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Des has left behind melting Mumbai and starts his English managerial career at cold Cheltenham.
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It wasn't offside, the guy who tried to flick it on missed it. Not great defending to basically concede from a goal kick.But to me it looked offside! And if it was the player gained an advantage.
And even if he had flicked it on, it was straight from a goal kick so he would have been onside.It wasn't offside, the guy who tried to flick it on missed it. Not great defending to basically concede from a goal kick.
True, but I think the aimed criticism is more due to the fact he's been poor for a number of weeks now. Granted the service into him isn't always the best, but when the ball is in and around the box, or put into a dangerous area, he's nowhere to be found.Haven't had time to read through the whole thread, buts just wanted to say that some of the berating of Harris in the stands yesterday was ott and unfair. Evidently he has become a bit of a scapegoat. There were other, more experienced players than him who weren't on it yesterday and yet escaped the same barrage of criticism. Get behind the lad ffs.
And even if he had flicked it on, it was straight from a goal kick so he would have been onside.
I meant the guy who did the flicking on could not be offside if he had made contact with the ball.No, if the guy did flick it on the receiving player in question would of been offside but because there was no flick he wasn't.
I could understand the players argument if the player who received the ball direct from the goal kick scored but he ended up controlling the ball , passing backwards to another Cheltenham player who then shot and scored.
It was just s**t defending that summed up our day .
Brown played 90 minutes battling in a defence which was being overwhelmed.Interested to hear from the high number of players who voted for brown as motm. Big surprised.
We are 0-1 down against 10 men with almost zero attacking threat coming down our right.
The middle of the park is overloaded so cam and mcguane are getting very little joy.
Do you think Brown could have done more to overlap murphy to create more distraction, threat and variation ?
As it was Murphy did great but often received the ball just inside their half with back to goal and a swarm of players descending which left space in behind him. Brown seemed to remain static and was also , in my opinion , conservative.
I did appreciate his couple of forward forays into open space created by two defenders doubling up on murphy and latterly edwards
Brown played 90 minutes battling in a defence which was being overwhelmed.
Murphy came on 3/4 way through when the opposition were more tired and vulnerable
Not to decry his efforts, but it doesn’t compare
And all this because Cheltenham went long every time and didn’t play tappy tappy football in their defence for and age.No, if the guy did flick it on the receiving player in question would of been offside but because there was no flick he wasn't.
I could understand the players argument if the player who received the ball direct from the goal kick scored but he ended up controlling the ball , passing backwards to another Cheltenham player who then shot and scored.
It was just s**t defending that summed up our day .
True, but I think the aimed criticism is more due to the fact he's been poor for a number of weeks now. Granted the service into him isn't always the best, but when the ball is in and around the box, or put into a dangerous area, he's nowhere to be found.
I think I know what you're referring to and yes the reaction to that was extreme, but he hasn't helped himself the last few weeksYes, but shouting 'you useless c**t, who's that to?' when he played a decent ball into the box and no one and made a run to get onto the end of it doesn't exactly constitute constructive criticism.
But we have coped with both. Stevenage and Orient being the best examples of winning the battle first and then playing our game. Who is this "really good team" that can cope with both? Even Bolton have lost to Carlisle, Reading and Wigan this season. Teams are overly physical in order to level the playing field against opponents they can't compete with talent wise. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but they wouldn't do it if it didn't give them a better chance of competing over the entire season.Struggling against an over physical team, how many times do we say it. Not all teams play the beautiful game and are all open. A really good team can cope with both.
And all this because Cheltenham went long every time and didn’t play tappy tappy football in their defence for and age.
We don't play with a defensive midfielder, Des may adopt that style but he's said he won't make big changes.They played to their strengths but we had no answer to it, could of done with a proper defensive midfielder to mop up all the second balls from knock downs falling between our defensive 4 and brannagan/mcguane but like the missing striker we didn't sign one in the summer!
Their first goal came from a knock down to outside the penalty area where we failed to close down Street who shot through the crowd into the goal.
That was the poorest display this season by a mile and could of quite easily been 3-0 down in the first half.
We don't play with a defensive midfielder, Des may adopt that style but he's said he won't make big changes.
I didn't get to see the match, but as our first glimpse of #desiBall, i'm worried...That was the poorest display this season by a mile and could of quite easily been 3-0 down in the first half.
As long as he brings in a least one striker if not 2We don't play with a defensive midfielder, Des may adopt that style but he's said he won't make big changes.