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Post by OohMac on Mar 25, 2017 22:47:27 GMT
Things are certainly changing, a good second half for a change!! ๐
Another goal for ALF and 3 more points but more importantly a 6 point lead and what should be another 3 points next week leaving only five games left. Fleetwood also have a tough run in with mostly away games and Bradford are now 9 points away so surely we can't lose that without a complete collapse which I just can't see. Not counting any chickens but surely we must be almost nailed on for a Championship return so let's carry on and go up as Champions. Can't wait for Chesterfield now which I have to leave a little early to get to Harwood for my sisters 70th so I don't want a sweaty palm job please!!! Quick touch wood. Comments like this make me very nervous. 7 games to go. We went 7 without scoring earlier in the season. I won't be happy till its mathematically impossible not to be caught. There's still a lot of points to be lost and won and this is pressure time. We need to target 4 wins. None will be easy at this stage but break it down. 4 wins and we should be there.
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Post by whitesince63 on Mar 25, 2017 23:03:14 GMT
Things are certainly changing, a good second half for a change!! ๐
Another goal for ALF and 3 more points but more importantly a 6 point lead and what should be another 3 points next week leaving only five games left. Fleetwood also have a tough run in with mostly away games and Bradford are now 9 points away so surely we can't lose that without a complete collapse which I just can't see. Not counting any chickens but surely we must be almost nailed on for a Championship return so let's carry on and go up as Champions. Can't wait for Chesterfield now which I have to leave a little early to get to Harwood for my sisters 70th so I don't want a sweaty palm job please!!! Quick touch wood. Comments like this make me very nervous. 7 games to go. We went 7 without scoring earlier in the season. I won't be happy till its mathematically impossible not to be caught. There's still a lot of points to be lost and won and this is pressure time. We need to target 4 wins. None will be easy at this stage but break it down. 4 wins and we should be there. Quite safe OM I touched my head after every letter when I wrote that!! You're right that we shouldn't get carried away but in all honesty the teams in this division are so bad I think we can allow ourselves a little confidence we'll make it automatically. I know this will sound ridiculous to many but my only fear then is that if/when we do get promoted we'll keep Parky on. Personally I think it's a certainty we'll go straight back down if we do, playing this mindless hoofballl in the Championship. Anyway, one step at a time and let's just hope for another 3 points next week.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 23:53:55 GMT
Just in from a great night on the ale as Macron says 4 wins and it's all over bar the shouting but as pissed as I am it ain't over till the fat lad sings and truck me at 16 stone 9 onces I ain't singing yet COYWM bring it home.
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Post by OohMac on Mar 26, 2017 8:34:38 GMT
Just in from a great night on the ale as Macron says 4 wins and it's all over bar the shouting but as pissed as I am it ain't over till the fat lad sings and truck me at 16 stone 9 onces I ain't singing yet COYWM bring it home. Sounds like a good day all around? I tend to agree with you whites with regards to next season. I already said earlier that even Dougie would have got away with it in this league. So many games we "got away with it" but next season(hopefully) it will be playing against ยฃ10M+ strikers week in week out. But Barnsley have managed. Burton and Wigan are still in there so tough but not impossible but will need investment given that there doesn't seem to be a plethora of young talent coming through.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 26, 2017 11:43:13 GMT
Just before we all start getting over confident, we'll no doubt have to suffer the dreaded manager of the month syndrome as is usually the case, it's the dreaded curse for any team after your manager has won it!!! Let's hope they give it to Wilder๐๐ผ And against Chesterfield where a win is surely nailed on.....will be the game to completely shock us if we're over complaicent
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Post by OohMac on Mar 26, 2017 12:45:32 GMT
4 away wins, 14 away goals in those 4. Can't be anyone but Parky. Time to put that curse to rest.
2 more assist from Morais yesterday and I cannot work out why Bradford let him go? sure there fans will be more dumbfounded than us.
