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Short and sweet we was robbed.

We were far the better team today, tbh I was expecting far more from County.

Taylor and McAtee a big miss.

If County are one of the favourites to go up we have nothing to fear.

Macca gifted them the game, end of.

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Macca gifted them the game, end of.

You will get shot for saying that on here

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

You will get shot for saying that on here

No mans bigger than the team or the club , I think he’ll be dropped for the cup game and it could be a good time for a change for a few games

You can't be robbed if you don't have any shots on target.

Did not deserve to lose that. We gave as good as we got, worked hard, coke i felt was excellent.
We need a striker, we needed one before today we need one before the next league game.
The goal, crookes was woefully out of postiton, macca? Id need to see it back but looked like he flapped it literally to the penalty spot.

Gutted tbh, point was fair and Notts were average but they’ve got 3 points and we got 0

Quoted from Chrisblor

You can't be robbed if you don't have any shots on target.

True but the shop was unlucky when he hit the bar.

Yes we were the better side but we were absolutely hopeless in front of goal.

Today taught me two things, firstly we’ve dropped a bollock not signing a striker and believing Lenny is reasonable backup, secondly the refs in this division are absolutely garbage.

We played well at times, created some half decent chances.. They realistically created next to nothing. Embarrassing to lose to such a poor team but oh well... We go again!
Now for my journey back to somerset!

McKeown pushing the ball back to one of their strikers is terrible.

We need a a striker, as soon as possible. LJL just isn’t up to it and there’s no signs of improvement.

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Macca gifted them the game, end of.

What the intercourse are you talking about.
He made the save then it was down to the defence to get rid.
FFS why
Why don't you Macca haters intercourse off.

Quoted from pontoonlew

Yes we were the better side but we were absolutely hopeless in front of goal.

Today taught me two things, firstly we’ve dropped a bollock not signing a striker and believing Lenny is reasonable backup, secondly the refs in this division are absolutely garbage.

According to the pre-match from Hurst, he tried to sign a striker from a championship and a L1 club.

Firstly, you need a striker to complement what you have.
Secondly, they have to have the desire to come.

This is the problem Hurst has and as quoted somewhere, league clubs are reluctant to release their 2nd/3rd rate strikers on loan as they cannot replace them till the Jan window. No point filling a No 9 shirt unless he fits the jigsaw.

Completely dominated territoriality and very dominant possession wise against a possession based team. It was a total smash abd grab from them, they offered nothing and looked pretty poor but there you go. Definitely missing something up top without mcatee or taylor, lennie had another poor game although worked hard. I was surprised bapaga didn't get to co.e on withb15 to go with all that pressure around their box and them so vulnerable at that time it was surely made for him - shows Hurst still doesn't fully trust him due to lack of work rate and was more willing to accept what he expected to be a draw.
Thought the midfield worked very well, Coke was good, they all were, but lack of cutting edge up top - an extra striker definitely needed.
Gutted to come away from a good display, bearing in mind the lack of mcatee and taylor(starting), with nothing. But definitely heartened that with taylor and others back/new striker we can return to winning ways

Quoted from DB

According to the pre-match from Hurst, he tried to sign a striker from a championship and a L1 club.

Firstly, you need a striker to complement what you have.
Secondly, they have to have the desire to come.

This is the problem Hurst has and as quoted somewhere, league clubs are reluctant to release their 2nd/3rd rate strikers on loan as they cannot replace them till the Jan window. No point filling a No 9 shirt unless he fits the jigsaw.

We’re going in this cycle again.

Step 1 -  Shout down those who raise the alarm bells that we’re short on players

Step 2 - Call those who don’t think LJL is up to it ‘negative’ and say how fantastic his hold up play is and if you can’t see it then you don’t know football

Step 3 - something goes wrong

Step 4 - claim there are no strikers left on the planet


And repeat

Two games without our two best attackers and no goals scored, with two 1-0 defeats. Think the problem is obvious.

I thought we were better than them and if anyone deserved to win, it was us. Would have settled for a draw but our mistakes led to their two moments of danger in the second half.

Decent performance without the cutting edge. Too many nearly moments when a better pass/cross/shot could have led to a goal.

They got the luck that the parry fell straight into their path and no time to recover.

Our high press worked well, but we didn't have the players on the pitch in forward areas to capitalise. We will play worse and win.

Nearly, but not quite.

Game of two halves. Thought we edged the first half but can only remember LJL’s cross landing on the bar as being the closest we got. 2nd half we looked 2nd best and they were much more likely to score. Their left mid was very effective.

