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Post by Jack on Dec 6, 2020 16:15:27 GMT
It's disappointing and very frustrating to find ourselves in the same position - play well, deserve a point but lose by 1 goal.
It's very obvious that there's not a million things wrong. It's been extremely fine margins in all of our defeats this year, you have to believe that our luck will turn at some point.
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Post by rcb on Dec 6, 2020 17:09:38 GMT
It's disappointing and very frustrating to find ourselves in the same position - play well, deserve a point but lose by 1 goal. It's very obvious that there's not a million things wrong. It's been extremely fine margins in all of our defeats this year, you have to believe that our luck will turn at some point. We have had more than our fair share of good fortune in our six non-loss games so far. Conceding unnecessary goals is not, in our case, poor luck. Currently, it seems the personnel at the club are incapable of sorting this weakness out. Without money it has to be resolved in-house. Taylor will not be a loss, he’s switched off already.
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Post by chesterken on Dec 6, 2020 17:10:56 GMT
It's disappointing and very frustrating to find ourselves in the same position - play well, deserve a point but lose by 1 goal. It's very obvious that there's not a million things wrong. It's been extremely fine margins in all of our defeats this year, you have to believe that our luck will turn at some point. It’s a strange season if we put 3 or 4 wins together we will be right in the mix again.
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Post by boughtonblue on Dec 6, 2020 19:02:27 GMT
Does anyone know what fracas was about at full time?
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Post by Forever Blue on Dec 7, 2020 1:05:01 GMT
Does anyone know what fracas was about at full time? Probably a York player made a wise crack and our own players frustration at conceding stupid goals, I know it winds me up because we do have some decent hard working players.
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Post by johny9 on Dec 7, 2020 7:54:21 GMT
Worrying thing for me is our record against the top 7 teams in this league last season and now this . I can only think of kings Lynn at home last year as our only win and this year Gloucester , York , Gateshead , spennymoor will probably be top 7 and we have lost all them games . Think it’s clear we are just not quite there yet . I believe we are a better team this year and a good striker away from being right up there . ( also the defending set pieces needs improving !!) Sorry to disagree, but we have played ten games so far and have scored in EVERY game. We have lost four, each one by the odd goal, and have score drawn twice. We have a ridiculous ability to concede poor goals and this alone is the reason why we are not top of the league. Nothing has been achieved in addressing this one issue since the end of last season. I know what your saying , we shouldn’t have to score more than 1 to avoid a defeat and daft defensive mistakes are costing us but I think we are creating a lot more chances in games this year and some of the chances we are missing are criminal aswel as the switching off at the back . In my opinion the mistakes that are costing us conceding goals wouldn’t be as crucial if we had put our own chances away the other end
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Post by Si on Dec 7, 2020 9:19:28 GMT
Does anyone know what fracas was about at full time? Jonno said some of their players were celebrating and some of our lads took exception to it. He said himself he has no problem with players celebrating a win, so he wasn't sure why our lads got annoyed by it......as someone has touched upon above it's probably just another frustration at letting another 3 points slide away through the same mistakes as usual.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 7, 2020 20:03:58 GMT
I think that game sums up the fact that we have to work much harder for goals than the opposition do.
For our goal, Weeks has to take on three York players, loses the ball, wrestles it back and buries it in the bottom corner. By contrast, both of theirs just bobble in off their players from corners without them knowing much about it!
I've never understood the fixation with putting a man on the line. Half the time he just gets in the keeper's way and it goes in anyway. Get him defending the corner in the box and it might go nowhere near the line in the first place.
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Post by waggoner on Dec 7, 2020 20:20:07 GMT
I think that game sums up the fact that we have to work much harder for goals than the opposition do. For our goal, Weeks has to take on three York players, loses the ball, wrestles it back and buries it in the bottom corner. By contrast, both of theirs just bobble in off their players from corners without them knowing much about it! I've never understood the fixation with putting a man on the line. Half the time he just gets in the keeper's way and it goes in anyway. Get him defending the corner in the box and it might go nowhere near the line in the first place. Well it helps to defend the post off corners. But if you have someone on the line it should be simple enough to clear it. I'm baffled how Morgan failed to keep it out TBH
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Post by Rio Doherty on Dec 7, 2020 23:42:50 GMT
Gutting doesn’t even come close. Thought it was a promising showing on the whole though, as some of the stuff we played was very good on what was a heavy, bumpy surface to play on. Considering we were up against a York City side who should eventually be competing for the title again we can be pleased with how we fared, but yet again we had to spoil a pleasant display by making basic errors at the back, and missing golden chances up front again. It is incredibly frustrating that our recent defeats have come down to fine margins like this, as all of our defeats this season (most coming against play-off sides) have been by one goal. York still just about deserved the win though, because I thought they exploited us well by not accepting any nonsense at the back, and they tracked us down successfully too.
