We seem to be going well again, playing some nice stuff and a few players clicking into form. We are overcoming some poor decisions as well.
Bound to be freezing down there and hopefully we can keep the run going, we did well against them last season so would be nice to keep the run going against Eastleigh. They have some good players and wont be a push over.
Get behind them make lots of noise and lets make it a good away day and cement ourselfs at the right end and hopefully pull firther clear of the chasers.
COYW
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Alexander O'Neal 1987 "I'm fed up cos all you wanna do is criticize "
I just cant work out why we never try and play football against big teams who every one else rolls over. We had 2 shots if we were lucky. Poor today and we are a bit naive, a few people felt we gave up towards the end, we actually defended quite well until the second and 3rd goals where they just went through us like we werent there and we controlled the first half hour of second half.
Joes red was not what we needed, but hes booked him for his first tackle and let their bloke get away with one a minute earlier, Their 4 has foulded 3 times and finally got yellowed for a disgraceful tackle. They played the ref aswell always in his ear. Weve also had a penalty turned down in first half and a stonewall handball at 1-0.
Only positives were Parkinson who played decent and he also was extremely pissed off with us and shouted dont you give up. We need to talk more. Interview with Jamie up later tonight, he isnt happy at all. Highlights will be up over next couple of days im too depressed to even look at them at the moment and the zooms broke on the camera so thats probably a nice £200 bill to get fixed.
We dont get free kicks when pughie gets done so no point just smashing balls at him. Ben Davisson again lively and tried to play football, he must be close to a start.
Its only a game but its the 2nd bad showing at a struggling team where weve been poor. We are surely better off trying to play football even if we get dicked we are playing to our strengths.
Next week id go 442 with Loick on left and Davisson on right, Faz right back and Pughie and Luis uptop.
I think Jamie will give them an almighty bollocking this week. We werent unlucky today we got what we deserved.
Another team that will be at us on Saturday and teams will be queueing up to play us at the moment. We need to man up and make sure we dont start falling away.
They say you have to win the right to play, and we havent been doing that against poor teams, lumping it forward and hitting poor passes and no movement early on allows teams to dictate. When we pass and move and are busy no one can live with us.
I think the players and manager are still learning but we need to keep the faith they had a great season last season, my one concern was fire in belly and backs to the wall we had last season from the stuff off the pitch would be missing this season, hopefully its just a blip or we are just expecting to roll over teams without doing what we do best.
COYW lets see a response on Saturday. Give them this game and hopefully we will continue learning from our mistakes. Cant keep putting in poor showings against teams everyone else is rolling over.
Gutted of Bexley
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I am not sure it was that good!! I thought Parkinson was the only one to come out with some credit - thought he should have been pushed into midfield as we were shocking there. Like at Dorchester we were bullied off the ball - they hunted in two and threes and we didn't like.
I didn't think Easleigh were very special but they fully deserved their win today.
I admire Joe Healy but the dive that led to the second yellow was irresponsible when we were chasing the game
Was very Poor. Agree that Parkinson is only person on our side to come out with any credit worked his socks of and to the final whistle was screaming at the boys not to give up and trying to drive them on.
Lets just hope that this was an off day as we cant afford many more slips.
We always seem to struggle against teams at the bottom. The top teams we can cope with but I think the 3 defeats we've had are all from teams who were 4th from bottom.
Interview with Jamie Day should be up in 45-50 mins ish on official site
I'll probably get some highlights up tomorrow evening when i look at the video but dont expect minutes and minutes as zoom on camera went and we created next to nothing.
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