everything clicks

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39 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Well if anyone ever asks how long it takes to get from the top of the premier League to the bottom of the 4th division, the answer is exactly 19years.

It's shorter than that. We beat QPR 4-0 on the opening day 2011/12.

48 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Let’s see what happens when we score first and get confidence and tails up, think you’ll see a different BWFC. 

Hope so.  But if you have a poor central defence and you're leading, there's little chance of hanging onto it.  Opposition bound to put pressure on so you need organised defending, no evidence of us having that, whatever the score.  I didnt watch today so I can only go off reports but you'd think Delaney and Taft would be have a more "defensive" attitude as well as the extra height.  It feels like we're using a 2nd choice defence, it can only improve surely.

HMS hope to stay in the league

58 minutes ago, snowball said:

Didnt see the game. Painting a fence. Will take that tho as a sign of improvement. 

Likewise. Path laying a bit less stressful. 

I will hold onto the general opinion of some improvement. 

8 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It's shorter than that. We beat QPR 4-0 on the opening day 2011/12.

Gawd, I'd forgotten about that! 

I'd love to know how shite Taft must be in training to not be able to get a game ahead of that cart horse Santos. 

Disgraceful. 

Pissed off now sick of losing 

1 hour ago, bwfc2003 said:

Is this team worse than last seasons??

Depends which "team" you compare to.  At its peak, we had Matthews, Emmanuel, Chicksen/Fleming, Hobbs (when fit), Bryan, Nsiala,  Bridcutt, Lowe, Darcy, Politic, Verlinden, Bridcutt.  Would any of those not improve the team picked for the first 3 games? The jury is out on how many of this year's squad would improve last year's team most weeks.  Crawford, Doyle, Fonz, Hickman?

Wonder why George Taft hasn't been involved yet? I thought he would have been a nailed on starter today, especially with Greenidge injured, Jones our RB ahead of him? 

1 hour ago, Casino said:

second half, until the goal, a solid 7/10

Overall, im going  5.5/10

 

I'm taking that as a positive, last week was a 2 or 3 out of 10.  I was thoroughly dejected watching the FGR game, with that line up and formation.  Thankfully IE responded to the letter I wrote him 😃 and changed to 4-4-2 and started Crawford, and it sounds like we looked a bit more like creating something.  And if he's not inflexible with his formation that's another positive I'll take from today.

1 hour ago, Marc505 said:

I think Evatt will say it, and cant excuse that fucking amateur defending which is going to sink us repeatedly, but we take our chances when they came in these last few games and we'd have points on the board.

I think its stretching it to say we created chances last week, it was painful.  So today something had to change and it sounds like it did.  The season starts next week!  Hopefully 1 or 2 injured players back too.

last week was dogshit, but greenidge and doyle missed sitters

1 hour ago, bwfc2003 said:

Is this team worse than last seasons??

By a long way, yes. 

We’re top of the league...

just the corona league 

40 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Don't agree with the scape-goating of Santos. Seen far worse, and his distribution wasn't bad. Give the lad time to settle in. Give them all time. It will click. Negativity doesn't help anyone.

I didnt think Santos is as bad as Greenidge FWIW (only seen 1 game I might add) but its not being negative to say a player is poor, its just pointing out that another player might be better, its just a discussion.  If negativity didn't help anyone, neither does blind support of mistakes.

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

last week was dogshit, but greenidge and Doyle missed sitters

He’s done that a few games, but it’s not a bad sign, strikers need confidence, a goal will do that every game I’ve seen him play I’ve found myself saying he should have scored 

6 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I didnt think Santos is as bad as Greenidge FWIW (only seen 1 game I might add) but its not being negative to say a player is poor, its just pointing out that another player might be better, its just a discussion.  If negativity didn't help anyone, neither does blind support of mistakes.

No blind suport from me. Just realism.

Nothing changes same result different manager and different team 

8 minutes ago, Rizlar said:

Nothing changes same result different manager and different team 

Same fans.

32 minutes ago, Casino said:

last week was dogshit, but greenidge and doyle missed sitters

I'll agree to disagree, Doyle had plenty to do with his chance and Greenidge was just a back post header at a corner that you see going wide every week (especially from a poor centre back).  Anyway no more mentions of that game from me.

Weren’t Colchester in the play offs last season? Think first Half were slightly better than them, second half we dominated until 2nd goal, based on Colchester capabilities I think minimum we will be this season is playoffs. 

Edited September 19, 20205 yr by Mounts Kipper

Crellin - 5 - bad mistake for 2nd goal, did do some decent passes

Jones - 6 - solid defensively mainly, when he did get forward he didn't get his crosses to connect.

Baptiste - 6 - solid defensively, kept most things simple.

Santos - 5 - seemed to lose his man for the 1st goal but I don't think he's as bad as many are making out

Hickman - 7 - fantastic delivery on several crosses and passes, worked hard with his running.

Comley - 6 - nothing spectacular, played better than last week though. Would like to see more pass and move from him.

White - 6 - similar to Comley, tends to hang onto the ball a bit too long for me but works hard.

Gordon - 6 - average performance, didn't seem to get into good positions in the same way hickman did, not sure on him.

Crawford - 6 - had some good moments but wasn't the influential presence we have seen that he can be.

Doyle - 6 - should've done better with the chances he had but didn't get a ton of service.

Delfounso - 7 - flashy on the ball at times, at least looked lively and tried to make things happen.

 

 

Edited September 19, 20205 yr by Mantra

Another +1 for miles better than last week but I suppose that’s not saying much.

89th in the football league but it’s always darkest before the dawn.

It’s going to take time but Evatt will turn this around.

 

5 minutes ago, Super Bock said:

Another +1 for miles better than last week but I suppose that’s not saying much.

89th in the football league but it’s always darkest before the dawn.

It’s going to take time but Evatt will turn this around.

i hope your right, but based on what?

every team knows we play out from the back, and slowly ,so they can get back and mark our players.

if we played quicker ,we might have a chance to play doyle in , but he always has two players on him.

our defence is as bad as we have ever had.

if we are playing colchester in league 2 next season ,we will have arrested the decline.