08-01-2023, 14:28
Is it be kind to women day? If a male ref' had missed a blatant penalty and allowed an equalising goal to be scored after our full back had been laid low by a deliberate elbow to the face you'd hardly have been able to type for sheer fury! If she'd looked like David Elleray you'd have been advocating the Mussolini position from the nearest lamp post on Sheff Road. (A lot of the National League will have been smiling about the elbow on king).
I think Carlos Corberan has learned something about the actual level of National League teams. Coventry as I expected couldn't handle Wrexham. I don't fancy Accrington in the replay with Boreham Wood. Eddie Howe threw his first chance of winning the cup away by underestimating Wednesday (and why Cardiff are loaning out a better centre back than they themselves have is a mystery to me). Mark Cooper displayed absolute idiocy at Blackpool and may have destroyed all the good vibes he'd created recently. And FFS when will teams learn that playing out from the back ALL THE TIME, especially with passes under five yards is a recipe for disaster? Why on earth would you keep giving a ball to the feet of your least able outfield player in search of creativity? Your keeper may dream of being Zidane, but if he was he would be running your midfield. It is screamingly obvious to every spectator in the ground that there is going to be a fck-up yet they continue and the irony is that this way of playing is a direct result of a rule introduced to reduce back passes which has massively increased them in terms of their effect upon games.
We always used to play out from the back too when we could, but the keeper threw the ball to a man in space. Now you mishit a dribbly pass to a man facing the wrong direction and unaware he has a man on his back. Working well. Lunatics and the asylum spring to mind.
I think Carlos Corberan has learned something about the actual level of National League teams. Coventry as I expected couldn't handle Wrexham. I don't fancy Accrington in the replay with Boreham Wood. Eddie Howe threw his first chance of winning the cup away by underestimating Wednesday (and why Cardiff are loaning out a better centre back than they themselves have is a mystery to me). Mark Cooper displayed absolute idiocy at Blackpool and may have destroyed all the good vibes he'd created recently. And FFS when will teams learn that playing out from the back ALL THE TIME, especially with passes under five yards is a recipe for disaster? Why on earth would you keep giving a ball to the feet of your least able outfield player in search of creativity? Your keeper may dream of being Zidane, but if he was he would be running your midfield. It is screamingly obvious to every spectator in the ground that there is going to be a fck-up yet they continue and the irony is that this way of playing is a direct result of a rule introduced to reduce back passes which has massively increased them in terms of their effect upon games.
We always used to play out from the back too when we could, but the keeper threw the ball to a man in space. Now you mishit a dribbly pass to a man facing the wrong direction and unaware he has a man on his back. Working well. Lunatics and the asylum spring to mind.