last night - a different view

It was the ball that was to blame. (According to the commentators anyway)  

Quoted from Les Brechin

It was the ball that was to blame. (According to the commentators anyway)  

Sack the ball
Sack the ball
Sack the ball

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Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Gibson should have tucked that last kick of the game away... not that it would have made any difference at all though

At that point I had given up the will to live.

Surely looking for positives is what being a supporter is all about.  I don’t agree that the players weren’t trying.  And some of the reaction on here is way over the top.  

Newport are a horrible team and it’s no surprise that they have done well in the Cup because higher up teams aren’t used to their style.  It’s like Wimbledon of old.  It was probably the worst possible game to have.

Let’s get behind the team and accentuate the positive not dig ourselves into even more despondency!

Effort there but zero belief and as match wore on, fight. You could tell they had given up.

Sorry i can accept it is tough when you get pressed all over the pitch but you have to have a game plan or tweak things.
Ie last night we could easily have gone to a 4231 or 433 and just hit balls into channels for the two wingers to press the defence / run onto.. Instead we just hit the ball to their full backs who had 10-20 or even 30 yards of space with no opponent around.

Yeah I noticed that a lot. Pointless with no one anywhere near those areas.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

how has it turned so bad so quickly?

That's exactly the question I've been asking since last night.  We started the season positively, picked up a few points, showed some team spirit and a great ability to fight back after being behind - not just once but repeatedly.  I felt quite comfortable with it all, and even dared to hope that we'd get better as the team developed.  Town fans reacted superbly when we were hammered by Chelsea, but I did wonder how the players themselves would respond ... I needn't have worried because they rolled their sleeves up, made the long journey down to top of the league Exeter and came away with an inspirational win.  They couldn't have responded any better.

So how has it gone so bad, so quickly?  Jolley's departure (especially the nature of it) was a surprise, and I'm not sure what I expected afterwards, but it certainly wasn't a performance like last night's. I'm not one to give up when things go wrong, and have always been fiercely proud of our club, but last night was incredibly hard to take.  It's not as if Newport were even that good!  How come we let them pull all the strings?  We just seemed to continually launch the ball,never knowing (or even caring?) where it would land and inevitably, nine times out of ten, it went to a Newport player.  On the rare occasion we did manage to get on the end of it, Newport players were straightaway chivvying and forcing our players into making hurried and misplaced passes, or just taking it off our players and making it look easy.  It's been looking a little bit like that for the last few matches I've seen, but what I saw last night was the absolute pits.

London Mariner's post did remind me that players like Ohman and Hendrie were missing, we didn't have Ogbu's unpredictability, or the battling qualities of Max Wright, (not to mention Hanson)  - and I think I was in need of that reminder, so thank you.  And IF we were better in the first half, then that helps a bit too - as I didn't watch the full match  - but what I did see was dire.

Anyway, I'm wondering now, do we need new players as well as a new manager, or can these current players regain some of their self respect and turn things around?   Whatever the outcome in our next match, I hope they can at least put up a bit of a fight rather than rolling over and letting the opposition make us look like no-hopers.  We'll be getting a new manager soon, and the players really need to think about their futures.  In a way I'm glad that last night was a cup game - it's made me not want to even think about what could happen in the league this season.

Great Post, I too missed most the first half and got a bit just on radio as was busy at work. Watched back end of second on screen so perhaps my view a bit scewif - but we should be battling back and ending strongly, making a fist of it not rolling over and giving up with useless tactics.

My theory is that we’ve fallen away since Max got injured.