| Positives 13:06 - Aug 18 with 2122 views | Darth_Koont |
Bored of the negatives and being dragged down by the past. And the race to be first in making a definitive case about the manager and the players.
But we can at least be excited about the prospect of a few things. I’ll start off:
— Our first win
— Edwards having more special moments on the ball
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| Positives on 13:10 - Aug 18 with 1918 views | Illinoisblue |
Burgess was excellent. |  |
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| Positives on 13:12 - Aug 18 with 1910 views | Bluefish |
Some tactics being added and hopefully less lumps up the pitch soon
Hopefully seeing timely subs impact the game one day |  |
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| Positives on 13:13 - Aug 18 with 1897 views | Asa |
Edwards is the best bums off seat player we’ve had since Gio. Going to be great watching him.
Burgess was superb. He looks like a fantastic signing.
Edwards, Piggott, Fraser and Harper all appear to have a wonderful first touch and turn on them and we’ve not had many players that can do what they can in the last decade. Certainly not since McGoldrick.
Plenty of concerns but as you’ve highlighted plenty of positives too. |  | | |
| Positives on 13:13 - Aug 18 with 1899 views | Herbivore |
As I said last night, having Kyle Edwards in this league should constitute cheating. He looks ridiculously good. Harper is another who looks a Championship player. I thought Burgess was assured at the back and decent enough on the ball and Woolfenden looked better as a result, that said we still shipped two poor goals so have to temper that one a little.
In principle the squad has too much talent to continue to not pick up positive results so I remain hopeful of better times ahead. I do worry though that this season has started in worryingly similar fashion to how last season ended under Cook. I hope that doesn't continue.
Uppa Towen. [Post edited 18 Aug 2021 13:14]
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| Positives on 13:16 - Aug 18 with 1870 views | Darth_Koont |
| Positives on 13:10 - Aug 18 by Illinoisblue |
Burgess was excellent. |
Yes, he looked very good.
Not seen anything of Edmundson and Coulson before (that I can remember anyway) so will be interesting to see what we’ve got with them. After the previous few years would be nice to think we could have a strong defence AND one where letting them play the ball about isn’t our opponents’ best form of attack.
I think we’ve already looked better on that score with Hladky playing a good part in that. | |
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| Positives on 13:17 - Aug 18 with 1872 views | SomethingBlue |
| Positives on 13:13 - Aug 18 by Herbivore |
As I said last night, having Kyle Edwards in this league should constitute cheating. He looks ridiculously good. Harper is another who looks a Championship player. I thought Burgess was assured at the back and decent enough on the ball and Woolfenden looked better as a result, that said we still shipped two poor goals so have to temper that one a little.
In principle the squad has too much talent to continue to not pick up positive results so I remain hopeful of better times ahead. I do worry though that this season has started in worryingly similar fashion to how last season ended under Cook. I hope that doesn't continue.
Uppa Towen. [Post edited 18 Aug 2021 13:14]
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In that first half Edwards and Harper looked at least a level above the one we were playing at. Lots and lots to look forward to from them. | |
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| Positives on 13:17 - Aug 18 with 1862 views | Darth_Koont |
| Positives on 13:12 - Aug 18 by Bluefish |
Some tactics being added and hopefully less lumps up the pitch soon
Hopefully seeing timely subs impact the game one day |
Yawn. Time for a coffee. | |
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| Positives on 13:22 - Aug 18 with 1822 views | Darth_Koont |
| Positives on 13:13 - Aug 18 by Asa |
Edwards is the best bums off seat player we’ve had since Gio. Going to be great watching him.
Burgess was superb. He looks like a fantastic signing.
Edwards, Piggott, Fraser and Harper all appear to have a wonderful first touch and turn on them and we’ve not had many players that can do what they can in the last decade. Certainly not since McGoldrick.
Plenty of concerns but as you’ve highlighted plenty of positives too. |
Yeah, the quality of the players’ first touch (along with simple execution of passes) looks significantly higher in this team.
I always liked Judge, Gwion, Sears etc. for their overall energy and willingness to run. But their unerring ability to lose the ball/screw up simple passes used to drive me insane. | |
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| Positives on 13:25 - Aug 18 with 1797 views | Herbivore |
| Positives on 13:17 - Aug 18 by SomethingBlue |
In that first half Edwards and Harper looked at least a level above the one we were playing at. Lots and lots to look forward to from them. |
Yep. I think both could get games at a top half Championship club based on what I've seen so far. They are very much the kind of players that fit the bill for building for a side capable of competing in the Championship. This is partly why I'm massively frustrated but not yet panicking as the quality of individual players is there, we just need to start converting that into performances. | |
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| Positives on 13:27 - Aug 18 with 1792 views | DavoIPB |
I'm guilty of ranting on her over the past twelve hours, was just angry at what I had witnessed last night.
Positives,
At last we do have players who are prepared to run at the opposition and go past them. Edwards was absolute class. We now have a defender who can tackle and win the ball back and did for most of last nights game have good positioning. We now have players who can control the ball and pass it. | | | |
| Positives on 13:27 - Aug 18 with 1787 views | BarcaBlue |
Coulsen to come in and the start of a settled back four. Admittedly not that exciting but a solid defence is going to allow Edwards et al strut their stuff with more confidence you'd hope. |  | | |
| Positives on 13:50 - Aug 18 with 1679 views | Darth_Koont |
— Long-rangers. Evans looks more threatening on free-kicks than anyone we’ve seen in a while. There also feels a decent chance that someone like him, Pigott, Edwards or Fraser will ping one in from open play. | |
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| Positives on 14:03 - Aug 18 with 1616 views | Guthrum |
| Positives on 13:12 - Aug 18 by Bluefish |
Some tactics being added and hopefully less lumps up the pitch soon
Hopefully seeing timely subs impact the game one day |
The difference with these 'lumps up the pitch' was that they were, in the main, well directed and there for someone to run on to - which our forwards were actually doing.
