Gas Vs Cods: Matchday Thread

My sentiments exactly re; the loanees , and bringing on defenders 🤔🤔🤔🤔💙Utg 

Don’t agree with the first bit, he defo picked the wrong side, tactics were mysterious 🤔
substitutions were definitely baffling to put it mildly 🫣💙Utg 

I can't understand why MT rested LT, surely we needed to bag the 3 pts on offer last night rather than worry about Saturday, a win last night with Stevenage also losing would have kept the momentum going, now the season looks over once we get to 50 pts. Playing both Vaughan and BA seemed an odd move against such a physical side particularly given the conditions.

What I can't understand is what happens after half time in virtually every game, as we go in at half time either winning or at least matching the opposition, then seem to get totally outplayed in the second half and fail to make any clear cut chances, even at Exeter we had to rely upon Ward making saves to win the game. 


  

Not sure we were that poor in the first half, the goalie got lucky with Martin's shot after a good move and with LT's shot he palmed around the post, we probably had a coupe of other chances, in the second had only Marquis had a chance and CM did nothing apart from pick up two needless yellows. 

LT played virtually all the match so it seems unlikely he had a slight injury. 

Yeah, maybe not as bad as I remember. There were a few moments but we went in 1 nil down after conceding a poor goal against a fairly average (although organised and hard working) Fleetwood Town

The league table says we're a midtable side.... my eyes tell me we're a midtable side.

As incredibly frustrating as it is, what to midtable sides do? They win some - they lose some. They're inconsistent - they're unpredictable. They can go toe-to-toe with the best side in the league one week, and get humiliated by the bottom team the next.

That's us. We're a midtable team.

As incredibly frustrating as it is, we need to try and remember that and avoid going from "promotion / playoff hunt" to "worse performance I've seen in years, we're going down" every 4-7 days.

Hopefully Taylor can re-build the club in the summer, and get us to a place where we have a much better balanced squad, with less injury prone players; then will be the time to review his performance. Until then, we need to accept that we will be in for a good number of jekyll and hyde performances.

Last night was the first time ever that I wondered why I was at the game - just after Stockley scored, apparently unopposed. It’s taken me 62 years of support to reach that low.

I wasn’t optimistic when I saw the team sheet wondering why Vaughan and Baggott were starting. I then thought about who else did we have and realised too many are injured or at least needed resting. Sadly, I felt MT probably didn’t have many options. Then Jack Hunt is injured and LT didn’t get his planned rest after all.

We weren’t a cohesive unit - that was my main worry before the start - could we gel?I didn’t understand the second half substitutions, or agree but MT doesn’t claim to be perfect.]
I felt we really missed Connor Taylor last night, I hope he is back again soon (but not taking any risks please, we have too many long term crocks). Like wise Sam Finley.

I travelled from Bath by motorcycle so was reasonably well protected against the weather. However, the damp had got in on the shoulder seams. It was that bit of damp and the second goal going in that made me wonder why I bothered when several mates were watching via iPlayer, dry and warm. It was still watering down all the way home. I was wet through to the underpants and my gear has only just stopped dripping. It won’t be dry till Friday at least, especially the leather bits.

Anyway, I’ll be there Saturday come what may cause that’s what we supporters do. UTG!

There is usually an unspoken relationship between the players and the crowd. They are supposed to get each other going.

The crowd noise on Tuesday was a little quiet, but the performance on the pitch engineerd the situation where you could hear 5 people signing in the away end from the Thatchers.

If everyone could stop being so ruddy bi-polar after every match it would be a start.

We are ,and have been since August, a mid table third tier side. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less. We have yet to put together a run of three straight wins all season.

The previous permanent manager set us up to play pretty football, but forgot that at this level there are lots of teams who prefer to play a simpler, more physical game with a win at all costs approach. Especially those with less resources than us. We have struggled to compete in any of these games all season.

At the other end there are half a dozen teams with bigger resources, bigger fan bases and a lot more spending power. All of these have played in the Prem at some point. Bar gambling and potentially putting the club into administration (or as I like to call it, doing a Swindon) it’s going to be hard to compete financially with these. Also it has been historically hard to attract players to Bristol from places like London and the North West.

There have been faults from all three managers this season, as well as individual player errors. The seeming lack of desire against both Exeter and Fleetwood at home compared to opposition who a fighting to stay up I found worrying. The lack of an out and out goalscorer has hamstrung us all season. I genuinely don’t believe JCH is the magic solution to this, and Martin has done well to paper over the cracks, but this is the absolute priority this summer.

In conclusion let’s just accept we are where we are, and to progress it’s going to need a change in personnel and mindset through the off season. I trust Taylor totally in this, he has previous success with both Exeter and Rotherham to achieve this. But we as fans really need to temper our reactions, as it just becomes exhausting to be so up or down all the time. As someone who has Mental Health issues maybe we need some collective CBT?