Posted by Frank
on September 22, 2009, 8:03 pm, in reply to "Re: City 1 Tiverton 0"
Blimey, 100% agree with this post.
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: I agree with the majority of what you you have
: both said, although I think the 4-1-4-1
: would owork if Fordy allowed the likes of
: Bell, Brookes and Pond to push on and
: support a lone striker. Too often today all
: you heard was Ford telling the Pond not to
: push on but to stay in the midfield and
: Brooks and Bell to stay wide. Whoever the 1
: is can't win headers and then chase the
: flick on!!!
: I prefer the 4-4-2, as it seems do many
: others, but none of this years pairings up
: front seem to be able to work off each
: other. As for Fisher returning I can't see
: that will improve the team in any way, his
: form is that of someone who simply thinks
: he's better than this club and his lack of
: effort is very evident in my view. Leave him
: out and give Mark Janes a chance, he looks
: like he wants it and gives a bit of pace to
: a slow attack - the sort Michael Lyons gave
: us, though not quite as quick.
: Fordy, lets start playing footy on the deck,
: get your wide men attacking defences and
: your midfield supporting them - scoring
: goals wins games, brings in supporters and
: keeps them happy. Don't play the "stale
: mate game" of stop the opposition
: scoring and hope we nick one, like today.
: Football should be fun for both spectators
: and players, your tactics are boring the
: pant's off both parties.
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: Quite a boring game with neither side
: creating
: any real chances, still Fordy insists on
: again starting with a 4-1-4-1 formation
: which the players seem unable to play or
: understand. Like last weeks game after
: changing to a 4-4-2 formation City looked
: more lively and started to control the game.
: Come on Fordy no one will criticise you for
: realising your starting formation does not
: work and change to a formation more suited
: for the players you have to work with.
: Anyway the players give their all especially
: the defence and overall deserved the 3
: points.
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: Not sure whether to question Mike Ford's
: initial team selection or praise his
: substitutions, but City wouldn't have scored
: in six hours against a well-organised Tivvy
: defence today while playing Craig
: Faulconbridge on his own up front. Craig
: needs a partner to flick or lay it off to,
: and with no-one else there, all City's long
: balls forward were wasted. This made for an
: utterly tedious first half. In the second
: they kept the ball down and passed it more,
: though quite a few passes were still going
: astray, even from Sav. It wasn't till Lee
: Steele came on that we started to look
: lively up front, and by that time poor Craig
: was tiring. Mark Janes was a bfreath of
: fresh air. Great ball from Liam, who had a
: good game, to set Mark off on the run that
: led to the goal. Cool finish by Lee stood
: out in a game where everyone else seemed in
: too much of a hurry.
:
: Good performances from Clarke, Gunn and
: Baird meant that Tivvy didn't get many
: chances to score and it was pleasing to see
: Andy G. returning to form, looking very
: solid. Overall, man of the match for me was
: once again Andy Baird--what a good start to
: the season he has had, in a rich vein of
: form at the moment at both ends of the park.
: But a number of others were off the pace
: today so we struggled to beat a team below
: us. At the end I suppose we just about
: deserved the win because we were the better
: team in the second half, but it was a close
: call. I don't want to be pessimistic, but
: I'm sure most people watching today (and
: there weren't many there, certainly not 200)
: will agree that if we play like that again
: next week our cup run will come to an abrupt
: halt.
:
: Still, by then maybe Fish will be back and
: fresh, and Andy Ballard returned from injury
: so there will be some competition for
: places. Today we couldn't even fill the
: subs' bench!
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