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I was, of course, referring to our recent victory in south east Northampton. That said, I did have a very, very vivid dream of us playing at Spurs, away in the quarter final, the other night.
I was sat in a prime spot on the front row of the middle tier, though it had been constructed with blancmange, and therefore lacked the structural integrity one might expect from a £1 billion arena. We had Piers Morgan up front with Dr Karl Kennedy playing the role of mezzala just behind (I know that detail, because that was the specific directive given to him by Hursty in the Baton Rouge before the game), whilst I seemed to alternate between my seat in the gloopy middle tier and left back.
I didn’t manage to take note of the final score as Peter Gabriel needed me to help him fix his car at half-time which, believe me, took a good while since it’s hard to get hold of a replacement timing belt for a 1986 Saab 900 in the middle of Rotherham during lambing season.
Fortunately, a guy I worked with for a couple of months in 2008 rocked up with the necessary part and I made it back to the ground only to find it had turned into my house and my wife was in the bath doing crochet with Peaches Geldof and Dorien from 90s sitcom Birds of a Feather.
I can’t guarantee that’s exactly how things are going to pan out, but if you’ve got time to remortgage your house and lump it on a Town win on Wednesday night, frankly I think you’d be mental not to.
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| Poojah |
| February 26, 2023, 9:35pm |
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In future you should be very careful which mushrooms you collect when you go foraging in Bradley Woods. It's an easy thing to pick the wrong ones as I know from experience.
It was actually just some slightly out of date, artisanal cheese, but I don’t want to go down that particular rabbit hole as it’s one that’s almost killed this forum before and don’t want to risk it happening again. |
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| rancido |
| February 26, 2023, 9:46pm |
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It was actually just some slightly out of date, artisanal cheese, but I don’t want to go down that particular rabbit hole as it’s one that’s almost killed this forum before and don’t want to risk it happening again.
Would that be the White Rabbit hole that Jefferson Airplane sang about? |
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| February 27, 2023, 11:24am |
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Really enjoyable game and at last we saw the Alex Hunt we've cried out for since signing him in August.
Points made about Morris, I don't think he did anything wrong when he came on but it did change things. Absolutely not his fault as he's a completely different type of player to Clifton, but we lost that drive and energy from midfield that Harry brings. Morris is naturally more defensive and I thought we did sit a little deeper.
Hindsight is wonderful and sitting comfortably with it, you could argue it might have made more sense to bring Taylor on for Clifton and drop either McAtee or Lloyd into that area Clifton was occupying between midfield and attack. But had we not fluffed up for their equaliser or missed a penalty, no-one would have noticed/cared.
Loving the overlapping centre-backs, gives us a real outlet that teams just can't handle. How do you possibly defend against it? Especially when it's coming down both sides. It's not new and a lot of teams try it now, but actually having the players to do it is another thing.
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| February 27, 2023, 11:34am |
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It is quite bizarre how we've suddenly almost stumbled into having the players to play with three at the back with wing-backs for the first time - and inadvertently as well, because Hurst has never really seemed interested in this formation.
Very different to more recent times such as when Jolley decided to play this formation from the start of the season, without actually signing anybody to play the wing-back roles!
Obviously, we're not exactly tearing any trees up in the league, but it might give us a good base to start next season. Just need more precision in attacking areas as we continue to fluff too many openings with poor passes or crosses when well-placed.
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| February 27, 2023, 12:31pm |
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Racking my brain as to who Jolley used in the wingback roles. Luke Hendrie was down the right and fairly ok at it, worked well with Reece Hall-Johnson offering the overlap too. Not a clue on the left.
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| February 27, 2023, 12:50pm |
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I seem to think we played the first game of the season (a drubbing by FGR) with Clifton at right wing-back, with the glacially slow Dixon at left wing-back. Clifton was an inexperienced young lad back then as well.
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