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Not a great spectacle as a game. First half probably the worst 45 minutes entertainment wise of the season so far. Colchester were poor but we were guilty of too many short, misplaced passes particularly down our right side where Efete and Kiernan looked like they'd never met. Second half was better-just. The game was probably destined to be decided by one piece of magic. Town managed two-an exquisite pass /assist from Taylor and a sublime chip from Clifton. Colchester woke up briefly after the goal but they couldn't find a way past Smith and Waterfall. Maher came on to make a back three with Efete pushed into midfield. The referee found six minutes of injury time from somewhere to compound his error of refusing to give Town a nailed on penalty when Clifton was shoved in the back but Town came through with the backing of nearly 600. Man of the match pick from Smith or Waterfall. Special mention to Crocombe who commands his area very well and a mention for Richardson who caused a few moments of excitement with a couple of surging runs. Four away wins on the bounce. I doubt any of those present wouldn't take that.
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September 17, 2022, 5:28pm |
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…In the car in Colchester’ To be honest the match was dire, Towns passing in the final third was as last Tuesday woeful, the amount of times a quality pass from somebody would of got us in on goal. Noticed the thread on Taylor on the fishy and I have to admit I’m in the camp of Taylor doesn’t offer enough to justify his place in the side, to slightly contradict myself it was a good through ball for Clifton to score. MoM waterfall or Smith, nothing went past them and a mention to Richardson, our most dangerous attacking player by far, when he gets a goal he could be a great player for us this season
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Four away wins on the bounce is sensational form.
One reason for this is that we are so solid defensively away from home that should be nick a goal we have every chance of coming away with all three points.
We need something more positive in the home games though. I am sure that will come, especially when either MacAtee or Scannell return.
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September 17, 2022, 5:37pm |
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Imagine all those whoppers bleating about how Clifton couldn't do it at this level and how he shouldn't be starting.
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September 17, 2022, 5:46pm |
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“Are we any closer to getting promoted since Hurst has been here? No
Has he been given time to achieve promotion by the chairman and fans? Yes
Hurst out”
Think its time to change your signature Sussex mate, its making me doubt your judgement ……..
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September 17, 2022, 5:56pm |
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“Are we any closer to getting promoted since Hurst has been here? No
Has he been given time to achieve promotion by the chairman and fans? Yes
Hurst out”
Think its time to change your signature Sussex mate, its making me doubt your judgement ……..
That was my view on Hurst after we lost to Gateshead in the play of semi’s (2013?)…not bothered to change through idleness and lack of tech knowledge. IF it does go mammaries up I will be seen as a visionary
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September 17, 2022, 6:04pm |
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That was my view on Hurst after we lost to Gateshead in the play of semi’s (2013?)…not bothered to change through idleness and lack of tech knowledge. IF it does go mammaries up I will be seen as a visionary
Fair play mate but i doubt Old Moore is too worried.
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September 17, 2022, 6:24pm |
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Tbf we've been promoted in 67% of full PH seasons since that signature was written, so why change it!
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September 17, 2022, 6:32pm |
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4 consecutive away wins in a higher league is very impressive. The only defeat being to the unbeaten clear leaders. And won with a dodgy penalty and worldie goal.
We are closing in on another impressive away record: 5 consecutive away wins in the playoffs, all against teams who finished higher than us in the league. Braintree, FGR, Notts County, Wrexham and Solihull Moors. 4 of these games went to extra-time. Therefore, we won over 6 and a third games. A rare and tough ask.
We are a force to be reckoned with. And have momentum to improve further. Ideally, we could do with a good cup run to give the fans a treat and raise some money.
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September 17, 2022, 6:46pm |
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That was my view on Hurst after we lost to Gateshead in the play of semi’s (2013?)
2014 IIRC
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It could be argued that we have reached the fringe of the play offs (with a game in hand) without being at our best, the centre backs and keeper in particular have been outstanding in conceding only 5 in 8 games, if we can solve the dilemma of dominating teams at BP, the sky is the limit, interesting isn't it how we have so far adapted to EFL so much better than the big spending much fancied national league champions Stockport, who have struggled so far.
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The fans sounded great on the radio. Great result Safe journey home utm
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September 17, 2022, 8:15pm |
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So Hurst has taken us back to the edge of the play-offs - exactly where he left us 6 years ago - after 18 months back in charge.
