Not our night.

Dancingwilldoit · 04-03-2020, 11:05

Good end to end game that could have gone either way.
They were quick on the counter attack and ran rings around our defence when they had the ball.
They were a good team but why oh why did they have to resort to dirty cheating tactics. With the weak referee we had they just got away with falling over, players repeatedly going down when we were on top to slow our tempo down and blatant handballs some of which they got away with. They were in the refs and linesmens faces every single decision. They annoying thing was they could play and there was just no need for it. It needed stamping out early doors by the ref but as usual he bottled it.

For once Pemberton got his subs wrong IMO, he took Tyson off who was having a good game for Fondop who was just woeful. He took Mandeville off who was doing ok for Boden who looked well below par but was in the right place at the right time for our 3rd. The inspired sub was Hutchinson. We were 2-3 down and my thought was god, a baptism of fire but the lad was superb. He looked confident, quick, good on the ball and single handedly laid on the 3rd goal on for Denton to nod down to Boden. He really is one to watch and showed plenty of promise.

Disappointing to lose in the last minute again but we were in it right through to the end. Some minutes earlier we hit the side netting with most of the East Stand thinking it had gone in, if only it had.

Our defence should have done better for all 3 of their goals but they were very fast. Watching Evans and Hollis is like watching the Titanic turn. Cropper made a bit of a hash of it for the 3rd and I don't rate him that much considering he was supposed to be one of Burnleys emerging talents.

Oh well onwards and upwards - hopefully.

Devongone · 04-03-2020, 13:12

If you could simultaneously have been at home watching Billy Gilmour at 18 taking Liverpool apart you might have been more confident about Hutchinson coming on. Like Gilmour he now has to prove he can keep doing it.

I wonder if one of the things Pembo got wrong was starting Tyson. He seemed to benefit enormously from coming on as a sub against a defence that had already played almost 70 minutes when he scored his hat trick. He is 37 and the fact he has retained a bit of pace might be more advantageous nearer the end of games rather than the beginning. Equally Fondop is about the only player we have who has scored early goals for us …….. so maybe we should use him at the start with a view to Tyson replacing him.

We seem to have a penchant for centre back combinations who mirror each other's weaknesses. Ideally we ought to have someone quick on the turn alongside Evans, but that applied to Evo too didn't it? BUT if the defensive midfield were working properly would their turning circle even be an issue? I can remember playing behind two ageing centre backs who didn't get turned by a player running through with the ball because we had a fearsome tackler lying deep in midfield. Equally threading a pass through the middle of us was difficult, because our centre backs didn't get dragged out wide so they were in position, midfield was a genuine barrier and behind them I was ready to leave my line and clear up the odd danger ball. It's if you let play be open and your centre backs get dragged apart that their mobility becomes an issue. I suppose the fact that our full backs were two of our best and most mobile players meant that it was very difficult for forwards to create space and exploit any weaknesses we had.

Although we scored three and lost last night the most important thing we need to do now is go to Chorley and score. Despite the results both sides "achieved" last night if you're doing the prediction league the most likely result has to be 0-0. And we need the win.

**spireitematt** · 04-03-2020, 20:52

(04-03-2020, 13:12)Devongone Wrote: Although we scored three and lost last night the most important thing we need to do now is go to Chorley and score. Despite the results both sides "achieved" last night if you're doing the prediction league the most likely result has to be 0-0. And we need the win.

Most important thing is go to Chorley and get the win. A draw would have got us out of the relegation zone on goal difference.

Devongone · 05-03-2020, 14:03

A goal early would set us on the way. Then from dead ball situations mark Meppen-Walter tighter than lycra and watch for Nortey Nortey lurking. Ideally one of our full backs will have put Kiwomya in the stand straight from the kick-off.

Devongone · 08-03-2020, 13:48

Pleased that we won. Dagenham to draw with Fylde this week would be a good result for us. Hope someone you made it to the game.

