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Cam John seems to have a free roaming role listening to the commentary. Game seems to have ebbed and flowed with Solihull finishing the half strongly. Brooks with a few good saves.
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Match thread v Solihull on 16:07 - Feb 17 with 9844 views
Match thread v Solihull on 15:53 - Feb 17 by Sheffdale
Cam John seems to have a free roaming role listening to the commentary. Game seems to have ebbed and flowed with Solihull finishing the half strongly. Brooks with a few good saves.
They look very dangerous on the attack, and will probably feel they should be ahead. Pitch looks to have suffered with all the recent rain.
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Match thread v Solihull on 16:31 - Feb 17 with 9671 views
Again, why is Keohane on the bench when he could be utilised in various positions to enable East to play in his best position? Selections over the last few weeks have cost us.
Solihull were good and deserved the win.
Need to make sure we concentrate on avoiding getting dragged into a relegation battle. What should always have been the focus off the pitch will soon become a priority once the realisation dawns that promotion seems a step too far.
Match thread v Solihull on 17:17 - Feb 17 by 442Dale
Again, why is Keohane on the bench when he could be utilised in various positions to enable East to play in his best position? Selections over the last few weeks have cost us.
Solihull were good and deserved the win.
Need to make sure we concentrate on avoiding getting dragged into a relegation battle. What should always have been the focus off the pitch will soon become a priority once the realisation dawns that promotion seems a step too far.
Have to agree with this. Much slack has been cut due to the off-field situation but form is now a concern given how condensed the table is below us.
Forget the top seven and just focus on picking up points.
Solihull deserved to win today, probably by more than 1 goal. They showed how to attack with pace whilst we dithered with it again (other than when Hayes had the ball).
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Match thread v Solihull on 18:22 - Feb 17 with 8890 views
Match thread v Solihull on 17:52 - Feb 17 by DaleFan7
5 defeats in 6, doesn't look good.
Solihull deserved to win today, probably by more than 1 goal. They showed how to attack with pace whilst we dithered with it again (other than when Hayes had the ball).
Where's the morale boost coming from in the 17/18 season the cup run provided one to some extent.
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Match thread v Solihull on 17:52 - Feb 17 by DaleFan7
5 defeats in 6, doesn't look good.
Solihull deserved to win today, probably by more than 1 goal. They showed how to attack with pace whilst we dithered with it again (other than when Hayes had the ball).
George Bernard Shaw had it right:
"He who can does; he who cannot, teaches."
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Match thread v Solihull on 18:48 - Feb 17 by RAFCBLUE
He makes some good points about how supportive the crowd were. It’s also refreshing to hear someone at the football club say they have to accept when they’ve done things wrong.
“We have to self-acknowledge that we need to look at ourselves, and that is me first and foremost. More than them even. Definitely starts from me, everything has to. And the fans, genuinely, pure gratitude, thank you so much for what they did today.”
We wouldn’t be where we are if that was an approach that existed as standard throughout the club over the last few years.
Match thread v Solihull on 19:13 - Feb 17 by 442Dale
He makes some good points about how supportive the crowd were. It’s also refreshing to hear someone at the football club say they have to accept when they’ve done things wrong.
“We have to self-acknowledge that we need to look at ourselves, and that is me first and foremost. More than them even. Definitely starts from me, everything has to. And the fans, genuinely, pure gratitude, thank you so much for what they did today.”
We wouldn’t be where we are if that was an approach that existed as standard throughout the club over the last few years.
He also says it should have been a draw and has a pop at the pitch (fair enough...its awful) and bemoans our bad luck throughout the season.
Whilst its a clever move to praise the supporters, he must realise that our slow plodding play was streets behind Solihull, who thoroughly deserved the win.
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Match thread v Solihull on 19:21 - Feb 17 with 8535 views
I have just listen to McNulty and I just shake my head in despair, we were downright poor and that is down to Jim. Why do we insist on playing possession and tippy tappy football, it was the same old Ebanks to Nevett, back to Ebanks then to Gordon........., it is like watching a training session and whereas Solihull played with pace, but Jim seems to think the style of football is more important winning games. He mentions the rain, it affected both teams and if the pitch was getting waterlogged, while keep on passing it across the ground, is it because he lacks the ability to change the style of play or the desire to do so. Mcnulty style of play is playing into the hands of the opposition, because they know we play slow pedestrian football and over pass the ball, which allows them to deal with effectively.
The issue of the team selection must raise questions, why start with Keohane and Sinclair on the bench, most managers would start with their best and most experience starting eleven, I would have Keohane at right back instead of Gordon and Sinclair starting instead of Jes. A playoff place may be a bit far off now and is simply down to McNulty management. He is starting to remind of BBM week by week, which is worrying to say the least.
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Match thread v Solihull on 19:22 - Feb 17 with 8519 views
Match thread v Solihull on 19:18 - Feb 17 by dawlishdale
He also says it should have been a draw and has a pop at the pitch (fair enough...its awful) and bemoans our bad luck throughout the season.
Whilst its a clever move to praise the supporters, he must realise that our slow plodding play was streets behind Solihull, who thoroughly deserved the win.
We weren't slow and plodding for 98 minutes though so we have the ability to play at a quicker tempo, consistency seems to be a problem though.
'Only happy when you've got it often makes you miss the journey'
Match thread v Solihull on 19:18 - Feb 17 by dawlishdale
He also says it should have been a draw and has a pop at the pitch (fair enough...its awful) and bemoans our bad luck throughout the season.
Whilst its a clever move to praise the supporters, he must realise that our slow plodding play was streets behind Solihull, who thoroughly deserved the win.
They did deserve the win and it was disappointing he wasn’t asked about his team selection again. Annoyingly when we were direct, and we were at times, it caused them issues. McNulty should have done more to influence that.
However, and it might only be my opinion but it’s a consistent one, there needs to be a greater focus on what’s happening off the pitch before matters like style of play become a major issue.
The praising of fans was definitely worth mentioning as, if anyone there can attest to, they did indeed continue to noticeably back the team and the manager - which on the back of a four game losing run is something of note. The Sandy were even singing McNulty’s name as fans left the ground.
Match thread v Solihull on 19:21 - Feb 17 by NorthernDale
I have just listen to McNulty and I just shake my head in despair, we were downright poor and that is down to Jim. Why do we insist on playing possession and tippy tappy football, it was the same old Ebanks to Nevett, back to Ebanks then to Gordon........., it is like watching a training session and whereas Solihull played with pace, but Jim seems to think the style of football is more important winning games. He mentions the rain, it affected both teams and if the pitch was getting waterlogged, while keep on passing it across the ground, is it because he lacks the ability to change the style of play or the desire to do so. Mcnulty style of play is playing into the hands of the opposition, because they know we play slow pedestrian football and over pass the ball, which allows them to deal with effectively.
The issue of the team selection must raise questions, why start with Keohane and Sinclair on the bench, most managers would start with their best and most experience starting eleven, I would have Keohane at right back instead of Gordon and Sinclair starting instead of Jes. A playoff place may be a bit far off now and is simply down to McNulty management. He is starting to remind of BBM week by week, which is worrying to say the least.
But Keohane at RB doesn’t solve the biggest problem: we can’t continue with East playing deep next to Gilmour.
To be fair to McNulty, he is saying he needs to look at himself.
Match thread v Solihull on 19:36 - Feb 17 by dawlishdale
True James. We can play with pace and with Hayes back together with the long awaited return of Rodney, there are some positives.
Maybe not a question for Jim but the senior players, why do we go back to a negative style of play time and again? Surely they get an adrenaline buzz they get from the crowd cheering on the positive playing style
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