They may have been squad players but don't kid yourself it was a PL team.
Not one of the team that started against us was in the starting XI today.
Wow good job moving goalposts here didn’t you say it was an academy team? That’s not true.
How about recognising that Brighton midweek changed all 11 (Fulham did 10) but still flattened Forest Green Rovers at their place 3-0. Premier League squad players are still miles ahead of League 2 standard so it would be great if you could stop talking down our achievement on Tuesday.
As many as five Fulham players who played against our lads were on the pitch at the final whistle against Arsenal today, and that didn’t include guys like Duffy with huge numbers of Premier League appearances
Yeah yeah OK.
If you stopped to read the post properly instead of doing your usual "moderator" routine you would have got that I was saying that playing a club like Fulham (whether their reserves or academy) suited our style of play. Rochdale didn't.
Any yes I did say it in the Fulham predictions thread some days before the game.
I'm not sure what people were expecting. Most of us were there on Tuesday and saw the effort and energy the team put in. It is very difficult to maintain that intensity only a few days later.
It is common to see teams playing weekend games after European midweek struggle and they struggle for a reason.
Tuesday's game was extraordinary but there is a price to pay for that level of effort.
We are nit bottom, we are out of the bottom two, we have a skillful and confident squad for this league, I am giving Kevin and the players a free pass on this one.
I gotta be honest this fella come in dismantled a team that kept us in the football league last year kept a few and brought a load of kids I think we have the players but unfortunately we don’t have the manager time to go Kevin. Other wise we won’t have a football team conference hardest league in the country to get out of wagmi walk away and crawley be liquidated forget 10 games he has to go now.
Some of the players ran out of energy with 20-15 minutes to go on Tuesday and the same happened yesterday one must ask the question are they fit enough. If you are really fit then you should be able to recover over 4 days may be they are doing academy training. But if we don't start shooting, scoring and winning it will become the norm to lose because its very hard to rectify that mine set. Get another manager in with more ideas and league experience.
Ignoring our goal right at the end of the first half, I thought we were slightly better than Rochdale first half, were mainly in control and they didn’t really pose us any problems. Our goal was well worked and perhaps that made us relax too much second half, when Rochdale increased the pace and were clearly on top. Their goal had an inevitability about it and the sending off pretty much sealed any possibility of getting 3 points.
As for Telford, almost all managers re-introduce a player recovering from injury slowly - you don’t throw them in from the start, particularly after the existing forwards have just beaten a premier league side (whether or not they were 1st team, reserves, or youth players).
I came away from yesterday’s match very disappointed and had hoped we’d get a better result, particularly against a side at the bottom end of the table, but as said by others, 1 point is better than no points away from home.
What frustrates me is the lack of goal attempts when we are in shooting positions. Other teams seem to chance it as It can get a deflection or a ricochet or even goalie error but we want to take one more touch or pass. It was the same last year as well. If you don’t try your never going to score! Powell’s goal was a good one why can’t we lay on that sort of chance more often , can’t the coaches see that? We can’t get anywhere if we have so few shots on goal , come on lads Shooot !!
What frustrates me is the lack of goal attempts when we are in shooting positions. Other teams seem to chance it as It can get a deflection or a ricochet or even goalie error but we want to take one more touch or pass. It was the same last year as well. If you don’t try your never going to score! Powell’s goal was a good one why can’t we lay on that sort of chance more often , can’t the coaches see that? We can’t get anywhere if we have so few shots on goal , come on lads Shooot !!
careful there...Brighton fans were criticised by the club for constantly shouting "shoot"!
I gotta be honest this fella come in dismantled a team that kept us in the football league last year kept a few and brought a load of kids I think we have the players but unfortunately we don’t have the manager time to go Kevin. Other wise we won’t have a football team conference hardest league in the country to get out of wagmi walk away and crawley be liquidated forget 10 games he has to go now.
Makes Fulham even more amazing but seriously we will get relegated out of football league at this rate. If I write 100 lines "Im Sorry John Yems" can we have him back please?
I assume you are being " ironical", as I seem to recall you were his most outspoken critic when he was at the helm; if he hasn't been broken by the circumstances of his departure, he wouldn't want to return, anyway.
Wow good job moving goalposts here didn’t you say it was an academy team? That’s not true.
How about recognising that Brighton midweek changed all 11 (Fulham did 10) but still flattened Forest Green Rovers at their place 3-0. Premier League squad players are still miles ahead of League 2 standard so it would be great if you could stop talking down our achievement on Tuesday.
As many as five Fulham players who played against our lads were on the pitch at the final whistle against Arsenal today, and that didn’t include guys like Duffy with huge numbers of Premier League appearances
Yeah yeah OK.
If you stopped to read the post properly instead of doing your usual "moderator" routine you would have got that I was saying that playing a club like Fulham (whether their reserves or academy) suited our style of play. Rochdale didn't.
Any yes I did say it in the Fulham predictions thread some days before the game.
Yes there is an interesting debate to be had about that and you won't be surprised I have views on it, maybe even ones you may not disagree with. But with so many people running down Betsy's acheivements on this forum, I thought it was important to correct a clear mistake on the characterisation of the Fulham team, shoot me if you like, call me names like moderator if you like
I gotta be honest this fella come in dismantled a team that kept us in the football league last year kept a few and brought a load of kids I think we have the players but unfortunately we don’t have the manager time to go Kevin. Other wise we won’t have a football team conference hardest league in the country to get out of wagmi walk away and crawley be liquidated forget 10 games he has to go now.
Written five days after we've beaten a Premier League team
Some of the players ran out of energy with 20-15 minutes to go on Tuesday and the same happened yesterday one must ask the question are they fit enough. If you are really fit then you should be able to recover over 4 days may be they are doing academy training. But if we don't start shooting, scoring and winning it will become the norm to lose because its very hard to rectify that mine set. Get another manager in with more ideas and league experience.
How quickly people forget CrawleyAawy57 and his weekly posting of our so-called "poor" second-half stats last season
Some of the players ran out of energy with 20-15 minutes to go on Tuesday and the same happened yesterday one must ask the question are they fit enough. If you are really fit then you should be able to recover over 4 days may be they are doing academy training. But if we don't start shooting, scoring and winning it will become the norm to lose because its very hard to rectify that mine set. Get another manager in with more ideas and league experience.
How quickly people forget CrawleyAawy57 and his weekly posting of our so-called "poor" second-half stats last season
I'm assuming he has one or two reincarnation accounts on here.