Bad result but we’ve not suddenly become crap. If we had 2 decent strikers on the pitch I’m confident we wouldn’t have lost.

Quoted from psgmariner

Game of two halves. Thought we edged the first half but can only remember LJL’s cross landing on the bar as being the closest we got. 2nd half we looked 2nd best and they were much more likely to score. Their left mid was very effective.

Bad result but we’ve not suddenly become crap. If we had 2 decent strikers on the pitch I’m confident we wouldn’t have lost.

Really?

Not the way I saw it.

Quoted from pontoonlew

We’re going in this cycle again.

Step 1 -  Shout down those who raise the alarm bells that we’re short on players

Step 2 - Call those who don’t think LJL is up to it ‘negative’ and say how fantastic his hold up play is and if you can’t see it then you don’t know football

Step 3 - something goes wrong

Step 4 - claim there are no strikers left on the planet


And repeat

Nobody is claiming there are no strikers on the planet FFS. Hurst has been knocked back on some and decided another one wasn't suitable. Of course it is simple signing another striker - you can just go down to your local Football Player Superstore and pick an appropriate one off the shelf!

FFS first home defeat, still second, major  players out, lost by one goal to a very average side, and the slugs crawl out from the compost heap.
Get a bloody grip.

We had the vast majority of the game but they pounced on the only really chance of the game. I don’t want to blame McKeown but the parry was straight into the area where you’d want a follow up shot. excrement happens. Didn’t think much to County - especially in the first half where they seemed to struggle with keeping the ball within the confines of the playing area. It’s a real sickener tonight but there’s hours and hours of football left to play and we’ve got a good chance for the ill and injured to get fit again before we play in the league again.

We were the better of two decent sides, didn’t take our chances and conceded a pretty soft goal where our keeper unfortunately pushed a shot out into the centre of the goal.

Tough call to say it was his fault.

A draw would have been fair as it would have been at Woking a few weeks back then we came out winners that day.

Overall we did a good job at the back and in mid field apart from one lapse for the goal. Up front we where clueless.

We had a proven striker in the bench and he arguably should have been on earlier. We also should have considered Bapaga as he”ll run beyond the line.

I think Macca will be disappointed with their goal but he’s not solely to blame as we should have tracked all of their runners.

It’s the end of October and we’re 2nd in the league so it’s not all doom and gloom.

Quoted from pontoonlew

We’re going in this cycle again.

Step 1 -  Shout down those who raise the alarm bells that we’re short on players

Step 2 - Call those who don’t think LJL is up to it ‘negative’ and say how fantastic his hold up play is and if you can’t see it then you don’t know football

Step 3 - something goes wrong

Step 4 - claim there are no strikers left on the planet


And repeat

I don't know why you quoted my post above as I never said any of these things.

Quoted from Perkins

lost by one goal to a very average side, .

And that's the bit that worries me. Thank intercourse we weren't playing a good team

Quoted from rancido

Nobody is claiming there are no strikers on the planet FFS. Hurst has been knocked back on some and decided another one wasn't suitable. Of course it is simple signing another striker - you can just go down to your local Football Player Superstore and pick an appropriate one off the shelf!

We’ve had months to sort it, for parts of that Hurst said he was satisfied with what he had which astonished me at the time.

A lot has gone well this season but it’s a huge error imo and one that was avoidable

Grimsby have become the team to beat - from the way the Notts C fans celebrated afterwards, anyone would think they'd won a cup final.  Our opponents will have been doing their homework on us and trying to stifle our play.  I didn't go to Wealdstone, but they dealt with us by 'parking the bus', by all accounts.  Today, I noticed Luke Waterfall was really having to battle to get through their players whenever we got a corner - they'd got his number, and I don't remember him even being able to rise up for a header - all I saw was him struggling and wrestling to get free of those around him.  The first couple of corners were rolled in, in any case, and weren't very effective.  

Nice to see Taylor back - he seemed to add a bit of dynamism when he came on.  Sousa tried to break through once or twice but it didn't come to anything.  Harry C battled hard and got chopped down a couple of times for his pains.  Struggling again for a MoM - I thought about Fox, who seemed to be flying around all over the place, but will go for Harry, simply because he picked himself up after those fierce tackles and kept going.  I think we miss him when he's not there.

On May 5th a new club rose from the ashes. If somebody had said then Town will be 2nd from the top of the NL how many would have berated the poster and how many would have agreed?

Sometimes you have to look back to where you were to realise where you are now.

Not a bad performance in all. We were the better side throughout which makes the knee jerk, throw it all in the bin and start again reactions all the more annoying.
We were good until the ball went in to Lenny and then things broke down.

