BringBackDuane wrote:The whole team looked jaded. What muppet moved it to a Friday? 3 games in 6 days. Nice One. Still, we have the quality to replace jaded players. Byrne, Farrell and O'Connor looked very tired.
Justin Edinburgh is the muppet you speak of. It got moved so we had more time to recover for Kidderminster... :roll:
I disagree with it. After two tough away matches, including a local derby, you need extra time off as its harder work, than home games. I think an extra day-off would have been better, as less recovery time would be needed for Kidderminster than today.
On the bright side though - Kiddy have a tough game tomorrow at Alty.
Hopefully we'll see the benefits of having Saturday off come Monday!
BringBackDuane wrote:The whole team looked jaded. What muppet moved it to a Friday? 3 games in 6 days. Nice One. Still, we have the quality to replace jaded players. Byrne, Farrell and O'Connor looked very tired.
Justin Edinburgh is the muppet you speak of. It got moved so we had more time to recover for Kidderminster... :roll:
I disagree with it. After two tough away matches, including a local derby, you need extra time off as its harder work, than home games. I think an extra day-off would have been better, as less recovery time would be needed for Kidderminster than today.
I think its the right idea. Crawley were always gonna cause us problems and I reckon Kidderminster can be seen as the easier game so focus on getting points from the easy ones and anything else is a bonus.
Either way, got an extra days rest on Kiddy now so we'll see if its beneficial or not.
The 5 friends I took are questioning how we are not in the relegation zone after that, let alone how we're in a play-off position.
Gutless. Did we have a shot on target other than the goal?
Huke was terrible. Utterly useless. No one else was terrible, but they were all pretty poor.
I just don't get us. An amazing performance in the week, followed by this. I can only think that we suffered from having played a few days earlier, while they were fresher.
SHouldn't really be an excuse though.
It shouldn't be but you really can't expect the team to be brilliant every match, it happens to even the best of teams, one day you're outstanding then 4 days later average. I'm not disagreeing with the fact it was a well below par performacne, I just don't think we should react like this every time we don't win, we know what the team is capable of but they're still going to have off days every now and again, I fully expect them to be back on form for the Kiddy and Ebbsfleet games.
I agree in a sense but I have to point out that I don't react like this every time we don't win. After Oxford, I was reasonably pleased. It wasn't a great performance by any means but I appreciated the toughness of the match and was happy with the point.
Tonight though... we were just utterly void of anything in front of goal. Very disappointing.
DiamondsFan wrote:Bit harsh. I don't think Huke was terrible but he's simply just not a wide player. At AFC Wimbledon when he was in the middle, he was top class but I reckon he's just being played out of position. Saying that though, to be paid professionally to play football and cross the ball as poorly as he does is shocking.
Hardly an inspiring performance but it's a point gained against a solid side and we've still only lost once this year with 6/7 goals conceded. All good teams have their shitty games and I'm just glad our shitty game still got us a point.
Bit worrying though that Robinson, Farrell and moreso Tomlin were all stretching throughout/after the game. Cut up pitch causing problems?
Agreed. A few people booing after the final whistle, f*cking stupid!
A point against a team we rarely do well against after a tough few weeks, it's not great but it's better than a loss. Agreed that J-Lo was poor, but then they had 2 lumps which would have had O'Connor in there pocket I think. Good crowd tonight though, over 1500 home fans I think there was.
I'm happy with the result we didn't play well and still managed a draw.I think some credit should be given to Crawley though they didn't allow us to play and beat to most of the 2nd balls.
The ref was crap but we can't blame him either.
After giving everything on Tuesday night in awful conditions on a very heavy pitch I expected a tired performance tonight. Against a well organised team of robots I'm happy to take a point. It was a battle out there and we didn't lose it.
I'll be happy with another point on Monday and then the lads have some time to recover for the Ebbsfleet game and get 3 points from that and I should think that will be enough to guarantee a play off place - we might not be able to be caught by then.
To be honest, I don't think the referee helped, and neither did Crawley, who seemed to go down with the slightest of touches.
Crawley also came here to frustrate us, and it worked. I'm as disappointed as everyone, but at least we didn't go and lose, because in previous seasons we would have.
:lol: ;)
we didn't play well and still managed a draw.I think some credit should be given to Crawley though they didn't allow us to play and beat to most of the 2nd balls.