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Its amazing the difference one player can make. Bird has come in and seems to have given the whole squad a bit of a boost. We can now rotate Mitchell rather than flog him every game - a bit of competition and he looked whole lot better when he came off the bench today. Jim may talk of poor pitches and fatigue but when you are winning games the players probably can't wait for the next game to come around.
No chance. Whether it was because Hogan was on a card and the forward wanted a pen and yellow/red card but there was no need for him to go down like that. Just shoot! Hogan didn't challenge him - just ran alongside and the next thing he's on the deck. The ref didn't get everything right but he was bang on with that one.
Well we desperately needed that, especially with Eastleigh, Altrincham and Halifax all winning - its just kept us within touching distance of the play offs, but realistically we have to win these next 2 home games then get something at Oldham. It will be tough with players getting injured and fatigue. Jim rotated the squad last night and it just about came off thanks to the substitution's and Gateshead mimicking a lot of our recent performances of pass,pass,pass,pass but no attempts at goal - their manager at weekend complained about squad fatigue and injuries too.
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???
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