07-08-2022, 14:39
(This post was last modified: 07-08-2022, 15:00 by SaltergateBorn.)
Well, that’s 2 points we`ll never get back.
I didn`t watch the match but I listened to it on 1866 and it seems to me that, but for an act of sublime stupidity on the part of our `keeper, we would have won this one easily; so it has unnecessarily cost us 2 points which may prove expensive come next May. (It also buggered up my prediction, but that`s another matter.) I haven`t seen a video of the incident so I don`t know whether it was intentional or not but I`ve read a few comments that suggest it appears to have been and it has to be said that he does have form.
What I`m really struggling to get my head around, however, is why the hell we continue to think it sensible to take the field without a substitute `keeper on the bench; especially when our first choice may turn out to have an IQ in single figures. I understand the argument that they`re rarely needed, but when they are and you haven`t got one it can seriously bite you on the bum. It has done twice now in a couple of years. This time it is `only` a couple of points; the last time (against County in the play-offs) it may, just possibly, have cost us promotion and a return to the EFL.
To quote the great Robert Allen Zimmerman; when will they ever learn? The answer, presumably, is blowin` in the wind somewhere around Whittington Moor.
PS My other half has just told me it was Pete Seeger who wrote it, not Bob Dylan. There you go. Another few braincells have just died, it appears.
I didn`t watch the match but I listened to it on 1866 and it seems to me that, but for an act of sublime stupidity on the part of our `keeper, we would have won this one easily; so it has unnecessarily cost us 2 points which may prove expensive come next May. (It also buggered up my prediction, but that`s another matter.) I haven`t seen a video of the incident so I don`t know whether it was intentional or not but I`ve read a few comments that suggest it appears to have been and it has to be said that he does have form.
What I`m really struggling to get my head around, however, is why the hell we continue to think it sensible to take the field without a substitute `keeper on the bench; especially when our first choice may turn out to have an IQ in single figures. I understand the argument that they`re rarely needed, but when they are and you haven`t got one it can seriously bite you on the bum. It has done twice now in a couple of years. This time it is `only` a couple of points; the last time (against County in the play-offs) it may, just possibly, have cost us promotion and a return to the EFL.
To quote the great Robert Allen Zimmerman; when will they ever learn? The answer, presumably, is blowin` in the wind somewhere around Whittington Moor.
PS My other half has just told me it was Pete Seeger who wrote it, not Bob Dylan. There you go. Another few braincells have just died, it appears.