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Post by oufcyellows on Nov 21, 2016 8:16:22 GMT
What would be the only slight worry for me is, this looks to be by far the best formation and tactic we have found, and we have players like ruffles Rothwell and Johnson who can slot in with out making the side much weaker, same with the defence . The problem will be options off the bench/ cover for hemmings, even maguire can be understudied by Crowley. But now with Thomas possibly facing another long spell out, and Taylor not that sort of player, it only leaves Tyler Roberts. Maybe a chance for James Roberts, but I have a feeling that seeing he's hardly ripping it up at city his time may have gone. First world problems! Round pegs in round holes o Saturday plus a large dose of motivation. Maybe that was Mapp's 'lightbulb moment'!! Cov were poor, but that is only our concern inasmuch as they look like a more likely candidate for a relegation battle than us. Even when we struggled at their place we were still competitive. I think round pegs is is exactly what helped, as well as having macca in there , who while maybe not the most technically gifted player he gives u the 110% hassling and chasing that we probably lost with hylton. Cob did look poor, but I haven't seen many teams this season that have looked excellent, a performance like that every week would have us comfortably in the playoffs by now. All I was saying is, that should now be the tactic and formulae we try and largely stick to, tweak it a little when needed, but on the whole stick with it, the players looked so much more comfortable in a formation they understand playing in positions they are used to, like I said I think the only possible weak link now is not having cover for the striker role, Taylor isn't that sort of player and Tyler Roberts hasn't done a lot to show he could take over should hemmings pick up a knock
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Nov 21, 2016 9:02:29 GMT
I thought that we were excellent in the first half. I agree that Macca played well and his work rate was important - it seemed to drag some other players into doing the same. Until he faded, I thought Robbie Hall also played an important role. He was more than willing to run at - and past - his full back, which made it very difficult for that player to make any attacking runs. Since Macca was protecting Edwards on the other side I thought we immediately looked better defensively. I'm not sure that I would drop either Macca or Hall to get Johnson back in the starting lineup on the basis of that performance.
I also agree with the texter to RadOx who said that the scoreboard was too bright. When it was all white, it certainly was! Mind you, perhaps it was just the contrast with the rest of the stadium which was a bit dingy as half the floodlight bulbs on the South stand are out. Sort it out Firoka - you can't KEEP waiting for bulbs to be on special offer at the 99p shop!
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Post by Gary Baldi on Nov 21, 2016 9:11:56 GMT
99p shop? More like finding spares in a bin somewhere!
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Post by Marked Ox on Nov 21, 2016 9:16:27 GMT
I thought that we were excellent in the fist half. I agree that Macca played well and his work rate was important - it seemed to drag some other players into doing the same. Until he faded, I thought Robbie Hall also played an important role. He was more than willing to run at - and past - his full back, which made it very difficult for that player to make any attacking runs. Since Macca was protecting Edwards on the other side I thought we immediately looked better defensively. I'm not sure that I would drop either Macca or Hall to get Johnson back in the starting lineup on the basis of that performance. I also agree with the texter to RadOx who said that the scoreboard was too bright. When it was all white, it certainly was! Mind you, perhaps it was just the contrast with the rest of the stadium which was a bit dingy as half the floodlight bulbs on the South stand are out. Sort it out Firoka - you can't KEEP waiting for bulbs to be on special offer at the 99p shop! I'd agree with that. On the scoreboard, they really need to reduce the brightness. There is little chance of actually reading the smaller text from the East Stand which defeats the object and it would be nice not to be blinded as well.
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Post by oufcyellows on Nov 21, 2016 9:28:08 GMT
It's punishment for all u eaststanders moaning when it was suggested it might go at the back of the east stand brightnesswas fine for me, I can't see the bloody thing anyway.
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Post by headingtonutd on Nov 21, 2016 9:39:26 GMT
I thought that we were excellent in the fist half. I agree that Macca played well and his work rate was important - it seemed to drag some other players into doing the same. Until he faded, I thought Robbie Hall also played an important role. He was more than willing to run at - and past - his full back, which made it very difficult for that player to make any attacking runs. Since Macca was protecting Edwards on the other side I thought we immediately looked better defensively. I'm not sure that I would drop either Macca or Hall to get Johnson back in the starting lineup on the basis of that performance. I also agree with the texter to RadOx who said that the scoreboard was too bright. When it was all white, it certainly was! Mind you, perhaps it was just the contrast with the rest of the stadium which was a bit dingy as half the floodlight bulbs on the South stand are out. Sort it out Firoka - you can't KEEP waiting for bulbs to be on special offer at the 99p shop! Agree with Macca, great performance and as has been said here and elsewhere he gives the fullback more confidence to overlap which we have really missed. We even had Skarz (Rocky) getting up the pitch. I also think Ledson will be really important for us. He seems to give Lunny a bit more freedom and winning the midfield battle is what lets us play that fantastic football we watched on Saturday. Also agree with the scoreboard, it was blinding at times. Can't imagine it was much fun for the players. Before the game I said 7 points from a week of football would make things look a whole lot different in the table and might spark our season off. A good win tomorrow night and Saturday is almost a freebie. We really need to follow up on the good work from the weekend.
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Post by ox18 on Nov 21, 2016 9:49:47 GMT
I thought that we were excellent in the first half. I agree that Macca played well and his work rate was important - it seemed to drag some other players into doing the same. Until he faded, I thought Robbie Hall also played an important role. He was more than willing to run at - and past - his full back, which made it very difficult for that player to make any attacking runs. Since Macca was protecting Edwards on the other side I thought we immediately looked better defensively. I'm not sure that I would drop either Macca or Hall to get Johnson back in the starting lineup on the basis of that performance. I also agree with the texter to RadOx who said that the scoreboard was too bright. When it was all white, it certainly was! Mind you, perhaps it was just the contrast with the rest of the stadium which was a bit dingy as half the floodlight bulbs on the South stand are out. Sort it out Firoka - you can't KEEP waiting for bulbs to be on special offer at the 99p shop! They had replaced nine of the ten duff ones on the North stand, maybe it is now being tackled by the landlord.
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