Blow the whistle please ref and you can all have a nice discussion about a convincing win over the MIGHTY Barkingside at home while i count the winnings.
Ill start us off... Disgraceful result. Not good enough. Home to a team of that standard should have been a breeze if we are to achieve anything other than bottom 6 this season.
lets hope Neil admits that was crap.
-- Edited by JgFc at 17:01, 2007-09-29
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First half as comfortable as it should be against a side at their level. Second half truely shocking. Pushed back for long periods. Clueless going forward. I think we have the core of good enough players but a manager who doesn't get the best out of them.
We looked more like the pub team in the second half.
Comfortably ahead in the first half which lasted 43 minutes! we were hopeless and clueless and lacking any sort of tactics in the second half.
The two guys up front played well but had little support.
The officials were what we've come to expect; absolutely useless. Surely there are enough officials about that they don't have to employ a lino with his arm in a sling. Baffling to say the least. Disregarding the fact that he only had one useful arm he was one of the worst linos I've seen.
A stronger ref would probably have sent off a couple of their players and also Neil Smith. As a manager he should show a better example.
Surely someday we will learn that if you have four big lumps at the back one of whom is called "burger" that whatever we lump forward to blokes whose backs face to goal and who are a good deal smaller will keep coming back.
Why then do we play two wing backs in Leon and Marlon Patterson who can take people on and not play the ball on the deck and support them with two running full backs who like to get forward
The first half we played in a really tight formation and scored two goals............second half, we didn't even turn up!!!!!!!!!! WTF happened? Neil please, I know that you think you are a superstar, but please, let let others take your place. Ellis has come back and he should have been in the starting line up. Neil, you could have and should have been cautioned / sent off.............lets get things right. Your commitment is not under question, but, give the other guys a chance
After a first half of competence, what concerned me was that we could not get the ball off a side three divisions below us for about the first 5 minutes of the second half, completely surrendering the initiative. The goal was an almost inevitable consequence.
If you take it that the opposing manager is worth his salt and is going to fire his team up at half time, surely we should have come out with the same attitude we did in the first half and raise the pressure?
However, we are in the hat, which some of our CS colleagues have notably failed to achieve.
put this into perspective - it's the fa cup so anything can happen and we totally outclassed them 1st half and as expected they were more up for it in the 2nd and we didn't play great BUT we won and look at the other CS teams who lost - we are through and that is the important thing
AND a decent wedge of money to help build the team
Remember we also have another 6K from the Kedwell transfer at Christmas
(Opens himself up for a tirade from Mr Club as to the fact that we now have 2 million saved up from our last 2 years cup runs)
I feel that we do need another favourable draw and at home again - we will see (although I do like going to strange little outposts where they are used to 50 people at the game.
