Cambridge v The GAS match day thread

Keep Collins, get rid of Barton, problem solved. No idea how to change tactics.

Apart from 90th minute sub Luke McCormick scored a 98th min winning goal only 5 days ago😄😄

lonely at home on a Saturday?

Regrets now or just normal quote for you. Find fault in everyone else though. Up The Pirates.

See you Saturday at the Mem maybe.

[br make yourself known and your shining light of positivity will radiate to the rest of us.

Just home back from my weekend with my boy.

A few thoughts from the trip….

It all started so well. We chased the club coach into the car park and my boy got lovely photos with almost all the players and JB himself. Nice touch, JB had a chat with us and thanked us for travelling up.

Then into the clubhouse, met and chatted to a few home fans, really nice bunch, honest, proper football fans.

Lovely day, sun out, gas in good numbers.

And then it got spoilt by the football!!

I really don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a game quite like yesterday, it looked like the players had all been spiked with an overdose of Valium. Taylor sometimes had the ball at his feet for 30 seconds or so, he shuffled it around, and either passed it to Cramer or whacked it diagonally into touch.

Cambridge just stood off, defended in numbers, and if we tried to play it into the middle they swarmed us and we generally lost possession.

It was so frustrating as we just had no idea how to change tactics, and Collins was wasted out wide (was a game he needed to be running through the middle at 2 very average and slow centre backs?)

The ONLY bright spark for me was Luke Thomas, who at least looked like he had avoided the apathy pills and tried to make things happen.

Bogarde did more in 8 minutes than Finley in 82

I can only hope that this was a blip and lessons will be learned, we can’t just turn up and waltz around like we are Barcelona in this division. It takes guile and grit and speed and bravery. We had none of that yesterday.

I’m not one for throwing toys, had a great weekend, and contrary to the chants, Cambridge is not a s##thole, but a culturally enriching place.

One thing is for sure, we need a CF to come in soon. We won’t reach the play offs with Marquis and Loft

Nothing to panic about yet, very open division this one, but lessons to learn from for JB and his team. We aren’t as good (yet) as we perhaps thought we were!

UTG

I've just watched the highlights having not been at the game or watching on ifollow..

In terms of chances made it seems like we just about edged it. Doesn't chime at all with the comments I was reading on here during the game (which I fully believe!)

Could we have won this or got a point despite playing as bad as we did? They boxed us in, but Collins finishing his chance and the game would have been very different.

Indeed.

And whilst it’s frustrating, I’d be much more concerned if we weren’t creating the chances in the first place.

I feel like taking chances you’re already creating is an easier fix and can hopefully be solved with a new recruit up top, Brown’s return + increased confidence in Collins, Marquis etc. in front of goal.

Last season creating decent chances felt like pulling teeth at time. I don’t see us having the same issue this season based on the early evidence - we just need to be more clinical!