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Post by 1unclealbert on Aug 8, 2015 20:34:02 GMT
Northampton - the Cobblers. Should be Northampton - the Cloggies.
They have never been anything but a lower league pedestrian club, not known for the beautiful game.
They won today against a non-league side. Big Deal.
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Post by bangkokgas on Aug 8, 2015 20:37:25 GMT
my unclealbert never pulled the wool over my eyes....
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Post by bttrsblue on Aug 8, 2015 20:38:48 GMT
bad miss by taylor today but very clever play to anticipate the back pass,i doubt any of our other forwards would have taken up that position. still a bad miss but i still think he can do well and score goals this season. He wasn't anticipating anything, he was moaning about a previous passage of play, pure luck he was there. I'm not a Taylor hater, far from it, but that's how I saw it today. |
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Post by crater on Aug 8, 2015 20:50:45 GMT
Dont understand the comments that Taylor isn't good enough at this level. Didnt have a good day today but which Rovers player did? 1 game played so dont be getting on his back and writing him off after 70 odd minutes of football But it's obvious for all to see, he needs half a dozen easy chances to score one goal. He got away with it last season against park players, he's up against full time professionals now and will get one or two of those chances at most each game, unless he can improve his finishing he'll find himself finishing the season somewhere like FGR or Eastleigh. If Easter was being played as the forward striker today we would have been 1-0 up. So he should have scored 120 goals last season in your opinion then. He played against alot of professional players last season btw. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 20:51:12 GMT
Come on, come now. The first half Gas performance wasn't bad at all. We could have gone in 1-0 up too. Really, according to the stats we didn't have a shot on target in the first half. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 20:57:04 GMT
bad miss by taylor today but very clever play to anticipate the back pass,i doubt any of our other forwards would have taken up that position. still a bad miss but i still think he can do well and score goals this season. He wasn't anticipating anything, he was moaning about a previous passage of play, pure luck he was there. I'm not a Taylor hater, far from it, but that's how I saw it today. what you didnt realise was that he was pretending to moan while waiting for the pass back  seriously i never spotted that but if you say he there by pure luck because of a moan then i accept that as the truth |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 20:59:19 GMT
Northampton - the Cobblers. Should be Northampton - the Cloggies. They have never been anything but a lower league pedestrian club, not known for the beautiful game. They won today against a non-league side. Big Deal. UTG they have played in the top division something we have never managed,,,,were not a non league side now,that was last season |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 21:00:13 GMT
But it's obvious for all to see, he needs half a dozen easy chances to score one goal. He got away with it last season against park players, he's up against full time professionals now and will get one or two of those chances at most each game, unless he can improve his finishing he'll find himself finishing the season somewhere like FGR or Eastleigh. If Easter was being played as the forward striker today we would have been 1-0 up. So he should have scored 120 goals last season in your opinion then. He played against alot of professional players last season btw. I refer the right honourable Gentleman to the open goal today where, when faced with a defender who had more idea of positional play than Pipe will ever have, Taylor didn't even get a shot away. Similar to Wembley, chance handed to him on a plate by a defensive mistake, he goes round the keeper and still doesn't even come close to scoring. I'm not saying that he, or any other striker for that matter, will ever take all of their chances, but Taylor's conversion rate is a problem as he'll get far fewer chances against real footballers than he did against the ramshackle mobs he came up against last season. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 8, 2015 21:12:35 GMT
That's the problem with Taylor & Harrison plus probably Blisset, but with a home crowd pushing 9,000 do we really need to relying upon 3 non league strikers for goals, 4 with Bodin?
The lack of summer spending could well hit home this week when we could well lose all 3 games unless we vastly improve on today's lacklustre performance, where apart from Harrison's back pass, I can't recall a single shot on target, or even off target?
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Aug 8, 2015 21:17:13 GMT
Taylor scored 20 goals last season, so I quite like his conversion rate at the moment.
You can so anything you like with statistics. Agree, Taylor misses more than he scores, but he Drs score sublime goals and his all round play and footballing vision should be valued too.
Yea, he missed a chance today. So did Ellis. Hardly mentioned.