Unlike the somewhat random, into a mob of players for a bout of head-tennis variety we've seen too often.
Also, we now have men up the pitch who can win aerial battles, which we never seemed to do in the last few seasons. |  |
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| Positives on 14:10 - Aug 18 with 1597 views | itfcjoe |
I thought Woolfy and Burgess complemented each other well.
When we dominated the ball, Woolf was able to step in and nick it ahead of attackers, read game well and allow us to stay on the front foot.
When it came down to muck and bullets, Burgess defended excellently in nearly all facets.# |  |
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| Positives on 14:18 - Aug 18 with 1543 views | _sanctimoanious_ |
WHAT an exciting future the club has! Like nothing experienced in my lifetime. Real backing from switched-on sensible owners. A coach who wants to play exciting football with attacking players. The club has a professional structure from top to bottom with ambitious people who are hell-bent on success but fully understand that it can't happen overnight. No lame excuses, no complacency. The mantra almost force fed to us was 'TOGETHER' if you didn't quite get it, please, please try a little bit harder. Together we can succeed.
It may be a long journey with bumps in the road but WOW, the destination will be glorious. The second half of this season we will be untouchable imo. COYB. [Post edited 18 Aug 2021 14:25]
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| Positives on 14:19 - Aug 18 with 1527 views | jayessess |
- We're definitely going to win on Saturday. |  |
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| Positives on 14:19 - Aug 18 with 1526 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
George Edmundson to get fit and give the central defence some more steel.
I was bloody cross last night though. [Post edited 18 Aug 2021 14:21]
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| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Positives on 14:22 - Aug 18 with 1497 views | Churchman |
Behind the scenes the club is much better organised. This includes Ashton, who may turn out to be the idiot BC fans paint him, but is light years better then Clegg, Milne and co. A proper Chairman and an effort on Sports Science etc. There is genuine intent to improve the club. Sorry Evans-lovers, we’ve not had that in years.
With regard to Cook and the team, it’s a mess. I’ve no problem binning last year’s wasters. They were a disgrace and had to go. However, individual better players like Edwards will get us nowhere. We are playing against organised teams that know what they are doing. Ours don’t at the moment and yet again don’t look fit.
I have my fingers crossed that they’ll roll up their sleeves and start competing collectively and individually. They need to start showing and soon. Cook has until the end of October for me to not only start winning, but winning properly too. |  | | |
| Positives on 14:39 - Aug 18 with 1432 views | Bluefish |
| Positives on 14:03 - Aug 18 by Guthrum |
The difference with these 'lumps up the pitch' was that they were, in the main, well directed and there for someone to run on to - which our forwards were actually doing.
Unlike the somewhat random, into a mob of players for a bout of head-tennis variety we've seen too often.
Also, we now have men up the pitch who can win aerial battles, which we never seemed to do in the last few seasons. |
This doesn't work so well when Pigott is a lone striker, he isn't very good in the air and wanders off wide. Bonne was causing the problems | |
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| Positives on 14:41 - Aug 18 with 1412 views | _sanctimoanious_ |
| Positives on 14:39 - Aug 18 by Bluefish |
This doesn't work so well when Pigott is a lone striker, he isn't very good in the air and wanders off wide. Bonne was causing the problems |
Pigott was good for the first 45. Holding the ball up and bringing others into play. | | | |
| Positives on 14:58 - Aug 18 with 1364 views | Strimmer |
Harper's passing is much for positive than anything I've seen from our midfield in recent years.
I don't have stats to back this up but he always looks willing to look for the forward pass, get the ball round the corner to a winger/full back rather than playing the easy backwards ball, or turn himself out of trouble and then find the pass.
Looking forward to seeing more of that as the season goes on. | |
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| Positives on 15:42 - Aug 18 with 1258 views | Guthrum |
| Positives on 14:39 - Aug 18 by Bluefish |
This doesn't work so well when Pigott is a lone striker, he isn't very good in the air and wanders off wide. Bonne was causing the problems |
They weren't being fired at Pigott's head, but wider into space for our faster men to run onto. Which they were doing quite successfully. | |
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| Positives on 16:48 - Aug 18 with 1177 views | BryanPlug |
| Positives on 14:18 - Aug 18 by _sanctimoanious_ |
WHAT an exciting future the club has! Like nothing experienced in my lifetime. Real backing from switched-on sensible owners. A coach who wants to play exciting football with attacking players. The club has a professional structure from top to bottom with ambitious people who are hell-bent on success but fully understand that it can't happen overnight. No lame excuses, no complacency. The mantra almost force fed to us was 'TOGETHER' if you didn't quite get it, please, please try a little bit harder. Together we can succeed.
It may be a long journey with bumps in the road but WOW, the destination will be glorious. The second half of this season we will be untouchable imo. COYB. [Post edited 18 Aug 2021 14:25]
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| Positives on 16:57 - Aug 18 with 1150 views | Deano69 |
| Positives on 13:17 - Aug 18 by Darth_Koont |
Yawn. Time for a coffee. |
You tried.
no sugar in mine, I'll join you |  |
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| Positives on 17:10 - Aug 18 with 1113 views | chicoazul |
The club now seems genuinely interested in its’ fans for the first time in years and years. It is also a proper outfit in just about every way off the pitch and enjoys financial backing (and no debt) that can be expected to increase as success comes our way. It is now run by ruthless professionals who I am sure will deliver success on the pitch one way or another. |  |
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