Sounds like it was another scrappy but hard-fought away win today. Our defensive solidity has put us in a good position, and there's much more to come from us.
Happy days. UTM.
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September 17, 2022, 8:16pm |
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I’m finding town so boring to watch this season, but we keep grinding out results which for me is the most important thing.
We are in a great position at the minute. Smith and Waterfall are outstanding and what a find Crocombe was. Crazy to think he was apparently destined for NLN with Boston before we offered him a contract. A very good league two keeper.
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September 17, 2022, 8:19pm |
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i certainly dont find us boring
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September 17, 2022, 8:23pm |
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I really hope we stop hearing all this nonsense about how Hurst "has to play Clifton through the middle" because "he's wasted on the left!"
Clearly his best position for us, long may it continue UTM
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September 17, 2022, 8:54pm |
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i certainly dont find us boring
We have scored 8 goals. You’d have to go down to 18th place Harrogate to find a team who has scored the same or less
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September 17, 2022, 9:10pm |
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We have scored 8 goals. You’d have to go down to 18th place Harrogate to find a team who has scored the same or less
To be expected when we don't have a proper striker.
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To be expected when we don't have a proper striker.
Ryan Taylor?
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September 17, 2022, 9:20pm |
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The Bradford game should be a measure of where we are. If we can keep Andy Cook quiet (literally and metaphorically) then we’ll be doing well. Loki g forward to seeing Waterfall up against him.
Who wouldn’t have taken this 18 months ago though? It’s crackers. I’m thoroughly enjoying it.
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September 17, 2022, 9:20pm |
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To be expected when we don't have a proper striker.
Honestly, you are a complete spanner...why don't you do us all a favour and f@ck off and support Scunny
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WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP |
September 17, 2022, 9:38pm |
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Colchester are going down arent they. Based on their last few years, the fans seem devoid of hope and interest, purely down to the barebones of the fanbase, one fan abusing hurst all game for whatever reason. Quite a few recognisable football league names in their team but clearly all finished names. I dont think theyll find that lift when they need it this time round. Never wish it on any club apart from scunny, just always seems to be the same story for the clubs that go down
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September 17, 2022, 9:56pm |
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While it doesn’t bother me personally, it’s weird how you can get downvoted on here for posting literal facts, just because people can’t handle it lol
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September 17, 2022, 9:58pm |
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In the 97/98 season we scored 55 goals in 46 games. Our highest scoring striker was Lee Nogan with 8. Jack Lester scored 4 league goals in 40 appearances.
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We were very average today, but thats all we needed to get the win in the end. Isn't the saying something like a good teams win even when they don't play well.
First half it seemed we were too deep defensively and too narrow and let them cross the ball for fun and up top we were wasteful with our passes, made poor decisions and our movement was static and made Colchester look alot better then they were.
Second half was much improved, we seemed to press a little higher, catching Colchesters strikers a number of times with an intentional offside trap and while our passing didn't greatly improve up top our decision making and movement certainly did. A great goal from Clifton to add a cherry on top, Smith was magnificent (we need to stop allowing Hull to come and watch him somehow), I also thought Holohan had his best game of ther season today.
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September 17, 2022, 10:44pm |
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I really hope we stop hearing all this nonsense about how Hurst "has to play Clifton through the middle" because "he's wasted on the left!"
Clearly his best position for us, long may it continue UTM
That came from when we were playing a 4-5-1 and he was wide attacking left. Were now back to the tactics of last season and clifton is doing the same role in the same position as last season.
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I couldn't care less if we only score 46 goals all season. Aslong as we keep coming out of games with 1 or 3 points..
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Colchester are going down arent they. Based on their last few years, the fans seem devoid of hope and interest, purely down to the barebones of the fanbase, one fan abusing hurst all game for whatever reason. Quite a few recognisable football league names in their team but clearly all finished names. I dont think theyll find that lift when they need it this time round. Never wish it on any club apart from scunny, just always seems to be the same story for the clubs that go down
Quoted from the Colchester forum ‘ We should not be struggling again against these poor teams’. If we’re ‘poor’ what the fûck are they? I’m all in favour of a bit of arrogance……….if it’s justified.
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I'm quite happy for us to be called poor only losing once in 8. Swindon at home will be tough, I'm predicting a draw, they love a draw at the moment.
