Ha ha! I can be a bit of a brute at times. Only verbally. (I did Julius Caesar for my GCSE English ‘O’ level in 1953.)
This popped up on google just now. Evatt is clearly an excellent judge of playing style but hasn’t watched any videos of our matches this season. And to say we’re good at set pieces is a joke. Well, it is in relation to Friday’s game. Luke Leahy hit one stunner of a free kick, brilliantly saved by their ‘keeper, but wasted several others.
Again, we do need to come back to my first point that there's a huge difference between how you write on a casual, informal internet forum, and how you write in a formal professional arena.
Text speak has a lot to do with it, back from the days you had limited characters, so quickly binned off the extra fussy letters and apostrophe to cram more value in.
Although we all knew someone who would come back with a "yer" (which isn't even a yeah, but is one letter disembiggened, so is thrifty!)
It's all about register. I think, because of the typical demographic of most of the people on this site, the average register used is more formal than you'd expect on most football forums (fora?). But we can accommodate all sorts.
It's incredible how one eyed fans are at times isn't it?
We laughed at Evatt suggesting we haven't changed much since the Gaz days, but some of their fans seem to have similar opinions presumably based off the 1 game against their lot
"Look where Wycombe and Wrexham are in the table. They are no great shakes with the ball but are hard to score against"
"A decent, dogged performance. Can see why they’re up there, as they’re very street smart. Every trick in the book and very quickly get back into their defensive shape. Good result really, but can’t help but feel a little gutted we didn’t get a win in the end"
"Yes indeed. I had a cheeky smile on my face, even though annoyed, the many tines they tricked the ref by initiating contact with our players then going down as if shot. Football smarts indeed which we dont have, save for Charles. But he need to watch how the Wycombe payers do it to perfect the art."
It would be good to debate with that first poster - and ask how he reckons we're not good with the ball, yet have scored by far the most in the division?
Basing it off the one 0-0 with them obviously coming for the draw clearly.
And the audacity of suggesting we're some kind of dark arts team after Bolton's tactics. Have to laugh. As if "dark arts" get you top of the league scoring 40 or so goals by this time of the season too. Madness.
It’s puzzling why so many fans make a judgement about a team and individual players based purely on how they performed against their own favourite team.
I know not a lot of people like xG, but the fact Bolton's was 0.17 means that there was nothing unlucky about them failing to score. It means they parked two double decker buses and an aircraft carrier.
I thought all those comments applied far more to them than us on Friday. They came for a 0-0, packed the defence, defended solidly, wasted time, got the referee on their side, and got a good point. Exactly like so many Ainsworth performances away at top of the league
Exactly. The lack of self awareness is actually astounding.
But then Evatt is giving it some now about how it's a "different kind of pressure" at Wycombe versus Bolton.
As if we're just some little hick outfit down the Rye and they're a world famous giant.
If Bloomy can get Morley done, he should get a little quip in saying "too right, we have top of the league pressure here, whereas they merely have trying to scrape into the playoffs pressure".
Though that obviously wouldn't be wise, we know that - and football has a tendency to give the ultimate pride before a fall scenarios.
Nearly all of our wins this season have been followed by 'Wycombe aren't all that...they won't be troubling the top of the table...' from fans. And remember the referee gives us everything and them nothing. 😉
If we can't agree that there is a "different kind of pressure" being at a small and over-achieving club such as ours and at a club that gets 22,000 attendees in League 1 and has massive expectations, then I fear it may be us that's being a bit one-eyed.
To be fair, United will be a tricky banana skin for some clubs. Europe-chasing Bournemouth did well to navigate that classic "away to strugglers" upset.
Some fans have been fair to us - Stockport is an unsurprising one, but Lincoln fans seemed to be pretty fair overall too, despite that scoreline being close. Most other supporters have played the 'Wycombe were awful, we made them look better than they are' card though.
Presumably because we’re a middle class club with low attendance, often low funding and previously no threat. We’re so tin pot, obviously. We should bow at the feet of them because they’re a pRoPA cLuB. It’s playground stuff. Infantile.
We just need to focus on ourselves and not worry about what people think about us. We simply need to beat what is put in front of us, like we have done for most of this season so far.
By the time these people realise what we really are, it will be too late and we will have won promotion against all the odds.
Seeing all those lovely new flags behind the goal at the Bolton match, started me thinking we should get a Gasroom flag and have a few of our terrace members take it to home games.
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Ha ha! I can be a bit of a brute at times. Only verbally. (I did Julius Caesar for my GCSE English ‘O’ level in 1953.)
