post match

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Lets accept one thing even if he wont Hurst  took away our winning position through ineptness it was clear for all to see and hear. If he does not learn from this then he is a bad manager and will never amount to anything.

If you have the momentum you go for the juggler until the game is nearly over you do not put your defence under pressure so early for christ's sake LEARN from YOUR MISTAKES.

Your mistakes? Think you mean JUGULAR - apologies to all you jugglers out there!

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Lets accept one thing even if he wont Hurst  took away our winning position through ineptness it was clear for all to see and hear. If he does not learn from this then he is a bad manager and will never amount to anything.

If you have the momentum you go for the juggler until the game is nearly over you do not put your defence under pressure so early for christ's sake LEARN from YOUR MISTAKES.

A juggler would have done a better job than Parslow did.

Quoted from GrimRob

If you want a chess analogy we were material up and tried to exchange down, common practice when you are up a piece or two. There were checkmate opportunities but we tried the less risky approach. Our opponent managed to construct some counterplay and developed an attack which nullified our material advantage. In the end we were forced to accept a draw.

Give me strength

Quoted from GrimRob

If you want a chess analogy we were material up and tried to exchange down, common practice when you are up a piece or two. There were checkmate opportunities but we tried the less risky approach. Our opponent managed to construct some counterplay and developed an attack which nullified our material advantage. In the end we were forced to accept a draw.

We were playing football - quite well at it happens - not frickin chess. And Parslow was unable to de-construct their counterplay, maybe he should watch a video of Mr Fenty and a flag?

Not being funny, but in games this season Hurst has been criticised for not changing things.

If he didn't make the changes yesterday, & they came back from two down, the torrent of abuse would be exactly the same as it is today "he should have changed it when two up"

The fact is that we threw away a two goal lead, but was the substitutions to blame, or are we just using it as an excuse to have a go at Hurst?

Hee, hee cheers lads a lot of jokers there yesterday but Hurst decision was a real show stopper at least our sense of humour is still alive

[quote=156]Not being funny, but in games this season Hurst has been criticised for not changing things.


The problem has been that he never changes when we are losing or drawing at home but is quick to make changes when we are running away with a game

Interesting to see GrimRob's use of chess analogies, without realising his own striking resemblance to Deep Blue.

Utterly mechanical, reducing the sport to a series of equations, spreadsheets, stats and percentages.

Sorry Rob, but football isn't a flipping equation - there's no way of quantifying the influence of 1000 away fans cheering a team on, you can't put a figure on the emotional impact of having a striker removed for no good reason and you certainly can't reduce the value of momentum to a percentage.

Quoted from mimma

Not being funny, but in games this season Hurst has been criticised for not changing things.

If he didn't make the changes yesterday, & they came back from two down, the torrent of abuse would be exactly the same as it is today "he should have changed it when two up"

The fact is that we threw away a two goal lead, but was the substitutions to blame, or are we just using it as an excuse to have a go at Hurst?

This:- The defending for their goals was appalling and the first one certainly didn't come from a period of sustained Chester pressure because of the change in formation. There is no strong evidence to suggest that we wouldn't have conceded the goal if the substitution hadn't taken place...

The problem is that, despite generally having a decent defence (still the second best in the division), the goals we concede do seem to be very poor ones much of the time. It seems there is always a stupid mistake in us somewhere and this means we don't look very solid when we try to shut up shop.

In comparison, I think back to Bristol Rovers' victory at BP the other month. Now, we didn't play at all well on the day, but they decided to shut down the game in the second half to defend their one goal lead and they managed it very effectively as we didn't couldn't create any really good chances.

I understand why Hurst does it - he's a cautious manager - but I don't think we're nearly as good as this as Rovers so perhaps he needs to rethink things a bit?

Did they start lumping it long before Hurst made the changes? If so, this would certainly explain why Parslow was preferred to Brown who is no use in the air.