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Post by Gresty on Mar 2, 2024 21:00:11 GMT
A desperately disappointing result against extremely moderate opposition. The loan forward Phillips misses two gaping opportunities, Cameron two and Rooney one. Meanwhile nineteen goal duo Cowley and Ceesay are on the bench. Downing underemployed as usual. Still no assists or goals for the wing back pair of Skinner and Hudson or goals from corners by Cameron, Downing or Howkins. Never mind the referee - that evens out: Mr Caddis needs a bit more of a grilling than he gets. Fizzle, fizzle. More accurately, perhaps the players need more of a grilling than they get? The manager's playing days are over. Listening to Keef today, it seems the team selection and tactics were spot on, with any number of opportunities spurned (or denied by what seemed to be an inspired goalkeeping performance). |
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Post by GRL on Mar 2, 2024 21:09:04 GMT
A desperately disappointing result against extremely moderate opposition. The loan forward Phillips misses two gaping opportunities, Cameron two and Rooney one. Meanwhile nineteen goal duo Cowley and Ceesay are on the bench. Downing underemployed as usual. Still no assists or goals for the wing back pair of Skinner and Hudson or goals from corners by Cameron, Downing or Howkins. Never mind the referee - that evens out: Mr Caddis needs a bit more of a grilling than he gets. Fizzle, fizzle. More accurately, perhaps the players need more of a grilling than they get? The manager's playing days are over. Listening to Keef today, it seems the team selection and tactics were spot on, with any number of opportunities spurned (or denied by what seemed to be an inspired goalkeeping performance). Rubbish. Mr Caddis himself suggests that we would have been out of sight if it weren't for poor finishing. With 37-year-old Williams, 35-year-old Rooney and loanee Phillips all preferred as starters to Cowley. |
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Mar 2, 2024 21:11:42 GMT
Incredible.
Today we lost a match that we (apparently, was 1400 miles away, so not definitively), should have won.
A few weeks back, we took/stole three points from Rushall that were not remotely deserved on chances/performance.
That’s football, it happens, it will always happen.
The season has by no means fizzled out, just as it hadn’t a couple of weeks back. To say it has is an insult to the management, the players, and the supporters.
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Mar 2, 2024 21:12:59 GMT
More accurately, perhaps the players need more of a grilling than they get? The manager's playing days are over. Listening to Keef today, it seems the team selection and tactics were spot on, with any number of opportunities spurned (or denied by what seemed to be an inspired goalkeeping performance). Rubbish. Mr Caddis himself suggests that we would have been out of sight if it weren't for poor finishing. With 37-year-old Williams, 35-year-old Rooney and loanee Phillips all preferred as starters to Cowley. Were you there wain? |
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Post by Gulliver on Mar 2, 2024 21:14:42 GMT
All our strike force on the pitch at sometime today and not one of them could find the net. Time to look around for a striker for next season I think. It comes to something when centre back Cameroon is the best option to score in open play. Devastating result when we appeared to control most of the game. Why do we so often need one more touch of the ball or make that extra pass before shooting for goal? How many chances do we need when the opposition seem to capitalise with one? As dadstaxi mentioned earlier, all our so-called strikers were available and played today but none could produce a winning goal. Could have been in sixth (?) place tonight but dropped to eleventh, not what most of the predictions envisaged earlier today. Another wasted opportunity to put right that minus goal difference which will eventually bite us in the bum. |
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Post by GRL on Mar 2, 2024 21:29:18 GMT
Rubbish. Mr Caddis himself suggests that we would have been out of sight if it weren't for poor finishing. With 37-year-old Williams, 35-year-old Rooney and loanee Phillips all preferred as starters to Cowley. Were you there wain? No, I listened to the radio. I'm too abusive to be allowed out in polite society. Apparently. |
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Post by Redragtoabull on Mar 2, 2024 21:32:45 GMT
A desperately disappointing result against extremely moderate opposition. The loan forward Phillips misses two gaping opportunities, Cameron two and Rooney one. Meanwhile nineteen goal duo Cowley and Ceesay are on the bench. Downing underemployed as usual. Still no assists or goals for the wing back pair of Skinner and Hudson or goals from corners by Cameron, Downing or Howkins. Never mind the referee - that evens out: Mr Caddis needs a bit more of a grilling than he gets. Fizzle, fizzle. Insidious |
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Post by Redragtoabull on Mar 2, 2024 22:33:17 GMT
No, I listened to the radio. I'm too abusive to be allowed out in polite society. Apparently. Always good to know one’s limitations. |
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Post by Gresty on Mar 2, 2024 22:36:20 GMT
More accurately, perhaps the players need more of a grilling than they get? The manager's playing days are over. Listening to Keef today, it seems the team selection and tactics were spot on, with any number of opportunities spurned (or denied by what seemed to be an inspired goalkeeping performance). Rubbish. Mr Caddis himself suggests that we would have been out of sight if it weren't for poor finishing. With 37-year-old Williams, 35-year-old Rooney and loanee Phillips all preferred as starters to Cowley. FFS, the poor finishing is precisely the point I made. The ages of the participants is utterly irrelevant. |
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Post by GRL on Mar 3, 2024 8:28:42 GMT
Rubbish. Mr Caddis himself suggests that we would have been out of sight if it weren't for poor finishing. With 37-year-old Williams, 35-year-old Rooney and loanee Phillips all preferred as starters to Cowley. FFS, the poor finishing is precisely the point I made. The ages of the participants is utterly irrelevant. Ah, but you see, it isn't. Cowley is unquestionably the sharpest of the four. He is also the last player to have headed a goal from a corner kick. On the broader front it had nothing to do with the players when David Keyte was chairman at the old club, did it? It was all his fault. (Game, set and match.) |
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Mar 3, 2024 9:17:41 GMT
FFS, the poor finishing is precisely the point I made. The ages of the participants is utterly irrelevant. Ah, but you see, it isn't. Cowley is unquestionably the sharpest of the four. He is also the last player to have headed a goal from a corner kick. On the broader front it had nothing to do with the players when David Keyte was chairman at the old club, did it? It was all his fault. (Game, set and match.) Utterly ridiculous. And since you brought it up, "Not on my watch!" |
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Post by Gresty on Mar 3, 2024 9:19:58 GMT
FFS, the poor finishing is precisely the point I made. The ages of the participants is utterly irrelevant. Ah, but you see, it isn't. Cowley is unquestionably the sharpest of the four. He is also the last player to have headed a goal from a corner kick. On the broader front it had nothing to do with the players when David Keyte was chairman at the old club, did it? It was all his fault. (Game, set and match.) If you say so. I can't be arsed. 😴 |
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Post by chalkywhite81 on Mar 3, 2024 9:21:35 GMT
Obviously very dissapointing yesterday but once again results are relatively favourable to us and we are well in the mix and will continue to be.
