20-09-2014, 22:04
A true shocker of an afternoon in Beeston.
Town support was buoyant, noisy to start with sadly 2 empty blocks low tier to give the South Stand plenty of early ammunition to fire back in our directIon. I thought myself the set up (on paper) looked ok but what I didn't reckon for was how slow our build up play would be givings Weeds time to mass behind the ball and block any attempt we made. Then our midfield couldn't find a tackle to slow down their powerful and direct style putting pressure on Bet Lynch in particular who likes to fall over way too easy for a 14st international player and blame everyone else. come back Gerrard!
pelts was woeful, only once got forward in support of Scanz, B'Field got worse as the game went on his passing too, Hogg might be the fittest player we've ever had in bleep tests but can't do a lot else but run around looking busy, we left too much space between midfield n Wells who didn't have much of a game either so once Smithies failed to push Austin's shot over we were right up against it, the town support lost a few decibels and No 2 before HT was curtains. lots of possession 2nd but couldn't hurt them or dominate against 10 capped off with Steady blasting over on 82 mins by which time 50% of town fans had called it a day.
Listened to K'0R on the way back Powells limp straight talk went down like a lead balloon cos that was one gutless display lacking belief and desire. Bunn was superb and on perhaps 7-8 occasions beat 3 to get into the box but his shot or cross found no-one to capitalise. Scanz bright but poor end product.
big fan of what Deano has done for this club but I genuinely feel the board is too focused on spin bollox n we have lost a bit of reality management and players wise, there has to be a couple of loan signing up front n a serious long term partner for Hudson targeted to beef the spine.
grumpy as fk since I landed home that's what footy does to you when it doesn't go well, M1 crap blah blah.....
Town support was buoyant, noisy to start with sadly 2 empty blocks low tier to give the South Stand plenty of early ammunition to fire back in our directIon. I thought myself the set up (on paper) looked ok but what I didn't reckon for was how slow our build up play would be givings Weeds time to mass behind the ball and block any attempt we made. Then our midfield couldn't find a tackle to slow down their powerful and direct style putting pressure on Bet Lynch in particular who likes to fall over way too easy for a 14st international player and blame everyone else. come back Gerrard!
pelts was woeful, only once got forward in support of Scanz, B'Field got worse as the game went on his passing too, Hogg might be the fittest player we've ever had in bleep tests but can't do a lot else but run around looking busy, we left too much space between midfield n Wells who didn't have much of a game either so once Smithies failed to push Austin's shot over we were right up against it, the town support lost a few decibels and No 2 before HT was curtains. lots of possession 2nd but couldn't hurt them or dominate against 10 capped off with Steady blasting over on 82 mins by which time 50% of town fans had called it a day.
Listened to K'0R on the way back Powells limp straight talk went down like a lead balloon cos that was one gutless display lacking belief and desire. Bunn was superb and on perhaps 7-8 occasions beat 3 to get into the box but his shot or cross found no-one to capitalise. Scanz bright but poor end product.
big fan of what Deano has done for this club but I genuinely feel the board is too focused on spin bollox n we have lost a bit of reality management and players wise, there has to be a couple of loan signing up front n a serious long term partner for Hudson targeted to beef the spine.
grumpy as fk since I landed home that's what footy does to you when it doesn't go well, M1 crap blah blah.....