04-09-2022, 12:34
Thanks for a lovely, very personal report on the game. It sounds like you, so that takes the rest of us there with you!
I was very worried by the look of the team, particularly Dobra, still struggling with injury and Tshimanga not travelling.
I was worried by our new signing too. Akinola's previous loan up in Dundee was a miserable experience. He played one half and was taken off. And he got shipped unwanted back to Arsenal for treatment having been injured. But on the positive side Arsenal had spotted him in lower league clubs in England, and Dundee had actually been very encouraging, saying that sometimes it can take several loans before the true player shows through. And, of course, Harry Kane is the best example, ended up deep in midfield at Leicester, didn't do that much elsewhere either to suggest here was an England captain and top goal scorer. So it was particularly pleasing to read SGB's positive comments on our new player.
Two goals in the first eight minutes is great, and it sounds so obviously true that it's not worth saying - that those few minutes can dictate the whole pattern of the game. Of course those minutes can also presage a seven goal thriller, but sometimes the side that scored the goals just carries on playing as if they are two up, and the side who are two down carry on to illustrate why throughout the game. Of course watching, when you are 2-0 up you cannot help thinking that something bad is bound to happen the longer that score line doesn't change ....... There isn't a football fan in the world who doesn't long to see his side grab that third goal.
It was very noticeable that the three sides chasing us all felt the need to bang in five. Are they demonstrating ability, or perhaps their own insecurity? Certainly, although I think Wrexham will finally win the league this time, I am also convinced that they are potentially vulnerable. When things don't happen for them they do, like a British tennis player, start to choke.
Thanks so much for taking us to Oldham, Salts. But it'll have to improve a lot more before I add it to my list of places I could potentially live. But they are another club I want to see back in the EFL. Five divisions of twenty clubs each still seems the way to go for me. You could easily come up with eight clubs from the National League worthy of EFL status.
I was very worried by the look of the team, particularly Dobra, still struggling with injury and Tshimanga not travelling.
I was worried by our new signing too. Akinola's previous loan up in Dundee was a miserable experience. He played one half and was taken off. And he got shipped unwanted back to Arsenal for treatment having been injured. But on the positive side Arsenal had spotted him in lower league clubs in England, and Dundee had actually been very encouraging, saying that sometimes it can take several loans before the true player shows through. And, of course, Harry Kane is the best example, ended up deep in midfield at Leicester, didn't do that much elsewhere either to suggest here was an England captain and top goal scorer. So it was particularly pleasing to read SGB's positive comments on our new player.
Two goals in the first eight minutes is great, and it sounds so obviously true that it's not worth saying - that those few minutes can dictate the whole pattern of the game. Of course those minutes can also presage a seven goal thriller, but sometimes the side that scored the goals just carries on playing as if they are two up, and the side who are two down carry on to illustrate why throughout the game. Of course watching, when you are 2-0 up you cannot help thinking that something bad is bound to happen the longer that score line doesn't change ....... There isn't a football fan in the world who doesn't long to see his side grab that third goal.
It was very noticeable that the three sides chasing us all felt the need to bang in five. Are they demonstrating ability, or perhaps their own insecurity? Certainly, although I think Wrexham will finally win the league this time, I am also convinced that they are potentially vulnerable. When things don't happen for them they do, like a British tennis player, start to choke.
Thanks so much for taking us to Oldham, Salts. But it'll have to improve a lot more before I add it to my list of places I could potentially live. But they are another club I want to see back in the EFL. Five divisions of twenty clubs each still seems the way to go for me. You could easily come up with eight clubs from the National League worthy of EFL status.