All in all a great day out. Team looks confident and have some real class in Stephens and looked solid at the back. Impressed with waggy and both full backs did well too. Was steaming by the end of half time so second half isnt so clear but my girlfriend put on her first ever bet for 3-1 at 10/1 before the game so think ive started 2 new addictions for her in 1 day.
We should get promoted playing like that, far too good for L1
SCP needs to learn the fine art of making substitutions at the right time. Hayes had a cracking game IMO but he was clearly knackered and needed to be subbed no later than 60 minutes. Given that SCP is saying that he didn't tell the team to drop off and defend the lead, subbing Hayes for Kermogant on the hour mark would have a) shown the players that they should be attacking, not defending and b) given Hayes a break before some of the idiot boo boys got on his back for a couple of wayward touches.
The new boy made a decent debut and his hold up play for our third was excellent, keeping the ball for that vital few seconds to allow Waggy to get into postion to cross the ball into the danger area.
All in all, great game but still work to be done.
Oh, and Solly is still my player of the season so far. BWP may grab the headlines but if there's a better right back in the division than Solly I've not seen him yet.
Think Powell is probably waiting for Alonso and Green to make the bench, then he'll have more options available to change the game, at the moment I get the feeling Hughes/Euell are only there to make up the numbers at the moment, hence they're not being used until very late on in games.
The incident is 44 minutes in. I've seen them given but the description on the Chesterfield forum seems at odds with what I'm seeing. What do we reckon?
The player was sliding to block facing away from the ball when it hit his hand so you could undertsand why ref didn't give pen as he clearly had no intent. Some refs would have given it though and I do wonder if the application might not be simplified to say if you hand ball, deliberately or not, it is a penalty. There was a freekick for us where the defender had his hands up but again I don't think had intent to handle so you can see why managers get so infuriated. Our penalty that never was was a much clearer penalty though so methinks Sheridan protests too much.
just spotted BDL on the you tube video having a peter griffin Denim day... ;-)
Haha, I remember one Sunday night back in the day doing Charlton Live and Dave turned up to the Time FM studios wearing nothing but Ugg Boots and a Sombrero. Vic from Charlton wasn't happy....
Spoke to my Arsenal season ticket holding boss about the game. He took his kids.
He was impressed with the first half, but couldn't believe how deep we dropped in the second.
Gave Solly mom and was impressed - he hadn't realised he was at Arsenal. He liked the CB and Wiggins. Also mentioned CM pair. Felt that the extra bit of class that BWP has shone through.
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We should get promoted playing like that, far too good for L1
The new boy made a decent debut and his hold up play for our third was excellent, keeping the ball for that vital few seconds to allow Waggy to get into postion to cross the ball into the danger area.
All in all, great game but still work to be done.
Oh, and Solly is still my player of the season so far. BWP may grab the headlines but if there's a better right back in the division than Solly I've not seen him yet.
Nice one, Adam !
"the handball was blatant it was 2 handed pushed into the ground"
Having looked at it several time on iplayer I'm wondering if these guys were at the same game?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b015cvr4/The_Football_League_Show_2011_2012_24_09_2011/
The incident is 44 minutes in. I've seen them given but the description on the Chesterfield forum seems at odds with what I'm seeing. What do we reckon?
Spoke to my Arsenal season ticket holding boss about the game. He took his kids.
He was impressed with the first half, but couldn't believe how deep we dropped in the second.
Gave Solly mom and was impressed - he hadn't realised he was at Arsenal. He liked the CB and Wiggins. Also mentioned CM pair. Felt that the extra bit of class that BWP has shone through.
Sure we will sort it out sooner rather than later though and we have won 7 , drawn 2 and lost none so not much is wrong.