We will have the (proper) return of Ceesay, Tope, Mendes and Tex before crunch matches. We seem to play better against stronger sides, Cowley, Williams, Lyden and Downing are all match fit and we also now have 2 full backs.
I’d have snapped your hand off if offered this in October/November.
We also now have a couple of systems Caddis has used depending on personnel and crowds are well up.
Sizzle, sizzle not fizzle, fizzle.
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Post by greekgod on Mar 3, 2024 9:23:08 GMT
No, I listened to the radio. I'm too abusive to be allowed out in polite society. Apparently. Always good to know one’s limitations. Feel sorry for Alexa listening to the instructions in Latin. I bet she does her best to play the wrong station to annoy him (or is that just me!) |
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Post by GRL on Mar 3, 2024 9:30:55 GMT
Obviously very dissapointing yesterday but once again results are relatively favourable to us and we are well in the mix and will continue to be. We will have the (proper) return of Ceesay, Tope, Mendes and Tex before crunch matches. We seem to play better against stronger sides, Cowley, Williams, Lyden and Downing are all match fit and we also now have 2 full backs. I’d have snapped your hand off if offered this in October/November. We also now have a couple of systems Caddis has used depending on personnel and crowds are well up. Sizzle, sizzle not fizzle, fizzle. I hope you are right. |
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Post by Glawster Bull on Mar 3, 2024 10:36:10 GMT
It's still too early to say where this season is going. Barney is right in pointing out that we have picked up wins where our performances probably didn't merit them, whilst yesterday seems to have been game we deserved to win but didn't. That's the game, Always has been, and if you can't deal with it, you're probably following the wrong sport (or at the very least, the wrong team).
I have a feeling our poor GD may end up biting us, but that's not necessarily the case.
The NLN always seems to follow a familar course - a mad scramble to get into the play offs where results are always totally unpredictable as teams in and around them pick up bonus points where not anticipated and drop them in a similar fashion. Then it's anyone's game.
Exactly 12 months ago, with 10 games left, Kiddy were 11th on 48 points, 4 outside the last play-off place.
Even more tellingly, with 7 games remaining, they were 12th on 50 points, a GD of -5, and 9 points outside the play-offs.
They went on a great end-of season run with 19 points out of 21, squeezed into the play-offs on the last day and went on to get promoted.
(We, by contrast, were above Kiddy this time last year in 10th, with 48 points and proceeded to garner a meagre 7 points from the last 10)
The point is there will be plenty more twists and turns in this race yet. Whether we have the squad to deliver the results needed remains to be seen. But that is part of the joy of football isn't it?
(Also - look where Kiddy are now and be under no illusions that, if we can somehow get promoted, we are likely to find the league above a completely different proposition. Would I take that? Would I swap places with them? Of course, I would. If you want to enjoy the highs, you need to accept there will also be lows and Kiddy still have as much to fight for as us at this point in the season).
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Post by Incognito on Mar 3, 2024 10:42:59 GMT
Put like that, all to play for.
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Post by dadstaxi on Mar 3, 2024 10:56:31 GMT
Crowley needs to stop trying to score a wonder goal every time and just stuff the ball in the net.
Austin same age as willo at Swindon and still got it give him a call mr caddis.
What we have to worry most about is a team that makes the playoffs but misses out perhaps in the final. Who have an ambitious chairman who has a load of cash to waste who will take a chance on an up and coming manager with something to prove who lives further north than Hereford.
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Post by GRL on Mar 3, 2024 11:46:22 GMT
Mr Caddis has undoubtedly been a breath of fresh air at the club; he has revived a lot of the interest which existed in its days of infancy.
In response to Glawster Bull above, it's a given that one becomes philosophical after 62 years of going to Edgar Street. We know all about ups and downs.
If we are keen to strike when the metal's hot during this rejuvenation I have to say I'm struggling to understand why it is that some observers on a fans' forum get a bit excited about people taking the not unusual course of expressing an opinion; look up "forum."
Now, specifically, yesterday, I know supporters who simply would not have spent their hard-earned cash on a visit to Curzon Ashton if they had known in advance that Cowley and Ceesay, if available at all, were not starting. You can't even begin to tell me that Rooney, who did start, is fitter than either of them or that he poses more of a goal threat.
Curzon, I would say, would have been delighted that their reserve 'keeper and central defender did not have to cope with them from the outset.
Mr Caddis never seems to have seen the virtue of scoring an early goal. All of a sudden this manager seems to be sacrosanct from objective criticism.
As for the much vaunted value of achieving a better goal difference that would automatically happen if you won games.
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Oct 19, 2024 18:07:29 GMT
Great win that, up to second.
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