[Lord Snooty]

It's what we do, Devon. We don't play exciting football. Even the successful teams of Wagner and Corberan were boring to watch. That's modern football.

[theo_luddite]

Our Cup 11 beat both Leicester's and Blunderland's Cup 11's, even if it was on penalties. Our first 11 would not have beaten Citeh. They had enough in their starting 11 and on the bench to make sure that wasn't going to happen. We picked from our first team squad - they picked half their side from their Yoof squad despite having a 25 man Prima Donna League squad and similar for Europe. Had they picked only from ther 'first team squads' like we did, it would have been Good Night Vienna by half time. Our 'first 11', whatever that is this season, were battered by Bradford and couldn't score against Burton. We put players on in the 2nd half that have played more often and scored goals in the League or the Cup(s). The closest we got was hitting the post when it was almost too late to matter. Citeh's back 4 played something like 400+ passes sideways, mostly in our half. Do you really think we'd have taken The Blue Mancs to the cleaners and then had time to recover before today's trip to Exeter for tomorrow if we'd started the same 11 that started against Burton? Well we couldn't anyway - Alves is out injured for a few months and you still need to have possession of the ball to take it to teams like this.

Wagner introduced Town to the press, "Gegenpressing" when he came on board. It worked brilliantly until Spurs passed their way through us in two passes and made us look like a bunch of schoolboys. A team like Arsenal can do 70% possession against Citeh, and still draw 1-1. Right now, Citeh are a tad out of our League. The promoted Prima Donna Clubs and those in the bottom half less so. Had we got one of them, we'd have given them more of a game. For what it's worth, Exeter's manager was there and thought we had a brilliant game plan that kept us in the game until their 2nd goal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t21NbEiStpY

[SHEP_HTAFC]

There is a level at which you disappear up your own arse if you think having a cup eleven is even appropriate. You and Chesterfield consent to what's happening by playing that game. We turn ourselves from being a possible or probable loser into a certain loser. Only when a Plymouth beats a Liverpool does that re-invigorate cup competition (and bizarrely that wasn't Plymouth's strongest team!)

Anyway I thought I should say something positive about Huddersfield. I liked Redmond your Villa loanee - hope he gets on the pitch more, but i could be over-influenced by his lovely gangster name. Kusumu always seems efficient to me and I was impressed by how Sorensen stuck to the task against Savinho, who was clearly hoping to impress his manager (who himself seems to be becoming bizarre to me) - for instance what on earth do you expect to learn from picking two wingers with a star teenage midfielder as a false centre forward (a position in itself more football ollocks!).

Playing that system you almost mirror Chesterfield. Against Burton you dominated possession, managed a huge number of successful passes and yet couldn't score against a three-man defence with a fullback at its heart ....... Playing the same way our lone striker never scores. (And it looks a system which is unlikely to get the best from Alfie May.) Unfortunately on Wednesday against a better team your passing broke down if you ever got the ball and a long ball was no use whatsoever to poor Dion Charles. And the idea that you hang on until the last 15 and then bring on first choice fresh faces to grab the glory is a long shot largely for the birds.

I don't like what we're doing at Chesterfield on the pitch and your manager's approach looks similar ..... that's all. I was looking forward to watching a full game from you and how you'd handle a very difficult challenge. I didn't enjoy it. BUT I still think you can beat Exeter and if you pull yourselves together you can take down Stockport's over-rated mob too.

Wow thanks for saying something 'nice' about Huddersfield. Would hate it if you were being horrible about us. Always disliked Chesterfield. Horrible place and supporters. Remember going there one year in the FA Cup and Craig Maskell scored the 2nd goal in a win we didn't deserve. Soon as that goal went in, a man in his 70's tried to hit me over the wall that separates home and away supporters in the main stand. He got escorted out quite rightly.....never liked the place or the club after that....and don't really care fot you much Devon.....can you comment on a different team from now on?

[Lord Snooty]

Calm down, Shep. I don't think it was Dev trying to knock you over the wall.

[theo_luddite]

Might have been his dad though.