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Tonight - bluepooch - 08-08-2018
The feel good feeling has returned to the Proact with a very solid high energy performance against a team who will be in the top 7 in my opinion .The key thing that stood out was the way we retrieved possession after we surrendered it .They had a 10 minute spell second half when in the past we would have almost certainly conceded but we have a tenacity about us and a fighting spirit which we haven't had in a long time .Its clear MA has instilled a team ethos and all the players gave at least 7/10 performances which will certainly make us difficult to beat this season if we keep that level up.
RE: Tonight - Dancingwilldoit - 08-08-2018
Carter was brilliant. His second goal alone was worth the price of the season ticket. Happy days are here again. 4930 not bad for a Tuesday night and top of the league. Crowd got behind the team and we looked good. No Anyon on the bench again so even more positivity from me.
Dev I said last week come Sat night we could be sat with 9 points and its looking good. We want teams to be scared of coming to the Proact and we might just be going the right way. I'd rather have the Martin Allen start than the John Still start.
RE: Tonight - Devongone - 08-08-2018
(08-08-2018, 08:59)Dancingwilldoit Wrote: Carter was brilliant. His second goal alone was worth the price of the season ticket. Happy days are here again. 4930 not bad for a Tuesday night and top of the league. Crowd got behind the team and we looked good. No Anyon on the bench again so even more positivity from me.
Dev I said last week come Sat night we could be sat with 9 points and its looking good. We want teams to be scared of coming to the Proact and we might just be going the right way. I'd rather have the Martin Allen start than the John Still start.
So would I, and I think we played better teams than Barnet too ......... but Gateshead, Solihull and Halifax won both their games and it would be a big surprise if they made the play-offs. What you have to remember is very rarely is more than one team in this league rubbish and very rarely are even the winners brilliant. Matches are tough, a Gateshead can come back from an early goal down against Salford and holding on at 1-0 against Ebbsfleet, as Leyton Orient were, isn't often as smooth as it was for us on Saturday. And one player at his peak can make a real difference down here too - Blair Turgott has a monster reputation as a goalscorer, but at this level injuries and stuff have been blunting him - but two from him and Maidstone are suddenly potential away winners rather than relegation-fodder, just as Yussuf's strikes are putting Solihull in the picture.
3-0 surprised me. I was expecting 0-0 or just one goal to decide it. But remember last season when we were going through our team and only Dennis and Ugwu had any history at all of goal scoring? You need goals from elsewhere, you have to have a midfielder with goals in him - remember the impact Danny Whitaker made with us. Charlie Carter is obviously making a difference. You only have to have played the game at any level to know that the more goal threats an opposition carries around the field, the more difficult it is to defend against them. If all you have to do is find Dennis and keep him quiet it's pretty easy.
But teams at any level can take time to settle and clearly John Still thought that might be the case with Barnet, but with Coutlhirst and Harrison up front I'm guessing they will soon click for a few goals and their defence already seems to be holding it together. Similarly Salford have brought in a couple of stars, but they clearly haven't yet improved their team as much as their reputation suggests ...... and when that happens and even IF it EVER does, is a matter of conjecture. (Halifax are leaving their best player, Kosylo, on the bench, but teams are often more than the sum of their parts.) With Salford it might just be that they need the age and steady experience of a Nathan Pond on the pitch alongside Piergianni at the back to succeed, before they can get the best out of a more mercurial player like Adam Rooney. But it might also be that their spending has made them the top target for every other team and everyone is going to be better against Salford than anyone else.
In our case, whilst I'd like to see the Proact become a points factory I think we should dip our toes into a Saturday game first, before becoming over-optimistic. Aldershot travelled a long way for an awkward Tuesday night fixture ........ that was in our favour. Braintree will love the Proact when they see it, they'll be up for a Saturday game even after a long journey. It's early season, playing will still be fun to them, even the travel will be exciting. They've got some decent players, they are under no pressure. Let's see how that test goes. It's been great so far, but 44 games to go is leading out of the blocks, we still have to run the race.
RE: Tonight - Dancingwilldoit - 08-08-2018
Just a point re Carter. You can see why MA is prepared to allow Rowley to go out on loan. Carter is everything young Rowley should aspire to be. Whilstever Carter is fit I cant see any place in our team for young Rowley. Carter was superb last night, he chased, he harried, he created and scored a wonder goal.
Hopefully Rowley will learn from Carter that the game isn't about just looking pretty with the ball. Sometimes you have to scrap to win the ball back when you lose it and track back when you need to and that's something Rowley just doesn't do.
RE: Tonight - SaltergateBorn - 08-08-2018
Apart from the pre-season at Nuneaton I haven`t seen us play for quite a while before last night (health issues, hopefully now resolved) so apart from Drew Talbot the players were all new to me. Overall, I was impressed with the performance against what seemed to be a decent outfit. Aldershot played some tidy stuff in midfield and, with better finishing, could have got a couple themselves. I know they made the play-offs last year but apparently they`ve lost quite a large chunk of their squad and I don`t know enough about the overall quality at this level to judge them on the basis of last night; I can`t see them having too much of a struggle, though. Credit to their supporters as well; they kept the volume levels up all the way through and I was surprised how many made the trip, geven it involved a 300+mile round trip on a Tuesday night.
