Match thread

[poppyfield]

Anybody know what's up with Burgess? Is his a long term injury?

[darlo2001uk]

A point away from home is always good and Nuneaton didn't look like a bottom of the table side - but we were very poor in the second half.

We lost control when Turnbull went off, went too narrow and encouraged them to come onto us down the flanks.

I didn't understand the Brown substitution either. For me, he should have gone central defence with Hunter, Galbraith should have gone left and Watson should have gone off. We would have looked more resolute in defence.

Funny how views differ, but I thought Watson was poor. It certainly didn't work with Brown centre midfield.

Hardy looked tired - Cartman should start next game. I think he should start anyway but that's a different argument!!

[super_les_mcjannet]

Disappointed with how things ended today, we were probably lucky to come away with a point in the end.

We went down hill when Turnbull went off, the ball wasn't sticking up top as much as it should and we stopped playing through the middle without Turnbull. I think missing Brown, Burgess, Turnbull & Gillies with Thompson & Hardy looking tired/not involved much was a bridge too far as a team. Even Bell was getting warmed up to replace Jameson at one point.

Easy to say afterwards but looked like we could have done with making a couple of changes in the starting line up.

On to Wednesday where I think Gray will freshen it up a bit as we need to ensure we are up for Wed and next Sat.

[HarrytheQuaker]

Watching the highlights Tom Portas left his man to run past him to score...

[super_les_mcjannet]

Watching the highlights Tom Portas left his man to run past him to score...

Didn't see that on the day but did see it on the highlights though.

Just earlier we had took Mitchell off who had worked on our right hand side and replaced with Brown in the centre, Portas should have followed the player but we had gone narrow.

Through out the game Nuneaton had pushed on via the fullbacks who were both decent and worked well with the wide midfielders.

Disappointed but we move on to the next game, good start to the season for us we are in and around the playoffs where we want to be.

[Vodka_Vic]

Not another bloody fixture on Wednesday. Does this league have a winter break or something. We're just over a month into an 8 month season and yet we've already played a quarter of the season. It seems to be Saturday - Wednesday every week. It's like being back in the Evostik.

[Darlogramps]

Not another bloody fixture on Wednesday. Does this league have a winter break or something. We're just over a month into an 8 month season and yet we've already played a quarter of the season. It seems to be Saturday - Wednesday every week. It's like being back in the Evostik.

To be fair, given clubs at this level are more likely to go further in the FA Cup and particularly the FA Trophy, it does make sense to play more games earlier on.

Hypothetically, it would only take a couple of good cup/trophy runs, combined with an atrocious winter (like last year) to cause a fixture backlog.

With fewer league games, we're not as likely to see the fixture logjam we had last season, but after last winter , you can't rule anything out!

[princes town]

Wish the players would clap the fans before they do the huddle. By the time they came over to clap, most of the away end had cleared.

The huddle is annoying at away games. Today's game was very instructive in respect of the squad and tactics

[Comfortably_numb]

Not another bloody fixture on Wednesday. Does this league have a winter break or something. We're just over a month into an 8 month season and yet we've already played a quarter of the season. It seems to be Saturday - Wednesday every week. It's like being back in the Evostik.

To be fair, given clubs at this level are more likely to go further in the FA Cup and particularly the FA Trophy, it does make sense to play more games earlier on.

Hypothetically, it would only take a couple of good cup/trophy runs, combined with an atrocious winter (like last year) to cause a fixture backlog.

With fewer league games, we're not as likely to see the fixture logjam we had last season, but after last winter , you can't rule anything out!

Plus we get plenty of games in before poor weather starts to prevent games happening...

[Cosmos]

Yea, there was plenty of people complaining about the run in last season and the fixture backlog so it's not a bad idea to get as many games played now when the weather is decent. Of course they could also stretch the season out by another week at the end of the season as well but it's inevitable every team is going to be affected by postponements once we get to winter.

[Will Smith]

Who was their number 3 yesterday? Caused us all sorts of problems down the left and put in superb crosses into the box consistently

[Darlo_Pete]

When you take the lead against a side struggling near the bottom of the table, you would expect your side to push on and grab the game by the scruff of the neck. Turnbull going off definitely hindered us and let them back in. We should be disappointed at only securing one point, I'm sure the players are.

[quakersam]

Who was their number 3 yesterday? Caused us all sorts of problems down the left and put in superb crosses into the box consistently

On loan from Wolves

[My opinion]

When you take the lead against a side struggling near the bottom of the table, you would expect your side to push on and grab the game by the scruff of the neck. Turnbull going off definitely hindered us and let them back in. We should be disappointed at only securing one point, I'm sure the players are.

Can't agree with you here.
I only listened to the game as did a lot of fans, what I heard after Turnbull going off was constant Nuneaton pressure...We managed to hold out and get a point..I am happy with that..
When you say "We should be disapointed" you mean YOU ARE...But some of us are happy with the point gained..Especially given that our 4 key players (in my opinion) are either injured or recovering.

[Darlo_Pete]

Well it's all about opinions and you're entitled to yours.

[Nigel Batches Beard]

In a league now where there's no mugs - move on and start again on Wednesday. Long way to go yet. .............have I missed out any cliches?

[Makka Pakka]

In a league now where there's no mugs - move on and start again on Wednesday. Long way to go yet. .............have I missed out any cliches?

When you're leading and don't win its obligatory to say something about game management.

[banktopp]

In a league now where there's no mugs - move on and start again on Wednesday. Long way to go yet. .............have I missed out any cliches?

