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Post by melbourneblues on Apr 5, 2014 19:38:42 GMT
Symington, Chantler and Madine the pick. No one had a particularly bad game. Redmond was a bit of a passenger and was rightly taken off and Chimbonda played some very risky passes out from the back but other than that you can't really fault us today. 5 clean sheets in the last 8 games. It's safe to say Kavanagh has sorted out what Abbott failed to sort out in his entire 5 year tenure. We need to start putting the ball in the net more often though. Still think with our run in we'll probably go down, but as long as we're keeping clean sheets we'll pick up points so we're in with a chance.
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Post by dentonholmersimpson on Apr 5, 2014 19:55:50 GMT
I agree with northumbrian, confidence is a major issue in football, but now with that win behind us and perfomances improving generally,clean sheets, I dont care if we win 1-0 from now on if we stay up.
Also, regarding injuries and loan players, if you took the loanees out of todays team, Pickford, Redmond and Madine we have ready made replacements in Gillespie,Robson and Miller who are all injured.
The injuries we have had this year have been horrendous and I for one feel for Kav in that respect, judge him when he can get the team he wants on the pitch.
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Post by armo on Apr 5, 2014 20:09:53 GMT
Great performance today. Credit to Kav... The team was well thought out, they looked like they knew exactly what their jobs were in the team structure and they restricted a useful and inform Swindon team to very few chances. Both wing backs had cracking games and were easily joint M.O.M for me. Great to have Thirlwell back too. Very composed in both positions... Apart from one daft drag back which nearly cost us. Madine looked a lot better than the player who left.. He has learnt how to hold the ball up and link play. Although he missed a sitter free header from 5 yards, he took his goal really well and put in a good performance. Amoo ran himself into the ground today making those who call him lazy look a bit stupid. His pace caused lots of problems. Fully deserved win and a thoroughly professional performance. Repeat that from now until the end of the season and we have nothing to worry about. Cant agree with you regarding Amoo - thought he had a poor game today. You'd think the lad, being a professional footballer, would understand the concept of offside. Half hearted attempts at jumping for a ball. Occasional impressions of pressing the oposition. Giving up the chase when still having a chance at winning the ball. He's really starting to frustrate as he has it in him to be excellent at this level. Suprised nobody mentioned the ref who was the worst i've seen in a long time. 100% hand ball, the foul but no yellow just before that (and then booking Berrett for a lot less) and the comedy time keeping (since when has the first half lasted 48 mins before added on time?). Still, 3 points is all that counts.
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Apr 5, 2014 20:18:28 GMT
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Post by willyblue on Apr 5, 2014 20:18:28 GMT
Well we all see it different I suppose but I thought amoo was man of the match today he ran at them tracked back and had the beating of there full back all day long. He makes the wrong decisions at times and is a bit of a fanny in the tackle like but all in all thought for our level of football he had a great game today.
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Post by Goldschmidt on Apr 5, 2014 20:38:26 GMT
I can't think of one single negative about todays result or perfomance. Every single player showed commitment. Today's win was massive. Well done all.
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Post by trotter on Apr 5, 2014 20:48:28 GMT
Amoo was excellent considering he hasn't trained for weeks. Caused them problems all day and a few of those offsides were suspect. Anyone could see he was shattered after 30 minutes
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Post by melbourneblues on Apr 5, 2014 21:02:01 GMT
I thought Amoo had a good game, carried the ball well and dragged time out near the end, if he was any better he wouldn't be here.
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Post by happyblue on Apr 5, 2014 21:18:25 GMT
Amoo played well, he's at league 1 level for a reason as if he had a footballing brain with his pace,strength, skill and finishing ability he would be no where near Carlisle, and he's still learning the game. He ran them ragged tired out defenders which allowed Madine to be a danger, The goal we scored was very well executed and showed some great footballing brians by potts ,symington and madine. Potts was able to run straight through a symington dragged the defender out of position leaving space to run into and the rest is history. I think the whole team played well, but i got a bit annoyed at chimbonda as he does not seem to want to boot the ball away when he should.
