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Post by stretfordendling© on Sept 12, 2006 7:27:56 GMT
Oh, you mean s**t? Yes. S**t!!!!!
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Post by bonehead on Sept 13, 2006 14:08:21 GMT
Leigh 1 - KTFC 2
Our defence is really getting to annoy me. It leaks more than a civil servant mandarin, particularly in the early stages of games. At least we made Leigh wait until the 6th min before gifting them the lead. Cue their players taking a lifetime to collect the ball for throws-in and corners, the goalie needing at least 3 attempts to position the ball for goal-kicks etc. We played some pretty stuff without really looking threatening in the first half. With the exception of an in-swinging corner which the goalie tipped over for another corner, KTFC were largely restricted to free-kicks/shots from just outside the box. Leigh were much more positive and was always in with a chance given the state of our back four.
The second half was a tad better. Our midfield suddenly remembered how to pass to a player wearing a yellow shirt (away colours before anyone says something sarky :-)) and linked better with the forward line. More time-wasting by Leigh, adding players crippled in the mildest challenges taking ages to recover enough to walk off the pitch for treatment. One of them went down holding his head, got treated for a head injury - then walked off limping much to our amusement. Our illustrious leader decided to bring two forwards on as subs for the original pairing, and things started to look good. Jean-Paul Marna (doesn't speak English so another player has to translate for him) snatched the equaliser on 61 mins. Rather than settle for a draw we kept pressing forward, which left the travelling faithful biting their nails a tad whenever Leigh broke away; another leaked goal was always on the cards.
Fortunately the defence held out and, in the 2nd min of injury time (mainly for time wasting) another good ended with our second sub Rene Howe slipping the ball into the corner of the net. Cue much jubilation and loud noises off. Cue Leigh's 'keeper suddenly finding he could actually run to get the ball and only needed one attempt to position the ball for goalkicks. That'll teach the cheating scum :-)
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 14, 2006 11:14:23 GMT
We are either sh*t or unlucky, Scooby against Basingstoke was unlucky, Gibbs at Fisher, there's four points gone. I think we deserved to win against Basingstoke and Fisher and at least draw with Eastleigh, everytime we've cobbled together a decent performance bad luck has got in the way of points. I'm not saying we've not been poor but a bit of luck wouldn't go amiss. Oh yes, quite. But the point I was trying to make is that no one team is "lucky" or "unlucky." You can have a game where luck seems to go against you, but you do not have a run of seven games where you only pick up two points, just through bad luck. The dice have no memory; being unlucky one day does not mean you'll be unlucky or lucky the next time around. For every time we'll be unlucky, eg as you said Scooby against Basingstoke, our opponents will also cite a point in the game where they were just as unlucky. I disagree that one incident where we could have scored but didn't has actually lost us the points. Had we scored, the opposition would have reacted differently; we might have sat back and let them score again. You can never know what might have happened so it's pointless dwelling on it or saying "if we'd had more luck we'd now have x amount of points" because that's very unlikely to be true. There's no such thing as an unlucky team. Every team experiences the same things but you only notice your own most of the time. In other words, we're s**t
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Post by medibot on Sept 14, 2006 11:44:38 GMT
Did i say you have a a run of seven games picking up just two points, just through bad luck?
No.
Did i say there was such thing as an unlucky team?
No.
I'm just saying we've been unlucky at very crucial moments thus far, when i notice Fisher running all over us and hitting the post and Basingstokes last minute chance to win the game going agonisingly wide then it'll balance out. For now we've been unlucky at crucial points and other than Weston hitting the post with their penalty last night, nobody else has been as unlucky in such costly situations.
I do not think it is silly to say that had we beaten Basingstoke 4-3 (there was no time to come back had Scooby scored) our following results could well have been different.
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 14, 2006 11:52:17 GMT
I never said you did say those things. I'm just trying to make the point that the laws of probability give every team a roughly equal number of those situations, so for every game we lose because of bad luck there's a game somewhere along the line where the same thing happens for our opponents. Poor Basingstoke
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Post by medibot on Sept 14, 2006 12:02:07 GMT
Why didn't you just say that then?
bloody...
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 14, 2006 12:07:29 GMT
I did, I did! Stop arguing with me
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Post by medibot on Sept 14, 2006 12:10:36 GMT
No. It's fun. We've not had a footy argument for ages.
This maybe because the general unanimous opinion on Sutton has been "we were sh*t".
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Post by bh on Sept 14, 2006 12:53:24 GMT
Now now kids! Yes Sutton have been s--t!!
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Post by stretfordendling© on Sept 15, 2006 7:55:21 GMT
Don't worry guys! Hayes are holding up the table to everyone
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 16, 2006 17:49:44 GMT
At least you bloody well won today! Referee 1, Sutton United 0
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