27-10-2024, 19:49
(This post was last modified: 27-10-2024, 20:29 by theo_luddite.)
Not to mention we've a slack-handfull still holding sick-notes Wakey.
I also found it strange for another team that supposedly likes possession to sit so deep in their own half for nearly all of the first half. When their opening gambit didn't result in a goal they just went full on defence with a lob over the top for the left winger/wingback Niskanen (didn't he play at Wembley the other week?) to run onto as their outball. Once in a while they punted it up the right to Chemical (or Comical) Alli but apart from one challenge, Lonwijk dealt with him well and got up the left touchline a helluva lot for a back 3 player. He's much improved since he got his kick up the backside.
Chappers flapped at a couple of crosses with the sun in his eyes, but made up for it with the save at the start of the 2nd half. I can't recall a keeper ever punching two unchallenged crosses away, one at chest height that was far easier to catch than the two young Mr. Whitworth performed. He definitely didn't have the sun in his eyes in the first half and was getting rave reviews in their run of clean sheets. We didn't get enough folk near him to pick up on what should have been free gifts.
Was Danny Ward onside as Duff Duff claimed afterwards? I think the liner just called it right but it was close - not from where I sit in Row Z, I'm in the wrong half. That took me about 30 seconds to work out once I stopped the video where I did. Why does it take those clowns in a Portakabin in Bletchley Park 5 minutes when they aren't using YouTube?
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As close as I can stop the Extended Hightlights YouTube vid to the pass leaving Wiles's (?) foot (happy to be corrected) and using the mowing lines (as best as you can see them in the shade of the (ahem) South Stand ......
The Exeter defender nearest the Liner is in the light green strip of grass. Ward and the defender nearest to him are on or just over the line between the light and dark green strip on the dark side. It's too blurred an image to see if the defenders foot is nearer the goal than Wardy's feet, but the fact Wardy is leaning forward over that line in my opinion, puts him a couple of pec muscles and his head offside. Ingrowing toenails and shoelaces therefore are not a factor.
Was the Healey goal offside, which would have earned us some £'s in P4P?
From where I was sat in Row Z, definitely - not quite in line with it, but near enough to make me again not bother to get out of my seat.
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Given the ball is yet to be passed to him, no brainer this for the Liner.
Still, both were tucked away with some aplomb and a bit more awareness and timing and we'll make 'em count in the future.
So, training on our plastic pitch at Canalside for the rest of the week then? Baked spuds for lunch anyone?
PS - discussed Comical Alli with my bro after the game in a pub in Halifax we are both known to frequent. I would hate their patronage to Plummet but I've been going in since I was at college studying chemistry up the road at the Percy Whitley* as it was back then. ELO were a frequent choice on the Juke Box and they are about to hand their cards in too like me it would seem. Happy retirement chaps, but old musicians never really retire, they just hope they die before they get old.
Apart from him (my bro, sorry lost the thread) being pissed off with getting robbed by York in added time on Saturday, his comments were - "Alli never did owt much for us and we're amazed he's in League One. It's getting cold so he'll go into hibernation soon anyway, he always did for us. He used to wear gloves in August and May when he played for us." All the Fax fans I know tell it as it comes and why wouldn't they? Hmmm. Maybe he's one of those I'm happy our recruitment team misssed or ignored.
*Percival to his mum
PPS - It's rare, not just at this level but even at one or two levels above us, but yesterday's refereeing crew were excellent in my opinion.
Let the players play and don't be the centre of attention.
I also found it strange for another team that supposedly likes possession to sit so deep in their own half for nearly all of the first half. When their opening gambit didn't result in a goal they just went full on defence with a lob over the top for the left winger/wingback Niskanen (didn't he play at Wembley the other week?) to run onto as their outball. Once in a while they punted it up the right to Chemical (or Comical) Alli but apart from one challenge, Lonwijk dealt with him well and got up the left touchline a helluva lot for a back 3 player. He's much improved since he got his kick up the backside.
Chappers flapped at a couple of crosses with the sun in his eyes, but made up for it with the save at the start of the 2nd half. I can't recall a keeper ever punching two unchallenged crosses away, one at chest height that was far easier to catch than the two young Mr. Whitworth performed. He definitely didn't have the sun in his eyes in the first half and was getting rave reviews in their run of clean sheets. We didn't get enough folk near him to pick up on what should have been free gifts.
Was Danny Ward onside as Duff Duff claimed afterwards? I think the liner just called it right but it was close - not from where I sit in Row Z, I'm in the wrong half. That took me about 30 seconds to work out once I stopped the video where I did. Why does it take those clowns in a Portakabin in Bletchley Park 5 minutes when they aren't using YouTube?
As close as I can stop the Extended Hightlights YouTube vid to the pass leaving Wiles's (?) foot (happy to be corrected) and using the mowing lines (as best as you can see them in the shade of the (ahem) South Stand ......
The Exeter defender nearest the Liner is in the light green strip of grass. Ward and the defender nearest to him are on or just over the line between the light and dark green strip on the dark side. It's too blurred an image to see if the defenders foot is nearer the goal than Wardy's feet, but the fact Wardy is leaning forward over that line in my opinion, puts him a couple of pec muscles and his head offside. Ingrowing toenails and shoelaces therefore are not a factor.
Was the Healey goal offside, which would have earned us some £'s in P4P?
From where I was sat in Row Z, definitely - not quite in line with it, but near enough to make me again not bother to get out of my seat.
Given the ball is yet to be passed to him, no brainer this for the Liner.
Still, both were tucked away with some aplomb and a bit more awareness and timing and we'll make 'em count in the future.
So, training on our plastic pitch at Canalside for the rest of the week then? Baked spuds for lunch anyone?
PS - discussed Comical Alli with my bro after the game in a pub in Halifax we are both known to frequent. I would hate their patronage to Plummet but I've been going in since I was at college studying chemistry up the road at the Percy Whitley* as it was back then. ELO were a frequent choice on the Juke Box and they are about to hand their cards in too like me it would seem. Happy retirement chaps, but old musicians never really retire, they just hope they die before they get old.
Apart from him (my bro, sorry lost the thread) being pissed off with getting robbed by York in added time on Saturday, his comments were - "Alli never did owt much for us and we're amazed he's in League One. It's getting cold so he'll go into hibernation soon anyway, he always did for us. He used to wear gloves in August and May when he played for us." All the Fax fans I know tell it as it comes and why wouldn't they? Hmmm. Maybe he's one of those I'm happy our recruitment team misssed or ignored.
*Percival to his mum
PPS - It's rare, not just at this level but even at one or two levels above us, but yesterday's refereeing crew were excellent in my opinion.
Let the players play and don't be the centre of attention.
A guide to cask ale.
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“In the best pubs, you can spend entire afternoons deep in refreshment without a care in the world.”