| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated 21:31 - Feb 26 with 4099 views | Blooos |
The most gutless, tactically inept performance I think I’ve ever seen. Nowhere near good enough. |  | | |  |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:36 - Feb 26 with 3569 views | mistert |
It's was very very underwhelming but no need to be hyperbolic. |  | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:37 - Feb 26 with 3512 views | Vaughan8 |
I mean that is over the top. We've had worse games than that......... | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:39 - Feb 26 with 3458 views | Portman_Pie |
To be up against such a poor Utd team playing a full half with 10 - and to go down at 10 is really, really poor. I’ve got to agree - it’s poor tactics, and a certainty we’ll be relegated now. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:40 - Feb 26 with 3421 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
We just aren't quite good enough. There was nothing "pathetic", "embarrassing" or "gutless" about it.
It's almost like these established Prem teams have very good players. |  |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:41 - Feb 26 with 3374 views | MK1 |
You haven't watched much football then. |  |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:42 - Feb 26 with 3363 views | Blooos |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:40 - Feb 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
We just aren't quite good enough. There was nothing "pathetic", "embarrassing" or "gutless" about it.
It's almost like these established Prem teams have very good players. |
United are an absolute basket case and we couldn’t have made it any easier for them. We’ve scored through 2 massive strokes of luck and not laid a glove against 10 men for 60 minutes. We’ve been truly appalling for about 2 months and that performance was the tip of it. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:44 - Feb 26 with 3266 views | portmanking |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:40 - Feb 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
We just aren't quite good enough. There was nothing "pathetic", "embarrassing" or "gutless" about it.
It's almost like these established Prem teams have very good players. |
In recent weeks I'd agree we haven't been pathetic or embarrassing, but tonight took the biscuit for me. Everything had fallen into place at HT for us. Equaliser. Ten men. McKenna had 15 mins to regroup and change shape to get our spare man on the ball.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:45 - Feb 26 with 3224 views | stonojnr |
ah one of those fans who started following us in league 1 I take it but didnt pause to wonder how we got there... ;) | | | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:46 - Feb 26 with 3214 views | SaleAway |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:40 - Feb 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
We just aren't quite good enough. There was nothing "pathetic", "embarrassing" or "gutless" about it.
It's almost like these established Prem teams have very good players. |
I'm sorry, but it's not that we're not good enough. It's that there was no bravery. We've spent a shed loaf on attacking players, and of all those 10s, none of them were prepared to commit to anything. All we did was pass it out to them, then put it back. No guts to take a man on. Hardly even put a cross in. They one time we did, we scored. We've not created anything, against ten men. We appear to have no plan. They last 2 years we've been quick, positive and brave. We were none off those things tonight. And we haven't been all season. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:46 - Feb 26 with 3188 views | Nutkins_Return |
I'm absolutely gutted but it's not those things. It's really disappointing and it underlines where we are as a club. But the journey to get here was ridiculous and we just haven't been able to make the Jump. Gutted. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:48 - Feb 26 with 3118 views | Linners |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:46 - Feb 26 by SaleAway |
I'm sorry, but it's not that we're not good enough. It's that there was no bravery. We've spent a shed loaf on attacking players, and of all those 10s, none of them were prepared to commit to anything. All we did was pass it out to them, then put it back. No guts to take a man on. Hardly even put a cross in. They one time we did, we scored. We've not created anything, against ten men. We appear to have no plan. They last 2 years we've been quick, positive and brave. We were none off those things tonight. And we haven't been all season. |
It's almost as if getting beat every week by better players is starting to affect us isn't it? |  | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:50 - Feb 26 with 3050 views | OldFart71 |
Totally agree. The straw that broke the camels back. To lose to a poor ten man Man Utd and basically not have a shot on target second half was soul destroying to watch. We hardly ever got around the back of them. Mark Davis out and one side is tied up and the other side nobody crossed the ball and when they did it hit the first man. United gave us a head start then had a man sent off. Slab head got his head on everything in our box with nobody marking him. It brings into question what happens on the training ground. I have been one of the first to defend the team and KM but this was poor and you cannot dress it up as anything but. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:55 - Feb 26 with 2951 views | itfc_statman |
I get it, the frustration. United were terrible and reduced to 10 men and still beat us.
But the players are trying. They're not good enough and McKenna is a very average manager at this level - even if he was a top prem manager it would be hard to make up the difference in quality but he's probably not ultimately ready for a job at the top | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:57 - Feb 26 with 2871 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:42 - Feb 26 by Blooos |
United are an absolute basket case and we couldn’t have made it any easier for them. We’ve scored through 2 massive strokes of luck and not laid a glove against 10 men for 60 minutes. We’ve been truly appalling for about 2 months and that performance was the tip of it. |
What was lucky about our second? Excellent ball in, didn't need a touch. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 22:01 - Feb 26 with 2807 views | itfc_statman |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 21:57 - Feb 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
What was lucky about our second? Excellent ball in, didn't need a touch. |
We created less than 0.5xG after our first tap in goal. We were fortunate to score a second. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 22:06 - Feb 26 with 2706 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 22:01 - Feb 26 by itfc_statman |
We created less than 0.5xG after our first tap in goal. We were fortunate to score a second. |
I don't give a sh!t about your stats. The actual goal, which is what I was talking about, wasn't lucky. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 22:44 - Feb 26 with 2463 views | warky_1970 |
Not sure about that but I totally get your frustration although some of us realised all this way back in September. Screwed up the summer transfer window, hoped we would sort in January only to royally fool it up. If it weren’t for two ridiculous goals for Philogene tonight I would be ashamed at that result. |  | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 00:10 - Feb 27 with 2168 views | benrhyddingblue |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 22:06 - Feb 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I don't give a sh!t about your stats. The actual goal, which is what I was talking about, wasn't lucky. |
Statman picks and chooses his stats to suit his argument. I’ve seen him/her/them use stats to make one point in a thread and use stats to make the opposite argument elsewhere. Only place they’re worthy of is ignore.
