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Reply | Refwatch - Eastleigh v Rochdale
at 08:07 20 Sep 2024
Depends how we set up and approach the game, a repeat of last Saturdays debacle and we lose. Play like we did at Aldershot and we win. Both our losses this season have been down to us, self inflicted defeats. Over thinking team selection and reverting back to a style of play that has been proved not to work on numerous occasions. No point signing good players if you don't play to their strengths. [Post edited 20 Sep 8:13]
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Reply | Blyth Spartans 0 - 3 Bury FA Cup 2nd round qualifying
at 12:01 19 Sep 2024
They're all beyond help unfortunately. Fans of every other Phoenix Club embrace their new club but Bury just pretend that nothing has ever happened, it's as though a magic fairy has paid off the £15 million debt and the Phoenix Club Bury AFC didn't move over to Gigg Lane. Not just that, they think that football fans up and down the country are as delusional as themselves and take offence when the blatantly obvious is pointed out to them.😄 [Post edited 19 Sep 12:04]
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Reply | Blyth Spartans 0 - 3 Bury FA Cup 2nd round qualifying
at 08:53 19 Sep 2024
Two Stars on their Phoenix shirts, one for Day and one for Dale. That's the history that launched their new start up club..and they've chosen to recognise them both on their shirts😀 |
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Reply | Blyth Spartans 0 - 3 Bury FA Cup 2nd round qualifying
at 15:52 18 Sep 2024
Constant denial, we shouldn't be surprised really, they thought Stewart Day was the best thing since sliced bread. Despite numerous warnings they chose to walk around with their fingers in their ears, you can't educate stupid and we're seeing it again with this Phoenix Club. [Post edited 18 Sep 15:53]
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Reply | Blyth Spartans 0 - 3 Bury FA Cup 2nd round qualifying
at 12:31 17 Sep 2024
Nothing at all wrong with Phoenix clubs, i thought what Bury AFC did in such a short space of time was fantastic. I was actually disappointed that they threw it all away to bring football back to Gigg Lane, i was hoping the old girl would have been developed into a overspill car park for the local college. That stadium stands as a reminder to what can happen when supporters turn a blind eye to what's going on in the Boardroom...Enjoy the ride was the cry, unfortunately it was a ride to oblivion, we did warn you though. Good luck with the new club and i mean that, the local derby is missed by everybody i think. Fortunately we now have fantastic new owners who have promised the Trust/ Community a golden share in the club going forward. The fans still have to keep a eye on the club at all times though and everybody at the club has to ensure the Supporters Trust isn't undermined in any way and is front and centre of everything, so that it can grow stronger in line with Sir Peter Ogdens vision for the club and wider community. [Post edited 17 Sep 12:44]
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Reply | Blyth Spartans 0 - 3 Bury FA Cup 2nd round qualifying
at 12:10 17 Sep 2024
That's not correct though, there was no other club when Dale finished with it. No Chairman or Directors and definitely no accounts. Who owned the ground? The club went bust and the debt died with it. Had the Phoenix club not come on board the funding for the project wouldn't have been able to be accessed. This is a new club and the FA gave them permission to use the old Bury FC name, they applied for that to happen. You must know all that anyway, pretending this is still the old club is living a lie. This is why you lost your club in the first place, living in cloud cuckoo land and refusing to see what is staring you in the face. Nothings changed, no lessons learned. [Post edited 17 Sep 12:21]
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 20:06 16 Sep 2024
A great chance to promote the club was missed last Saturday and we made it easy for Solihull. 'Nothing has changed from last season', that's what somebody remarked at half time. No pies and no cold drinks for sale at half time in the Pearl Street Stand, sold out, so no plans made for a bigger crowd anyway, good job because there would have been a lot more disappointed people..did anybody from the club liase with the catering company? No, i didn't think so. He'd been queueing for fifteen minutes at the one available kiosk..you couldn't access the other because a handful of away fans were allocated it. Spending money at the club has been a real problem since the Summer, no kits, nothing in the shop, looking for nearby pubs to spend money in order to watch football on the television because the club couldn't provide the service, miraculousy rectified just before the first game kicked off, poor experence in pre match hospitality, no pies or soft drinks at half time in the kiosks, hunt the programme for anybody arriving at the ground, deliberatey making it more difficult to purchase. They dont need on line meetings and discussions regarding commercial ideas they need to start by getting the basics right. The whole attitude and i would suggest personnel within the club needs changing, nobody seems to care. So a poor experience alround really since the start of the season, no footy on telly, no kits, no programme sellers, no reserved stickers on seats. On Saturday, no pies, no pop, no points. Fortunately the players have provided enjoyment but let's not see what we saw during that first half on Saturday again, i thought walking passive football had been confined to the dustbin now that we have better quality footballers in the building.
