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Post by peterpirate on Sept 28, 2015 16:48:35 GMT
A couple of wins on the trott and we're be in play offs stop the panicking were just finding our feet,as for city I couldn't give a sh** what they are doing just concentrate on the blue babbers
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Post by Jon the Stripe on Sept 28, 2015 16:56:10 GMT
Our away record is pretty decent and Hartlepool are the type of team we really should get a result against if we have aspirations to be top ten so tomorrow nights game could tell us a thing or two hopefully - UTG
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Post by Topper Gas on Sept 28, 2015 17:32:45 GMT
He's still gutted Lines didn't offer to share one of his Corona's at Notts County apparently! You are confusing JoeyB with Roadman, I can confirm they are not one and the same I thought they both were in the bar at the same time as Lines & co?
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Post by Topper Gas on Sept 28, 2015 17:45:23 GMT
I said it's perhaps a little unfair to place to much judgement on Saturday. They are a very good team and we have just got our preferred team back out. Honestly feel from here on in we will get back on it. Talk about moving the goalposts, one post your saying we'll be OK when Leadbitter return then when someone points out he played on Saturday we've got to wait a few games. Leadbitter created a goal on Saturday so I doubt things are going to improve that much for him attacking wise. We're so punchless upfront at home it's untrue, personally I think Mo, Harrold & Clarkson were more of a goal threat than Gosling, Harrison & Easter/Taylor and we also had JJOT as back up scoring goals. With friendlies we've now played 8(?) home games and apart from the Barnet game have hardly scored in any of them. We desperately need an LDV/Dawson type winger if Montano is not up to task, plus a decent Div 2 CF. There also seems no natural replacement for Monkhouse and, central midfield could be weak if Mansell is not up to league football. Finally 3-5-2 is clearly not working at the Mem!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2015 20:36:24 GMT
So who is still worried?
As I said a couple of days ago, certainly no time to be worried! A time to be enjoying being back in the football league and competing as well!
Well done DC and up the gas!
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Post by joebananas67 on Sept 29, 2015 20:39:25 GMT
So who is still worried? As I said a couple of days ago, certainly no time to be worried! A time to be enjoying being back in the football league and competing as well! Well done DC and up the gas! Once you get Lines out of the side we score 3 goals. No coincidence in my eyes
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 7:53:32 GMT
You may well be right, but either way, no need to press the panic button yet.
For me the problem is not Lines, but rather the pressure that playing at home heaps on the players. It has been the same for years and years! Play very well away, pick up results that we really shouldn't but then seem to almost bottle the big occasion at home.
I think a few of our players need to toughen up mentally.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Sept 30, 2015 8:02:46 GMT
Maybe I'm in the wrong part of the crowd, but I don't sense any real pressure at the Mem these days. Istm the Mem is about the most relaxed it's been, generally, for about 5 years.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 8:07:12 GMT
It is certainly still can't bad in a few areas mate ye.
West stand is certainly as bad as ever!
I think it is also more the expectation that comes with playing in front of 6/7/8,000 of your own fans at home.
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Post by pirateman on Sept 30, 2015 10:48:40 GMT
You may well be right, but either way, no need to press the panic button yet. For me the problem is not Lines, but rather the pressure that playing at home heaps on the players. It has been the same for years and years! Play very well away, pick up results that we really shouldn't but then seem to almost bottle the big occasion at home. I think a few of our players need to toughen up mentally. Come on. The relegation season from the league our home form was good (crap football admittedly) It was the dreadful away form that sent us down.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 10:55:20 GMT
So who is still worried? As I said a couple of days ago, certainly no time to be worried! A time to be enjoying being back in the football league and competing as well! Well done DC and up the gas! Once you get Lines out of the side we score 3 goals. No coincidence in my eyes TBF We scored 3 goals with Lines in the side a few weeks ago.
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Post by tommym9 on Sept 30, 2015 10:57:02 GMT
We could do with some more noise at the mem like we did towards the end of last season. Then again it's easy to sing when you're winning!
I sit in the Dri-build and it's like a morgue sometimes.
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Post by phillistine on Sept 30, 2015 11:00:50 GMT
Surely its just that when we are away from home the opponents are under pressure to attack us which gives our forwards more space - this suits our players.
At home opponents can sit back and crowd their areas - which is when we struggle as our forwards are not as deadly as they might be
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Sept 30, 2015 11:34:39 GMT
We could do with some more noise at the mem like we did towards the end of last season. Then again it's easy to sing when you're winning! I sit in the Dri-build and it's like a morgue sometimes. The ground isn't going to be rocking when we've barely managed more than one shot on target in most of our home games this season!
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Post by Mark Ash on Sept 30, 2015 11:43:17 GMT
It may simply be that Hartlepool are not very good and Portsmouth were much better. Or is that too simplistic?
Good result for Exeter last night anyway.
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Post by phillistine on Sept 30, 2015 11:53:55 GMT
It may simply be that Hartlepool are not very good and Portsmouth were much better. Or is that too simplistic? Good result for Exeter last night anyway. its neither - its that we still need a natural goalscorer. As a team we can match the best but when you have a purple patch and dont score then doubts start to surface and i think that was demonstrated on Saturday. If we had scored during the first 20 minutes on Saturday then we would have gone onto hammer them but we didnt . We have to work really hard for every goal that we score . Matty Taylor gets into the right positions but he is not clinical enough. None of this is news to anyone. Last night doesnt change that - from the Hartlepool Forum: "We couldn't really have complained if we'd have lost 6-0. But as bad as we are I thought they were everything we weren't, I'm just glad they weren't clinical."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 12:18:01 GMT
Last sentence above sums things up I guess...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 9:49:42 GMT
So, who is still worried?
Odd how the posters who post this sort of thing then completely disappear when things are going well.
If I didn't know better I would be tempted to question their motives.
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Post by mjhgas on Oct 7, 2015 10:03:55 GMT
So, who is still worried? Odd how the posters who post this sort of thing then completely disappear when things are going well. If I didn't know better I would be tempted to question their motives. A few people - me included - were concerned with 5-3-2 and the performances of Lines & Parkes! 4-4-2 & the dropping of Lines & Parkes appears to have done the job!!!! My CV is in the post! JoeB can apply for the Assistant Manager job!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 10:06:11 GMT
Parkes and Lines both played last night??
I think the point I was trying to make earlier in this thread was that we have a very good manager now, so we don't need to press the panic button quite as soon as some of you seem keen to do.
We will have rough patches again, of course we will. But as long as we are patient with him, DC will get it right without the need for us lot to start moaning.
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