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Honestly, you are a complete spanner...why don't you do us all a favour and f@ck off and support Scunny
Everything OK at home m8?
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That was my view on Hurst after we lost to Gateshead in the play of semi’s (2013?)…not bothered to change through idleness and lack of tech knowledge. IF it does go mammaries up I will be seen as a visionary
You had the tech knowledge at the time tho
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Anyone know why hursty gave the old finger to the lip to fans behind the dug out? Assume someone was just giving him excrement throughout the game.
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That was my view on Hurst after we lost to Gateshead in the play of semi’s (2013?)…not bothered to change through idleness and lack of tech knowledge. IF it does go mammaries up I will be seen as a visionary
It already has gone mammaries up as he’s got us promoted twice.
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I’m finding town so boring to watch this season, but we keep grinding out results which for me is the most important thing.
We are in a great position at the minute. Smith and Waterfall are outstanding and what a find Crocombe was. Crazy to think he was apparently destined for NLN with Boston before we offered him a contract. A very good league two keeper.
I’m not sure why this has so many negatives. We’re all watching the games, we’re by no means entertaining for the most part but who cares for now? The results are fantastic. Having said that, I do believe we’re going to have to offer more at some point to stay in this position. McAtee should go some way to change that, but our home form will inevitably suffer if we don’t start to really grab hold of games. If that does start happening, it might not just be the play-offs we’re looking at…
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I’m not sure why this has so many negatives. We’re all watching the games, we’re by no means entertaining for the most part but who cares for now? The results are fantastic.
Having said that, I do believe we’re going to have to offer more at some point to stay in this position. McAtee should go some way to change that, but our home form will inevitably suffer if we don’t start to really grab hold of games.
If that does start happening, it might not just be the play-offs we’re looking at…
I like to think that once we have Hunt integrated into the team with Khan fit and Richardson getting used to his team mates and getting to grips with the league and Mcatee coming back into the fold then hopefully we are more threatening and we start cementing our place in the play offs hopefully! Defensively I think we look good enough, just need to get it together in the final third, but we don't need to score excrement loads of goals to reach the play offs provided you have a solid defence which it seems we have
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It’s odd isn’t it. We’re probably a better side than we were the start of last season but we were much more entertaining to watch, albeit against shitter teams.
It always felt like we weren’t that great but teams were poor too, this year I feel like we’ve got so much more to give yet we’re still getting results. It’s a great habit and a great thing to hold on to. We dig in, and they work hard for each other. I’ve been a critic of Clifton but you can’t knock his effort and the goals he’s chipped in with, Efete too. He’s had some stick yet we’ve got a pretty water tight defence that he is part of.
I feel like a team is due a good hiding from us at some point, everything will click.
We know we’ll lose games but mentality is there and we’ll be able to bounce back.
It’s really hard to grumble really…
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agree with most of the points made by those who were there. few odds and sods to add Crocombe - v. vocal &is looking more n more confident and commanding. Noticed how he was really bowling the ball out low and accurately- something Criousden has been working on? Efete - bit worried about Michee , his body language is very 'down in the mouth' ; even when we scored there was no real pleasure or excitement.Doesn't seem to be enjoying his football and is almost tentative. Fair play he battled on and by the end was playing a lot more like we are used to. A few sessions with a sports pyschologist maybe, unless there are some personal things we don't know about Glennon - noticeable in the first half how him and Harry were 'discussing' their partnership - looks like it's a work in progress Holohan - v much better than on Tuesday and possibly the best I've seen him play. V professional to get himself back up to the level expected after Tuesday Richardson - cheeky little fecker, a box of tricks. Think he will only become more effective as he gets used to the league and his teamates Hunt - amazed nobody's really mentioned Hunt; exactly what we need , v. accurate in his passing, and they're good passes too. Always looking to go forward and was v good at finding people in space Taylor - thought he played pretty well, occupied their big central defenders in a real battle Kiernan - a Hurst type winger, really hard working, but for me he's an average l2 player , bit better than Sousa but wastes too many passes an has generally poor decision making. Be v. interesting to see how Khan is in comparison, but i could easily see Hurst wanting to upgrade in January Clifton - harry now is just a totally different to the Harry pre Hurst. Where did he learn , not only how to score, but how to finish so coolly and make those runs? It was never in his locker, in fact we despaired of him even learning to pass consistently! He deserves huge credit for developing his skill set so markedly. I can imagine other league 1 teams starting to get interested in him
