Heed match thread

605 people there and we get half the gate receipts (after costs). Might just about pay for our petrol.

Quoted from ginnywings

Whatever you think of the trophy. i still hate losing to no mark part timers like Gateshead. We put out a decent side and still got battered by the sound of it, when we should have battered them at BP if we wanted to progress.

We picked an inbetween team. Either go for it or don't. All this has done has added loads of travelling, extra games and strength sapping for Saturday.

This.

300 posts on some Shiite fa trophy pointless game. As Ron said we really do need professional help!

Quoted from Les Brechin

Did LJL actually play the extra-time as I can't recall hearing his name mentioned.

Town played extra time with 10 men according to telegraph live

Quoted from barralad

Why don't you start the thread now?

What do you mean?

Quoted from forza ivano

300 posts on some Shiite fa trophy pointless game. As Ron said we really do need professional help!

It's OUR sh1te pointless game though

Quoted from ginnywings

Whatever you think of the trophy. i still hate losing to no mark part timers like Gateshead. We put out a decent side and still got battered by the sound of it, when we should have battered them at BP if we wanted to progress.

We picked an inbetween team. Either go for it or don't. All this has done has added loads of travelling, extra games and strength sapping for Saturday.

Bar Walker at right back and Paddy (who possibly would have got the nod over Brown given his recent problems) it was as strong a team as he could have put out. Palmer needed game time and it was a good opportunity for him to see whether Pitman and Palmer could play together.

I didn't think we were battered bar extra time....

There are players crying out for game time who got a tiny bit, or none - Hannah, Watson, Neilson, Winfarrah etc and others who are going to be asked to play 90 minutes on Saturday, followed by 120 minutes tonight, followed by another 90 minutes in 3 days time - Pearson, Nsiala, Disley, Arnold etc.
Then you have Paddy, who scored a great goal and has turned in a good performance, but who will be dropped. We've wasted scarce resources on some of these players who, let's face it, are never going to earn their wages if they can't get a run out in the FAT Round 2.

I don't care about the result, I just don't get the thinking behind the selections. I hope, for Hurst's sake, that there is plenty of energy in Town's performance on Saturday.

We will see whether those who advocate the 'get out of this sh*t trophy' policy are proven right come end April
As things stand in such a competitive year I'd say our chances of winning league are 20% and chances of making play offs are 60-40
So, whether we had progressed in Trophy or not I don't think it's a big issue because with or without distraction of Trophy it will be bloody tough
Lots of people need to find an excuse for failure and the FA Trophy is as good as any... but just as there is no evidence to suggest it helps a team there is no evidence to say it hampers them

Quoted from barralad

Bar Walker at right back and Paddy (who possibly would have got the nod over Brown given his recent problems) it was as strong a team as he could have put out. Palmer needed game time and it was a good opportunity for him to see whether Pitman and Palmer could play together.

I didn't think we were battered bar extra time....

Pretty much disagree with most of that. When we played them at BP, we sounded like pensioners on dope and tonight was a Paul "edging my bets" Hurst sort of line up. A kind of " i wanna win but i am not going for it" type of thing from Mr indecisive.

Go for it or don't. We had 2 bites of the cherry and did neither in either.

I'm not using this as an excuse to beat Hurst. If he had played the fringe players and gone out at the first attempt, then no worries, but we just never went for it completely in either game, so i can't see the point.