George Dobson - Gone to Wrexham p136, farewell message p142

Ultra critical maybe but I still don’t understand why, when their bloke turned onto their weaker foot on a narrower angle, Dobbo thought that was the right time to go to ground and attempt a block.

Give credit to their man for the fancy footwork but I’d have thought if there was any time to throw yourself at a shot, it’s when he turns onto his strong foot at a better angle, not his weak foot at a narrow angle.

ChicagoAddick said:

All the while Coventry stood and watched. 

Are you sure you are not getting REG and Coventry muddled.

Coventry takes up a good position behind Dobson, their guy turns away from Coventry and dobson goes with him. Dobson goes with the man and Coventry defends the space. 

Todds_right_hook said:

ChicagoAddick said:

All the while Coventry stood and watched. 

Are you sure you are not getting REG and Coventry muddled.

Coventry takes up a good position behind Dobson, their guy turns away from Coventry and dobson goes with him. Dobson goes with the man and Coventry defends the space. 

Their guy turns again and Coventry is still where you would expect him as he is protecting the space in front of the back 3. Dobson may have done better and stayed on his feet which meant he could have blocked the shot. Although their guy did well. 

As their guy turned Dobson for the final time, REG moved to block the shot and then moved his head away from the flight of the ball.

Coventry did nothing wrong
dobson Was twisted and turned and couldn't challenge as the ref would have given a pen
REG should have been braver and not moved out the way.

I think Dobson slipped as well .. there no blame there from anyone .. but the first goal Dobson should have stopped the cross went to ground to soon 

LargeAddick said:

RonnieMoore said:

Todds_right_hook said:

ChicagoAddick said:

All the while Coventry stood and watched. 

Are you sure you are not getting REG and Coventry muddled.

Coventry takes up a good position behind Dobson, their guy turns away from Coventry and dobson goes with him. Dobson goes with the man and Coventry defends the space. 

Their guy turns again and Coventry is still where you would expect him as he is protecting the space in front of the back 3. Dobson may have done better and stayed on his feet which meant he could have blocked the shot. Although their guy did well. 

As their guy turned Dobson for the final time, REG moved to block the shot and then moved his head away from the flight of the ball.

Coventry did nothing wrong
dobson Was twisted and turned and couldn't challenge as the ref would have given a pen
REG should have been braver and not moved out the way.

I think Dobson slipped as well .. there no blame there from anyone .. but the first goal Dobson should have stopped the cross went to ground to soon 

The first goal Thomas was firstly not strong enough then let Adebayo get in front of him. Yes the cros# could have been defended better but down to Thomas in my opinion.

Same with REG for the third.

Bournesnr said:

Think we’re all being ultra critical of Dobson and REG, if one of ours had scored that goal we’d be singing his praises not saying well their midfielder should have done better with the block or their defender shouldn’t have moved his head.
Ffs it was a good well taken goal.

Except REG didn't fancy a ball
in the face and ducked out of it. Professional footballers doing that is poor

Covered End said:

Todds_right_hook said:

Bournesnr said:

Think we’re all being ultra critical of Dobson and REG, if one of ours had scored that goal we’d be singing his praises not saying well their midfielder should have done better with the block or their defender shouldn’t have moved his head.
Ffs it was a good well taken goal.

Except REG didn't fancy a ball
in the face and ducked out of it. Professional footballers doing that is poor

Nor did Watson for the first and turned his back on the cross.
Dobson "busting a gut" to try and block it.
Watson turned his back and made no attempt to block the ball and yet the only criticism re the cross is aimed at Dobson.

Both of them got done by the movement of the Bolton players at the throw in and left them with too much to do to get back to block the crosser.

Did you see how easy their defender was turned for Kanu’s goal disgraceful.

I think that there's a bit of over-analysis going on here. I don't think Dobson is particularly culpable but honestly it's hard to say that anyone actually is to "blame" - the scorer pulled off a really neat bit of skill and a great finish.

If the same thing happened ten more times, 9 of them end up with Dobson knicking the ball off his toe or the ball runs away from the Bolton player or the shot hits REG or just straight up misses the target.

It's bad luck for us, a great goal for Bolton and sometimes that's just how it goes. 

Vjacheslav said:

First unikum of the year. We win agai, at first home game too. 

You should have asked for a glass.  Drinking out of a plastic is not satisfactory.

Do you have sugar with your coffee btw?

ElfsborgAddick said:

Vjacheslav said:

First unikum of the year. We win agai, at first home game too. 

You should have asked for a glass.  Drinking out of a plastic is not satisfactory.

Do you have sugar with your coffee btw?

I know, but inside the stadium you cannot drink from glass. That is why the unikum looks like a coffee. I usually drink black coffee, without anything, sometimes with rum.

Surely he’s not really going to join this Hungarian team, is he?!

fenaddick said:

Saw someone say they thought Dobson's pass was just a hopeful hit but no way is that what happened. He looks up and sees the run to pick out Bakinson. His passing has improved so much in the last 12 months

For some it’ll always be a classy long pass if it comes from someone like Coventry, but a hopeful hoof from a clogger like Dobson

fenaddick said:

Saw someone say they thought Dobson's pass was just a hopeful hit but no way is that what happened. He looks up and sees the run to pick out Bakinson. His passing has improved so much in the last 12 months

Anyone who said that, doesn't understand football.

Addick_8 said:

fenaddick said:

Saw someone say they thought Dobson's pass was just a hopeful hit but no way is that what happened. He looks up and sees the run to pick out Bakinson. His passing has improved so much in the last 12 months

Anyone who said that, doesn't understand football.

There are a puzzling number of people who seem blind to Dobson's skills. They think that all he can do is tackle to break up play. But no one else in the team is as good as he is at receiving the ball, shielding it, spinning and playing a snap pass. He has excellent vision and, just as much as the now-lauded Coventry, an awareness of a killer pass and the technique to execute it such as that to Bakinson last night.