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They have their own Ian Henderson. Glen Talyor has scored over 200 goals! for them including 2 on Saturday. We will never have a better chance of a Wembley final though.
Bird was the difference for me on Saturday. Touch,awareness,strength. That first goal he controlled a difficult bouncing ball, turned around 3 defenders and buried his shot without hesitation. The 2nd goal all started from him holding off the defender from Waller's long kick, controlling the ball and laying off to Rodney. We wouldn't have scored either with Mitchell. He showed when he came on he miscontrolled one pass and ended up getting booked for lunging in trying to make up for his poor touch. Its a harsh world but unless Mitchell improves his all round game he can go at the end of the season for me - no number of 6 yard tap ins will change that.
Similarities with COG and his impeccable first touch (Mitchell please watch and learn). Also his goal reminded me of classic Tony Ellis. Hold off the defender, turn him the wrong way and finish. Early days but you can see why Jim started him today - he's obviously shown it in training this week.
Anyone see the Altrincham non penalty? Really bizarre. The taker stops mid kick and has told the ref he's caught his studs in the poor turf? The ref thinks its ungentlemanly conduct and awards a free kick to Newcastle!
Jim will definitely say 'we battered them Greg'. And their keeper was man of the match but its no surprise we scored when we actually had a shot on goal which he spilled - probably his only mistake unfortunately for him. Just too many passes with not enough end product again for the 6th game in a row now.
Makes you wonder how we competed all those years in league 1 against the likes of Charlton, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Brighton???
I mean 5 years for Hill was probably his downfall but at the end of the day he is our best ever manager. It was a reward for everything he'd achieved - which was astounding given our crowds and resourses in League 1. To be mixing it with the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Barnsley, Bolton, Charlton and beating them. They were incredible days and seem a long long way away watching todays performance.
I had my doubts about McNulty very early in his tenure. Yes he took over in a bad position but there were games in that relegation season where we managed to have zero or 1 attempt on target. In 90 minutes of football that is really shocking. Yes we turn on the odd good performance but these games with hardly any attempts on target are so frequent. Just look at Barnet today, long balls, long throws, chasing down lost causes or putting defenders under pressure. Threats from corners and freekicks. We do none of that and the slow passing football is awful to watch even when we get it right. Sack him now whilst we still have a chance of play offs and a Wembley final before its too late.
In his interview Jim says Barnet are the best side to come to Spotland in his time in charge - including league 2. They looked functional to me - but nothing special. Quite direct, pressed our defenders, good set pieces, took their chances. We basically made them look like world beaters.
It seems like we have 1 way of scoring a goal. Lots of passing, get the ball wide, try and get to the goal line, cross it low and hope someone is in the six yard box to finish. We are so predictable and boring to watch. What ever happened to shooting from distance or even just shooting? Working the keeper?
How many saves have opposition keepers had to make in the last 5 games? 4 or 5 at the most? Pitiful really - you just aren't going to win games or score enough goals playing this way.
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