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Post by andyl on Mar 13, 2015 14:54:25 GMT
Must win!!
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Post by andyl on Mar 13, 2015 19:16:59 GMT
Will try to guess our team. Seldom get close with NL
Amos Vela McCarthy Mills Ream Feeney Bannan Coke Danns Le Fondre Heskey
Subs Lonergan Davies, Dervite Eidur Twardzik Threlkeld Walker
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Post by andyl on Mar 13, 2015 19:21:59 GMT
PS. Bogdan playing at Stoke tonight!
And he let one in on 11 minutes
And we scored a late equaliser for 1-1 shows it can be done!!!
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Post by Trotter on Mar 13, 2015 20:33:28 GMT
Must win is an understatement so I reckon 2-0 for the lads.
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Post by davidm on Mar 13, 2015 20:36:06 GMT
3 out of next 4 games against the bottom 3.
I reckon it's a "must win" for all 3 games to restore our confidence.
Tomorrow 2-0
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 13, 2015 20:37:34 GMT
I'm a bit unsure about this one!!!
Neil Harris!!
A former striker at the Den
A Millwall legend
And we tend to help new managers on their way..
Oh!!!!
And we can't defend at all after 89 minutes!!! We just turn to jelly in additional time
It's 1-1 for me sadly
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 22:40:30 GMT
I have to get one right so 2-1 and a must win.
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Post by greydad on Mar 13, 2015 23:24:31 GMT
I think Andy L might be right with that selection..Bannan, McCarthy, Lefondre should be definite outfield starters, and N L obviously has faith in Amos, and rightly so. Coke did well enough to warrant further selection, although that would preclude Jancko from consideration.. a shame, as he and Vela can offer a good deal as a pairing, especially in a home fixture where positivity should be the aim. I hope Feeney is somehow galvanised into performing more effectively against his former club, and that the team as a whole is more effective in possession. If so, there should be more than enough ability in whichever starting eleven is selected, along with the subsequent options on the bench, to attain 3 vital points...a good win, and hopefully a clean sheet, will go a long way towards exorcising the 'Late goals demon' that has proved such a frustration over the last few games.
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Post by Trotter on Mar 14, 2015 15:22:27 GMT
Get in 1-0 and who the heck is this stand in called Tom Walker? ..... Local lad? Where abouts in Bolton?
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Post by Trotter on Mar 14, 2015 16:32:38 GMT
2-0 now let me guess who predicted that score line?
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Post by megsontilidie on Mar 14, 2015 16:59:20 GMT
Get in 1-0 and who the heck is this stand in called Tom Walker? ..... Local lad? Where abouts in Bolton? Tom Walker from Salford. bloody jack dearden on GMR calling him Tom Youngs for half the game...utter prat. he does it all the time calling jermaine Beckford ...Darren beckford. great shout on the 2-0 btw..brave man to call a clean sheet for us ! |
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Post by megsontilidie on Mar 14, 2015 17:13:09 GMT
phew ...great result. not just a 6 pointer..i call these 9 pointers... 3 for us, 3 against them and it's worth another 1.5 pt's each way in terms of confid rise for us and confid knock for them. win v Blackpool now and we should be safe.
at least we weren't at 1-0 at 90 mins which i feared. thanks to some top keeping by Amos. let them back into it in 2nd half.
Mills was sloppy esp 1st half ..some shocking passes. Danns lucky to stay on..utter madness. no wonder he was subbed. NL must have been debating whether to do it that very second or wait til HT.
fancied ALF for a goal today..very sharp at bl'burn with 3 shots on target...3 more today. young Walker did well esp 1st half. faded /tired a bit 2nd half.
MOM toss up between ALF and Amos. Mccarthy and bannan also 2 of the better performers. Mills going thru a form dip. he will improve.
some of Dougie duds starting to hurt us.....Feeney very quiet..HT pass % approx 50%. where is Dervite- is he inj'd ?. Trotter clearly not trusted...3 yr bloody contract for him...OMG .... Coke was originally not on bench. inj to Janko put wALKER INTO team and upgraded Coke to bench. but when Danns off, it was Coke not Trotter on.
at least NL took my advice and used all 3 subs and put Trotter on to protect things for final 5 mins.
Cravies power and pace made a difference. glad NL taking it slower with his fitness recovery. should be fit soon for a start.
LE fONDRE now up to 5 lge goals for us. joint top scorer in lge for us...with Zach.
up to 16th now. 44 pt's.
i see Zat started for Reading today away at Watford...just the 4-1 loss ! . tbf, Watford is a tough place to go... all the big guys notching..Deeney, Vydra, Abdi... be interesting to see Zat's role in that lot !