Notts look like a side that are trying to run before they can walk. They were stinking in the first half. For a side with 2 good goal scorers like they have they should be finding them more because they play in a way that gives them nothing. Or maybe we just gave them nothing.

Fair play to them though they got their subs bang on. The no11 up against Revan in the second half was a game changer. Diagonals in between Him and Waterfall started to cause problems.

We need another centre forward but let’s just draw a line under that one.

If anything hopefully that will see a hundred or 2 off the gate for the next game. The Hurst-outers, boo-ers and racists can stop at home thanks.

We will get the FA cup game out of the way, get our players back fit and be at it again.
Two games after the FA cup game, 6 points.
Then 5 games against top 7 sides, at least 10 points.
We will be back on it sooner rather than later.

Quoted from DB

Sometimes you have to look back to where you were to realise where you are now.

Can I look back to just before we played Wealdstone please?

Just on performances, the best players were the usual suspects, Towler, Waterfall, Fox, Crookes and Clifton. Sousa lost possession too often, Revan isn’t ready for men’s football and Lenny was Lenny.

Very frustrating game to watch, lots of huff and puff from both teams with no end product and always felt like it would come down to a single goal. We looked most likely to get the goal but no real quality when it came down to the final touch, they scored on a random chance and feel like a foul wasn't given just before it so we seemed hard done by. Hunt seemed off the boil a bit, his set pieces and passing delivery felt off so hope he can recapture some of that form again soon.

It's another disappointing game where we didn't make things happen but not that down about it. Decent crowd today including the away following, felt like proper support for both sides.

Thought we played alright and they are very lucky to have left with the 3 points. They were completely unambitious and came for a point. Thought their fans were possibly the quietist of any large away following I’ve ever seen.

Have to say they could well have been down to 10 for the horror challenge on Harry Clifton.

Missed McAtee, then Sears when he went off.

No need for any major panic.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Short and sweet we was robbed.

We where far the better team today, tbh I was expecting far more from County.

Taylor and McAtee where a big miss.

If County are one of the favourites to go up we have nothing to fear.

What he said.

I think the vast majority of us will say we was the better team we controlled most of the tempo and play and had the better of chances, it is frustrating and will be for a good few days but this team we have are very competitive and we've got a great chance of getting promotion this season.
Last minute goals happen and its flipping horrible when it happens to us but that's football and if we don't take our chances there's always a chance that can happen.

Gutted tonight but we must dust ourselves down, we are a point of top and looking alright. Couple of games after the cup game for us to take full points and then roll on the Xmas period utm.

McKeown isn’t good enough if you want to finish 1st. By a long stretch.

Two bang average looking teams with only one managing to get a shot on target. We have looked anything but champions elect since the Yeovil game. I don’t even know who was up front with Lennie today who once again looked isolated. County where there for the taking be we simply had nothing to offer in the final 3rd. Pacey striker to play off Taylor urgently required.

3 points dropped.

We were the better team by far, just lacked that little extra bit up front. Can't remember a shot on goal though.

Ref was excrement, but generally excrement didn't really impact the game all too much, except if he had booked their no.20 for the dive early doors he would of been sent off for the 2nd yellow and not there to score.

Hurst got his subs wrong? Revan on right took something away, thought he should of dropped Harry in there and brought Bapa onto the wing. As much as I love the Shop, Taylor should of been on 10 mins earlier, it was obviously not his day and he was starting to look tired by that point. Obviously bringing Bapa on at 1 nil down with 3 mins left is pointless, he's not going to affect the game at that point.

Anyone else think Sousa looked a little out of sorts for the 1st half? He was much better in the 2nd don't get me wrong, but he looked lost in the 1st.

Are we a 1 man team? Hearing no McAtee for at least 4 weeks. Could be a hard November ahead  

Tell you what this flipping forum is full off happy clappers. Macca gifted there goal to them today and there are people rushing to his defence. intercourse right off. We played OK and deserved a draw yet people are happy to recognise him as christ the second coming.. Not having it.