MOTM? Smith closely follwed by Waterfall
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agree with most of the points made by those who were there. few odds and sods to add Crocombe - v. vocal &is looking more n more confident and commanding. Noticed how he was really bowling the ball out low and accurately- something Criousden has been working on? Efete - bit worried about Michee , his body language is very 'down in the mouth' ; even when we scored there was no real pleasure or excitement.Doesn't seem to be enjoying his football and is almost tentative. Fair play he battled on and by the end was playing a lot more like we are used to. A few sessions with a sports pyschologist maybe, unless there are some personal things we don't know about Glennon - noticeable in the first half how him and Harry were 'discussing' their partnership - looks like it's a work in progress Holohan - v much better than on Tuesday and possibly the best I've seen him play. V professional to get himself back up to the level expected after Tuesday Richardson - cheeky little fecker, a box of tricks. Think he will only become more effective as he gets used to the league and his teamates Hunt - amazed nobody's really mentioned Hunt; exactly what we need , v. accurate in his passing, and they're good passes too. Always looking to go forward and was v good at finding people in space Taylor - thought he played pretty well, occupied their big central defenders in a real battle Kiernan - a Hurst type winger, really hard working, but for me he's an average l2 player , bit better than Sousa but wastes too many passes an has generally poor decision making. Be v. interesting to see how Khan is in comparison, but i could easily see Hurst wanting to upgrade in January Clifton - harry now is just a totally different to the Harry pre Hurst. Where did he learn , not only how to score, but how to finish so coolly and make those runs? It was never in his locker, in fact we despaired of him even learning to pass consistently! He deserves huge credit for developing his skill set so markedly. I can imagine other league 1 teams starting to get interested in him
MOTM? Smith closely follwed by Waterfall
Comments nailed on for me especially about Hunt, Kiernan and Efete..Michee has all the aseets, so should be more confident than he is, but he's still hard to get past defensively, he makes them turn backwards. Thought we were poor first half down both sides going forward and defensively on our left . We look like a side that's a work in progress that's set up to be hard to beat. I expect it to evolve over the coming weeks with players like McAtee, Green, Morris, Khan and Maher (offering the option of playing a back three) coming back from injury, and it still leaves us options like Wearne and JMD to add a bit of flair when we're even more solid than we are now.. We're a very tough watch but that's more than offset by the number of points we're picking up.. Smith (easily MOM), Crocombe, Waterfall, Hunt and Richardson stand outs yesterday..
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I have to pinch myself sometimes to be sure I am not dreaming. When we went down I thought we were in for a few years in the NL. As recently as January this year I thought we had no chance of getting out of the NL last season. I couldn't see us beating Chesterfield or Wrexham to promotion. I thought we would then be slugging it out with the likes of Notts, Stockport, Halifax and the rest for a couple of seasons at least. So here we are less than nine months later having just clocked up a fourth consecutive away win in League two despite our star player being out for months. And some are moaning about whether Taylor is any good, whether we are boring to watch, whether we score enough goals. Ect, ect ect. Come on folks. Wake up and smell the coffee. We are doing great, much better than we could have expected at the start of the season, and in a totally different place to where we were in January with nothing to look forward to but the prospect of a local derby with the Scunts this season. Give me boring 1-0 League Two away wins any day. Come on. Enjoy the ride! It's bloody brilliant.
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Colchester are going down arent they. Based on their last few years, the fans seem devoid of hope and interest, purely down to the barebones of the fanbase, one fan abusing hurst all game for whatever reason. Quite a few recognisable football league names in their team but clearly all finished names. I dont think theyll find that lift when they need it this time round. Never wish it on any club apart from scunny, just always seems to be the same story for the clubs that go down
That explains why he was putting his finger to his lips to "shush" someone sat behind the dugouts. I wondered why at the time.
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We were very average today, but thats all we needed to get the win in the end. Isn't the saying something like a good teams win even when they don't play well.
First half it seemed we were too deep defensively and too narrow and let them cross the ball for fun and up top we were wasteful with our passes, made poor decisions and our movement was static and made Colchester look alot better then they were.