We began the first half relatively well as in the middle we were very compact to limit York City’s time on the ball, and we looked comfortable going forward. Despite our pleasant start on the ball we couldn’t really convert our superior possession into chances, as York had the better of the opportunities early on with Harry Bunn giving us a wake-up call by heading against the crossbar. The encounter began to even out after those early stages because it was end-to-end stuff with both sides trying hard to break the deadlock. We rued a few decent chances of our own as Paddy Lacey saw a dipping shot saved, while George Glendon had two good opportunities to open the scoring. However, York City were much more clinical in front of goal as shown by Scott Barrow who made it 1-0. From our perspective I think the blame should shift more towards the build-up than the actual goal, as we should’ve stayed with our men and tracked the short corner. Burrow lashed in through a forest of bodies so you can’t blame Louis Gray for that as there’s no way he knew where the ball was heading towards. Our wastefulness was even more apparent before half time as we squandered a couple of great chances to equalise, but again we couldn’t stay composed.
Meanwhile, the second period was a similar story because our poor finishing and inability to defend set-pieces was apparent again, although frustratingly we remained quite good when on the ball. On the approach to the hour mark Declan Weeks got us well and truly back into the game to make it 1-0. It was a really well-worked goal too because our build-up play on the counter attack was very good, and Declan found the bottom corner by stroking home on the edge of the box. We should’ve been pretty content at 1-1 and should have even pressed for the winner because momentum was definitely on our side. How we didn’t do that I’ll never know because I don’t particularly think York City were world beaters, so we should’ve tested them as they were there for the taking. We just relaxed though which invited pressure from the hosts, and in frustrating fashion York City went on to steal a winner as Akil Wright made it 2-1. It was another agonising goal to concede from a set piece as well, although for me Jamie Morgan was at fault for this one. How the ball managed to squeeze through him I’ll never know, because it was literally right in front of him, and with him being at the near post it was a simple task for him to just clear it away from danger. He’ll learn, but it was still a very basic and stupid mistake to make which cost us. Danny Elliott skewed an absolute sitter at the end by almost blasting out of the ground from about 10 yards out, when he has to be burying those. A valiant display by us where, against lesser opposition, we’d have snook a win, but to beat the top sides you have to have your shooting boots on and defend basic set-pieces, and unfortunately we couldn’t do that which was why we fell short.
A big sucker punch for us but we’ve played a lot worse this season in one or two instances, so we’ll simply have to get over it. Up next is a home match against Hereford FC tomorrow night where we look to bounce back from this setback. I usually fancy us at home (especially when it’s midweek) and given we have a good record against Hereford, I do expect us to do the job tomorrow. We’ll jump back into the play-offs again with a win, but what’s getting us down at the moment is our inconsistency. It’s been very ‘one step forward two steps back’ lately which is why we’re in and out of the play-offs, so in order to rectify that we need to be stringing a few wins together otherwise we will just end up in mid table. Let’s hope the presence of some of our supporters will give our players that wake-up call (and also lift) they need, as it’s clear they have been lacking our presence in recent games.
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Post by chesterblueboy on Dec 8, 2020 0:23:18 GMT
I think that game sums up the fact that we have to work much harder for goals than the opposition do. For our goal, Weeks has to take on three York players, loses the ball, wrestles it back and buries it in the bottom corner. By contrast, both of theirs just bobble in off their players from corners without them knowing much about it! I've never understood the fixation with putting a man on the line. Half the time he just gets in the keeper's way and it goes in anyway. Get him defending the corner in the box and it might go nowhere near the line in the first place. Well it helps to defend the post off corners. But if you have someone on the line it should be simple enough to clear it. I'm baffled how Morgan failed to keep it out TBH Watched it a few times because ‘live’ I couldn’t believe it went in but Morgan breaks the golden rule when defending a post, he left the post and got in Grays way and then looked very foolish because the ball ended up bobbling just inside the post that he’d been defending! We simply have to stop making individual errors and you can’t really blame the managers, as players switched off for both goals (not sure who was supposed to be picking up the man on the edge of the box for their 1st goal) Think despite everything we have wasted an opportunity at the start of this season as we have played a lot of big clubs, been the better team, missed chances and then ‘switched off’ and conceded late on. Frustrating...
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Post by devadiva on Dec 8, 2020 10:11:54 GMT
Just had an email from York refunding 25% of the streaming charge from Saturday in recognition that it was sh1t.
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Post by Jack on Dec 8, 2020 13:07:33 GMT
Wow - that second goal is as soft as they come.
It's the oldest cliche going, but you do get the feeling we've got to hit someone for 5 or 6 some day soon. Fingers crossed for tonight.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 8, 2020 21:32:48 GMT
Wow - that second goal is as soft as they come. It's the oldest cliche going, but you do get the feeling we've got to hit someone for 5 or 6 some day soon. Fingers crossed for tonight. Give us tomorrow's lottery numbers, Jack!
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