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LondonMariner43
November 21, 2019, 1:36pm
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I'm waiting for a bunch of red crosses after posting this, but here goes.

I watched last night's game on TV and it was one of the least entertaining games of football I've ever watched.  It reminded me of my son's U16 team on a bad day.

However, up until the goal, I thought Town were the better team. Newport play a % game, with loads of long balls and throws into the box and the hope that Amond gets on the end of something.  I thought we defended well against this barrage and I was particularly impressed with Gibson.  Also, we were missing Hendrie and Pollock wasn't expecting to play but came in at the last minute and did ok - I thought he was unlucky to get red.  Their first goal was disappointing and maybe with a specialist full back in that position we wouldn't have left Amond in space to shoot.

Newport's long ball and pressing game makes it really hard for the opposing team because time on the ball is limited and so we end up with long balls back and forth and loads of head tennis.  Despite the commentators being massively biased, at the end of the first half, they acknowledged that we had been the better side.  We were the only side that attempted to get the ball on the deck and pass it, even if it didn't happen often.  We created as many chances as Newport, arguably more.

In midfield, Robson had a poor game and we wasted lots of free kicks with poor execution.  However, I really liked the clever through ball he played to Rose in the second half.  We had a few other moments where we actually made a clever pass and created a chance but they didn't go our way.

Overall, we were playing away at a team who have only lost 3 times this season and have one of the best defensive records in the league and play very unattractive football.  Against that, we had 5 first time players missing - Ohman, Wright, Hendrie, Hanson, Ogbu.

Yes its was a terrible game but I am not writing us off in the way everyone else seems to be.
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November 21, 2019, 2:19pm

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Crafty sodomist, start off by expecting red crosses, bit of a rant in the middle and finish off on a positive so everyone gives you a tick.
Good work fella it's a tick from me too.
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Stockholm syndrome.
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November 21, 2019, 3:02pm

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Nice work London Mariner - reading your post was like therapy - it's not so bad!  

Now lets stuff the Cobblers!!


Stand Up For The Mariners!!!!!
Stand Up For The Mariners!!!!!
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Quoted from LondonMariner43
I'm waiting for a bunch of red crosses after posting this, but here goes.

I watched last night's game on TV and it was one of the least entertaining games of football I've ever watched.  It reminded me of my son's U16 team on a bad day.

However, up until the goal, I thought Town were the better team. Newport play a % game, with loads of long balls and throws into the box and the hope that Amond gets on the end of something.  I thought we defended well against this barrage and I was particularly impressed with Gibson.  Also, we were missing Hendrie and Pollock wasn't expecting to play but came in at the last minute and did ok - I thought he was unlucky to get red.  Their first goal was disappointing and maybe with a specialist full back in that position we wouldn't have left Amond in space to shoot.

Newport's long ball and pressing game makes it really hard for the opposing team because time on the ball is limited and so we end up with long balls back and forth and loads of head tennis.  Despite the commentators being massively biased, at the end of the first half, they acknowledged that we had been the better side.  We were the only side that attempted to get the ball on the deck and pass it, even if it didn't happen often.  We created as many chances as Newport, arguably more.

In midfield, Robson had a poor game and we wasted lots of free kicks with poor execution.  However, I really liked the clever through ball he played to Rose in the second half.  We had a few other moments where we actually made a clever pass and created a chance but they didn't go our way.

Overall, we were playing away at a team who have only lost 3 times this season and have one of the best defensive records in the league and play very unattractive football.  Against that, we had 5 first time players missing - Ohman, Wright, Hendrie, Hanson, Ogbu.

Yes its was a terrible game but I am not writing us off in the way everyone else seems to be.


Well yes we could all put a positive slant on things if we tried hard enough.

However, the midfield highlight was ONE clever little through ball that any professional player should be able to make. Of course the first touch by Rose made the chance into a half chance.

I am being purposely negative because we have been served this dross for 17 years, and it is about time the people with any power to change things booked their ideas up.

Despite the lack of skill on show (by both sides to be fair) our will to win is just about zero. Professional players plodding around the pitch with no plan or desire, and no attacking intent to speak of. What the hell has been going on at the training ground in the weeks leading up to Jolleys dismissal? Who has been monitoring things and how has it turned so bad so quickly.

We have the commentators last nigh basically saying we were rubbish; Radio Humberside saying the same, and obviously we were rubbish and that is against opposition who were basic as basic could be.

I hope the board aren't waiting for applications to drift in; they should have identified one or two targets in the last few weeks. The quicker we get somebody in charge with some authority the better.
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We have the commentators last nigh basically saying we were rubbish; Radio Humberside saying the same, and obviously we were rubbish and that is against opposition who were basic as basic could be.

I hope the board aren't waiting for applications to drift in; they should have identified one or two targets in the last few weeks. The quicker we get somebody in charge with some authority the better.


I've argued a lot in the past two weeks, but find it hard to disagree with this.
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Quoted from LondonMariner43
I'm waiting for a bunch of red crosses after posting this, but here goes.

I watched last night's game on TV and it was one of the least entertaining games of football I've ever watched.  It reminded me of my son's U16 team on a bad day.

However, up until the goal, I thought Town were the better team. Newport play a % game, with loads of long balls and throws into the box and the hope that Amond gets on the end of something.  I thought we defended well against this barrage and I was particularly impressed with Gibson.  Also, we were missing Hendrie and Pollock wasn't expecting to play but came in at the last minute and did ok - I thought he was unlucky to get red.  Their first goal was disappointing and maybe with a specialist full back in that position we wouldn't have left Amond in space to shoot.

Newport's long ball and pressing game makes it really hard for the opposing team because time on the ball is limited and so we end up with long balls back and forth and loads of head tennis.  Despite the commentators being massively biased, at the end of the first half, they acknowledged that we had been the better side.  We were the only side that attempted to get the ball on the deck and pass it, even if it didn't happen often.  We created as many chances as Newport, arguably more.

In midfield, Robson had a poor game and we wasted lots of free kicks with poor execution.  However, I really liked the clever through ball he played to Rose in the second half.  We had a few other moments where we actually made a clever pass and created a chance but they didn't go our way.

Overall, we were playing away at a team who have only lost 3 times this season and have one of the best defensive records in the league and play very unattractive football.  Against that, we had 5 first time players missing - Ohman, Wright, Hendrie, Hanson, Ogbu.

Yes its was a terrible game but I am not writing us off in the way everyone else seems to be.


I must have been watching a different channel.

I think Gibson has played quite well of late but I thought he was as poor as the rest last night.

Missing Hendrie maybe but in the last few games up to his injury he had been playing poorly.

With regard to long balls you obviously haven't seen us play lately.

As regards all our chances, be handy if you could name them as I can't remember many at all. In the second half I only remember when Rose hit a shot come cross that the keeper had to deal with.
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Apart from Hess playing in a higher position for most of the first half, I failed to see any positives last night. Our loanees (Robson & Jerome) have even stooped to the moderate levels of the rest and I'm at a loss to work out which miracle worker we are going to recruit to make a team out of this lot.
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I must have been watching a different channel.

I think Gibson has played quite well of late but I thought he was as poor as the rest last night.

Missing Hendrie maybe but in the last few games up to his injury he had been playing poorly.

With regard to long balls you obviously haven't seen us play lately.

As regards all our chances, be handy if you could name them as I can't remember many at all. In the second half I only remember when Rose hit a shot come cross that the keeper had to deal with.


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