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Post by vern on Mar 27, 2007 21:59:13 GMT
'au contraire' enjoyable, entertaining, positive - that was Tait  what a contrast. He looks like he's enjoying playing, he's not complaining....at all. I thought that we were out and at them for the first 45 - 50 minutes. I couldn't see Taits goal clearly, but it was great to keep with him scoring at least a goal a game. We appeared to have about 6; maybe more, shots on target. Duncans power shot unfortunately hit Rambo and Armo's shot strafed across the goal line. It could / should've been 2 or possibly 3 goals up at half time. Lee was at fault for the speculative reaction lob shot on the edge of the 18 yrd box. Lee was caught off his line. But, he stop some fierce close range shots in the second half. Histon pressured more in the last 45 minutes and were v.v.quick in the counter, but Pullen and Bakes were solid in the middle. Ben and Jenks were equally solid on either side. The oppositions corners were always worrying, as they have been all season, but the team weathered them. I do wish Hooky would be more commanding and less passive in these situations. To sort out his defenders and not get pushed about and boxed in by their attackers. The dilemma is I want us, obviously to push for the Play Offs, but ask yourself - if we have only 13 - 14 players > of the right standard < (doesn't really qualify as a squad) to choose from in this League, what would we do / how would we cope in the one above?? I guess answer is...[be]whatever[/be], the journey is out of the top draw!! |
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Post by Andrew Raeburn on Mar 27, 2007 22:09:03 GMT
Pity you missed Tait's goal. It was outstanding. Brought it down, turned the defender and lashed it in from 20-25 yards. Superb strike.
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Post by sam on Mar 28, 2007 5:31:43 GMT
'au contraire' enjoyable, entertaining, positive - that was Tait what a contrast. He looks like he's enjoying playing, he's not complaining....at all. I thought that we were out and at them for the first 45 - 50 minutes. I couldn't see Taits goal clearly, but it was great to keep with him scoring at least a goal a game. We appeared to have about 6; maybe more, shots on target. Duncans power shot unfortunately hit Rambo and Armo's shot strafed across the goal line. It could / should've been 2 or possibly 3 goals up at half time. Lee was at fault for the speculative reaction lob shot on the edge of the 18 yrd box. Lee was caught off his line. But, he stop some fierce close range shots in the second half. Histon pressured more in the last 45 minutes and were v.v.quick in the counter, but Pullen and Bakes were solid in the middle. Ben and Jenks were equally solid on either side. The oppositions corners were always worrying, as they have been all season, but the team weathered them. I do wish Hooky would be more commanding and less passive in these situations. To sort out his defenders and not get pushed about and boxed in by their attackers. The dilemma is I want us, obviously to push for the Play Offs, but ask yourself - if we have only 13 - 14 players > of the right standard < (doesn't really qualify as a squad) to choose from in this League, what would we do / how would we cope in the one above?? I guess answer is...[be]whatever[/be], the journey is out of the top draw!! Goodness gracious me. If supporters could win awards for being fickle......... Wilson out of his depth bring in Vines ;D or King . Tait rubbish..........comittee with no ambition............. no wonder so many people have opted not to use the Boro forums anymore  |
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Post by SHABBA! on Mar 28, 2007 7:56:14 GMT
what the hell are you on sam were you even at the game last night or sat tait has been outstanding so just don't talk so much crap.  |
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Post by Ollie on Mar 28, 2007 8:08:51 GMT
what the hell are you on sam were you even at the game last night or sat tait has been outstanding so just don't talk so much crap. I think he was talking about what one/some supporter(s) may have said earlier in the season. |
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Post by shadwellarmy on Mar 28, 2007 9:08:39 GMT
Either way, he's wrong. I can't remember anyone ever saying that the club had no ambition, just that the club is stiill missing vital elements necessary for a successful National Conference side (which still stands); I think there has been a total of one post saying that Wilson was out of his depth, which was jumped on by everybody else here; and until the last couple of weeks Tait has been useless - but what a turn-around he has shown in the last three or four games!
I hardly think that counts as fickle - honest points of view, discussion and a 100% convesrion rate amongst us when things change. Of course, if someone is of the view that the forum should only be a means to praise everything done by everyone at the club in all circumstances, then of course they'll get upset and wander off in a queenie fit. If things are not going right, if decisions are taken that seem to be insane (or inane) then of course they will be criticised. That is what forums (and football/life) is all about). It certainly does not make the posters any less Boro fans; the fact that they are criticising what they have seen, and paid for to see, shows that they are fans, just fans with a point of view.
Of course, there is a difference beween criticism and abuse, and it is sometimes a matter of opinion where it lies, but, if you don't mind my passing the buck, that is what forums have moderators for.
But back to the thread, and Vern's first post.
I was fortunate to be level with Tait when he scored and I can honestly say that I have never seen a better goal at Boro, and only rarely at any level of football. No less than FIVE Histon players around him, plus the keeper, did well just to collect the ball, then turn, lose his marker. move the ball to his right foot and chip the keeper from at least 25 yards out, and all in one movement! And he grazed the outside of each post either side of his goal. A couple of lucky bounces, and it would have been another hatrick!
I spoke to a Histon fan who wanted to know who Tait was, as he had never seen a player so good. He was convinced that he was a proffessional on loan.
Of course, the second half did not live up to the first. The brilliant short passing game through the middle, keeping the ball down, was a joy to watch, and something I can't remember Boro doing before. The build ups were great, fast, everyone playing for everyone else, and Tait was on fire. The second hald, Histon obviously changed tactics, were more packed in midfield, were more physical, played a lot of head tennis, and clearly changed their style to thwart us, which, unfortuantely, worked. The second 45 minutes were not great football, but that man Tait made a couple of good breaks, but was unable to keep his shots down under pressure.