Second half was much improved, we seemed to press a little higher, catching Colchesters strikers a number of times with an intentional offside trap and while our passing didn't greatly improve up top our decision making and movement certainly did. A great goal from Clifton to add a cherry on top, Smith was magnificent (we need to stop allowing Hull to come and watch him somehow), I also thought Holohan had his best game of ther season today.
Yep! Though we've only played well in possibly 2 games so far IMHO. Northampton and Newport. Leyton Orient was a bit of an anomily as we were nowhere near ready fitness wise at that point, although they are a good side, as has been proven by their results since.
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On the plus side we are winning (not losing) without being at our most fluent best Good sign And the team/squad needs more time to gel - so in theory we should only get better
On down side with only 8 goals scored we still know where the main issue lies and I feel we will need 2/3 goals to win a lot of games against better opposition. Only 5 conceded is very impressive But we do turn over possession a lot and I think better teams will punish us
Hunt will help with this as he's such a tidy footballer at this level
We look very strong, fit and athletic with a very strong bench - just need to improve % of better final balls, crosses etc
Then I can see us being serious play off contenders
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On the plus side we are winning (not losing) without being at our most fluent best Good sign And the team/squad needs more time to gel - so in theory we should only get better
On down side with only 8 goals scored we still know where the main issue lies and I feel we will need 2/3 goals to win a lot of games against better opposition. Only 5 conceded is very impressive But we do turn over possession a lot and I think better teams will punish us
Hunt will help with this as he's such a tidy footballer at this level
We look very strong, fit and athletic with a very strong bench - just need to improve % of better final balls, crosses etc
Then I can see us being serious play off contenders
absolutely bang on imho
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On down side with only 8 goals scored we still know where the main issue lies and I feel we will need 2/3 goals to win a lot of games against better opposition.
In our 8 league games this season only Leyton Orient, who have been comfortably the division’s best side so far this season, have scored two goals against us - a dodgy pen and a once in a career wonderstrike. I’m pretty confident that we’ll take something from most games we score a goal in this season. Scintillating going forward we may not be, but we are incredibly dogged and solid at the back. Few teams will want to see us high up their fixture list right now, I suspect.
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Everything OK at home m8?
Yeah, it's not bad ..living with a model, with blow job lips and t!ts to die for ain't a bad life, unlike your sad and lonely existence!!
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On the plus side we are winning (not losing) without being at our most fluent best Good sign And the team/squad needs more time to gel - so in theory we should only get better
On down side with only 8 goals scored we still know where the main issue lies and I feel we will need 2/3 goals to win a lot of games against better opposition. Only 5 conceded is very impressive But we do turn over possession a lot and I think better teams will punish us
Hunt will help with this as he's such a tidy footballer at this level
We look very strong, fit and athletic with a very strong bench - just need to improve % of better final balls, crosses etc
Then I can see us being serious play off contenders
Whenever I’ve seen us we’ve actually been very clinical with our chances, I’m not sure if that’s something to be concerned with or not! Walsall, Newport, Gillingham and Colchester we’ve put away pretty much the only clear cut chances we had.
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Anyone know why hursty gave the old finger to the lip to fans behind the dug out? Assume someone was just giving him excrement throughout the game.
Could've been with PH being ex Ipswich Manager - geographically local rivals...
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Yeah, it's not bad ..living with a model, with blow job lips and t!ts to die for ain't a bad life, unlike your sad and lonely existence!!
Hope you've got a puncture repair kit.
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The Bradford game should be a measure of where we are. If we can keep Andy Cook quiet (literally and metaphorically) then we’ll be doing well. Loki g forward to seeing Waterfall up against him.
Who wouldn’t have taken this 18 months ago though? It’s crackers. I’m thoroughly enjoying it.
I seem to recall that a few on here said that of the Newport, if only we could keep Bogle quiet. We did and we won and will do against Bradford.
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Yeah, it's not bad ..living with a model, with blow job lips and t!ts to die for ain't a bad life, unlike your sad and lonely existence!!
So you live with your mum then?
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Throw a kebab, couple of gram of gak in to corner and you’ll keep Cook quiet when we play Bradford. That said, not sure he’s had a decent game against us…
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So far this season we seem be the polar opposite of last season. We were very good at home last season, scoring a lot of goals, at least 10 of which were outstanding,
We had McAtee who was a catalyst for most good things. We were not so good away from home. We went top of the league of points.