A couple of reservations, though. Our defence seemed overly keen on bu$$ering about in our own half at times and giving the ball away as a result; that could (and with calmer finishing should) have cost us at least one goal and we may get punished next time. I`m sure MA will have words about that. It may be just me, but apart from Charlie Carter I didn`t see a great deal of creativity coming from midfield in terms of opening up a defence the way Danny Whitaker could. Fortune was disappointingly subdued when he came on, I thought (perhaps I expected too much too soon after Saturday).
I agree with everything that`s been said about CC. On the basis of this game, I think the club should buy whoever scouted him a very large bottle of scotch for Xmas.I was trying on the way home to think who was the last player of ours who had that sort of control at pace and could finish the way he can. As yet I can`t think of anybody, but one of you probably can. Problem is, of course, as the bloke next to me said, if he carries on like that DA will have the ££££ signs rolling in front of his eyes again in no time at all so he may not be with us too long.
Good to see that things finally seem to be turning a corner and it`s nice once again to be looking for us at the northern end of the table rather than the other. I`m increasingly impressed with MA the more I see and hear of him (he does remind me of Cloughie sometimes; " I did once make a mistake - about 9 years ago, I think. What are laughing at?) and that nice touch at the end of the Nuneaton game certainly went down well.
I know I`m being a grumpy old git but I was a bit teed off at not being able to get a programme last night. To be fair, a few others were as well. The story going round was that the club only had 250 printed and that most of them went to the executive suites. That may or may not be true, but regardless it`s gratifying to know that in this ever-changing world the standards of administration at CFC remain constant. Still, I suppose they didn`t expect nearly 5k to turn up - and when was the last time we had to delay the kick-off because of queues at the ticket office?
Funny old game. Funny old world.
RE: Tonight - spireitematt - 08-08-2018
Welcome back SaltergateBorn.
A lot of other fans are saying Chesterfield are getting carried away because we've won 2 in a row and are top of the league.
RE: Tonight - St Charles Owl - 08-08-2018
(08-08-2018, 18:36)spireitematt Wrote: Welcome back SaltergateBorn.
A lot of other fans are saying Chesterfield are getting carried away because we've won 2 in a row and are top of the league.
After a poor season and a relegation there comes a point where you should be allowed to get carried away, even if it is premature and probably meaningless in the whole scheme of thjngs - this is your time!!!!
RE: Tonight - SaltergateBorn - 08-08-2018
What`s that, Matt? Football fans getting carried away? Surely not!
To be fair, the bookies seems to be getting a bit (over)excited as well. Only 4 days and 2 games ago, they were offering between 7/2 and 5/1 on us getting promoted - which I think was fairly optimistic anyway, but now we`re at 5/2 pretty much across the board, as far as I can see. Salford, on the other hand, in the course of 2 games have gone out from between 10/11 and just slightly above evens to 6/5 and longer. Bookies aren`t normally accused of getting carried away, in my experience
RE: Tonight - spireitematt - 08-08-2018
(08-08-2018, 19:17)St Charles Owl Wrote:(08-08-2018, 18:36)spireitematt Wrote: Welcome back SaltergateBorn.
A lot of other fans are saying Chesterfield are getting carried away because we've won 2 in a row and are top of the league.
After a poor season and a relegation there comes a point where you should be allowed to get carried away, even if it is premature and probably meaningless in the whole scheme of thjngs - this is your time!!!!
2 relegations back to back. Exactly we should enjoy it while we can.
(08-08-2018, 19:21)SaltergateBorn Wrote: What`s that, Matt? Football fans getting carried away? Surely not!
To be fair, the bookies seems to be getting a bit (over)excited as well. Only 4 days and 2 games ago, they were offering between 7/2 and 5/1 on us getting promoted - which I think was fairly optimistic anyway, but now we`re at 5/2 pretty much across the board, as far as I can see. Salford, on the other hand, in the course of 2 games have gone out from between 10/11 and just slightly above evens to 6/5 and longer. Bookies aren`t normally accused of getting carried away, in my experience
Salford started off slow last season in National League North and then found their form. We need to stay around the top 5 and then hope we hit form around March/April time.
RE: Tonight - Dancingwilldoit - 09-08-2018
Matt, we are top, we need to stay top. Make other teams look up to us and fear playing us. Only 1 team goes up from this league and the play off is a lottery we don't want to be involved in.
CFC fans have suffered 3 years of dire football and incompetent leadership. We now have a reason to be cheerful, a xxxx in the cloud - call it what you may but excuse me if we do get a bit excited about it, its about time and we deserve it.
Jesus, this board is bewildering, even the word C H I N K gets blocked out. Add that to the list
For the avoidance of any doubt it means "a narrow opening, typically one that admits light"