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Post by andyl on Mar 14, 2015 17:49:44 GMT
A poorish game in which we were outplayed in midfield for all the first half and much of the second. We owed our win to two excellent strikes from Le Fondre and two object lessons from Amos in what to do when confronted one on one. He closed down, stood tall and presented very little to shoot at. This is precisely what we haven't been seeing. I like what I see of him.
in the second half we had a few promising breakaways and advanced quite purposefully. The last minute selection of Walker by and large paid off. He got caught a few times but showed some good close control, a bit of acceleration and hit a very good free kick. Generally though we didn't really keep the ball.
It was a very uneven performance. No doubt the BN will apportion similar scores to one and all. If they do I didn't see it that way. For me
Amos 9 Vela 6 Mills 2 McCarthy 6 Ream 8 Feeney 2 Danns 1 Eidur 4 Bannan 7 Le Fondre 9 Walker 6 Coke 5 Craig D 7 Le Fondre's 9 is because of his two goals which individually with assists from Ream and Eidur respectively sent us in with a lead we didn't deserve.
If Lennon had again left us light in midfield he at least acted and took Danns off. He could easily have been sent off and was anyway poor and negative.
Of Feeney I despair. At his best he was anonymous but alas he was all too often visible. He hit one good cross but was very sub standard. You will go a long time before seeing a worse centre half display than that of Mills. In the air he has more or less stopped competing and the ball bounces freely into danger I suppose he made a few clearances but he was ever an accident in waiting. McCarthy looked a bit cumbersome but he at least did the basics. Vela made a couple of misjudgements but covered well most of the time. Ream had a good game and mopped up behind Mills regularly
a win is important. A shame Wigan won. We need to beat them. I have tickets for Ipswich and Wigan. A masochist indeed
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Post by megsontilidie on Mar 14, 2015 19:00:34 GMT
"i see Zat started for Reading today away at Watford...just the 4-1 loss ! . tbf, Watford is a tough place to go... all the big guys notching..Deeney, Vydra, Abdi... be interesting to see Zat's role in that lot !" per my post above..just seen the goals now on Goals express...1st and 3rd are absolute classics..will post the vid as soon as it's available. **** update..even funnier that first gaffe came after 1 MINUTE !!!!!!!!!!   |
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Post by davidm on Mar 14, 2015 19:22:26 GMT
We are in a position in the season where, in a lot of cases, results are more important than the performance. Today was one of those days.
We hardly produced a chance and lived dangerously in defence. Le Fondre scored 2 brilliant goals and Amos made 2 or 3 excellent one-on-one saves.
If we can get wins against Wigan and Blackpool, we should be able to relax and get back to entertaining football.
We got an early goal but gave possession to a very poor Millwall side. Millwall passed the ball well but couldn’t score nor defend well enough not to concede.
First half, we were just about deserving to be ahead but certainly not 2-0 and second half, well we just sat back and let Millwall come at us. Some slapdash marking/loss of possession (Mills and Coke) gave Millwall 2 absolute sitters but Amos saved well on both occasions.
Overall, a really average match brightened by Le Fondre and Amos.
Amos - 8 A couple of excellent points-winning saves in the second half. If rumours that he is to sign on permanently next season are true, his performance today justified it.
Vela - 6 Steady. He is not really a full back and occasionally gets caught but he has class.
Mills - 5 A couple of terrible mistakes in the first half could have led to goals and would have led to goals against better sides than Millwall. A few really indecisive headers too. Sloppy.
McCarthy - 8 Very good. Won most of the aerial battles.
Ream - 7 Good performance with some very good tackles.
Feeney - 5 I just do not know what he does. I know he works hard but there is little or no end product.
Danns - 4 Should have been sent off. His fouls more often than not come from him losing the ball and lunging after it. Sensibly substituted at half time.
Bannan - 6 More steady than outstanding. Worked hard and won the ball back well on an number of occasions.
Walker - 6 Very promising debut. He looks a bit slight but did some good dribbles and some decent passes. Should be very pleased with his performance.
Le Fondre - 9 But for Le Fondre and Amos, we would have lost today. He scored two goals out of nothing really by making space and shooting brilliantly.
Gudjohnsen - 5 Sorry but he is just not effective. He is a hero to us but is so out of the game, it is embarrassing.
Coke - 5 Couldn’t see why we took him on loan. Today he did nothing more than Trotter, or maybe the 2 foreign lads, could have done.
Almost cost a goal with some awful control.
Davies - 6 There was a better attacking approach when he came on.
Manager - 6 We are so desperate for a win that the entertainment value was sacrificed today.
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