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Reply | Saddle up for three points at the Bescot with DC and his Super U's
at 12:41 30 Sep 2024
TOOT
I usually watch the EFL highlights each week.
I rarely bother with the Premier league or Championship but always watch League One and League Two.
Every week there are spectacular goals scored but most go under the radar because they are almost ignored by the media.
Opening up the Sky Sports+ for the next five years will raise the profile.
Their first goal was certainly down to the first touch which was outstanding. However had Macey stood his ground he would have saved it. Our defence for the first two goals was lamentable.
Chasing the game gave them goals three and four which flattered them and the scoreline.
Port Vale now becomes a must win game.
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Reply | Saddle up for three points at the Bescot with DC and his Super U's
at 01:27 29 Sep 2024
I have been out this afternoon and evening but have read the thread with some interest
I was critical of DC when he took Taylor and Tovide off at Morecambe and more so today because at 2-0 we still had a chance of getting back into the game.
Scully unfortunately is not the answer.
The biggest potential loss is Edwards who once again played well.
The Bescot is another of our poor grounds and we haven't won there for over 10 years.
4-0 flattered Walsall and makes us look a poor side which we are not.
However I agree that Port Vale now is a must win game.
Top seven is still very much on the cards.
The best team I saw last season was Doncaster and look at them again today.
Of course I'm disappointed but like many on this board who have watched the U's for over 54 years we've seen it all before.
Bring on the Variants Tuesday night.
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Thread | Saddle up for three points at the Bescot with DC and his Super U's
at 23:24 27 Sep 2024
It’s 3rd versus 11th at the Poundland Bescot tomorrow with arguable our most challenging game of the season so far. Mat Sadler lines his Saddlers up against DC and his Super U’s in a televised game on Sky Sports+ with an early 1230pm kick off.
Last season I went to the Bescot and it was a piece of individual brilliance that won the game for Walsall. Isaac Hutchinson has since moved on to Bristol Rovers where he signed a three-year deal. The Gas have a very fine player.
However, so do we with a more settled team now playing with a degree of verve and considerable skill.
The Bristol Rovers connection is deeper than this however with Samson Tovide and Lyle Taylor starting to remind those of us with older footballing memories of that Bristol Rovers pairing Bruce Bannister and Alan Warboys.
Between 1971 and 1976 Bannister scored 80 goals in 206 appearances and Warboys scored 53 goals in 144 appearances for the Gas.
OK I hear you say but Tovide with 2 goals and Taylor with 3 goals have not even scored five goals each this season (but I believe they are capable of 20 goals each) and would be the first Colchester players since Jamie Cureton to score more than 20 goals in a single season.
I suggested as much last season with another Taylor and our own Tovide but injury and a recall to Luton Town and onward loan to Lincoln put paid to that dream.
There is a real partnership and camaraderie between T and T (TNT perhaps) which is reinforced by the pacy Owura Edwards as a fearsome front three.
The games against Accrington, Morecambe and Tranmere have all evoked memories of a potentially explosive pairing and I am firmly of the belief that if they remain fit (Taylor) and red card free (Tovide) then why can’t they produce a superb attacking partnership which nets goals.
Tovide works so very hard and his runs down the left side and the ability to find Taylor, the archetypal goal poacher who is lethal in and around the six-yard box, have the makings of a great pairing in front of goal.
The perfect accompaniment of course is a now fully fit Owura Edwards with 2 goals so far. His pace at Accrington was frightening for their right back and this was adequately reinforced in the other two games.
Anyway, enough of our forwards. The big question remains DC and his inability to play Read, Payne, Bishop and Woodyard together in midfield. It is a difficult dilemma because Egbo is having a great run in the team and that might be the clue to the reason that Arthur Read doesn’t start in games.
Similarly at the back Goodliffe, Flanagan and Iandolo have the back three nailed down but then we have Kells and young Donnelly banging on the door for starts.
All of this suggest to me that DC is unlikely to make many if any changes to a winning side. Walsall as I mentioned offer a challenge but in fairness they played midweek and narrowly lost to Leicester City on penalties after perhaps shading the 90 minutes.
So, I reckon DC will play:
Macey
Goodliffe Flanagan Iandolo
Egbo Payne Bishop Woodyard
Tovide Taylor Edwards
Subs:
Smith Kells Donnelly Hunt Gordon Read Scully
Weather in Walsall tomorrow will be 11 degrees Celsius with sunny intervals and a gentle breeze.
I reckon the game will be a classic with a Colchester victory by 3-2. Tovide, Taylor and Edwards all on the score sheet.
I will not be travelling tomorrow, instead I will watch via Sky Sports+. I am due to go to Fleetwood but that is likely to be a rearranged Tuesday night game.
Safe journey to the travelling faithful and enjoy the game.
Three points will move us closer to the top seven which has to be the first objective this season.
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Thread | Fleetwood game in doubt
at 17:21 24 Sep 2024
International break.
Fleetwood may have multiple players called up and therefore game could be postponed.
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Reply | Three valuable points for the Super U's against Adkin's Rovers
at 08:11 23 Sep 2024
Burnsie
Clearly if both Taylor and Tovide prove themselves to be the new Bannister and Warboys then the pressure will be on but we have sold a number of our better players and the monies received should enable us to reject possible suitors especially if we are in the top four at Christmas (which I believe we will be).
Taylor is the new Jamie Cureton (the last Colchester player to score more than 20 goals in one season) and providing he is able to maintain his exceptional fitness then he can certainly score 20+ goals as can Tovide.
Whilst we remain a selling club, we can certainly keep the sharks at bay with our performances and if we are promoted in May then there is a greater opportunity to retain our best assets in League One next season.
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