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Post by enjoythesilence on Feb 12, 2018 10:57:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 11:09:15 GMT
They always do a decent report.
What I'm finding (maybe its always been the case but I'm noticing it more this season) is oppo fans seem to be more watered off with Ellis during and after the game.
Which is great. I know he's got a WUM personality but I'm assuming he's been told to really put himself about and get under players skin. He seems to be doing this and its paying off
Too many times over the years I've come away from games wishing we had the oppositions front man who bullied and niggled us all game. Hoping Ellis keeps it up
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 12, 2018 11:23:03 GMT
You can’t deny they’ve got something there when they belt out “Goodnight Irene” en masse.
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Post by gaseous on Feb 12, 2018 12:02:45 GMT
Well done to the 1800+ that were there on Saturday. As always a good away following. UTG
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Post by pgray on Feb 12, 2018 12:27:22 GMT
That was a good read. I thought we were quite noisy for much of the game. The sound must disappear over the empty end. I think we play more decent football than other teams give us credit for. Second half we passed them off the park. Back to our ploughed field tomorrow and direct football.
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Post by bovrilsorters on Feb 12, 2018 12:47:20 GMT
That was a good read. I thought we were quite noisy for much of the game. The sound must disappear over the empty end. I think we play more decent football than other teams give us credit for. Second half we passed them off the park. Back to our ploughed field tomorrow and direct football. Agree we played some good stuff 2nd half. Be interesting to see how it goes tomorrow once back on our own pitch, usually gives us an 'advantage' as used to it, however given Rochdale's pitch is 10x worse than ours they might be able to out mud us.... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 14:13:07 GMT
That was a good read. I thought we were quite noisy for much of the game. The sound must disappear over the empty end. I think we play more decent football than other teams give us credit for. Second half we passed them off the park. Back to our ploughed field tomorrow and direct football. Agree we played some good stuff 2nd half. Be interesting to see how it goes tomorrow once back on our own pitch, usually gives us an 'advantage' as used to it, however given Rochdale's pitch is 10x worse than ours they might be able to out mud us.... Cool user name bro. |
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Post by lympstonegas on Feb 12, 2018 17:07:33 GMT
Fair report to be honest - I do agree with what he said about Ellis manhandling their defender off the ball - I couldn't believe the ref didn't award them a free kick to be honest. Ellis putting himself about physically in their box is great to see as plenty opponents do it to us.
I so can't wait to the Rochdale game now
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Post by gasandrew on Feb 12, 2018 17:19:26 GMT
A very balanced report which is probably reasonable given the stats in our favour for the match
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 12, 2018 18:33:59 GMT
"We’d been completely outfought in midfield" which is a massive improvement on last Saturday when you could say the same for us against Shrewsbury.
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Post by oldgas on Feb 12, 2018 19:07:35 GMT
I find it difficult to understand why we didn't play like that against Shrewsbury last week. Is it because of the pitch, our shape, or the fact we only played with 1 striker with more midfield support?
I wish I could fathom all this out, but I suppose that's the beauty and random nature of football.
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Feb 12, 2018 19:21:45 GMT
"We’d been completely outfought in midfield" which is a massive improvement on last Saturday when you could say the same for us against Shrewsbury. How to turn a positive into a negative! 10/10 Well done Topper. |
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Post by socrates on Feb 12, 2018 19:28:31 GMT
"We’d been completely outfought in midfield" which is a massive improvement on last Saturday when you could say the same for us against Shrewsbury. We had more energy and ability than oxford , Shrewsbury had more energy and ability than us. Simple as that really. |
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Feb 12, 2018 20:04:20 GMT
I find it difficult to understand why we didn't play like that against Shrewsbury last week. Is it because of the pitch, our shape, or the fact we only played with 1 striker with more midfield support? I wish I could fathom all this out, but I suppose that's the beauty and random nature of football. Without meaning to sound like a knob, there are two teams on the pitch in every match. The reason for us playing very differently in two games may have very little to do with our formation, tactics, shape etc - it’ll almost certainly be at least partly down to the tactics and formation of the opposition. Shrewsbury pressed us more and higher up the pitch than Oxford, and were also a bigger, stronger and more physical side. The two games are never gonna be the same, in reality. Edit: And of course, at Oxford we’re playing football on a bowling green, rather than on a battlefield v Shrewsbury. |
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Post by Squiffy on Feb 12, 2018 22:28:32 GMT
You could almost say that each game was like a different project...😉
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Post by lympstonegas on Feb 13, 2018 10:59:50 GMT
You could almost say that each game was like a different project...😉 Shush don't mention the P word |
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