[St Charles Owl]

BML update

No winners for the score and scorer nor the results predictions.

Madsteve was the winner of the attendance prediction.

[Imre varadi]

why where the crowd on his back ? it was his first senior game ???? are they feffing mental ?

How did the young lad dawson look ? coudnt do anything about the goal which a saw ! but did he look comfortable with that giant ox infront of him ?

I thought he did Ok but some of the crowd were on his back a little. Lees and Loovens were giving him encouragement and made sure he pushed up to the edge of the box when we were pushed forward and they were on the halfway line.

[madsteve]

Too Little, Too Late

CC went back to the formation & players that has served him so well at home as Hunt, Loovens, Pudil, Wallace & Fessi returned, replacing Palmer, Hutchinson, Buckley, Jones & Hooper. Personally, I would have stuck with Palmer & Hooper but not too unhappy.

The game started slowly with Wallace involved in most of our better moves but generally we gave the ball away too much, particularly, Lees, Hunt & Reach who played too many long balls.

Brighton scored when Westwood got caught in no mans land when he should have swept up Dunk's through ball but could only help Baldock's chip into the net. Westwood showed signs of injury although CC said later that he was substituted due to suffering from a virus.

The second half followed a similar pattern until Hooper replaced Pudil. Suddenly the ball was sticking and we had more attacking options as he dovetailed nicely with Fletcher. Wallace found more nice positions on the right and Hunt hit the post with a cross that deceived the keeper. Just when it seemed an equaliser was coming, Brighton got a second against the run of play when Knockaert fired in from ten yards.

Brighton were defending well but we continued to create quite a few decent chances. Just as time was running out, the quality of chances improved. Reach missed an absolute sitter from five yards. Lee did likewise from the same position, missing the ball completely before Hooper showed them how to finish but it was too little, too late.

Westwood - 5 - never looked right, at fault for opener
Hunt - 5 - not good enough defensively, gave ball away too much
Lees - 5 - still not up to last season's form
Loovens - 6 - best of average defence
Pudil - 6 - shaky
Wallace - 7 - most threatening of midfield
Bannan - 5 - only half the player he was last season
Lee - 6 - always puts in a decent shift
Reach - 4 - poor performance even before that miss
Fessi - 5 - worked hard but lacked any magic
Fletcher - 5 - little stuck until Hooper came on
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Dawson - 5 - nervous
Hooper - 7 - need him playing 90 minutes

Stat Attack:

Goals: 1 - Hooper

Assists: 0

Touches: 87 - Lees, 75 - Hunt, 74 - Bannan, 68 - Loovens, 65 - Reach, 64 - Lee, 57 - Wallace, 39 - Pudil, 36 - Fessi, 28 - Fletcher, 21 - Hooper, 20 - Westwood, 19 - Dawson

Tackles: 3 - Hunt, 2 - Lee, Reach, Fletcher, 1 - Loovens, Lees, Pudil, Bannan

Interceptions: 3 - Pudil, 2 - Hunt, Loovens, Lee, 1 - Lees, Reach

Clearances: 11 - Lees, 6 - Loovens, 3 - Hunt, 1 - Westwood, Pudil, Lee, Dawson

Attempts: 5 - Fessi, 3 - Lees, Bannan, Reach, Hooper, 2 - Hunt, Loovens, Wallace, Fletcher,

Attempts On Target: 1 - Lees, Wallace, Reach, Fessi, Hooper

Key Passes: 4 - Wallace, 3 - Hooper, 2 - Hunt, Bannan, Reach, 1 - Fessi, Fletcher

Dribbles: 2 - Lee, Reach, 1 - Wallace

Dispossessed: 3 Fessi, 2 - Reach

Bad Control: 1 - Lee, Bannan, Fessi, Fletcher

Crosses (Accurate in brackets): 12 - Wallace (5), 6 - Hunt (1), 5 - Reach (2), 2 - Lee (0), 1 - Pudil (0), Bannan (0), Fessi (0)

Passing Accuracy (Total Passes in Brackets):

96% - Lee (48) , 95% - Loovens (55), 90% - Wallace (39), 87% - Bannan (68), 79% - Fessi (19), 78% - Hooper (18), 76% - Lees (66), 74% - Pudil (27), 71% - Reach (38), Hunt (41), 55% - Fletcher (20), 39% - Dawson (13), 28% - Westwood (15).

We need to be more clinical against the better sides if we want promotion. We are still playing generally well enough but just lack that conviction that might get us half a dozen consecutive victories. CC appears to have settled on different tactics for home & away matches and that is probably correct although more traditional fans will not like it. Expect Jones to be back at Huddersfield, probably at Fessi's expense.

[peiowl]

You didn't do very well without me did you?

So, next game I'll be posting pics of 50s film stars, Canadian beauties and Toronto Blue Jays baseball players, maybe the Canadian women's soccer team. How about a phoro of Miss Prince Edward Island?

That should fix things.

[WakeyTerrier]

You didn't do very well without me did you? I

So, next game I'll be posting pics of 50s film stars, Canadian beauties and Toronto Blue Jays baseball players, maybe the Canadian women's soccer team. How about a phoro of Miss Prince Edward Island?

That should fix things.

lets hope not, for 1 more fixture anyway :whistle

[Imre varadi]

Cardiff who we play after the Huddersfield game will have a new manager and it gets worst it could be Warnock who easy outwitted CC last season its going to be a long old october Derby away aswell

[Imre varadi]

Well you can forget 3pts at cardiff as warnock is the new boss !

[Statesideowl]

Hoofball and ankle tapping, if CC falls for Warnock's shit again questions will need to be asked.

[Imre varadi]

It will be like taking candy of kiddies the way weve been playing ! let us have the ball .. we miss 23 times they run down the other end send in a high ball which our center backs cant cope with and its 1-0 good night mugs !

[Imre varadi]

CC got the manager of the month for september which results wise was quite good ! but fme im all for him to take the villa job as i dont think hes going to take us up and that !!

Good news is that wagner is being mentioned for the Villa job ? which may save our asses from a whooping in a weeks time while it wont meen shit when we go to warnocks cardiff who from this moment is parking a bus at the back and has his players watching WWE wrestling videos !!