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Post by Colin 'Trigger' Potter on Sept 20, 2014 15:31:58 GMT
Lets just say.... At the moment, its a good job we're not playing against one of the top sides.
Sub McCallum off Bown on
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Post by Colin 'Trigger' Potter on Sept 20, 2014 15:33:48 GMT
Just had our 2nd shot on target!
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Post by Colin 'Trigger' Potter on Sept 20, 2014 15:35:30 GMT
Final sub - Sinclair off Worrall on
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Post by TheBoroLad on Sept 20, 2014 15:42:15 GMT
Looks like we're out the FA Cup already if we continue like this
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Post by striker on Sept 20, 2014 16:12:27 GMT
Something has seriously gone wrong within the club for us to drop our form to this level,we had a potential playoff team. The common factor recently and after listening to most of the Bath radio is that we have a problem within midfield. Maybe its our new coach or our manager have been reading books again regarding the trendy diamond formation.What ever it is the midfield players cant play it,it takes a long time to be comfortable to play in a system that they are not use too.In our home game against Hemel Hempstead, I have never witnessed at a football match the bewildered look on all of our midfields faces,they just didn't know what to do.The other scenario is, that its down to Len leaving? Only Len will know that, but its strange we lost our form when he resigned.
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Post by TheBoroLad on Sept 20, 2014 16:25:55 GMT
The only thing i can think of is that something mentally has gone completely wrong? We have in my opinion one of the strongest squads in the league and should of won today and against Hemel. We really need to sort out the blip of form and get back to how we were playing. No confidence in the team at the moment.
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Post by borodale on Sept 20, 2014 16:28:59 GMT
Need to find some answers by next week ,Enfield T won at Leatherhead today and we really cannot afford to be knocked out of the FA Cup again by a Ryman Premier team !
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Post by clavius on Sept 20, 2014 18:18:04 GMT
dont panic, we have not lost any more games than the teams above us. we were good first few we can be good again, football is all about form, you lose it you gain it. we will be ok. believe!
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Post by benny on Sept 20, 2014 20:19:18 GMT
Many teams in the league are not playing to their potential and have also lost their way. I thought we would have improved as the new players became used to each other but it doesn't seem to have happened. Also we have one or two games in hand.
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Post by Colin 'Trigger' Potter on Sept 20, 2014 20:54:43 GMT
I think the early form was building good momentum but then we had the salisbury 'non game' and the momentum is difficult to try and maintain when you have no game to play. Perhaps affected us more than it should have. Just an opinion.
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Post by striker on Sept 20, 2014 22:19:54 GMT
Good players don't become bad players over night, the team is like a ship without a rudder, don't know where its going!
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Post by wha on Sept 21, 2014 9:32:52 GMT
Football is a game of confidence,and as Striker said Good players don't become bad players over night.Every team since our game was invented have dips in form,look at Liverpool at the moment and Man you last season.Whitehawk with the team that Kingy has put together,are not exactly consistent at present.I don't agree that our team is like a ship without a rudder and I have every confidence that our fortunes will change.Yes of course it is disappointing after the start we had and I'm sure the players and management share that disappointment.We are,in my view,a much more professional club with the Academy set up now and I for one think the future is bright.I have every confidence that Tommy will get it right and I'm sure he is as mystified as we are in our change of fortunes.So Keep the faith and lets all get down the Lane on Saturday to support the lads.
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Post by Smithy40 on Sept 21, 2014 10:00:21 GMT
I agree, it was a poor performance yesterday we just need to build our confidence back up for the FA Cup game v Enfield on Saturday.
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Post by cookie on Sept 21, 2014 10:54:41 GMT
Need to find some answers by next week ,Enfield T won at Leatherhead today and we really cannot afford to be knocked out of the FA Cup again by a Ryman Premier team ! Don't be fooled by Enfield's league position - they started poorly, sacked their manager and have now picked up - it will be tough next Saturday!
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Post by Smithy40 on Sept 21, 2014 11:09:19 GMT
Need to find some answers by next week ,Enfield T won at Leatherhead today and we really cannot afford to be knocked out of the FA Cup again by a Ryman Premier team ! Don't be fooled by Enfield's league position - they started poorly, sacked their manager and have now picked up - it will be tough next Saturday! Also they will be confident after 2 consecutive wins and seeing us with 3 consecutive defeats.
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Post by kevinanderson on Sept 21, 2014 12:23:21 GMT
Two points outside the play-offs. That's all. Get a grip, people.
Striker, Boro certainly didn't play a diamond at Bath and I can't remember the last time they did. There is a fair point to be made about settling on a shape that works best, and I think it would help the players if and when they do so. Good teams know almost by instinct, and certainly by habit, exactly how they will set up and what the individual and collective roles are. That isn't quite the case with Boro at the moment, and we are after all still in a quite early phase with a newly assembled team. But even so, TW has to work with available resources and allow for an injury or suspension, and he has to look at the opposition and the needs of each game.
I didn't see the Hemel game so I can't comment directly, but I gather Hemel played pretty well and did a job at snuffing Boro out. The two away defeats were difficult games - blown away at Boreham Wood by BW's hurricane start, and although they didn't play very well at Bath, they didn't exactly get the rub of the green and they are human. They gave a lot of effort but no end product. And both of those games involved difficult away journeys. Arriving at Twerton Park only half an hour before the kick-off was awful. (And no fault of the club's by the way. We took a route which is notoriously jam-packed, which Bath City had recommended us not to take, and which gave us 90 minutes in nose to tail traffic. And ludicrously, we also took the same route back. I'm a reporter and not a bus driver but.....)
Some of the woefulness about the dire prospects in the FA Cup is, I have to say, only too typical of this board. What some people do is over-react to single events. A brilliant performance at Concord, and Borough were title favourites. Two shoddy goals at Bath and some people would sack the manager. Take the long view, chaps. It's a 40-match season. You have a club in great shape which has an encouraging future. Many clubs and supporters would bite your hand off for the set-up at Priory Lane.
"Out of the Cup already"? Or more likely, Enfield will reap the backlash.... I don't under-estimate them of course. But neither will the Gaffer.
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Post by Colin 'Trigger' Potter on Sept 21, 2014 13:34:26 GMT
Fair points there kevin. After having the long drive back to think about the game, maybe i was a little harsh on the players in my updates. Yes it was a below par performance compared to what we were becoming uses to seeing but it was by no means the worst i've seen them play, we will no doubt play poorly again and win this season such is football. Onwards and upwards!
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Post by kevinanderson on Sept 21, 2014 13:42:18 GMT
No criticism intended of you Trig - your observations of games are always spot on. You're not wrong that sometimes we can re-run the pattern of the game and the incidents in it, after the final whistle, and get a sort of alternative picture. It's why I try not to write my match report until the day after the game! (And it's why I occasionally make a judgement on live commentary that I later revise...!)
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Post by borodale on Sept 21, 2014 14:50:39 GMT
The comments about the FA Cup have more to do with our poor record against Ryman Premier clubs than our current form though that comes into it somewhere ,I can cite Tooting & Mitcham ,Hendon ,Harrow Borough and the worst of all during my time East Thurrock United ,others mention Haverhill ,last season it was Ebbsfleet but I think our record speaks for itself !
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Post by Smithy40 on Sept 21, 2014 15:11:28 GMT
Borodale our performances in the Fa Cup have been poor against lower league teams and is rare that we get more than one or two Fa Cup games a year which is disappointing but if we win we can use this not only use this as confidence in the Fa Cup but in the league as well.
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