It goes to show that we miss the Mctee/ Taylor partnership, we seem to be so exciting in attack when they are playing. And as for The Shop, i never want to see him play again. His touches today were so pathetic, fell over too many times, was at a loss to where his players were, and was subbed too late in the game. Taylor and Bapaga should of been introduced much earlier, and cant understand why Bapaga wasnt playing from the start. Dont mind the red crosses, its my feelings, and many others. Definately need a new number 9 this week. Otherwise, Ben Fox chased everything, but i thought Harry had a quiet game first half. Notts C. werent troubled too often, but werent much of a threat, apart from their small winger who showed pace at times. Macca,s flap at the ball ended up at Notts C. player, game over. Hunts corners were a lot to be desired, but got better near the end, a draw would of been fair to a dire game. Its a setback, the fortress has succumbed, we pick ourselves up, and go again at Kidderminster, and its gotta be a win. McAtee out for a while, so we need to get a loanee in.

Quoted from dicko995

It goes to show that we miss the Mctee/ Taylor partnership, we seem to be so exciting in attack when they are playing. And as for The Shop, i never want to see him play again. His touches today were so pathetic, fell over too many times, was at a loss to where his players were, and was subbed too late in the game. Taylor and Bapaga should of been introduced much earlier, and cant understand why Bapaga wasnt playing from the start. Dont mind the red crosses, its my feelings, and many others. Definately need a new number 9 this week. Otherwise, Ben Fox chased everything, but i thought Harry had a quiet game first half. Notts C. werent troubled too often, but werent much of a threat, apart from their small winger who showed pace at times. Macca,s flap at the ball ended up at Notts C. player, game over. Hunts corners were a lot to be desired, but got better near the end, a draw would of been fair to a dire game. Its a setback, the fortress has succumbed, we pick ourselves up, and go again at Kidderminster, and its gotta be a win. McAtee out for a while, so we need to get a loanee in.

Taylor has a tight hamstring

Bapaga defensively offers us nothing and with Notts having overlapping wingers i think thats why he didnt start. Id have had him on with 15 left however

Quoted from TAGG

What the intercourse are you talking about.
He made the save then it was down to the defence to get rid.
FFS why
Why don't you Macca haters intercourse off.

Trying to work out whether this is a genuine observation or tongue-in-cheek! For a start I don’t think it was a shot at goal, looked more like a badly over hit cross. One which would possibly have sailed over everyone for a throw in (might need to see it again though).  Having decided he needed to deal with it he should have done much better than parry it up in the air and down on to the penalty spot to the county forward who accepted the gift. Agree with others it might’ve time to give him a few games off.

Quoted from Ipswin

Can I look back to just before we played Wealdstone please?

You certainly can, the bottom of league 2, sh!t owner and no prospects.

McAtee out for 4 weeks according to tonight's Telegraph and that might be more I suppose before he gets back to match sharpness

Firstly, to those saying that we were robbed or the better team today, I can’t agree.

Both teams failed to really test the keeper, but McKeown had more to do than theirs.

We look really blunt in front of goal. Lenny works his behind off, no doubt. But he is never ever going to get us up and we are threatless when he is on.

Defensively we are strong in the centre. Raven looked vulnerable when on and their 2 subs at half time improved their threat 2nd half with the intro of pace.

Hunt was outstanding in the middle and he can really play.

Sousa showed nice touches in areas that were not threatening positions tho and his final ball was weak.

Clifton was bossed physically today and looked slightly off the pace I thought.

Fox was solid, Coke ok at best.

Taylor provides more but waited to late till he came on again.

We have had a decent start but am worried that now facing stronger sides in higher league positions, we may be found out a bit.

Notts by the way no no better overall, but as the home side, we never forced their keeper into 1save did we?

Long season but we need some new players and some more options up front and out wide.

Quoted from DB

You certainly can, the bottom of league 2, sh!t owner and no prospects.

You must be looking at the wrong newspaper. According to me we were clear at the top

Didn't deserve to lose, didn't deserve to win. Played some decent stuff but the final pass or cross was lacking quality so we didn't create the clear chances.

The goal came from about the only attacking header they won all game where Towler was caught slightly out of position. This allowed their unmarked no 18 to fire in a shot (don't think he was trying to cross) which McKeown was only able to parry. The fact that some are blaming him entirely is ridiculous. It was a save you'd expect him to make, but I didn't think he could really have done much more than parry it. Just unfortunate that we didn't have the defenders in the box and it fell straight to the scorer.

We're certainly a much lesser team without McAtee so we need to find a way to improve just that small amount to get the results while he's out injured.

Hopefully, Efete will be ready for the next game as I suspect Sears will be out some weeks with his injury (whatever it is). Revan an OK stopgap, but we looked less steady when he came on.

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Tell you what this flipping forum is full off happy clappers. Macca gifted there goal to them today and there are people rushing to his defence. intercourse right off. We played OK and deserved a draw yet people are happy to recognise him as christ the second coming.. Not having it.

