I literally did not mention Bloomfield until others brought him up. Dodds has nothing to do with the Bloomfield situation other than being the next to take up the same employment.
I'm literally trying to discuss current things like today's game, and being told to move on and grow up.
Will beat Brum next week. We’re resolute at the back, king returning, opposition who will look to attack us more opening spaces in the other half of the pitch. 2-0 or 2-1 win and we will soon forget today and be satisfied with 4 points from the 2 matches.
See that last paragraph, that was an attempt to get back on topic and move on. But noooooooo…… it’s just us pompous lot.
k thx bye. Kiss kiss
Edit: if anyone cares, the Majitos were either weak as hell or dangerously drinkable. And I took inspiration from @chris and went for the full Brazilian. Two of their curries rice and, weirdly, potato’s. Was really good but certainly more Thai than what imagine to be Brazilian. Served almost tapas style which is Spanish and not, I don’t think, Portuguesey.
oh, and the move on is from the sort of petty bullshit back and forth point scoring. Hence why I haven’t addressed, well almost haven’t addressed, anything in your post this time.
I have no problem with Dodds or the team he put out. We had the best of the game and more chances, but we did need more confidence in pushing forward against quite a dour team. Fred scores a worldy after his solo run and we are all happy and he's back on the wing next week.
Finally got home after no trains north out of Kings Cross for 3 hours. Which seemed a fitting end to a not particularly enjoyable day.
It was very much of a relief that the weather was pleasantly warm - that second half would have felt a lot worse in some of the temperatures we’ve had in recent games.
In amongst all the negativity (for me it’s just how slow we are in moving the ball at the moment) there were quite a few positives and I do think Simons will become a key player for us - although I thought he disappeared a bit second half.
i have seen us play a lot worse and I have been more bored than I was today before. But it’s a little bit frustrating for me that we are both playing well throughout a lot of the team AND being thoroughly boring to watch.
The highlight of the day for me though was an exceptional and extended murmuration above Wycombe Station. It was beautiful to watch, more entertaining than the football and somehow less predictable.
I agree yesterday was a dull game, but you either have a very short memory, or have managed to blot out the seemingly endless boring games of Bloomfield's early management career. I hope you are prepared to give Dodds a little leeway in his early games.
Just a little plea from a paid up member of the "pompous brigade"
The problem isn't that Doddball is dull, the problem is that it's....professional.
I have been so spoilt by the Ainsworth era where games where focused on team spirit and injury time often felt like the ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Yesterday was very grown up and probably used words like 'transition' and 'channels' that I only half understand as I prefer terms like 'going out on his shield' when watching football. But nothing lasts forever and I, for one, will embrace our data overlords (whilst secretly thinking 'In order to get what they wanted, they had to lose what they had')
As many have alluded to, teams are coming to AP for a point and we are struggling to break them down.
i quite enjoyed yesterday, thought Wigan were very good defensively but offered very little going forwards. Extremely well organised and I can see why they concede so few goals. I was also frustrated but mainly due to our league position and the tension to get three points.
We created a few openings but didn’t really do enough.
A couple of things I’d like to see change. 1st half Scowen and Simons played next to each other in a two that was protecting the back four. I didn’t think we needed that and it became difficult to transition. Josh’s effort came from him being further forward, I’d like to see us be a bit braver and take some risks.
Tempo - we didn’t really up it and try and take the game by the scruff of the neck. Maybe it’s modern football but we lacked urgency. Too many times we strolled across to take corners, pondered over free kicks, throw ins and goal kicks. It didn’t feel like we wanted it enough OR rather the coaching manuals nowadays are about believing in the process but it seems urgency is a forgotten concept.
When we are not winning we should be sprinting to every throw, free kicks etc and getting the ball back in play as soon as possible.
We are now seven games unbeaten in the league, that’s great news but only three wins.
Dodds said he would assess for first few games and not change much. I’ve been fairly pleased with things so far if he has been assessing. Moving forwards I’d like to see him tweaking a few things.
We’ve almost got a free hit at Birmingham next week. Let’s end their 16 game unbeaten run and all will be good again.
Finally, we all want the same thing - a team we can be proud of and hopefully a promotion. There are too many of us looking for things that aren’t there in some of the posts and it is getting a bit emotional. We have traditionally had the best forum in the football league, let’s move forwards together and get this forum back to being the world class place it has been for so many years.
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I literally did not mention Bloomfield until others brought him up. Dodds has nothing to do with the Bloomfield situation other than being the next to take up the same employment.