Overal, before the game I would have been very happy with a draw. At the end, it was two points lost as we certainly deserved all three.
But playing like this, the playoffs are not a distant possibility but a sure thing.
I'm starting to think we need to prepare for next season in the National, but, as the risk of being called negative or fickle, I'm not convinced we are ready for it. We would need at least another two or three good players (National standard - proven National standard) and probably another three or four squad players, to be able to cope with injuries, higher standard, to give us variation and such like, if we were to be sure of surviving. I don't think we have either the money to do it, nor the club setup and infrastructure.
However, teams like Altrincham have made it, with no better resources than us (although they are the exception) so who knows? With the increased television coverage next season, it would be the best time to go up, and if we don't give it a try, we just won't know.
Overall, I'm looking forward to football in a higher division, but with no illusions that it may be only the one season. But if we do get a new source of income, who knows? A couple of years to see EBFC in League 2 (and, hopefully, the same season BHA will go down to the National!).
But whatever the future has in store, I am a converted Tait-ite now. Just so long as he doesn't drop from the high standard which he has now set himself.
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Post by sam on Mar 28, 2007 10:21:51 GMT
what the hell are you on sam were you even at the game last night or sat tait has been outstanding so just don't talk so much crap. I think he was talking about what one/some supporter(s) may have said earlier in the season. Exactly  |
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Post by markcritchlow on Mar 28, 2007 10:29:39 GMT
I think he was talking about what one/some supporter(s) may have said earlier in the season. Exactly Plumpton is right. Allan Tait has tried his hardest all season and that is all you can ask of him really. He had at first fallen into the category of misfiring strikers we have had over the last couple of years (i.e. Loui Fazakerly and Dan Marney), but i think he has proved his worth all season. |
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Post by vern on Mar 28, 2007 13:04:37 GMT
I think he was talking about what one/some supporter(s) may have said earlier in the season. Exactly If one puts one's head above the parapet, to make a post, to make an opinion, then one must be prepared to get it gnawed off...thank you Sam. Very Waynetterish of you Tait had proven very little, until he discovered his confidence in the past 4 games or so. He obviously has a great talent, that until recently had underwhelmed mostly all that have seen him. GnN were playing him from the bench!! So they were not in possession of a crystal ball. I'm not contradicting myself over GnN. I'm not a fan. Mostly perplexed that results come against the top teams and are squandered against the lowly teams. What's that all about?? My opinion, you made a statement. People don't come onto Boro Forums IMO because of small minded "quippy" retorts that are made that do not want to share opinions or take part but just want to score points and crow, bully and turn it into a forum that only serves to solely suck up to your Boro heros site. I could be wrong of course. The season is one of ups and downs, more up than down. Opinion normally mirrors this and ultimately opinions right themselves when the facts are unambiguous...let's see if we get in to the Play Off's then shall we? Here's hoping!! |
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Post by sam on Mar 28, 2007 17:28:00 GMT
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Post by vern on Mar 29, 2007 6:42:33 GMT
no opinion from you Sam...[be] quod erat demonstrandum [/be]! Checkmate!!  that'll annoy you |
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Post by Jim "Convertedeagle" Stewart on Mar 29, 2007 7:42:18 GMT
no opinion from you Sam...[be] quod erat demonstrandum [/be]! Checkmate!! that'll annoy you Not like you to be controversial vern!!! |
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Post by vern on Mar 29, 2007 15:35:09 GMT
no opinion from you Sam...[be] quod erat demonstrandum [/be]! Checkmate!! that'll annoy you Not like you to be controversial vern!!! it blows the cobwebs out of the forum. |
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Post by brains on Mar 29, 2007 21:29:54 GMT
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Post by shadwellarmy on Apr 1, 2007 9:59:57 GMT
I've said we'll get into the playoffs ever since the Sutton home game, even though I feel we rode our luck more than a little in the early part of the season, and I've certainly made it quite clear when I feel we've played slightly worse than the plastic cones put out during the pre-match warm-up - as against East Preston, for instance (followed by a fantastic performance against Salisbury a week later).
I can't agree that Tait has proved his worth 'all season'. He has had one or two short bursts of skill in individual games, but has mostly been a liability, wasting a striking position and doing nothing in defence. Until the last few games, when he has been playing like a professional, exactly how we all hoped he would at the start of the season. And as everyone (myself included) who have slated him have always said he was capable of playing. The fact that we all knew he was a great player was a major factor behind the anti-Tait movement - we all knew he could be the difference between the play-offs and not, and he was firmly in the 'not' camp. Had he been a sixteen year old up from the youth squad we would all have been going on about his potential and that maybe he was getting first team football too early. As an experienced, quality striker, he was a disgrace.
Now that his form/confidence/fitness is at full strength, we are seeing a different squad - the first 45 minutes against Histon were probably the best 45 minutes I have ever seen Boro play, and we were very unlucky not to have been three or four goals to the good. Even with every other player on form, without Tait we could not have played like that as a team.
Several people, myself amongst them, have said that if we still had Yemi at Boro, we would be top of the table now, instead of pushing for a play-off place. Well, Tait is playing better than Yemi ever did at the moment, IMO, and I still think that we will make the play-offs, and I have a strong feeling that we will go up.
Mind you, I'm still a grump old man, as I still don't think that the squad is large enough, or offers enough variations in playing styles and tactics, for us to do anything other than face a season struggling against relegation, and I am far from sure that a bad season in the National would be better than another good one in the Southern, even if we did survive. But I'll take the chance!
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what a contrast. He looks like he's enjoying playing, he's not complaining....at all.
that'll annoy you 