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[quote=217]Goal fest   but defence still leaking   argh.  will go down in the memories   well worth 10 hrs travel [/quote
Even in a Ford Ka once in a blue moon!!
UTM

So i've just listened to the Artell interview, very interesting comments. Very refreshing to hear him say the gameplan was always to out Notts County Notts County. (Not sure if that makes any sense but sounded right in my head) - He acknowleged how good they are going forward and told our players to go out and do the same thing. He's giving them license and the confidence to go out and play. Earlier on in the season I was wondering where the goals were going to come from, we have a striker in double figures already and Abo has now got 8 for the season with Pyke on 6. He addressed the defence and said the decision making just isn't good enough and then went on to say this will be addressed in the next 2/3 weeks rather than over the season... means business isn't done and we'll definitely be seeing more through the door and I expect 2/3 out the door.

Mental to see the stands half empty after Notts scored their 5th. It's not like it was an injury time 0-1 sucker punch at the end of a game where we never looked like scoring. If I wasn't rotten with covid, i'd have pulled my phone out and slapped a quid on an equaliser, it was that fukked up kind of game and there was a full 5 minutes left

I don’t suppose anyone forecast the score correctly?

The positives are we attacked in numbers, with intent, some pace and energy. We scored 5.

From the kickoff the ball usually goes out of play.  Yesterday we won a corner in the first minute of each half.  

We know where the big weaknesses are.  One CB in all ready.

We have 4 new players - including a returning Vernam.

Individual players have been praised. Conteh had a much better game than recently.  He won the ball and stopped numerous attacks.  He won tackles that he had no right to win.  The ref was lenient with some of his challenges.though.

Glennon must learn not to run with the ball, especially in dangerous areas.  He has no pace over 5 or 10 yards and gets robbed.  Some of his passes were poor.  On the other hand he charged forward busting a gut to support attacks.  Great attitude. (For older fans, he reminds me of Emlyn “crazy horse” Hughes).

County had some excellent individual players.  It would always be difficult for a poor defence to stop them over 100 minutes.  Although conceding 5 goals is far too generous.

Quoted from Eastendmariner

Goal fest   but defence still leaking   argh.  will go down in the memories   well worth 10 hrs travel

Not the only thing going down if we continue leaking goals at this rate.

There was some criticism above of the young lad from Coventry.  He was on his first loan, a teenager, coming very late on in a pulsating game.  His first senior appearance.  

He has a reputation of being a strong, solid player who has pace.  Just what we need.  As he said in his interview - he scores goals.  

Can we give him some slack please?  And time to settle in.

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Harvey is clearly a talented lad, unlike Gary Neville I don’t profess to be an expert on keepers but you can just see he’s got something & if things go to plan he’ll have a really good career.

I don’t expect us to move for a keeper but I think his lack of experience might be exposing us a bit, experienced keepers can organise defenders & quite often bark orders to get them straight, not his fault but Harvey won’t have that in his game yet. All that said every 1st team squad defender needs to individually do better than they currently are and as a whole contribute to playing as a defensive unit.

One thing yesterday was how we dealt with McGoldrick who is a player well above L2 level. For the first 35 minutes Maher seemed to man mark him. When McGoldrick couldn’t shake him off he started to move into space that would pull Maher too far out of position and still had an influence. He dealt with our plan A, not sure we had a plan B for him.

Whilst everyone blames the GK for goals, it's grossly unfair at times. Yesterday all the goals were basically the same build up. Once whipped in it was a toss up between a Notts goal or an own goal. It should have been dealt with much earlier and the cross never should have materialised. But others have touched on that subject. Cartwright is 21 which is young for a GK not only is he learning on the job (only 23 appearances) but I'm not sure how "older" players react to a youngster shouting at them. Age can work against you sometimes.
We played a good side yesterday who are only 7 points off automatic promo, and for large parts we were on top, so we dented their prospects. The largest crowd of the season witnessed some brilliant football, what a turnaround from the doom and gloom of a few weeks back eh. UTM

Surely yesterday and the run in show how important it is we somehow increase capacity at bp by a 1000 at least it was sold out  ticket wise (as it will be for at least 5 of the remaining 8 ) we are missing out on away fans for sure , I still find it weird how it has not been rectified ; imagine how it would be demand wise if we were actually not crap ?

Great game though .....football bloody hell !

Anyone know what the odds were for 5-5.

Bet 365 won’t give you odds on 5-5 unless you email them. Would probably be about 3 or 400-1
Though it should be more
In the foot stats database 5-5 has happened 29 times out of nearly 3m results

A bloke at work asked me on Friday about the game: I flippantly said that it would probably  be 5-5

I did not put my money where my mouth was !