This popped up on google just now. Evatt is clearly an excellent judge of playing style but hasn’t watched any videos of our matches this season. And to say we’re good at set pieces is a joke. Well, it is in relation to Friday’s game. Luke Leahy hit one stunner of a free kick, brilliantly saved by their ‘keeper, but wasted several others.
https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/sport/24813232.bolton-manager-ian-evatt-0-0-draw-wycombe-wanderers/
I completely agree @micra ’s analysis, both of the rule and that it’s a lost cause
Again, we do need to come back to my first point that there's a huge difference between how you write on a casual, informal internet forum, and how you write in a formal professional arena.
Text speak has a lot to do with it, back from the days you had limited characters, so quickly binned off the extra fussy letters and apostrophe to cram more value in.
Although we all knew someone who would come back with a "yer" (which isn't even a yeah, but is one letter disembiggened, so is thrifty!)
It's all about register. I think, because of the typical demographic of most of the people on this site, the average register used is more formal than you'd expect on most football forums (fora?). But we can accommodate all sorts.
It's incredible how one eyed fans are at times isn't it?
We laughed at Evatt suggesting we haven't changed much since the Gaz days, but some of their fans seem to have similar opinions presumably based off the 1 game against their lot
"Look where Wycombe and Wrexham are in the table. They are no great shakes with the ball but are hard to score against"
"A decent, dogged performance. Can see why they’re up there, as they’re very street smart. Every trick in the book and very quickly get back into their defensive shape. Good result really, but can’t help but feel a little gutted we didn’t get a win in the end"
"Yes indeed. I had a cheeky smile on my face, even though annoyed, the many tines they tricked the ref by initiating contact with our players then going down as if shot. Football smarts indeed which we dont have, save for Charles. But he need to watch how the Wycombe payers do it to perfect the art."
It would be good to debate with that first poster - and ask how he reckons we're not good with the ball, yet have scored by far the most in the division?
Basing it off the one 0-0 with them obviously coming for the draw clearly.
And the audacity of suggesting we're some kind of dark arts team after Bolton's tactics. Have to laugh. As if "dark arts" get you top of the league scoring 40 or so goals by this time of the season too. Madness.
It’s puzzling why so many fans make a judgement about a team and individual players based purely on how they performed against their own favourite team.
I know not a lot of people like xG, but the fact Bolton's was 0.17 means that there was nothing unlucky about them failing to score. It means they parked two double decker buses and an aircraft carrier.
Reminds me of leaving Oxford's ground a few years ago, a bloke was ranting and me and a mate about our perceived "style" that day.
Even though they'd had more bookings and more fouls.
I thought all those comments applied far more to them than us on Friday. They came for a 0-0, packed the defence, defended solidly, wasted time, got the referee on their side, and got a good point. Exactly like so many Ainsworth performances away at top of the league
Exactly. The lack of self awareness is actually astounding.
But then Evatt is giving it some now about how it's a "different kind of pressure" at Wycombe versus Bolton.
As if we're just some little hick outfit down the Rye and they're a world famous giant.
If Bloomy can get Morley done, he should get a little quip in saying "too right, we have top of the league pressure here, whereas they merely have trying to scrape into the playoffs pressure".
Though that obviously wouldn't be wise, we know that - and football has a tendency to give the ultimate pride before a fall scenarios.
Nearly all of our wins this season have been followed by 'Wycombe aren't all that...they won't be troubling the top of the table...' from fans. And remember the referee gives us everything and them nothing. 😉
If we can't agree that there is a "different kind of pressure" being at a small and over-achieving club such as ours and at a club that gets 22,000 attendees in League 1 and has massive expectations, then I fear it may be us that's being a bit one-eyed.
Just like Forest in 4th and Man U in 13th
Except it's being used by Evatt as an excuse why Morley is playing brilliantly for us, and he can't get him playing well himself.
He's using every trick in the book.
To be fair, United will be a tricky banana skin for some clubs. Europe-chasing Bournemouth did well to navigate that classic "away to strugglers" upset.
Some fans have been fair to us - Stockport is an unsurprising one, but Lincoln fans seemed to be pretty fair overall too, despite that scoreline being close. Most other supporters have played the 'Wycombe were awful, we made them look better than they are' card though.
Presumably because we’re a middle class club with low attendance, often low funding and previously no threat. We’re so tin pot, obviously. We should bow at the feet of them because they’re a pRoPA cLuB. It’s playground stuff. Infantile.
We just need to focus on ourselves and not worry about what people think about us. We simply need to beat what is put in front of us, like we have done for most of this season so far.
By the time these people realise what we really are, it will be too late and we will have won promotion against all the odds.
Seeing all those lovely new flags behind the goal at the Bolton match, started me thinking we should get a Gasroom flag and have a few of our terrace members take it to home games.
…….and then start a thread in here about having the view of the game blocked by kids waving bl@@dy flags
Oh dear.
KFOOF
Keep flags out of football