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Post by riochforthereebok on Sept 2, 2023 7:19:36 GMT
The morning after the night before…….
Looking through the TDD thread from Marc illes and it looked evident around 7pm when he’s running poll’s on ‘best summer transfer window signings’that we were never going to sign anyone
Can one imagine the ‘pick me up’ before this game had we announced the ‘late’ signing of a JCH type figure!
On to the game… Derby found their scoring boots away to Posh last week with a Waghorn hat trick and they did it with just 41% possession scoring 4 away goals, so today’s possession based opponents BWFC will probably play right into their hands
2-2
If we’re lucky
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Post by OohMac on Sept 2, 2023 8:00:09 GMT
Bolton 1 -3 Derby
After a good start question marks now all over the place. Is Baxter good enough? Who is the best defenders and can they defend? The midfield too soft? Do they create enough? Can any striker score the required goals? And can the subs do anything at all to change the game? And does this 532 Evatt ball work at all?
I'm not saying we're going down. Just when we did with Parky we actually took 10 points from 4 games. Wildschut and Magennis on fire.
Not saying I'm always right but I was still saying we'd go down because knew these players weren't capable of maintaining it.
We won't go down this season. But we won't maintain this 2pts per game average. We will get roughed up by the gritty teams and chewed up by the elite. We will better those middling teams at home on most occasions and get a few results our way on the road for it to be a comfortable season but play offs out of reach. 8th or 9th finish.
Sorry ultra negative after wasting time on TDD thread yesterday and 2 weeks of waiting for a change in the wind.
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Post by chip on Sept 2, 2023 8:17:22 GMT
I can't see were the hell our goals are going to come from except Dion our strikers can't hit a barn door with a paddle, midfield sliced open like a hot knife through butter and our defence starting to get a little cock sure of themselves on the whole I'm not to impressed with our team, yes it's decent for the play-offs but I will be surprised if we get top 2. On to today it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't turn us over like Wigan did but saying all that we must not upset the manager or board so 3-1 Bolton that would put a smile on our faces hahaha COYWM
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Post by davidm on Sept 2, 2023 8:46:41 GMT
Big game this one.
Not a “must win” game but definitely a “must not lose” game.
Defeat would mean 3 successive home losses which is poor.
I assume the defence will read:-
Baxter
Cogley, Jones, Toal, Iredale and Williams.
Midfield is harder.
Any 3 from Thomason, Sheehan, Morley, Dempsey, Maghoma and Gomes.
Upfront, I expect Charles and Adeboyejo but, if he is fit, I would start Bodvarsson instead of Adeboyejo.
Oh and a goalie on the bench please. We got away with it on Tuesday because we were allowed 9 subs. Back to 7 subs today but we cannot risk an outfield player going in nets.
As everyone says, it will be a hard game and Warne seems to have a hold over us but did you see Derby’s defence at home to Wigan and Blackpool – appalling.
We need to get at them and not allow them to get any hold on the game. The Wigan match was a case of us standing off and being bullied. That mustn’t happen again.
I am always the optimist. This is tight and I’ll go for a hard fought 1-0 win.
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Post by one2many on Sept 2, 2023 11:21:46 GMT
Not confident at all about today. I predict a 0-2 defeat.
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Post by whitesince63 on Sept 2, 2023 11:51:06 GMT
Not confident at all about today. I predict a 0-2 defeat. I can well understand that o2m after recent results but let’s see if the players are feeling more confident than you are? I’d certainly hope so because if we go out there without a confident attitude you certainly won’t win. I just wonder what team Evatt puts out, especially in midfield. I’d prefer him to stick with the Morley. Sheehan, Dempsey combination that we started so well with. I still think the Wigan defeat was a fluke result and has been the subject of a big over reaction. So many players were out of form and I still believe had the referee been stronger early on it would have changed the game completely. I may be wrong but that’s the way I see it. There’s no doubt that it then affected the players at Burton but hopefully they’re through that now after on the whole a decent performance against a very strong Borough on Tuesday despite the result. So time to get the show back on the road and whilst nobody knows how the players react, a win today will do wonders whilst a defeat could be devastating. We have to forget the opposition and concentrate on what we do well and if we do that I’m sure we’ll win but it won’t be easy. So I’ll stay confident and if Evatt keeps that midfield plus Dion and Victor up top I’ll go for a 2-1 win but if he fiddles around I think we’ll probably lose out.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Sept 2, 2023 14:38:20 GMT
30 minutes of ‘being the best side’
THEN WHAM
0-1 down
Derby were that miles off it I was beginning to feel sorry for them
100% possession and nothing to show for it
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Post by chip on Sept 2, 2023 14:39:47 GMT
70% possession and 1-0 down to a penalty we have had our chances but yet again they end up in the stand bloody hell COYWM
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Post by riochforthereebok on Sept 2, 2023 14:42:21 GMT
Our passing has been awful to be honest and our shooting is so wayward R Williams shot was going to the sun quicker than the Indian space ship
On 8 minutes - free kick, what do we do? Play it in gently rather than shooting at the goalie that might, just might, spill it Now Derby will show their quality
I give up
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Post by OohMac on Sept 2, 2023 14:45:45 GMT
Importance of set pieces. You don't need 30 mins of keep ball when it takes 30 seconds to cause havoc.
1st corner Toal should have given away a penalty. VAR wouldn't get away with it.
2nd one. Thought ref would look to even it up as he looked like he got Toal wrong. As it happened he did us a favour by ruling out the goal.
We look at sixes and sevens defending corners and in Baxter we have another fusbal keeper who won't get off his line.
Least we can say we dominated again.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Sept 2, 2023 14:47:47 GMT
Both very dubious penalty decisions but I’ll take it 1-1
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Post by chip on Sept 2, 2023 14:47:47 GMT
1-1 not sure about both penalties but I’m not the referee COYWM
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Post by chip on Sept 2, 2023 14:50:16 GMT
Ohh just wide from another corner COYWM
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Post by OohMac on Sept 2, 2023 15:09:05 GMT
Miles the better team but its so difficult for us to create a chance and so easy for them. For us it takes 40 passes and for them 3.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Sept 2, 2023 15:14:38 GMT
The way this ref likes to ‘even’ things up, i only hope he doesn’t send Baxter off as we don’t have a replacement
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