Just back

I actually tried the fanzine for the first time yesterday, albeit  briefly, I took advantage of the coupon in the season ticket pack and got the mango cider which was very nice indeed, a little expensive but I may visit again especially for the cider.

The Sidney Wheelhouse bar at the back of the pontoon whilst having limited alcohol selection is a good thing to utilise and they did well to get people served quickly.

As for the game again same as last week's first half I thought we battled and showed some good points, Morris looked decent as did Holohan, Kiernan works hard and whilst not being a world beater he does offer something, Green will improve as he gets fitter, Efete does need to stop cutting inside and losing the ball, Glennon did well,  Wearne offered something of the bench as did JMD of course.

Northampton were no great shakes.

Get players back fit and a few more signings we should be fine

No one else has mentioned it but I thought it at the time and I still do after watching the highlights, that Crocombe's positioning for their goal wasn't the best. He hasn't come out to narrow the angle and when the ball hits the net is practically leaning against his near post. Their scorer was coming from wide but not that wide. Not saying he's to blame and i'm probably being hyper critcal because it was obviously a decent finish (and becauae no one else has noted it) but I do feel he gave Hoskins a bit too much of the goal to aim at

Quoted from immariner

No one else has mentioned it but I thought it at the time and I still do after watching the highlights, that Crocombe's positioning for their goal wasn't the best. He hasn't come out to narrow the angle and when the ball hits the net is practically leaning against his near post. Their scorer was coming from wide but not that wide. Not saying he's to blame and i'm probably being hyper critcal because it was obviously a decent finish (and becauae no one else has noted it) but I do feel he gave Hoskins a bit too much of the goal to aim at

I think this is a fair observation, I thought it was a good finish TBH.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

If I can't get to the rare few games I can make on a Saturday because the Osmond is out of bounds due to stupid idiots gobbing off I won't be happy.

A total home sell out yesterday yet 1900 empty seats in the ground. Appreciate there were probably 700 empty seats in the Northampton section of the Osmond but did it look like 1200 home seats were missing?

Season ticket holders not attending? I know of around 10/15 STH currently on holiday and unable to attend.

I personally wouldn’t bother with opening the osmond and start exploring temporary seats.

There’s no way that when we play a team with a decent away following they’ll even attempt to open it, if they do they’re asking for trouble. If that means people can’t get in then so be it. excrement I know but that’s how it is. Roll out a buy back scheme formally and it could go some way to solve the problem for the 200/300 that can’t get a ticket.

Northamptons turn out was poor so aside from an overweight embarrassment and a loud mouth in the town section, it was hardly an issue.

Things will have teething problems but they’ll get ironed out and will need to be given the more consistent away followings. Let’s face it, we’ve had a season of lost away followings being a handful at best…

Quoted from immariner

No one else has mentioned it but I thought it at the time and I still do after watching the highlights, that Crocombe's positioning for their goal wasn't the best. He hasn't come out to narrow the angle and when the ball hits the net is practically leaning against his near post. Their scorer was coming from wide but not that wide. Not saying he's to blame and i'm probably being hyper critcal because it was obviously a decent finish (and becauae no one else has noted it) but I do feel he gave Hoskins a bit too much of the goal to aim at

I heard someone behind me say that Crocombe shouldn't be getting beat from that angle and thinking about it, he has a point. So you weren't the only one.

Great finish though, which I think took everyone by surprise as he hit it hard and early.

Quoted from aldi_01

Season ticket holders not attending? I know of around 10/15 STH currently on holiday and unable to attend.

I personally wouldn’t bother with opening the osmond and start exploring temporary seats.

There’s no way that when we play a team with a decent away following they’ll even attempt to open it, if they do they’re asking for trouble. If that means people can’t get in then so be it. excrement I know but that’s how it is. Roll out a buy back scheme formally and it could go some way to solve the problem for the 200/300 that can’t get a ticket.

Northamptons turn out was poor so aside from an overweight embarrassment and a loud mouth in the town section, it was hardly an issue.

Things will have teething problems but they’ll get ironed out and will need to be given the more consistent away followings. Let’s face it, we’ve had a season of lost away followings being a handful at best…

I've already resigned myself to not being able to attend a game like Bradford or Donny, it's common sense that housing town fans in the Osmond for those games would probably cause trouble. I am a bit disappointed at the boards seemingly laissez-faire attitude towards additional capacity, especially as I now fall under the category of fans that can't attend often now.

Probably the tightest angle you’ll see a goal scored from all season. I think Max has gone to cover the near post expecting it drilled there but it’s a hell of a finish to find the side netting at the far post. Sometimes stuff just happens. I didn’t realise at the time how far wide Hoskins was, got to take your hat off to him really.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

If I can't get to the rare few games I can make on a Saturday because the Osmond is out of bounds due to stupid idiots gobbing off I won't be happy.

A total home sell out yesterday yet 1900 empty seats in the ground. Appreciate there were probably 700 empty seats in the Northampton section of the Osmond but did it look like 1200 home seats were missing?

We are repeating ourselves on here so many times on this - whether the nominal capacity is 9000 or not, if you look at the biggest declared attendances since we went all seater, but without the extra seats in the corners - its about 8,400. So 1250 empty seats not 2000. 700 in the away end, in our part of the Osmond some seats we not available for sale - front two rows, corporate seats behind the directors box weren't full, seats behind the now bigger technical area not used, and then alot of empty seats scattered around that have been sold to STH. I said about 7,200 before it was announced - working back from the Stockport attendance of 7,850 last season when STH were able to resell their seats. 450 fewer in the Osmond and then more STH missing because of holidays.

Quoted from quebec38

Probably the tightest angle you’ll see a goal scored from all season. I think Max has gone to cover the near post expecting it drilled there but it’s a hell of a finish to find the side netting at the far post. Sometimes stuff just happens. I didn’t realise at the time how far wide Hoskins was, got to take your hat off to him really.

It was a very accurate finish but I just felt like Crocombe could have come out or having decided to stay put, stood a yard to his right to cover both the far post finish and still be able to cover the near post. His positioning made Hoskins' mind up effectively. I'm certainly no gk keeper though so perhaps the best position from such an angle was to be stood directly on his post

It was so tight he probably thought the main danger was at the near post. Maybe could have done a bit better but it was a very good finish.

I really enjoyed yesterday and looking forward to the season. Think we'll be very solid once they settle and great to see two really attacking fullbacks on the charge. Looked a bit toothless at times but with Orsi, Khan and McAtee up come back and hopefully another two to come in options should start to look a bit better