When you're leading and don't win its obligatory to say something about game management.

More to the point it is about playing full time teams whose fitness and stamina are better than ours. The sooner we get back to one match a week the better. Three games in nine days two of which were against full time teams, Kiddy and Nuneaton. Saturdays match we were all over them first 25 minutes, but lucky to go in one up at half-time. Second half very lucky they didn't score till 73 min and in the end the result was a good point won.

[The_Ozzman_Cometh]

In a league now where there's no mugs - move on and start again on Wednesday. Long way to go yet. .............have I missed out any cliches?

When you're leading and don't win its obligatory to say something about game management.

More to the point it is about playing full time teams whose fitness and stamina are better than ours. The sooner we get back to one match a week the better. Three games in nine days two of which were against full time teams, Kiddy and Nuneaton. Saturdays match we were all over them first 25 minutes, but lucky to go in one up at half-time. Second half very lucky they didn't score till 73 min and in the end the result was a good point won.

Couldn't agree more with this-in the end apart from one strike on goal in the second half we never looked like scoring again and I was happy with a point.

The Ozzman

[princes town]

When you take the lead against a side struggling near the bottom of the table, you would expect your side to push on and grab the game by the scruff of the neck. Turnbull going off definitely hindered us and let them back in. We should be disappointed at only securing one point, I'm sure the players are.

Can't agree with you here.
I only listened to the game as did a lot of fans, what I heard after Turnbull going off was constant Nuneaton pressure...We managed to hold out and get a point..I am happy with that..
When you say "We should be disapointed" you mean YOU ARE...But some of us are happy with the point gained..Especially given that our 4 key players (in my opinion) are either injured or recovering.

After Turnbull went off it was one way traffic.

[Neil Johnson]

I am happy with the results, but the deep / narrow / long ball approach has been attempted for long periods in just about all of the league games.

If this ploy is to continue then the players need to get a BIT more proficient, or we need more players that can cope with the opposition's counter-attacking it promotes.

It would also help if our players could IMPROVE on making counter attacks of our own, rather than be pegged back in defence for the majority of time.

The tactics employed may be best for the challenges at this level, but it may take more practice with our team for them to adapt their games and be more effective.

This is not FLAPPING, just an opinion and observation.

[Emdubya]

I am happy with the results, but the deep / narrow / long ball approach has been attempted for long periods in just about all of the league games.

If this ploy is to continue then the players need to get a BIT more proficient, or we need more players that can cope with the opposition's counter-attacking it promotes.

It would also help if our players could IMPROVE on making counter attacks of our own, rather than be pegged back in defence for the majority of time.

The tactics employed may be best for the challenges at this level, but it may take more practice with our team for them to adapt their games and be more effective.

This is not FLAPPING, just an opinion and observation.

How the hell did Big Sam get the job when you were out there???.Just goes to prove the FA know fuck all.

[liddle_4_ever]

I am happy with the results, but the deep / narrow / long ball approach has been attempted for long periods in just about all of the league games.

If this ploy is to continue then the players need to get a BIT more proficient, or we need more players that can cope with the opposition's counter-attacking it promotes.

It would also help if our players could IMPROVE on making counter attacks of our own, rather than be pegged back in defence for the majority of time.

The tactics employed may be best for the challenges at this level, but it may take more practice with our team for them to adapt their games and be more effective.

This is not FLAPPING, just an opinion and observation.

How the hell did Big Sam get the job when you were out there???.Just goes to prove the FA know fuck all.

To be fair the FA do know fuck all!


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[Neil Johnson]

I am happy with the results, but the deep / narrow / long ball approach has been attempted for long periods in just about all of the league games.

If this ploy is to continue then the players need to get a BIT more proficient, or we need more players that can cope with the opposition's counter-attacking it promotes.

It would also help if our players could IMPROVE on making counter attacks of our own, rather than be pegged back in defence for the majority of time.

The tactics employed may be best for the challenges at this level, but it may take more practice with our team for them to adapt their games and be more effective.

This is not FLAPPING, just an opinion and observation.

How the hell did Big Sam get the job when you were out there???.Just goes to prove the FA know fuck all.

To be fair the FA do know fuck all!


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here here.

injuries also are taking a toll, so I am hoping for more variety in play when we return to full strength and/or Beck gets a rest.

[lo36789]

I hate winning games as well Neil

[QUAKERMAN2]

That was a strange game to witness last night, we were pretty poor for the whole 90 minutes yet typically did not give up pressing and 3 points was massive bearing in mind we were a goal down with 10 minutes to go.
We did not really look like scoring in the second half and defenders seem to have worked out our tactic of launching it for Beck to flick on as there was always a covering defender waiting which worries me to be honest.Our midfield was poor and for me Nowakowski is not the answer, really missed Gillies and Turnbull last night as we were just not creative enough.Really would like to see Cartman and Hardy up front together and leave Beck on the bench for a few games to see if this works but looking at the positives, great position to be in, 1 point off top having not played that well in recent games, and hopefully get our key players back as soon as possible.Burgess, Turnbull, Gillies and Hunter are cracking players to be missing from your team so getting these back will be a massive bonus.

Can anyone throw any light on the Lewis Nightingale situation, with all our injuries would really have liked to see him given a couple of games.Looking at some of the video clips he looks a very talented player and seems to be out of MGs plans, has there been a fall out behind the scenes, if so what is going on?.Would really like to know.