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Post by jammydodger on Jan 30, 2013 11:20:47 GMT
Our pitch isnt a patch on some clubs even Forest's! We shouldnt complain about our pitch it looks fine. Did you see it yesterday??
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Post by oufcrealist on Jan 30, 2013 11:35:06 GMT
I am beginning to worry about my fellow yellows fans - am I really the only one that found tonights performance lacking skill, excitement, entertainment, anything remotely associated with football ? !!! Stop blaming the pitch, the injuries, the weather - these are all a part of the overall game and cannot be used to excuse the miskicking, misreading and general awfulness of tonights 11 + supposedly skilful and knowledgeable professional footballers. PS. I would excuse Rigg, at least he showed some skills. On the whole I tend to agree with you nerps. I would say the pitch and wind didn't help but that's no excuse for virtually the whole game being bloody awful!If you hoof the ball in a thirty MPH wind what do you expect? Lowest home league gate since we got back in to the league! Take note Mr L. Agree about Rigg also.
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Post by jammydodger on Jan 30, 2013 11:39:57 GMT
I am beginning to worry about my fellow yellows fans - am I really the only one that found tonights performance lacking skill, excitement, entertainment, anything remotely associated with football ? !!! Stop blaming the pitch, the injuries, the weather - these are all a part of the overall game and cannot be used to excuse the miskicking, misreading and general awfulness of tonights 11 + supposedly skilful and knowledgeable professional footballers. PS. I would excuse Rigg, at least he showed some skills. On the whole I tend to agree with you nerps. I would say the pitch and wind didn't help but that's no excuse for virtually the whole game being bloody awful!If you hoof the ball in a thirty MPH wind what do you expect? Lowest home league gate since we got back in to the league! Take note Mr L. Agree about Rigg also. But the pitch was so bad it was hard to play on the ground for both teams. Hoofing it was the easier option especially in the second half when the wind was going towards the OM stand
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Post by Gary Baldi on Jan 30, 2013 13:42:02 GMT
I am beginning to worry about my fellow yellows fans - am I really the only one that found tonights performance lacking skill, excitement, entertainment, anything remotely associated with football ? !!! Stop blaming the pitch, the injuries, the weather - these are all a part of the overall game and cannot be used to excuse the miskicking, misreading and general awfulness of tonights 11 + supposedly skilful and knowledgeable professional footballers. PS. I would excuse Rigg, at least he showed some skills. Both sides struggled with the pitch and the weather. Some of our loyal fans struggled to realise that the South Stand side of the pitch makes control and passing an experiment in futility around the half way line. I defy any top footballer to play attractive football on our pitch at the moment. It's not an excuse or a blaming exercise for the result, it's a fact.
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Post by nerps on Jan 30, 2013 14:03:31 GMT
You are right - the pitch is a fact but lets not go over the top; the halfway line under the south stand is very poor but there are no great craters or sand dunes so the ball does still roll albeit slightly inconsistent. However the rest of the pitch, although not brilliant is certainly playable. Of course being such an accurate intricate passing side demanding only snooker table type surfaces we are bound to suffer and our one touch passing ---- no, who's kidding who ? This was a very poor game played by two equally poor sides, they could have played the old fashioned cup tie style game to overcome the conditions but they didn't, they were quite happy to continue lobbing the ball wildly up into the sky in any direction it decided to go. Of the two, ground surface or wind, I would have chosen to play the ball on the ground, the lesser of two evils. These two teams, or rather groups of players, couldn't decide between the two and ended up falling to both. Pitch, Wind, Rain whatever - it was an awful display not worthy of the few thousand fans that turned up to support. Points out of 10 ? Burton 2. Oxford 2.5 Fans 9.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 15:35:28 GMT
Our pitch isnt a patch on some clubs even Forest's! We shouldnt complain about our pitch it looks fine. Did you see it yesterday?? Not really, just saw the sand on the troubles some area. Other than that, when I went to Sheffield Utd at home the pitch looked fine. .Take a look at Notts County and tell me our pitch is bad. As far as I'm concerned the pitch is the same for both sides and cannot be used for excuses on losing or for injuries. There is nothing wrong with it, we play on worse on a Sunday morning.
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Post by scotters on Jan 30, 2013 15:37:22 GMT
the halfway line under the south stand is very poor but there are no great craters or sand dunes so the ball does still roll albeit slightly inconsistent. Seem to remember one of their guys knocking a long straight ball up along the line towards the end of the game, it landing on a divot and bouncing off at a right angle into the dugouts! Like watching the rugby.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 16:11:12 GMT
Show me a pitch that's in prestige condition in l2... ours used to be
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Post by jiltedjohn (banned) on Jan 30, 2013 16:38:45 GMT
A bad pitch in the middle of January?
How unexpected, Whatever next?
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Post by sarge on Jan 30, 2013 18:15:28 GMT
the halfway line under the south stand is very poor but there are no great craters or sand dunes so the ball does still roll albeit slightly inconsistent. Seem to remember one of their guys knocking a long straight ball up along the line towards the end of the game, it landing on a divot and bouncing off at a right angle into the dugouts! Like watching the rugby. so why cant stadco's groundstaff lackeys at the very least run a heavy roller over the whole pitch to flatten the countless divots left by the eggchasers?
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Post by nerps on Jan 30, 2013 18:19:38 GMT
Sad fact jiltedjohn ist that if you look back over the past seasons and despite whatever the weather threw at us our pitch was never bad. There can be no arguement about the rugby's ability to destroy a playing field. Out of ignorance of the rugby game (apart from Telly) why is the sanded area under the south stand so bad compared to the rest ? Is it a busier area for any particular reason?
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Post by leysboy on Jan 31, 2013 5:01:11 GMT
We can't blame the pitch for our poor results, when they come! It's the same for both teams, if we start to blame results on the pitch, then we are clutching at straws imo.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 7:47:57 GMT
Defending was poor for Burtons goal.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Jan 31, 2013 9:03:00 GMT
I'm not blaming the pitch for the result. We created enough chances to win the game. It just made it a lot harder to play a certain type of football when things like controlling the ball were not dependent on skill and more dependent on where you are when you controlled it and how the ball ran.
It was good to see Chapman back in the team. I forgot to mention that.
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