Better than being miserable tbh. He's not let in that many goals this season and no keeper goes through a career without making mistakes or having bad luck on a parry. We played fine up until the final third, if there was a bit more quality to the finish then maybe we would have put the game to bed and not lost through them getting a random chance. To place all the blame on Macca and make him the scapegoat as he's been made many times before is a vast understatement of an entire game where we had lots of the ball but failed to turn it into chances. We had zero shots on target and they had maybe 1 or 2.

Quoted from Ipswin

You must be looking at the wrong newspaper. According to me we were clear at the top

Trolling for red crosses. Read the actual question for my answers.

Quoted from thevera

Trying to work out whether this is a genuine observation or tongue-in-cheek! For a start I don’t think it was a shot at goal, looked more like a badly over hit cross. One which would possibly have sailed over everyone for a throw in (might need to see it again though).  Having decided he needed to deal with it he should have done much better than parry it up in the air and down on to the penalty spot to the county forward who accepted the gift. Agree with others it might’ve time to give him a few games off.

balderdash

Quoted from toontown

Completely dominated territoriality and very dominant possession wise against a possession based team. It was a total smash abd grab from them, they offered nothing and looked pretty poor but there you go

Or...they contained us without really being troubled

Quoted from DB

According to the pre-match from Hurst, he tried to sign a striker from a championship and a L1 club.

Firstly, you need a striker to complement what you have.
Secondly, they have to have the desire to come.

Thirdly....he has known since July/ August we have been light in the striking dept......6 points gone in a week cos we can't manage a decent effort on target for all our possession.  

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

You will get shot for saying that on here

How?

Quoted from ginnywings

Two games without our two best attackers and no goals scored, with two 1-0 defeats. Think the problem is obvious.

I thought we were better than them and if anyone deserved to win, it was us. Would have settled for a draw but our mistakes led to their two moments of danger in the second half.

Decent performance without the cutting edge. Too many nearly moments when a better pass/cross/shot could have led to a goal.

They got the luck that the parry fell straight into their path and no time to recover.

Our high press worked well, but we didn't have the players on the pitch in forward areas to capitalise. We will play worse and win.

Nearly, but not quite.

An excellent summary. I still can't believe some of the quality in our build-up play - the best for years.

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

How?

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Well.....second game in a week where we have dominated but created very little and lost 1-0.

Alot better overall than the Wealdstone game but as we set up to dominate the possession and subsequently did,  we didn't do a massive amount with it.

The season long need for an extra striker is coming home to roost, Hurst's procrastination has possibly seen us drop at least a share of 6 points this week.

Can't fault the effort of the players today but we need options up top to win the type of games we have faced this week.

One of those difficult to take outcomes today, in a game when we felt well and truly on top for the majority of the game.

The last two games have highlighted a change though, as well as underscoring that, in football, possession isn’t always king.

It’s positive possession with a purpose that is actually king, and we’ve lacked that in the last two games. Yes some of the silky build up play and possession has been easy on the eye. But that all important purpose in the final third has been seriously lacking. It’s not rocket science that it’s down to the loss of McAtee and Taylor, who provide us with dynamic incisive play up top. Need them both back on the pitch from the start ASAP

Over and out

Quoted from psgmariner

Game of two halves. Thought we edged the first half but can only remember LJL’s cross landing on the bar as being the closest we got. 2nd half we looked 2nd best and they were much more likely to score. Their left mid was very effective.

Bad result but we’ve not suddenly become crap. If we had 2 decent strikers on the pitch I’m confident we wouldn’t have lost.

LJLs cross??? Are you mental, give the guy some credit. It was a shot……

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

It’s positive possession with a purpose that is actually king, and we’ve lacked that in the last two games. Yes some of the silky build up play and possession has been easy on the eye. But that all important purpose in the final third has been seriously lacking.

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Quoted from oochiad

LJLs cross??? Are you mental, give the guy some credit. It was a shot……

I was going to say he looked up and saw men in the middle so was aiming for them but very hard to tell with Lenny! Either way that was as close as we came to scoring.

Just got back home and read this thread and can't believe some of the comments, in particular thats Notts were better than us in 2nd half, and that Hunt was crap. Yes, we lacked a cutting edge but we pretty much dominated one of the strongest teams in the division and Hunt was head and shouders the best player on the pitch (despite 2 or 3 poor corners). This is the best team we've had for years, and I still feel pretty confident that we will be fighting for the title come the tail end of the season.

I’m not sure it was Hunt’s best game but I struggle to understand how and why Hurst would ever leave him on the bench for a league game as he did on Tuesday.