By the way Ricky German got his first EFL start since I think his one start for us. And it took him 36 minutes to score for Crawley. He hasn't scored when they put him on as sub. The two places where he scored regularly were for our Academy and Reserves and Hendon. What did they have in common? They started him. Some players are starters, some are supersubs and some can succeed whenever and wherever. Seems to me Ricardo has spent years telling everyone he's a starter or he's a waste of time. Hope Crawley work it out soon, or they'll be throwing him back in the pond.

Dancingwilldoit · 08-03-2020, 16:42

Didnt make it but a great result.
If we beat Dover on Saturday we should start pulling away and I think we will.

**spireitematt** · 08-03-2020, 20:23

(08-03-2020, 16:42)Dancingwilldoit Wrote: Didnt make it but a great result.
If we beat Dover on Saturday we should start pulling away and I think we will.

I didn't go either and now it turns out there is 2 cases of coronavirus confirmed in Chorley.

Devongone · (This post was last modified: 08-03-2020, 20:58 by Devongone.)

Torbay has six cases of Coronavirus. We've tested 20,000+ people and found 273 positive. Hmmm maybe I need to buy a vat of toilet rolls and salad cream! Thousands die everyday worldwide from TB. Nobody mentions it!

19 is largely dangerous because it spreads fairly easily and a lot of people experience precious few symptoms and just feel slightly off it.

Dancing ought to take care and so perhaps should I if I cared about my health. But the media are lapping it, this is even better than a big storm or Boris producing Quads.

Dancingwilldoit · 09-03-2020, 11:52

(08-03-2020, 20:57)Devongone Wrote: Torbay has six cases of Coronavirus. We've tested 20,000+ people and found 273 positive. Hmmm maybe I need to buy a vat of toilet rolls and salad cream! Thousands die everyday worldwide from TB. Nobody mentions it!

19 is largely dangerous because it spreads fairly easily and a lot of people experience precious few symptoms and just feel slightly off it.

Dancing ought to take care and so perhaps should I if I cared about my health. But the media are lapping it, this is even better than a big storm or Boris producing Quads.

Dev, if I get it then I get it. All the hand sanitizers and bog rolls in the world aint going to stop this one.
I cant believe all the panic. I know its not nice but nature has its own way of dealing with things and sometimes we need to accept that there are just too many of us. Its not cows farting in fields thats causing global warming, its the increase in population. The more people, the more greenhouse gasses, but everybody seems to just ignore that and focus on the easy things to blame. Its all bullshit.
The bigger the population, the more waste, the more plastic etc etc. If we lose a few to Corona virus (I include me, my 93 year old mum and my wife who has lung issues) then so be it. From the day we are born we are all going to die.
Here endeth the gospel according to Dancingwilldoit

Devongone · 09-03-2020, 13:53

I totally agree Dancing. Washing your hands a bit more and more thoroughly, whilst stopping short of OCD sounds sensible-ish as does avoiding crowded pubs with everyone breathing in your face …….. but beyond that, other than the gun turrets I've erected and the sheep-dip containers I've installed I'm making no moves towards self-isolation.

As this virus is making people ill it is going to cause us logistical problems treating people and them being off work etc, but the death rate is very low. Unless the virus can transform itself from something infectious to something both infectious and lethal we don't need to worry until some new genie uncorks itself from a bottle.

You're quite right the cows are farting because there are too many of us and we want to eat them and kill their babies to make milk. No wonder they've got irritable bowel …..

What I'd do amid all the panic and confusion is test around 1,000 people at random in a place or places in the country where no cases have been recorded. We ought to get zero positives, but I'm betting the result wouldn't be 0. (I just love all this stuff about scientists trying to trace the source for every infected person. If I spent a couple of days in London I might not knowingly have met Italians or people just returned from Hong Kong or South Korea, but I might have and how long would it take for them to infect me? Man back from visiting distant relatives in Northern Italy hands me a theatre programme, he isn't really ill and is never going to feel more than slightly off it. How am I going to provide enough information for him to be traced?) And why are all these illnesses traced back to obscure animals in strange countries? And species boundaries being mysteriously leapt? Why don't they start in toilets in drug-ridden UK prisons for instance?