Just back

As several have said, Waterfall is one who I thought would be shown the door in the close season but I take my hat off to him - he's a man transformed and was magnificent last night. His calm defending, simple distribution and an absolutely cracking goal made him man of the match.

And I'd like to put in a word for Sousa who terrorised their defence all night until his substitution - the move leading to that first goal was sublime and hasn't been seen since the Buckley days.

12 months ago we had a bunch of players who couldn't care less, randomly thrown together by a lunatic. Now we have a proper team which not only works its socks off, but has genuine talent.

So pleased for the players and manager who are clearly on a mission. I haven't seen or heard BP rocking like that for many many years!

Brilliant game, hadn't enjoyed one that much for christ knows how long. The loanees are so far removed from the ones we had a year ago - for Hunt and Towler to come in from essentially kids football and look so comfortable so quickly shows both how good they are, and how good our setup is now.

Taylor's getting across the defender at the near post goals remind me of Giroud, except that he's better looking, obvs.

Quoted from Abdul19

Brilliant game, hadn't enjoyed one that much for christ knows how long. The loanees are so far removed from the ones we had a year ago - for Hunt and Towler to come in from essentially kids football and look so comfortable so quickly shows both how good they are, and how good our setup is now.

Taylor's getting across the defender at the near post goals remind me of Giroud, except that he's better looking, obvs.

Taylor or Giroud is better looking? 😉

Quoted from IrishMariner

Taylor or Giroud is better looking? 😉

i think giroud could turn a big hairy wizard like myself  

Does anyone know where we can see the highlights of this game, or even just the goals?

Quoted from 123614

Does anyone know where we can see the highlights of this game, or even just the goals?

think they are released on Thursday?

I think there must be a motto displayed somewhere saying - "Remember Braintree " - and all opponents are being respected  plotted against, then outplayed.

TEAM - Wonderful descriptive word that is so easily used in many posts now.

If Paul Hurst can pick out an up and coming striker with the same team spirit and ethics, we'll have a side and a half !!

To be fair, our two available forwards have scored 5 goals between them in the first 5 games, which isn't bad going, especially as Taylor wasn't properly fit at the start of the season! I'd take a goal a game from our forwards for the rest of the season. Obviously, we still need another 'body in the building' to cover and help them but I'm not sure there would be too many players who could step into the team with the way we're playing at present.

It was just ace wasn't it?

From front to back we defended like lions.  Workrate is incredible and I'm struggling to remember a side that looked as together as this one, even going back to the Hurst teams of 2015 and 2016.  Not just in terms of fighting for each other but in how they compliment each other in the system.

It's still early days in the season but this really, really feels like something special is brewing quite rapidly.   Oh and we're apparently still a No 9 short...

Next signing - Perhaps a young forward may want to join on loan to a winning side with many available chances to score and their club would have a chance to assess potential.

That will also give us chance to rest the more "mature" forwards with the amount of games coming up.

Paul Hurst can then plan out his 7 or 8 formations to suit opponents and ground conditions.

Question - how many Astro pitches are still in use in this league now Sutton have gone up?