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 15:53 16 Sep 2024
I would think that the person has been well briefed when given the job on the questions he can and can't ask the manager post match. The obvious questions on Saturday would have been why did we play so slowly during the first half? Why did the play always seem to have to go through Sassi when better forward options were available? How did you view both goals we conceded? In hindsight do you think your team selection was right and what was your thinking dropping Henry to the bench, bearing in mind his set piece delivery to East produced a goal on Tursday. Today we had East taking the corners? |
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 15:16 16 Sep 2024
Agree, it makes managers sound daft, they think the fans are thick. It doesn't help when the person doing the interview asks the most scripted questions imaginable. Everything is is managed to make things easy, even the media interviews. |
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 11:01 16 Sep 2024
The biggest disappointment was how we approached the game, not the fact we lost. Compounded by the manager then saying that he doesn't look at the league table. I know what David Challinor, Paul Cook, Phil Parkinson would have done leading up to the game they would have sent out a rally cry to the public of the Town and asked them to turn up and help us reach the top of the league. That's how you increase your support, maximise the opportunity when the chance presents itself. The boat sailed though and the manager didn't want to mention it because he either didn't know or he couldn't handle the extra pressure that would bring. I think the players would have loved it, rip into SM from the first whistle and show no fear. Instead we got the opposite and it reflected bad on the manager, so did his post match interview. You wouldn't expect Simon Gauge or anybody else involved in the day to day running of the club to grasp the opportunity to rally the public because they don't think like that, it won't have even registered on the run up to the biggest game in the last couple of years. We're now back to square one with the crowds, they won't come back to watch that stuff. [Post edited 16 Sep 11:05]
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 08:48 16 Sep 2024
I think McNulty is rotating because he wants to give everybody game time, he was talking about players being tired after just two games. He should know by now what his strongest starting eleven is and players should be changed if they are injured, suspended, loose form. His priority should be winning football matches and putting out his strongest team every game to do that. He signed the young kid from Ipswich on loan and he's straight into the team, he had to be substituted at half time in his second game, not physically strong enough. We have our own players on two year deals who can't even get on the bench.
If you look at the teams who get promoted from this league there is a common theme, they all score a lot of goals and they set up to attack their opponents, they don't give their opponents a breather and decide to play tippy between each other on the halfway line and they didn't have a young inexperienced centre half dictating the play and being relied upon to create chances from his own half. Stockport, Chesterfield, Wrexham were relentless and just outscored their opponents, they didn't try to reinvent the game and bother about what their opponents might do..and they didn't moan and complain when teams sat deep and defended against them, they saw that as a open invitation to attack them unlike our manager who for some reason wants to engage in a tactical battle when there's no need to do. Pin them back, get crosses in and pepper their goal. The players aren't daft they will know how we should be approaching games, especially at home and won't have been happy with Saturday. Allarakhia has been one of our best players but he's playing a position as wing back that doesn't get the best out of him, especially at home. If he was played as a out and out wide player i think we would see him go up another notch, we're yet to see the best of him and he's stated that himself. Somebody mentioned plan A and plan B and tactical nouse to change things when they aren't working, not just players but how the team is set up. The first half of Saturdays game needs to be watched back by everybody at the training ground this morning and the players as a collective should tell the manager and coaches how his tactics are impacting their own performances, especially the offensive players. Those tactics don't work, everybody in the ground knows they don't apart from the manager. It's too easy for our opponents and it keeps them in the game, gives them encouragement.
The expectation has changed now, McNulty has been given a competitive budget and we have a squad full of good players, he has to get the best out of them and win games, his tactics and team selection will be analysed now that he isn't managing with one arm tied behind his back. He can't go back to what didn't work last season, we're better than that now. If we do see a repeat of that first half again then he should expect the same backlash, we want to see urgency and bravery in our play, not the passive and wimpish walking football that we had to endure on Saturday. That was the blueprint of his mate Brian Barry Murphy and he relegated us with a squad full of good players, we had the worst run of home form in the clubs history, playing the same style of walking football in our own half of the field and passing for passing sake. Another thing they have in common, both of them stated that they don't look at the league table, which is a ridiculous comment for any manager to make [Post edited 16 Sep 9:31]
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 12:18 15 Sep 2024
The frustration is that we all know what the players are capable of, we've seen them play some great attacking football and at a high tempo. They've set the bar themselves and shown what they can do. I thought McNulty had learned the lessons from last season and walking football, defenders standing on the ball and passing it willly nilly between themselves had gone for good now that we have increased the budget and brought in better players, but sadly it returned again yesterday. A performance that for most of the game lacked any urgency in our play and one that the manager didn't seem too concerned about in his post match interview, which is a worry. I thought they would all be chomping at the bit and excited to go top of the league yesterday but that wasn't reflected in how they approached the game. Solihull didn't have to do much to win, we didn't lay a glove on them for 86 minutes. Anyway, let's see if there is a response next week. I hope there is some reflection and honest feedback not just from the players but also the management, we need a lot more endeavour and bravery than was on display yesterday. Alarakhia and Rowlands are quality, give them the ball and do it quickly. There are no excuses now, we have a quality squad of players and the manager has to get them playing high tempo attacking football from the first whistle instead of treating games like a tactical chess match, especially at home. [Post edited 15 Sep 12:25]
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 11:46 15 Sep 2024
Ferguson, EEL, Sassi. If we are talking about small percentages counting in football then i'm also struggling to understand why Henry didn't start the game yesterday. When it comes to ability all three of East/ Gilmour/ Henry can stake a genuine case for starting games but one of those, Henry, is a stand out when it comes to set piece deliveries and playing at home is when you would expect those opportunities to present themselves more often. Against a team that is set up to sit back and defend then those set pieces, free kicks and corners become more crucial to get right and that's why Henry should be starting home games i think. The midfield players should be demanding the ball off the likes of Sassi, turning and making the play, too many times yesterday East off loaded the ball back to Sassi. Players shouldn't need resting five weeks into the season neither.
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Reply | Solihull Match Thread
at 09:35 15 Sep 2024
It might just be me but i've seen enough of Ferguson to think that he isn't the answer, one good game doesn't change that. McNulty prefers Sassy,which in itself speaks volumes. EEL is limited, his distribution is all over the place. If the central player of the back three is such a pivotal role in how McNulty wants to play then I'm surprised he hasn't utilised his budget better and prioritised a quality centre half who is comfortable on the ball with decent distribution. Unfortunately i don't think any of our three central defenders are of the required standard if we want a quick return to the EFL. It's the main weakness in our team from i've seen, which is a bit alarming when the manager is using that area of the pitch to dictate how we play. Obviously my opinions on the centre halves are purely my own observations. [Post edited 15 Sep 9:37]
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