Then McAtee was out of the teams, along with another key player. We then went on a long run of very poor results. Too dependent on one key player.
This season we are successful without McAtee. And at a higher level. Better as a team. Not won a home game yet but outstanding away from home. Few outstanding goals but more resilient and stronger in defence, more consistent and much harder to beat. Finding ways to win away from home.
The rest of the season looks very promising. No pressure on the team or manager.
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So you live with your mum then?[/quote
My mum?..I was talking about yours!..
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It has to be noted that most of the summer signings have hardly featured for one reason or another. Khan hasn't played a minute, Maher and Orsi have one or two brief appearances, and Green, PH's top target, hasn't really settled in yet and is now injured. Morris hit the ground running but is now injured also, while Wearne has been in and out of the side.
We haven't really got any flow about us yet and it has to be said that we are a tough watch at the moment.
Myself and my brother have several "discussions" on what we have seen so far. He is bemoaning a lack of excitement at home games and thinks PH is being too pragmatic by picking the same side for home and away games, saying that it's ok being compact and conservative away from home, but we need to be more expansive and attacking at home. He says we should be playing JMD more in home games, despite his seeming lack of tracking back that Kiernan brings.
I'm more philosophical on what I've seen and it's hard to argue given our league position, but I can see where he is coming from. Winning away and being average at home doesn't best please the fans and he argues that he has hardly got out of his seat with excitement during home games and that gaining points from being defensively good is ok, but winning with more attacking flair and being a bit more risky is better. Suppose he would rather we win 3-2 than 1-0, but PH won't be too displeased I imagine as we are picking up wins and draws.
I think (hope) that there is more to come from us yet when all the new signings are getting match fit and we start to gel more as a side. Not many of the new lads have made a big impression, but then they haven't really had a chance to shine just yet. Last season we started well, playing good football, then hit a slump and PH had to reinvent the side with new signings. This season we have started well and if we hit a dodgy patch, the new signings are already there, waiting in the wings.
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Agree we need to try something different at home. Both Swindon and Carlisle have only lost one so winning either game doesn’t looke easy. I can’t see PH risking starting JMD who appears to only heading one way so not clear what the answer is.
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I expect a good number of the fringe players will be included on Tuesday night, so it's up to them to put in eye catching performances.
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Yeah, it's not bad ..living with a model, with blow job lips and t!ts to die for ain't a bad life, unlike your sad and lonely existence!!
Translated “I’m a single middle-aged bloke living in my parents basement constantly knocking one out over internet porn with Cheeto fingers”
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Translated “I’m a single middle-aged bloke living in my parents basement constantly knocking one out over internet porn with Cheeto fingers”
Completely wrong!...but I do not have to defend myself to the poison on this site!
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These exchanges remind me of our Doncaster home defeat in 2017.
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Completely wrong!...but I do not have to defend myself to the poison on this site!
Too right, there are far too many people, particularly on the web who feel they have to claim superhero status by inventing ‘friends’ and using 1970’s comments such as ‘blow job lips’ and ‘tìts to die for’. I commend you for your restraint…..
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These exchanges remind me of our Doncaster home defeat in 2017.
Were Nothbanks cheeto fingers mentioned after that performance too, my memory is getting fuzzy.
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Too right, there are far too many people, particularly on the web who feel they have to claim superhero status by inventing ‘friends’ and using 1970’s comments such as ‘blow job lips’ and ‘tìts to die for’. I commend you for your restraint…..
It's got knack all to do with you, Grimsby2012s negativity urine#s me off, maybe I shouldn't have risen and taken the bait...but let's got one thing straight, if I want to refer to my other halves lips and t!ts in that manner, I will!..
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Yeah, but what are cheeto fingers?
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I see Colchester has sacked their manager Wayne Brown.
The Grimsby Reaper strikes again.
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It's got knack all to do with you, Grimsby2012s negativity urine#s me off, maybe I shouldn't have risen and taken the bait...but let's got one thing straight, if I want to refer to my other halves lips and t!ts in that manner, I will!..
It's called an opinion. Something you clearly don't respect. If you call your other half/your mum by them names then I feel sorry for her....
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