So much for Boring Football extended highlights.

It was a very boring game, the Highlights only show 10 minutes the rest was complete dross, you should have heard Alan Buckley's comments on Radio Humb. post game NOT IMPRESSED.....

Some reasonable footy played at times which isn't always easy when it's wet and windy so credit to the players for having a decent go.

Personally, I thought it was quite a poor game between two poor sides of which Town were the least poor and probably deserved the 3 points.

Quoted from pontoon442

It was a very boring game, the Highlights only show 10 minutes the rest was complete dross, you should have heard Alan Buckley's comments on Radio Humb. post game NOT IMPRESSED.....

heard Buckley as I arrived home. He wasnt impressed but then again he never is.

Thought we mixed it up quite well, some decent passing football and some more direct passing

Thing about Buckley, is that lower division players could never play Buckleyball in the modern era and he has never seemed to realise this, hence his disappointing Mk. III era and failures at various other clubs. The players are now just too big, strong, quick and athletic and there just isn't the space available any longer. Look back at footage of the Buckley Mk. I era and you'll see some brilliant football but you'll also see vast amounts of space available. We played some good football at times in the Mk. II era, but you could see the way the game was going even then and we were never nearly as fluid.

At the top end, the best Spanish and German teams play some incredible stuff these days (even the Premiershite clubs, from time to time) with amazing pace and skill on show but the lower division players don't have the ability to do this though they are bigger, stronger, fitter and quicker than their counterparts 20 years ago. That's why it is more attritional these days.

That said, it would be nice to see us play a bit more football at times as it is easy to move too far towards a pragmatic style.

I really enjoyed the game.
Its the first time this season that you could see what the game plan was.
It didnt work every time but there was some good football at times.
Woolford is a proper footballer, he was my mom
Berretts best game for me.
Matt reminded me of Big Keith 😂😂😂😂😂

I agree about the game plan, especially in the second half. The players were regularly looking to play the ball wide and get crosses in. Perfect for players like Matt and Vernon.

Quoted from gtfc82

I agree about the game plan, especially in the second half. The players were regularly looking to play the ball wide and get crosses in. Perfect for players like Matt and Vernon.

And perfect against a keeper that wasn't comfortable with crosses at all!

I've seen the highlights and have to say there is enough in those highlights that shows me we've made some sort of improvement from the last time I watched us (Stevenage away) I didn't see the 90mins but from the 10 I have seen I'm happy. Everyone looked comfortable on the ball and although alot of it was direct it wasn't just a pointless hoof up field it was more of a 'long pass into space or to the big man'

Quoted from gtfc82

I agree about the game plan, especially in the second half. The players were regularly looking to play the ball wide and get crosses in. Perfect for players like Matt and Vernon.

Sam Jones isn't bad either judging by his header at Orient last season.