It’s not a lucky goal; it was one of the only half decent balls into the box we made all night and it ended up in the back of the net. Why we didn’t try that more often in the 2nd half I’ll never know. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:33 - Feb 27 with 1516 views | itfc_statman |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 00:10 - Feb 27 by benrhyddingblue |
Statman picks and chooses his stats to suit his argument. I’ve seen him/her/them use stats to make one point in a thread and use stats to make the opposite argument elsewhere. Only place they’re worthy of is ignore.
It’s not a lucky goal; it was one of the only half decent balls into the box we made all night and it ended up in the back of the net. Why we didn’t try that more often in the 2nd half I’ll never know. |
Could you provide an example, or would that be too much for your limited ability in debate since "ignore" is the only option for something you don't agree with? 2025, ladies and gentlemen.
It was a hopeful ball in that shouldn't have been a goal. Delighted we scored it, but we won't score another from a low left-footed ball from the right skidding up off the surface and conveniently nestling in the bottom left corner. It's not a repeatable well worked pattern goal. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:40 - Feb 27 with 1482 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:33 - Feb 27 by itfc_statman |
Could you provide an example, or would that be too much for your limited ability in debate since "ignore" is the only option for something you don't agree with? 2025, ladies and gentlemen.
It was a hopeful ball in that shouldn't have been a goal. Delighted we scored it, but we won't score another from a low left-footed ball from the right skidding up off the surface and conveniently nestling in the bottom left corner. It's not a repeatable well worked pattern goal. |
Haha, your reliance on stats means you fail to see the game with your eyes, it seems.
It was an accurate, dangerous ball in which either gets touched in by Delap or, as it happens, goes all the way by itself. It didn't particularly "skid up off the surface". To say it's not repeatable, you're just embarrassing yourself.
Stop digging fella. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:42 - Feb 27 with 1463 views | portmanking |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:40 - Feb 27 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Haha, your reliance on stats means you fail to see the game with your eyes, it seems.
It was an accurate, dangerous ball in which either gets touched in by Delap or, as it happens, goes all the way by itself. It didn't particularly "skid up off the surface". To say it's not repeatable, you're just embarrassing yourself.
Stop digging fella. |
No, he's right. It was an ultra low-xG chance. And it absolutely skidded off the surface, hence why Delap left it. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:48 - Feb 27 with 1425 views | itfc_statman |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:40 - Feb 27 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Haha, your reliance on stats means you fail to see the game with your eyes, it seems.
It was an accurate, dangerous ball in which either gets touched in by Delap or, as it happens, goes all the way by itself. It didn't particularly "skid up off the surface". To say it's not repeatable, you're just embarrassing yourself.
Stop digging fella. |
I've got nothing to dig. Your view isn't in line with professional football coaches. McKenna won't be seeing that goal as a regular, repeatable pattern goal and it won't be something he will encourage in a coaching manner.
In fact, he generally speaking doesn't encourage crossing from a coaching perspective because like most other coaches at the top level they understand the quality of chances created is, historically and statistically pretty low.
I'd suggest you're showing a clear ignorance to modern-day football coaching and you should try speaking to some. | | | |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 12:27 - Feb 27 with 1274 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:48 - Feb 27 by itfc_statman |
I've got nothing to dig. Your view isn't in line with professional football coaches. McKenna won't be seeing that goal as a regular, repeatable pattern goal and it won't be something he will encourage in a coaching manner.
In fact, he generally speaking doesn't encourage crossing from a coaching perspective because like most other coaches at the top level they understand the quality of chances created is, historically and statistically pretty low.
I'd suggest you're showing a clear ignorance to modern-day football coaching and you should try speaking to some. |
Modern football managers don't encourage crossing?!?
You're right, I must be ignorant of modern-day football if that's the case. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 12:31 - Feb 27 with 1238 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:42 - Feb 27 by portmanking |
No, he's right. It was an ultra low-xG chance. And it absolutely skidded off the surface, hence why Delap left it. |
I've no interest in how xG it was, and I'm not all that bothered whether it "skidded off the surface" either really. I'm saying it wasn't a lucky goal (like the first was). It's a dangerous ball into the box that either gets touched in by the attacker or doesn't need a touch. It's not lucky in the sense of something bizarre happening. Dangerous balls into the box lead to goals every week. | |
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| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 12:38 - Feb 27 with 1176 views | BlueOura |
| Pathetic, embarrassing, deserve to be relegated on 10:48 - Feb 27 by itfc_statman |
I've got nothing to dig. Your view isn't in line with professional football coaches. McKenna won't be seeing that goal as a regular, repeatable pattern goal and it won't be something he will encourage in a coaching manner.
In fact, he generally speaking doesn't encourage crossing from a coaching perspective because like most other coaches at the top level they understand the quality of chances created is, historically and statistically pretty low.
I'd suggest you're showing a clear ignorance to modern-day football coaching and you should try speaking to some. |
I doubt that is correct about Mckenna but if it is then maybe he should. That type of left footed inswinging cross from the right ( or vice versa ) has a pretty good chance of creating a goal scoring opportunity if delivered correctly.
You see this happen quite regualrly, see Bryan Mbeumo against us earlier in the season as one example. One of the greatest prem players of all time, Mo Salah, plays that type of delivery pretty much every week. |  | | |
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