Hunt did OK today but I have to say I'm a little disappointed overall that he's not pushed on from the start of the season. I feel he's got the ability to run the game for us but tends to drift in and out too much. We'll be more effective, the more often he receives the ball in midfield. Too often, he's just a bit too deep so can't influence play in the way he should.

I thought we shaded both halves without creating enough and a 0-0 draw would have been a fair result. I think with that team and formation it felt like Sousa was the danger and they largely did a good job on him. I like Clifton and Crookes but neither are going to beat players 1:1 very often so they could focus on our right. With 20 minutes left I would have liked to see Bapaga for Coke and Clifton moved centrally but then at the end I was moaning that we just should just have made sure we didn't get beaten. Luxuries you get when you're a fan rather than the manager I guess.

Lots of 7 out of 10 performances but not the one or two 8/9's that would have seen us win it. It is still a great start though expectations have been raised. Can anyone genuinely say that they wouldn't have taken 29 points from 14 games before the season started though?

Aldershot and Southend feel important before a very tough run of games so great we have two weeks to get ready. Four points from those two as a minimum and ideally six and all will look brighter again.

Quoted from Maringer

Hunt did OK today but I have to say I'm a little disappointed overall that he's not pushed on from the start of the season. I feel he's got the ability to run the game for us but tends to drift in and out too much. We'll be more effective, the more often he receives the ball in midfield. Too often, he's just a bit too deep so can't influence play in the way he should.

Sorry but I don't agree with that at all. He's always available to receive the ball in tight spaces with opposing players around him and he very rarely loses possession of the ball. Some of his first touch passes into the feet of our forwards today were sublime (something very few players in this league are capable of). He's a deep lying central midfielder not a forward or a number 10, and he's a big part of why we dominated a midfield that was supposed to be very good at keeping possession, and is crucial in linking the defence with the attack.

Corners aside (wtf has happened to them) Hunt was class today, too clever for his own good at times in fact after some really good through balls went begging

Quoted from ska face

McKeown isn’t good enough if you want to finish 1st. By a long stretch.

intercourse off

Quoted from TAGG

intercourse off

I’d like to see Crocombe given a start again in the Cup and, if we win, then given a go in the league.

I thought the best things we did came when we got Hunt and Sousa on the ball. But anybody wanting Hunt to play as  a number 10 and fill in for McAtee is going to be disappointed as he's just not that player.

Probably add that was the quietest  away support of 1000+ ive seen at BP.

But they got 3 points so not sure they’d care

Quoted from oochiad

LJLs cross??? Are you mental, give the guy some credit. It was a shot……

I thought it was a cross to the far post.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I thought it was a cross to the far post.

Me too, but would have been great for him and the team had it dropped in.

I was right behind the line of it in the Main Stand and it was definitely an intended shot

Thought hunt played well today kept the ball ticking and fox and coke battled well out of possession we just lacked that goal in what would of been a decent performance.

The 2 main forwards out, and the 3rd in line only having played 2 games and no pre season.

The stronger right back out, and his replacement gets injured making Town play a left sided player on the right.

So many pull back fouls missed by the ref.

No one having accurate shooting boots on.

The free kick and corner deliverer having an off day.

A good high possesion side not keeling over to plan.

Result - we are still 2nd in the table, more than many thought at season start, so keep expectations realistic !

A bad results week and the no.10 out for a month.

Time perhaps for a bit of action to bring in a couple of short loan reinforcements while the injured recover.

Big changes next week and another 7 days for some injuries to come good, hopefully.

Still a great start to the season and the next step in the learning curve to break down tight teams.

We could be Southend, THEN you could moan !!

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

I was right behind the line of it in the Main Stand and it was definitely an intended shot

So was I, and I totally agree.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I’d like to see Crocombe given a start again in the Cup and, if we win, then given a go in the league.

On this forum you get hung for slagging off LJL but when it comes to Macca you can say what the intercourse you want.
Today he did what he had to do, the save from the free kick and the save before the goal, what the fook

Couple of additional thoughts as I did the 3 hour drive home ……

- Thought Coke played well today and the balance between him and Hunt was really good.

- This season in reality Macca has had little to do which is credit to the back 4 but means the lad from NZ needs to start in the cup to keep Macca under pressure.

- Anyone know what happened Sears, wrist I assume.

- Our fitness is generally good under Hurst but can’t help thinking Notts had a bit more in the tank come the last 10 minutes.

If Notts County are considered contenders then we’ll have no problem comfortably making the play offs at least.

