out etc) were killed by very loud music over a godawful tannoy system.
Splitting the away fans and closing off the area behind the goal was laughable and clearly Dongs themselves don't care about atmosphere.
One thing Dongs had right was the traffic management after the game for me. Although it took a little bit to get out of the car park, I thought it was well managed and relatively quick.
Finally, unless it is a vital game, I won't be going back to that stadium.
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