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Post by northumbrian on Apr 5, 2014 22:07:28 GMT
Great performance today. Credit to Kav... The team was well thought out, they looked like they knew exactly what their jobs were in the team structure and they restricted a useful and inform Swindon team to very few chances. Both wing backs had cracking games and were easily joint M.O.M for me. Great to have Thirlwell back too. Very composed in both positions... Apart from one daft drag back which nearly cost us. Madine looked a lot better than the player who left.. He has learnt how to hold the ball up and link play. Although he missed a sitter free header from 5 yards, he took his goal really well and put in a good performance. Amoo ran himself into the ground today making those who call him lazy look a bit stupid. His pace caused lots of problems. Fully deserved win and a thoroughly professional performance. Repeat that from now until the end of the season and we have nothing to worry about. Cant agree with you regarding Amoo - thought he had a poor game today. You'd think the lad, being a professional footballer, would understand the concept of offside. Half hearted attempts at jumping for a ball. Occasional impressions of pressing the oposition. Giving up the chase when still having a chance at winning the ball. He's really starting to frustrate as he has it in him to be excellent at this level. Suprised nobody mentioned the ref who was the worst i've seen in a long time. 100% hand ball, the foul but no yellow just before that (and then booking Berrett for a lot less) and the comedy time keeping (since when has the first half lasted 48 mins before added on time?). Still, 3 points is all that counts. I'd agree with you on a number of his performances this season... But not today. He is a striker playing on the shoulder of the last defender ... He is going to be offside a few times...Suarez is offside all the time but he is still a decent player. I will agree with you about the ref though.. Shockingly bad
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Post by flatcap on Apr 6, 2014 17:26:59 GMT
"Suprised nobody mentioned the ref who was the worst i've seen in a long time. 100% hand ball, the foul but no yellow just before that (and then booking Berrett for a lot less) and the comedy time keeping (since when has the first half lasted 48 mins before added on time?)."
The game did not kick off until 3.07pm. All 3pm games started at this time yesterday. Reason: 25 years to the day since the Hillsborough disaster.
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Post by Paddockite on Apr 6, 2014 17:56:35 GMT
"Suprised nobody mentioned the ref who was the worst i've seen in a long time. 100% hand ball, the foul but no yellow just before that (and then booking Berrett for a lot less) and the comedy time keeping (since when has the first half lasted 48 mins before added on time?)." The game did not kick off until 3.07pm. All 3pm games started at this time yesterday. Reason: 25 years to the day since the Hillsborough disaster. No, the 3:07 games are next weekend.
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Post by flatcap on Apr 6, 2014 18:01:14 GMT
Maybe the ref was like me and got his days wrong.
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Post by mojo on Apr 6, 2014 18:24:00 GMT
"Suprised nobody mentioned the ref who was the worst i've seen in a long time. 100% hand ball, the foul but no yellow just before that (and then booking Berrett for a lot less) and the comedy time keeping (since when has the first half lasted 48 mins before added on time?)." The game did not kick off until 3.07pm. All 3pm games started at this time yesterday. Reason: 25 years to the day since the Hillsborough disaster. No, the 3:07 games are next weekend. minutes silence at 3:06 next week with 3:07 kick off.
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Post by markovitch on Apr 6, 2014 19:18:31 GMT
I thought the defence played well and Chantler was excellent at bringing the ball out and creating. I can't get excited about Symington. He defended reasonably well but left way to much space in front of himself empty. His limitations were shown in the second half, in the 80th or so minute, he broke and Madine was inside him but Symington didn't have the skill to curl a pass round the full back, cut onto his left foot, out pace the full back or beat him. He wasn't helped by Berrett, Potts and Redmond who were overwhelmed by Swindon's midfield. Swindon were stringing together 10 or so passes in the second half and our midfield was incapable of stopping them. A better attacking team would have beaten us yesterday and the fixtures coming up are looking tough
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Apr 6, 2014 19:37:30 GMT
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Post by siamesedream on Apr 6, 2014 19:37:30 GMT
"I can't get excited about Symington. He defended reasonably well but left way to much space in front of himself empty."
I wasnt at the game yesterday but against Tranmere and Shrewsbury he had to cover the whole right flank himself. Chantler had Redmond in front of him as support and cover whereas of the midfield 3 Potts tends to play much narrower than Redmond. Also with Amoo apparently playing a more central role againstcSwindon it's hard to be too critical of Symington, it's not like the team is symmetrical.
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Apr 6, 2014 19:38:12 GMT
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Post by Paddockite on Apr 6, 2014 19:38:12 GMT
I thought the defence played well and Chantler was excellent at bringing the ball out and creating. I can't get excited about Symington. He defended reasonably well but left way to much space in front of himself empty. His limitations were shown in the second half, in the 80th or so minute, he broke and Madine was inside him but Symington didn't have the skill to curl a pass round the full back, cut onto his left foot, out pace the full back or beat him. He wasn't helped by Berrett, Potts and Redmond who were overwhelmed by Swindon's midfield. Swindon were stringing together 10 or so passes in the second half and our midfield was incapable of stopping them. A better attacking team would have beaten us yesterday and the fixtures coming up are looking tough On the midfield topic, I think it may be a blessing that Berrett got sent off. Allows Thirlwell to move into CM, when he's in there we're far better, and far more organised. Also his position is defensive midfield, which Potts and Berrett have both been trying, but it's not natural to them. Think sometimes both are a bit subdued in games because they're wary of leaving gaping holes behind them, having Thirlwell in there at Preston means Redmond and Potts haven't got to continuely worry about what's going on behind them. The experience of Thirlwell is vital.
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