27-08-2018, 11:15
Well, at least I can say what I really thought about this game without reading it through afterwards and wondering whether I`d been too negative. Clearly, we`re all of the same opinion.
I did something on Saturday that I`ve rarely done and always decried in others; I left ( along with may others, admittedly) as soon as their goal went in and spent the next hour and a bit driving back home wondering what words I could use to describe my feelings without getting prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. I was also mulling over the fact that I`d wasted several quid on petrol to make a 120 odd mile round trip, a ticket and a balti pie; not to mention wasting an afternoon of my life that I`d never get back. In all honesty, I was too angry and frustrated to be bored.
Not much to say about the game itself that you haven`t already said. I don`t like slagging off individual players and, to be fair, I don`t think anybody played well. Zavon Hines did the best he could, perhaps, without any service whatsoever. I can`t remember Muggleton doing anything at all after he came on apart from 2 long throws, which is probably an indictment of his performance in itself, and I certainly wouldn`t play him from the start - not in that position, at least. Giving away 2 very similar goals in consecutive games a few minutes after replacing Weir does seem a remarkable coincidence, I agree. I honestly think MA made the change in an act of desperation in the hope that one of his long throws would create something.
To be fair, though, Barnet should really have been a couple up at least by then; all credit to the new `keeper for that. Sorry, Blue, I don`t agree that a draw would have been a fair result. I think that would have been a travesty, personally. Whether Barnet are really so much better than their position suggests or whether we were so bloody awful that we made them look good I really don`t know.
Anyway, it`s good that MA is angry and is taking the blame himself rather than coming out with a load of excuses ; he could have used the injuries as an excuse, but he didn`t. I respect him for that.
I did something on Saturday that I`ve rarely done and always decried in others; I left ( along with may others, admittedly) as soon as their goal went in and spent the next hour and a bit driving back home wondering what words I could use to describe my feelings without getting prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. I was also mulling over the fact that I`d wasted several quid on petrol to make a 120 odd mile round trip, a ticket and a balti pie; not to mention wasting an afternoon of my life that I`d never get back. In all honesty, I was too angry and frustrated to be bored.
Not much to say about the game itself that you haven`t already said. I don`t like slagging off individual players and, to be fair, I don`t think anybody played well. Zavon Hines did the best he could, perhaps, without any service whatsoever. I can`t remember Muggleton doing anything at all after he came on apart from 2 long throws, which is probably an indictment of his performance in itself, and I certainly wouldn`t play him from the start - not in that position, at least. Giving away 2 very similar goals in consecutive games a few minutes after replacing Weir does seem a remarkable coincidence, I agree. I honestly think MA made the change in an act of desperation in the hope that one of his long throws would create something.
To be fair, though, Barnet should really have been a couple up at least by then; all credit to the new `keeper for that. Sorry, Blue, I don`t agree that a draw would have been a fair result. I think that would have been a travesty, personally. Whether Barnet are really so much better than their position suggests or whether we were so bloody awful that we made them look good I really don`t know.
Anyway, it`s good that MA is angry and is taking the blame himself rather than coming out with a load of excuses ; he could have used the injuries as an excuse, but he didn`t. I respect him for that.