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

Sorry but I don't agree with that at all. He's always available to receive the ball in tight spaces with opposing players around him and he very rarely loses possession of the ball. Some of his first touch passes into the feet of our forwards today were sublime (something very few players in this league are capable of). He's a deep lying central midfielder not a forward or a number 10, and he's a big part of why we dominated a midfield that was supposed to be very good at keeping possession, and is crucial in linking the defence with the attack.

I wasn't intending to be too critical, just more a sense that I'm disappointed he's not been more incisive much of the time - probably because he's doing so much of the link-up stuff deep in our own half. He's certainly capable of passing the ball into the feet of the forwards but didn't manage it too often today, because he was generally receiving the ball between our 18 yard box and the halfway line.

Get the ball to him 15 or 20 yards further forward and he'll create much more of a threat. The question is whether or not we can get the ball to him in the right areas.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

- Anyone know what happened Sears, wrist I assume.

He went into a tackle and lent awkwardly on his elbow from my view and my initial reaction was that he dislocated his shoulder, this was my thought before he appeared to show difficulty.

Quoted from Plankton

He went into a tackle and lent awkwardly on his elbow from my view and my initial reaction was that he dislocated his shoulder, this was my thought before he appeared to show difficulty.

Ouch !!!

I reckon Sears will be out for a few weeks so hopefully Efete will be ready to return for the next game.

Frustrating way to lose a game. County were well organised, but absolutely dreadful on the ball in the first half - the amount of mistakes they made was unreal. You knew there they were going to improve in the second half.

That said, Town dominated the game without ever really going close to scoring, despite decent looking opportunities for the likes of Sousa and Taylor. I thought we got it tactically right given the personnel fit and available, but needed the all important goal which never came.

Because of that, I can’t subscribe to the idea that we were ‘robbed’. The better team perhaps, but despite looking utterly impotent first half I thought they looked a real threat during their occasional forays forward.

If you’re still punching in the 12th round of the fight, you always have the chance to land that knockout blow. If today was a boxing match, we’d have won comfortably on points had we not been sparked out at the death. But that’s football.

Frustrating as fúck, but not the end of the world. It was a decent performance, undermined by missing a couple of key players at the sharp end of the pitch. I think now is the time to reinforce there.

We will recover. Giles Coke my MoM - thought he was magnificent today.

I wasn't feeling too optimistic walking in today; felt like we were heading into a dip in form.  And so it's transpired, although it was a real sickener to lose it at the death like that.  

We performed well for most the game.  No one had a bad day, midfield was strong and kept the ball well between them, defence really solid again aside from being caught at the end.  We started on the front foot, pressing high and forcing a usually high-possession County into plenty of over-hit passes.  Sousa and Sears looked like they'd developed a bit more of an understanding, and Sears seemed more confident in sliding balls into LJL/Fox/Sousa just in front of their back four.  We created a couple of good chances; no idea how the Shop dug out that shot that hit the bar but it would have been a great goal had it dipped in time.  

Sears going off meant Revan had to fill in at RB, his non-preferred side, which he did quite well but Notts targeted him after the break with the addition of a very quick midfielder making runs into the channel.  This resulted in Revan and Waterfall regularly being turned towards their own goal, forcing Sousa deeper to show for the ball.  This stopped Sousa from being very effective; he regularly beat players with ease on the break but it was always in the wrong area of the pitch - deep in his own half.  Real shame about the goal as a 0-0 wouldn't have been a bad result.  It felt like we got caught pressing too high chasing a winner, with Crookes pushing high late on, leaving a spare man for Wootton to flick on to.  I have to be critical of Macca for pushing the shot into the centre of the box, you'd expect most keepers to tip that away for a corner.  Several factors involved though, including Towler surprisingly losing a challenge, so no scapegoating here.

The McAtee and Efete absences are creating a tactical problem for us as we struggle to find space in the pocket behind the opposition's midfield, so we can't stretch their defence with quick balls out wide.  We also don't create overloads against full-backs often enough.  

Not too much to be down about though.  Still 2nd, still averaging 2 PPG.  We have an outstanding player in Towler, who has an absurd amount of composure for this level, we're very lucky to have him.  Atmosphere was pretty good in the Upper.  Big opportunity at Aldershot in two weeks to arrest this mini slump in form.  

Onto the Cup.  UTM.

Jeez that was sickening
Like town of old
That was NC first shot at goal
So Frustrating
We where the better side but we need to hurt teams more as well as keeping possession and playing it round the park well
If that’s the best the league had to offer we should be ok
Boreham Wood top
Come on we are Town!!

