Just back

The first half is least forgotten about.

We were the better team in the second half and Hannah had a good chance to score before Cook came on. He played with good energy and we should have added a second to kill the game off before the sending off.

We still gave Tamworth chance to equalise when they were down to ten but a good clean sheet and professional job done.

thanks, hopefully we can build on this, looking very promising sitting in 3rd place

How did Marcus Marshall get on? i listened to whole game on radio but couldn't make out how he did, he appeared to have a lot of the ball second half and was being fouled ALOT, which led me to believe he was causing problems.

Well done town good job.

Marshall looked good in the second half they gave home far to much space and but some good balls in. Think it was him that went down when cutting inside to for their red card. Also composed on ball and won several free kicks and in turn we looked dangerous from the set pieces.

How did Elding get on ?
And did the Cook sub make an obvious difference or was it more about being in the right place at the right time ?

Great win, keep it up Town. UTM

elding was pretty poor, contributed nothing and was taken of after cowardly waving a leg at a 50-50. Cook was excellent when he came on.

Cheers headingly.
Did he pass it well though ?
Tondeur seemed to be saying he played a few good ones.

Least said about the first half the better. Town did well to win the ball but then undid it all with some truly dreadful distribution. Only a typically good reaction save by McKeown down low to his right and the failure of a Tamworth player to get on the end of the best cross of the day prevented Town going in at half time behind. At the right end Town were unlucky with a header which hit either Elding, Hannah or their keeper on the back-depending who you talked to.
Town had much more of it in the second half with both wingers seeing much more of the ball. Cook did well for his goal considering he'd only just come on. The linesman flagged for it straight away and Tamworth didn't complain much.
Defensively it was a standard performance with Pond and Wood shining. The former making a superb ball winning tackle inside the box in the first half. Miller looked confident and Thomas contributed his usual steady effort.
Elding did well winning a lot of headers. The new lad possibly tried too hard in the first half although he didn't see as much of the ball as he should have. He seemed to want an extra touch and there was no sign of him taking on the full back with a combination of skill and pace. He did far better in the second half as his confidence grew. IF we can get some bodies in the box he may prove to be a useful signing.
My concerns centre around our continuing inability to kill teams off. Tamworth spent at least the last 15 minutes with 10 men yet we seemed content to play the ball backwards far too often once we reached the half way line. Tamworth brought on a couple of quick subs, bypassed midfield and put us under some pressure when something at the other end would have calmed things down.
We also seem to lack anyone with the foresight to gamble on the ball in the box. Hannah did OK but doesn't appear to have the instinct to get in there when the keeper spills the ball.

Tamworth will say the sending off changed the game. From where I was sat it looked a little harsh as both players dived in for the ball. The ref. seemed to have made his mind up before he got to the incident. Their lad did himself no favours though and it must have been a good two minutes before he actually left the field.

We did have what looked like a perfectly good goal from a header by Pond ruled out for offside.

A wins a win though and Tamworth has proved in the past a hard place to get a result.

Onward and upwards.  

Yes, Cook did well - a lot better than Elds. Marshall looked promising and had the beating of his man - his willingness to run at his man lead to the red card. A player like Marshall is always liable to win free kicks and corners and we aren't bad at set pieces (away from home anyway  .

Pond was excellent - especially his out-muscling of the big Cunnington in the LB area 1st half that had the home player appealing - Shearer like - for a free kick.

Good vocal support 2nd half, esp the S&H black and white army constant chant during last 10 mins.  Onwards and upwards!

Thanks barralad !

Quoted from barralad

My concerns centre around our continuing inability to kill teams off.

Yes I was wondering if we would go for the kill too albeit sat on my backside listening to the commentary.

Elding was rubbish again, never looks like scoring. For the disallowed goal, I think Cook was in an offside position and jumped with Pond but never looked like getting to the ball so was technically interfering with the jump.

After the sending off I thought Tamworth did quite well, we never really looked like a side with one man advantage. Still good to beat them for the first time.

First half we was very wasteful and both teams struggled to pass the ball, Marshall , cook did brilliantly and like i said last week he seems to be getting better, second half marshall was very good, did anybody see me

Another great away win, well done lads
Utm

Quoted from aaron rattray

First half we was very wasteful and both teams struggled to pass the ball, Marshall , cook did brilliantly and like i said last week he seems to be getting better, second half marshall was very good, did anybody see me

My friend pointed you out to me. You look like I thought you would.

Quoted from hertfordshire mariner

My friend pointed you out to me. You look like I thought you would.

Oh yes what would that be

Quoted from aaron rattray

Oh yes what would that be

The next jimmy saville strikes again.  

Quoted from hertfordshire mariner

The next jimmy saville strikes again.  

No way

Since we lost at Ebbsfleet in October 2011 we have lost 1 away game in 23 which was at Fleetwood. Didn't look like losing today

Quoted from pseudonym

Since we lost at Ebbsfleet in October 2011 we have lost 1 away game in 23 which was at Fleetwood. Didn't look like losing today

Well said mystic terry.

Finally put this bogey team to bed, well done town

Quoted from hertfordshire mariner

My friend pointed you out to me. You look like I thought you would.

there's a compliment if ever I saw one...  

I saw you aaron! You was clapping about something and I said hello to you and you looked as confused as a fat kid at salad bar

Why are there two 'Just back' threads?

I thought Marshall tried too hard in the first half taking one touch too many and playing in front of Bradley didn't work, they were too far apart. Second half he played on the left in front of Thomas and they gelled better, Marshall showed some neat footwork and was sythed down a few times, always bouncing up and not complaining. The sending off was a little harsh, happened ten yards from me (I was in row B): their central defender lunged in and was late, Marshall saw it coming and managed to get his feet off the ground and still got caught, had be he been back on his heels some serious damage could have been done. No mallice in the tackle, just off the ground and slightly late.

The game was close with us being the better side for most of the game. What worries me is our tactics during the latter half of the second halves: Tamworth were down to ten men, then another one of their lads hurt himself and because they'd used all three subs he hobbled around for the last 15 minutes. They therefore had 8 outfield players yet we still sat back and conceeded ground to them. It's great that our defence is so tight but this sort of 'inviting' teams to attack us will not work every week. yes, I know we haven't lost away this season, but we certainly make it hard for ourselves.

Elding was fine and caused all sorts of problems for their defence and I thought he did fine: Cook just doesn't look like a footballer and isn't as mobile, but I'm not a manager and don't know what goes on in training etc, etc.

Quoted from Hagrid

I saw you aaron! You was clapping about something and I said hello to you and you looked as confused as a fat kid at salad bar

Thats cos i heard somebody say my name but i didn't know where it was coming from

Quoted from MyDogsThoughts

Why are there two 'Just back' threads?



Elding was fine and caused all sorts of problems for their defence and I thought he did fine: Cook just doesn't look like a footballer and isn't as mobile, but I'm not a manager and don't know what goes on in training etc, etc.

NO you are not a manager,

YOU are a dog,

AND don't you forget it.

Quoted from grimsby pete

NO you are not a manager,

YOU are a dog,

AND don't you forget it.

Thanks for the help there Pete: I'll try and not forget!

I think we looked pretty solid today. With a sound performance from the keeper and back four. Niven and Disley held it together well in the middle and we had threat down both wings, especially from marshall in the seconf half.

The strikers didn't get much change from out of a fairly robust Tamworth back line, but we really got on top in the second half.

We ground out a good win against pretty tought opponents. In previuos seasons we would probably have caved, but this team certainly have some resolve.  I think we are very hard to beat away from home, and if we can just get the home form togthether we could ceratinly challenge for top spot.

Great day out.