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Post by lorenzo on Apr 1, 2024 17:37:26 GMT
I have to say I feared the worst but that first half was exemplary
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Apr 1, 2024 17:39:10 GMT
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Post by OneBeat on Apr 1, 2024 18:34:54 GMT
Good game of football. But feck!
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Apr 1, 2024 18:34:56 GMT
Sorry but the difference has been they have a keeper that makes a great save and we have one that makes none. Plus we just don't finish enough chances
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Post by choixkoix on Apr 1, 2024 18:52:32 GMT
One of our best performances of the season. Comi-tragic that it's brought down to earth by all the failings we are used to:
- not clinical enough in either box - no sign of our GK being able to frustrate the opposition - no use of a specialist 2nd DM at any of the points in the 2nd half where it might have been wise to - no game management at the death (well naive against a team with one man more who score late goals, and have recently brought on the pacy Sarmiento) - manager wants to win the game by pushing us to attack in the 2nd half when the game is more open than it was earlier when perhaps there's a way to do that without so much risk?
It'll get lost in the cacophony, but AA, Stuey, Aribo, and Downes were excellent for most of the match. Thought we were marginally the better side at the football, but heavily the more flawed side overall (for all the reasons above).
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Post by melrose on Apr 1, 2024 18:55:53 GMT
So- a heartbreaking loss in the playoffs semis 4-3 having been 3-0 up with two minutes to go.
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Post by ivangolac on Apr 1, 2024 18:55:57 GMT
I'm taking a very, very, deep breath before posting........but it will be something around how v. opposition we have to create 4 shots on target to score, but against us the opposition only needs 2 shots on target to score.....again.
It will be stats driven. It wont be pretty.
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 1, 2024 19:11:38 GMT
well, we all know why we lost that don't we… It's been mentioned here before.
I can't be bothered talking about it as other people have already mentioned it.
I will say though, the beard and his substitution and second-half strategies are nearly always something that the team have to fight against rather than benefit from.
Ipswich are on the up… But they will be like Luton next year.
Which tells you a little bit about what we would be like…
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Post by channonite on Apr 1, 2024 19:17:27 GMT
Feck, feck, feck.
Nothing more to say
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Post by Mandochris on Apr 1, 2024 19:24:51 GMT
I have been a supporter of Martin all season but I've had it with him now. How do you go from being in the lead and controlling the game to that last half hour week after week after week? So many points dropped when they were in the bath.
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Post by spot51 on Apr 1, 2024 19:37:58 GMT
well, we all know why we lost that don't we… It's been mentioned here before. I can't be bothered talking about it as other people have already mentioned it. I will say though, the beard and his substitution and second-half strategies are nearly always something that the team have to fight against rather than benefit from. Ipswich are on the up… But they will be like Luton next year.
Which tells you a little bit about what we would be like…
Wise words Beasters. I said another year in the Champ wouldn't do our girls any harm and am beginning to think the same about our blokes. Any chance Wilco could take Russ to United with him so we could start with a clean slate?
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Post by melrose on Apr 1, 2024 20:34:10 GMT
But another year will. Half our decent players will be gone and still playing Russ Ball .
But like BEAST says on current form Ipswich will get destroyed on a par with Derby. Saints could actually make a go of it with our squad and a few signings. Or not. But…..We are done now for this season. We will lose the playoffs and it is what you do from there. Russ Ball with worse players will be possibly bad to watch . We shall see.
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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 1, 2024 21:22:55 GMT
I guess you all switched off after Ipswich scored. Shame. I switched off after they scored the third time…
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Post by spot51 on Apr 2, 2024 9:21:32 GMT
I guess you all switched off after Ipswich scored. Shame. I switched off after they scored the third time… I was taking notes to write the report. I did write "Jammy Bastards" when the winner went in with the last kick but I was not surprised. It is what we do FFS! I was more pissed off that frigging Rach 2PC finished above The Lark in the Hall of Fame! No wonder the country is going to the dogs when people keep voting the wrong way.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Apr 2, 2024 9:30:45 GMT
Rusty the Clown's Red and White (nose) Army limp on (in oversized shoes).
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