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Post by philbemmygas on Feb 12, 2017 17:52:32 GMT
I thought the Referee was poor, an example being penalising our defenders for challenges he allowed theirs to get away with. Luke James was constantly being battered by the giant marking him.
The linesman on the east terrace side missed a blatent throw in directly under his nose, the slide tackle he was overruled on was replicate at the other end the Ref penalised us for that one.
Definitely a point gained against a good side. UTG
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Post by rovers5charlton5 on Feb 12, 2017 20:47:37 GMT
I thought the Referee was poor, an example being penalising our defenders for challenges he allowed theirs to get away with. Luke James was constantly being battered by the giant marking him. The linesman on the east terrace side missed a blatent throw in directly under his nose, the slide tackle he was overruled on was replicate at the other end the Ref penalised us for that one. Definitely a point gained against a good side. UTG The ref was one of the worst referees I've ever seen, he was so one sided.
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Post by slam on Feb 13, 2017 16:25:35 GMT
The op and others have commented about us allowing our opponents to much time to get crosses in but in many ways i think dc has adopted a narrow midfield formation with the full backs tucking also in an attempt to stop teams playing through us like many league 1 teams have this season. The down side to this is opponents wide players getting too much time and our full backs struggling to close them down quickly. Anyone who watched burnley v chelsea today will have noticed burnley employed the same tactics and encountered the same problems as us. WE do attack with width though through brown and leadbitter mostly. Imo at the moment dc likes to attack with width but defend as narrow as we can get away with. I think I agree with that assessment. In defensive terms we were extremely narrow, sometimes having all 4 defenders within the width of the penalty box. I definitely got the impression that it was part of the game plan as neither DL nor LB made any real attempt to close down the wide men all game - they did, however, do a really good job in stopping them from getting into the penalty area.
At the end of the day who is to say whether it worked or not. Giving their wide men so much room seemed as scary as hell for long stages of the game and it always meant that the wingers/wingbacks were available as an "out-ball" when their midfield were struggling...... but, in retrospect, all they managed to do was put over a lot of floated crosses which we generally dealt with ok in the middle.
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Post by slam on Feb 13, 2017 16:31:00 GMT
I thought Gaffney made a big difference when he came on. Previously we were being bullied off the ball by their fairly physical defenders. Gaffney definitely gives as good as he gets and probably wins more than his fair share in the physical confrontations. Their central defenders were definitely a lot less comfortable when Gaffney came on.
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Post by Marshy on Feb 13, 2017 18:08:32 GMT
I thought Gaffney made a big difference when he came on. Previously we were being bullied off the ball by their fairly physical defenders. Gaffney definitely gives as good as he gets and probably wins more than his fair share in the physical confrontations. Their central defenders were definitely a lot less comfortable when Gaffney came on. I like gaffers can't fault his effort, I just wish he would Dam score though!
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