I'm literally trying to discuss current things like today's game, and being told to move on and grow up.
Will beat Brum next week. We’re resolute at the back, king returning, opposition who will look to attack us more opening spaces in the other half of the pitch. 2-0 or 2-1 win and we will soon forget today and be satisfied with 4 points from the 2 matches.
You tried this on the last match thread.
I'm not defending some of the reactions...but can't you just give it up?
See that last paragraph, that was an attempt to get back on topic and move on. But noooooooo…… it’s just us pompous lot.
k thx bye. Kiss kiss
Edit: if anyone cares, the Majitos were either weak as hell or dangerously drinkable. And I took inspiration from @chris and went for the full Brazilian. Two of their curries rice and, weirdly, potato’s. Was really good but certainly more Thai than what imagine to be Brazilian. Served almost tapas style which is Spanish and not, I don’t think, Portuguesey.
oh, and the move on is from the sort of petty bullshit back and forth point scoring. Hence why I haven’t addressed, well almost haven’t addressed, anything in your post this time.
I have no problem with Dodds or the team he put out. We had the best of the game and more chances, but we did need more confidence in pushing forward against quite a dour team. Fred scores a worldy after his solo run and we are all happy and he's back on the wing next week.
Frustrating yes...but I was not bored.
Finally got home after no trains north out of Kings Cross for 3 hours. Which seemed a fitting end to a not particularly enjoyable day.
It was very much of a relief that the weather was pleasantly warm - that second half would have felt a lot worse in some of the temperatures we’ve had in recent games.
In amongst all the negativity (for me it’s just how slow we are in moving the ball at the moment) there were quite a few positives and I do think Simons will become a key player for us - although I thought he disappeared a bit second half.
i have seen us play a lot worse and I have been more bored than I was today before. But it’s a little bit frustrating for me that we are both playing well throughout a lot of the team AND being thoroughly boring to watch.
The highlight of the day for me though was an exceptional and extended murmuration above Wycombe Station. It was beautiful to watch, more entertaining than the football and somehow less predictable.
Having millions of pounds worth of players and thousands of fanatical fans backing them home and away gives them a big advantage.
I agree yesterday was a dull game, but you either have a very short memory, or have managed to blot out the seemingly endless boring games of Bloomfield's early management career. I hope you are prepared to give Dodds a little leeway in his early games.
Just a little plea from a paid up member of the "pompous brigade"
The problem isn't that Doddball is dull, the problem is that it's....professional.
I have been so spoilt by the Ainsworth era where games where focused on team spirit and injury time often felt like the ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Yesterday was very grown up and probably used words like 'transition' and 'channels' that I only half understand as I prefer terms like 'going out on his shield' when watching football. But nothing lasts forever and I, for one, will embrace our data overlords (whilst secretly thinking 'In order to get what they wanted, they had to lose what they had')
As many have alluded to, teams are coming to AP for a point and we are struggling to break them down.
i quite enjoyed yesterday, thought Wigan were very good defensively but offered very little going forwards. Extremely well organised and I can see why they concede so few goals. I was also frustrated but mainly due to our league position and the tension to get three points.
We created a few openings but didn’t really do enough.
A couple of things I’d like to see change. 1st half Scowen and Simons played next to each other in a two that was protecting the back four. I didn’t think we needed that and it became difficult to transition. Josh’s effort came from him being further forward, I’d like to see us be a bit braver and take some risks.
Tempo - we didn’t really up it and try and take the game by the scruff of the neck. Maybe it’s modern football but we lacked urgency. Too many times we strolled across to take corners, pondered over free kicks, throw ins and goal kicks. It didn’t feel like we wanted it enough OR rather the coaching manuals nowadays are about believing in the process but it seems urgency is a forgotten concept.
When we are not winning we should be sprinting to every throw, free kicks etc and getting the ball back in play as soon as possible.
We are now seven games unbeaten in the league, that’s great news but only three wins.
Dodds said he would assess for first few games and not change much. I’ve been fairly pleased with things so far if he has been assessing. Moving forwards I’d like to see him tweaking a few things.
We’ve almost got a free hit at Birmingham next week. Let’s end their 16 game unbeaten run and all will be good again.
Finally, we all want the same thing - a team we can be proud of and hopefully a promotion. There are too many of us looking for things that aren’t there in some of the posts and it is getting a bit emotional. We have traditionally had the best forum in the football league, let’s move forwards together and get this forum back to being the world class place it has been for so many years.
COYB!