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Post by andyl on Mar 26, 2017 19:47:44 GMT
I do not like the tactics we are currently employing of hoofing all balls into the air and would far rather we passed it on the ground and developed movement off the ball and interchanged passes and kept possession. So the first half of this game was not for me. Nor was it for Madine who perhaps carrying injury into the game soon lost any appetite he may have had for the fierce and fair challenges Shrewsbury's excellent centre halves put in his direction so he left minus his shield about midway into the first half leaving us you would think with a tactical rethink but no we kept on punting on and on and on and on and they managed the situation with complete ease albeit having only one brief opportunity which led to a rather exaggerated Alnwick save
All of this said the pitch was uneven and there was something delightfully heroic about the encounter. It was rough, tough and territorially, in that first half, we did very well drawing lots of corners and creating lots of pressure. It was a game of attrition and the tactics of both sides were to deploy their artillery and to wear the opposition down. It was not pretty. Indeed it was ugly. Within this I thought Vela and Pratley were outstanding not on the ball but without it. Their energy levels were amazing. Pratley did what he does bundling anyone and everyone out of the way, kicking the ball anywhere and denying any room at all to the opposition and even his teammates. Vela adapted his game really well and was just excellent. I doubt anyone from the Guinness Book of records was present and they don't keep the statistics on this but I fancy the ball spent more time in the air and less on the ground than in any match seen this season. Hoof, head, hoof, head,head,head,hoof. Derik was all over the palce but managed quite a few of his trademark backward overhead hoofs ( or are they hooves- probably not). The ball was kicked out of the ground twice in the second half much to everyone's amusement and it appeared at times as if they were trying to elevate it into Percy Thrower's now ruined garden centre up the road ( Wyevale- say no more)
However we finally broke them down with a long throw and a back header from Beevers which caught their keeper in no mans land. The result was seldom then in doubt and we got on top. Le Fondre ( He is a Wanderer- sang the crowd) grew into the game and even began getting on the end of some of the hoofs. And after quite a neat move which he was involved in twice he crashed a shot securely in for the decisive 0-2.
In all of this our defence played very well and noone more so than Dervite. He really has improved markedly at the job of defending and looks so much fitter. At one point he even comfortably outpaced their centre forward who will presumably soon retire. Seriously though he was the pick of the defence and completely impenetrable.
It was in its agricultural way a most uplifting game and took us six points and therefore two games and a draw clear of Fleetwood and the chasing pack. And there were some positive signs as you would expect after a run of victories. namely lots of defensive confidence, lots of energy, improving fitness levels of Le Fondre and Pratley. We could well go all the way. This was a good. old fashioned battle lacking only mud and a casey to head and the crowd liked it- that part of the crowd that is which watched the game- many didn't preferring to face the crowd, go in and out and generally show more interest in crowd dynamics than game and with scant protection one idiot managed to invade the field- hopefully never to be seen again- why? Away games are becoming something of an ordeal off the field alas
It was though something of a Pyrrhic victory ; all three of our substitutions being precipitated by injury. Madine left clutching his groin. Taylor hobbled off painfully slowly. And Alnwick also was led off. I suspect Taylor's may be the most worrying injury. Their replacements did quite well though. Long was speedy and threatening if losing balance too much but I like what he offers and were we to play the ball on the floor or diagonally he may well come to the fore. Moxey treated us to an exquisite piece of skill that left his opponent for dead and Howard caught a far post cross really well under pressure and did pretty well after fluffing his first kick. We may need all of these players in the run in. So that was good and we need not worry that injuries will necessarily drag us down. We might though be worrying in the long term because these tactics in the championship would result in relegation. In Div 1 v a scrapping relegation team on their patch with two of the best defenders seen this year thwarting everything in that first half it augurs well for promotion..touchwood
Alnwick 6 Dervite 9 Beevers 7 Wheater 7 Taylor 7 ( Moxey 6) Vela 8 Pratley 8 Derik 6 Morais 6 Madine 5 ( Long 6) Le Fondre 8 Howard 6
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Post by bonaparte on Mar 26, 2017 21:16:09 GMT
Thank you Andy
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Post by andyl on Mar 28, 2017 15:14:10 GMT
In passing I do like these delightfully upbeat chairman's messages to fans. The contrast with the previous regime especially in later times is stark and I think it's contributing to the upturn in form and enthusiasm. Most certainly the wheeling and dealing with the league is- the addition of Morais alone has proved decisive and other transfer window acquisitions too have contributed significantly to the morale and the growing optimism
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Post by OohMac on Mar 28, 2017 21:01:50 GMT
Sheff Utd may have just put this title to bed with a win against Millwall. Shame but hope we don't give up the fight.
Oxford confirming what I thought last week that they're a very good team and battered Bury 5-1 with Vaughan getting another(he is surely too good at this level)
Shame about tonight. Not impossible now but Sheff U will be thinking that it's done and dusted and they're in the championship. Wilder stock continues to rise
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