Newport match thread

Maccas distribution on Saturday was awful. Every long ball went out of play or straight to them with nobody close enough to challenge.

Russell got one game last season then dropped, maybe same again...

It's not a line-up that jumps out at you as being capable of being the team currently top of the league, is it? Strange things do happen with Town, but I don't fancy us at all tonight. Happy to be proved wrong.

A sad sight to see Macca dropped for our 38 year old goalkeeping coach. If he leaves in Jan (and I can't imagine he'll be easy to shift on current form and his wages), it would be a real shame just a few months short of his 10 years at the club - not many players do that these days.

Whatever happens, his performances haven't been good enough this season but it shouldn't be forgotten what a great servant he's been to this club. And again, there aren't many players you can say that about over the past couple of decades.

Quoted from forza ivano

My first time on ifollow tonight ,following the purchase of a laptop! Any idea what time they start streaming?
Let's hope it's better than the last time I watched gtfc 'on screen' .that nightmare showing on bbc wales against tonight's opponents in the fa cup replay 12 months ago. Still makes me shudder

I think its usually 30 minutes before kick off, so any minute now.

Quoted from forza ivano

My first time on ifollow tonight ,following the purchase of a laptop! Any idea what time they start streaming?
MLet's hope it's better than the last time I watched gtfc 'on screen' .that nightmare showing on bbc wales against tonight's opponents in the fa cup replay 12 months ago. Still makes me shudder

It’s streaming now albeit with various adverts but as I type I’m watching both teams warming up. If you’re not on yet then a bit of advice, use Google Chrome because that’s what I was advised when I first started streaming our games. I was having problems at the time but since I’ve used Google Chrome all has been well. Best of luck.

Quoted from Cricklewoodmariner

I think its usually 30 minutes before kick off, so any minute now.

thanks, it actaully seems to be working, which is a minor miracle in itself, given the ifollow problems and my neanderthal approach to all things technical!

Holloway showing that he means action imho. it might be just a temporary kick up the arris to get him re focused, but ive thought for a couple of months now that i could easily see us getting a new keeper in January; if he were to go a) would we miss him that much onfield and b) it would free up a good amount of money to be spent on new players

Just bought the game, hope I haven't wasted my money  

Be nice to see us score first for a change...UTM

Quoted from pen penfras

Maccas distribution on Saturday was awful. Every long ball went out of play or straight to them with nobody close enough to challenge.

Russell got one game last season then dropped, maybe same again...

Yeh, I’d imagine this could be a one time thing...

Thing is though, surely you’d just take Macca to one side in training and do some work with him? You don’t need to be a goalkeeping coach to teach someone to kick it really far...

Ollie having a bit of a rant about our players a the moment.

"They can't leave it all to me"

Sounds fed up with them.

As a shot stopper macca is one of best you will get at this level. His weakness for me is he doesn’t command his box enough and makes a few errors which are usually negligible due to amount of point winning saves he makes throughout season.

Under holloway his errors have become more prevalent due to this ‘play out from back’ ethos that the manager is trying to instil in team. Macca stated he struggles with it but the question should be can the club afford / attract as good a shot stopper as macca who can also play out to the standard required.. I don’t think we can , it’s pretty obvious we pay peanuts and I would rather keep macca and ditch the play from the back.

Quoted from aldi_01

Yeh, I’d imagine this could be a one time thing...

Thing is though, surely you’d just take Macca to one side in training and do some work with him? You don’t need to be a goalkeeping coach to teach someone to kick it really far...

Back in the day, Danny Coyne’s distribution was shocking for the level we were out (albeit we were a lot more adept at playing out from the back in those days).

I seem to remember that we brought in a specialist rugby kicking coach who had worked with the England team, and it improved no end.