Give the guy a break ffs..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 21:20:06 GMT
That's the problem with Taylor & Harrison plus probably Blisset, but with a home crowd pushing 9,000 do we really need to relying upon 3 non league strikers for goals, 4 with Bodin? The lack of summer spending could well hit home this week when we could well lose all 3 games unless we vastly improve on today's lacklustre performance, where apart from Harrison's back pass, I can't recall a single shot on target, or even off target? There was a bobbling 2mph effort in the second half, not sure who it was, from the right edge of their penalty area, the keeper had a look, popped off to make a cup of tea, came back on, did The Sun 5 min coffee time crossword, then fell onto the ball. Apart from that, no goal threat whatsoever. I think there's a decent L2 striker there in Taylor, his work rate is superb, but he needs a coach who can help him sort out his finishing. |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Aug 8, 2015 21:22:03 GMT
That's the problem with Taylor & Harrison plus probably Blisset, but with a home crowd pushing 9,000 do we really need to relying upon 3 non league strikers for goals, 4 with Bodin? The lack of summer spending could well hit home this week when we could well lose all 3 games unless we vastly improve on today's lacklustre performance, where apart from Harrison's back pass, I can't recall a single shot on target, or even off target? There was a bobbling 2mph effort in the second half, not sure who it was, from the right edge of their penalty area, the keeper had a look, popped off to make a cup of tea, came back on, did The Sun 5 min coffee time crossword, then fell onto the ball. Apart from that, no goal threat whatsoever. I think there's a decent L2 striker there in Taylor, his work rate is superb, but he needs a coach who can help him sort out his finishing. Agreed. You'd think Stewie would be an ideal candidate? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 21:32:15 GMT
There was a bobbling 2mph effort in the second half, not sure who it was, from the right edge of their penalty area, the keeper had a look, popped off to make a cup of tea, came back on, did The Sun 5 min coffee time crossword, then fell onto the ball. Apart from that, no goal threat whatsoever. I think there's a decent L2 striker there in Taylor, his work rate is superb, but he needs a coach who can help him sort out his finishing. Agreed. You'd think Stewie would be an ideal candidate? I would have thought so, but something isn't quite clicking. I think that Marcus was a different type of striker to Taylor though, so maybe a player more like Penrice is what Matty needs? I honestly don't know, but we saw today, against better teams than we faced last year, you get one or two chances a game, so it's important to at least get a shot on target. Matty knows this, so does Clarke, so does Marcus. With a bit of luck Matty will sort himself out and I'll have to find something else to complain about |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Aug 9, 2015 1:27:22 GMT
Agreed. You'd think Stewie would be an ideal candidate? I would have thought so, but something isn't quite clicking. I think that Marcus was a different type of striker to Taylor though, so maybe a player more like Penrice is what Matty needs? I honestly don't know, but we saw today, against better teams than we faced last year, you get one or two chances a game, so it's important to at least get a shot on target. Matty knows this, so does Clarke, so does Marcus. With a bit of luck Matty will sort himself out and I'll have to find something else to complain about I think next week you could have a field day about our beloved BOD  |
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Post by kellyoreed on Aug 9, 2015 7:08:26 GMT
Just to throw my two pence in, I didn't come away feeling too disheartened. Yes it's a shame we lost, and we were poor, but I could see some positives.
Sinclair had a good game despite being out of position, personally I thought Montano looked promising, and Easter looks like he'll be getting a few goals as long as hes being fed from midfield. .
I thought Matty Taylor was poor, and Chris Lines wasn't at his best. In my opinion we missed Mansell and McCrystal, but all in all I'm not too worried.
I think a lot of yesterday can be put down to nerves (and yes I know that's not acceptable for professional footballers but it happens nonetheless).
I don't think we should panic just yet!
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Post by Bernard Briggs on Aug 9, 2015 7:13:48 GMT
That's the problem with Taylor & Harrison plus probably Blisset, but with a home crowd pushing 9,000 do we really need to relying upon 3 non league strikers for goals, 4 with Bodin? The lack of summer spending could well hit home this week when we could well lose all 3 games unless we vastly improve on today's lacklustre performance, where apart from Harrison's back pass, I can't recall a single shot on target, or even off target? I think there's a decent L2 striker there in Taylor, his work rate is superb, but he needs a coach who can help him sort out his finishing. That seems a more balanced assessment of Taylor, Bamber Even if he doesn`t score, he offers the team something with his all round game. Not like Easter yesterday, who offered us nothing. I think he looked at the size of their defence and thought, "I`m keeping out of this". |
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Post by Peter Parker on Aug 9, 2015 7:21:22 GMT
I would have thought so, but something isn't quite clicking. I think that Marcus was a different type of striker to Taylor though, so maybe a player more like Penrice is what Matty needs? I honestly don't know, but we saw today, against better teams than we faced last year, you get one or two chances a game, so it's important to at least get a shot on target. Matty knows this, so does Clarke, so does Marcus. With a bit of luck Matty will sort himself out and I'll have to find something else to complain about I think next week you could have a field day about our beloved BODÂ The chairman of the HM club out again |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 7:59:39 GMT
I think next week you could have a field day about our beloved BOD There's literally nothing they could do (or not do) or say that would surprise me. |
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Post by Smithy Gas on Aug 9, 2015 8:35:02 GMT
Remember when Ellis Harrison went through on goal 1on1 and missed? Can we have two pages of dissecting that one now please?
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Post by stevek192 on Aug 9, 2015 8:37:02 GMT
Unfortunately have to agree. It was a lesson we were given the season before last and haven't learnt. DC got the substitutions and the selection totally wrong yesterday and that did surprise me. Still think we needed to sign a couple of bullies in the spine of the team- Centre half,central midfield and Centre forward. Parkes has to toughen up and quick; there again he is a notorious slow starter.
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