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Kassarate sent off

MarkX wrote:

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Yet ANOTHER Red Card

Good grief!

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 perfect view of incident from shop. Never a card total accident ref is an absolute @@@@. Player injured got treated and didnt go off. 

with apologies to wingnut. I never thought I would agree with a post on Dartfords forum. The post was after their game at Braintree was nasty Team nasty fans. Agree 100%

-- Edited by Squarevanmanthesecond on Tuesday 21st of February 2023 09:39:58 PM

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You cannot win a game if you have no shots on goal. Cannot remember Sims having to make one save. A very disjointed performance, not surprising since you never know what the make up of the team will be from one match to the next. Braintree are no great shakes but they appear to have a settled side and it showed, I have no dispute about the result but I must say that the referee was awful, a fact which was capped off by Kassarate's sending off, he was shown a second yellow card for clearing the ball. He obviously fell for the Braintree players reaction. Need a much better performance on Saturday.

After a good away result this is just deja vous alla most home games this season. In fairness was okay first half and perhaps unfortunate to be behind but second half was poor.

Interesting comment about azeez above tend to agree I don't rate him that much but I wonder if that is about service as we constantly pump balls he can't or will never win. He has 13 goals so maybe I expect too much.

FFS. OK, Let's go.

Warren by now has shown his limitations. He tries to cover them up with spin. But facts are facts. Last season we won 3 out of 10 under him. This season we won 10 out of 31 games. That is 13 wins out of 41 games. 31% wins.

His Wikipedia for his time with Welling says up to 7 January he has played 45 games, W 18 D13 L14 for a 40% win percentage. Really? Hmm, I wonder who posted those "interesting" results?

They say madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. The Slough manager after beating us said he knew what to expect from us. By now we are so one dimensional and predictable anyone can tell in advance who we will play and what formation, as he keeps doing everything the same, game after game after game.

Despite now only winning 5 out of the last 23 games.

This match was typical Warren. When we attacked it was two strikers, and at times a midfielder joined them, but our team has a lazy mentality of "let's leave it to Ade and Stefan to score", so don't push up in numbers to support. Stats show this is the case, the only guys in this hopelessly mismanaged team to have scored more than once are George, Taylor, Stefan and Ade. Midfielders scoring? Nah. No chance.

Diverting briefly, Wallop is totally wrong, Ade has been one of the few players to chase every bloody ball, close down time and time again, chase lost causes, and has scored 13 league goals this season so far, which is better than he has done anywhere else. To put this in context, Dipo scored 16 last season, so it is likely by the end of the season Ade will have outscored Dipo. Add on Ade's assists, and his high scoring in a team that doesn't create many chances for him, so he has to by and large create his own chances, so Wallop, I don't agree. He's carried the team pretty much singlehandedly in attack while Stefan has been being Stefan.

In the match tonight I watched Braintree PUSH UP IN NUMBERS when they attacked. We attacked with just 1, 2 and occasionally in the second half 3. That is the difference between us. And it has been the difference all season long, Warren usually has a back 5, 3 holding midfielders, a deep lying support striker, and Ade up front on his isolated own. Recently he has had another guy up front with him, but the central midfield are so far back they are a waste of time in terms of supporting attacks. As shown by Taylor Maloney being the only midfield player to have scored more than one goal all season! Yet Warren still can't see any of this.

Tonight we actually played with some slick passing, ok, never looked likely to score, no clear shots, their goals were a great "moment" of really good link up and shot (and maybe us not defending tightly enough) and a keeper error (which is fair enough as he has saved us countless times, so is allowed the odd error) and but for those two moments it would have been a well deserved 0 - 0 draw.

"We'll take each game one game at a time and see where it gets us" We won't change anything. We won't learn lessons. We will keep repeating mistakes. We will keep not winning matches. And we will never take responsibility to improve anything.

Despite now only winning 5 out of the last 23 games.

My first home game for a while and thought the first 20 minutes or so we looked good. Cameron Andrews was dictating play a lot and was feeding our strikers with good balls. However when Taylor went off injured the manager moved Cameron back to sit in front of the back four and immediately our creativity seemed gone. I am not sure what other options we had to play that more defensive role but to change the role of our best player at that time proved a bad move. We then went for long balls which their back four managed very well and our threat gone.

I really hope for the game on Saturday Cameron is given the role he started with last night.

And the stat relating to Dipo/Azeez. Dipo fought a lone role up front single handily having to create his own goals.
Azeez on the other hand has had a number of assists for his.
As for last night, he should have been on the end of that cross across the 6 yard box.
last weeks 1 on 1 at Slough was awful.

Serious question folks. Is there even one 18/19 year old footballer in the UK who has not yet played a month loan for us this season?!

In the first team I managed I always played 4 4 2, as it is such a safe, solid formation and was the fashion, so nearly everyone else used it. But as time went on I realised it was a silly formation for my team, as we didn't have any decent strikers, so playing 2 bad strikers was a mistake. So I switched over to playing just one striker, and that created a freed up role, so I told one of my players to play a roving role behind the striker but have the freedom to go anywhere he wanted to.

That transformed the team, as he was everywhere on the pitch, strengthening the midfield when needed, pushing up as an extra striker when needed, helping defence, suddenly making us stronger all over the pitch. Immediately after that change we won three games in a row 1 - 0, when results before had been less consistent.

So sometimes one small change to a team can totally turn things round. So that single tweak for Welling I have said several times, of getting our midfield to finally realise several of them have to push up and support attacks, and draw defenders to make more space for the strikers, and make our midfield score more, would transform and improve us beyond recognition and get us to fulfil our potential. I have always thought we have the right players, just being used in the wrong way.

Earlier in the season we regularly let in 3 or 4 goals a game, simply because we weren't closing down in midfield. We fixed that and stopped conceding so often. Now we just need to make a second change, that point of midfield being more aware of the need to support attacks, and play higher up, not all staying back as a shield for the defence, so we learn to fill the big gap we always have behind our strikers.

Hey! Have some respect! The Isle of Man Brownies 1895 All Stars somehow managed to survive my departure! I'm still waiting for Liverpool to ask me if I'll consider replacing Klopp, the phone will ring any minute!

Onto more serious matters, will we get 3 pints on Saturday? I hope we don't get 0 pints!