Quoted from Poojah

Frustrating way to lose a game. County were well organised, but absolutely dreadful on the ball in the first half - the amount of mistakes they made was unreal. You knew there they were going to improve in the second half.

That said, Town dominated the game without ever really going close to scoring, despite decent looking opportunities for the likes of Sousa and Taylor. I thought we got it tactically right given the personnel fit and available, but needed the all important goal which never came.

Because of that, I can’t subscribe to the idea that we were ‘robbed’. The better team perhaps, but despite looking utterly impotent first half I thought they looked a real threat during their occasional forays forward.

If you’re still punching in the 12th round of the fight, you always have the chance to land that knockout blow. If today was a boxing match, we’d have done comfortably on points had we not been sparked out at the death. But that’s football.

Frustrating as fúck, but not the end of the world. It was a decent performance, undermined by missing a couple of key players at the sharp end of the pitch. I think now is the time to reinforce there.

We will recover. Giles Coke my MoM - thought he was magnificent today.

Sound analysis Poojah. There was no robbery in this game, it was up for both teams to take all 3 points at any point in the game, it just took a goal. Unfortunately for us it landed straight to one of their lads to slot it home and allowed them to take the points.

We did well and managed their play, but they also did very well in stopping us getting forward, especially in the first half. As the game went on it became more open and we did have half chances which if we had a striker on their game we may have scored.

For me there's far too may haves, might'ves, should'ves. LJL holds the ball so well and draws players to him, with 2 players marking him at times, which should be rife for a forward to run on from that, but we don't have those options.

Sousa is dynamite and at times I wish he didn't pass and kept going as the ball he put in wasn't equally met from his efforts with the touch.

Quoted from sydney

Jeez that was sickening
Like town of old
That was NC first shot at goal
So Frustrating
We where the better side but we need to hurt teams more as well as keeping possession and playing it round the park well
If that’s the best the league had to offer we should be ok
Boreham Wood top
Come on we are Town!!

No it wasn't.

Very confused about the Coke praise. Thought he was awful on the ball today. Missed an incredible amount of opportunities to play progressive attacking passes to town players making dangerous runs and instead chose to put his foot on the ball and knock it back to the defence instead every time. Made it easy for Notts County to get back into their positions and meant we failed to stretch them as often as we could have. Yeah he's solid defensively but we're so much better with Fox & Hunt as the two deep midfielders instead because they're both far more inclined to play quick forward passes. Suppose the only way we could do that with McAtee out is by playing Bapaga in his role and playing Fox deeper instead.

Really good game of football today (national league!). Frustrating for town but we played well for a team in the 5th tier. Towler and Hunt are a class apart. Just missing a cutting edge…. But a full BP with the main stand in voice at times!!

County support(great to see the numbers)  was very tepid: sing when we are winning..

Quoted from Running like emson

Really good game of football today (national league![/b]). Frustrating for town but we played well for a team in the 5th tier. [b]Towler and Hunt are a class apart. Just missing a cutting edge…. But a full BP with the main stand in voice at times!!

County support(great to see the numbers)  was very tepid: sing when we are winning..

Wouldn't say really good game, but the way we moved the ball about is streets ahead of the dross of last season, and that wasn't just from Town the whole league was poor. nice to 1000+ in the Osmond but actually 1087 is poor considering their home attendances - but they've never travelled well to Cleethorpes for some reason. Stockport had 1600 fans at Notts last week and they've been a heap of shite so far.

Both Towler and Hunt were excellent and I thought Coke had a good game. We are not going to win the title without exceptional luck with the fitness of Taylor and McAtee from this point on. We don't look like a team that will score many key goals feeding off the scraps of half chances. We've played all the big spenders now save Chesterfield and they look like strong favourite with the Tshimanga strike rate. Of course he might get injured...

Playing well wins nothing if you dont have anyone who can put the ball in the net . And untill we do we will just be an also ran . The bounce will soon ebb away and we will be stuck down here with 2000 watching

for what it's worth & points wise its nothing but actually thought we played really well today as i'v commented on in another thread , blundell park this season to last is like chalk & cheese , ok we lost two games but controlled large parts of both matches , we had enough half chances today sousa taylor fox scrambles in there box where they got lucky but ph knows & we know we need a no9 with a bit of everything pace play with back to goal link up , good luck we are national league

Quoted from TAGG

What the intercourse are you talking about.
He made the save then it was down to the defence to get rid.
FFS why
Why don't you Macca haters intercourse off.

Pull your tongue out his anus while your at it. He parried it straight to there striker you mongo.