Dave
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Post by Dave on Jan 6, 2009 18:56:22 GMT
The thing with Merse is, he looks as one should at the whole package, not just the results, or where the team is in the league, but how well it is being run, how much progress is being made on and off the field. Last Saturday I know I really enjoyed my Saturday afternoon, Merse in a post said and still this crap about "entertainment" - If anyone doesn't find the current entertainment to their liking I suggest they take up watching the Harlem GlobetrottersI know I found the Blackpool game entertaining, but surly what I class as entertainment, may not be the same as what you would class as entertainment. One thing that we would all want from any game we went too, was a win for the team, but we have all been to some boring games, not enjoyed being there and yet we won. So this thread is to ask what makes a game entertaining for you.Maybe you just enjoy watching football the way it was meant to be played  nice passing and good moves, even if no goals are scored. Maybe its the derby type games, full of blood and guts, maybe the game that would only entertain you, has to have plenty of goals in it. It could be the games where you end up biting down your finger nails, as we hold onto a one nil lead. Mind you you may just enjoy going, seeing your friends and you are going to have a nice entertaining day, no matter what happens out on the pitch. So what must a game have , that will make you feel you have truly been entertained and what must it not have to make the game a bore to you. |
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Post by merse on Jan 6, 2009 19:51:18 GMT
 What makes a game entertaining for me is to see a team overcome the opposition by applying the right tactics on the right day. Especially for instance, a game like the one at Cambridge this season when we lined up differently to how the opposition had anticipated, dominated the early thinking so that they were forced to change their formation and then "sucked them in" so that they over committed their midfield allowing us to move in and finish the job with a late winner................ Game, Set & Match to Buckle methinks! I also hugely enjoyed Saturday's example of patently keeping the number of passes in a move forward to the minimum whilst concentrating on the speed and impact of moves so that the big(and supposedly classier) Blackpool defenders were turned around to face their own goal and thus put in obvious distress. That's a day when a Wroe (and a Hargreaves for that matter)are worth a whole lot more than a "Russell" and a "Fowler" (and I don't mean that disrespectfully) who would more than likely put their foot on the ball and such momentum would be lost. I have always said there are many ways to skin a cat..................it's knowing which way to use on which occasion that is the pertinent skill.
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midlandstufc
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Post by midlandstufc on Jan 6, 2009 20:44:18 GMT
Not sure if I've ever gone to a Torquay game to be 'entertained' as such.
I suppose the thrill is just being there in the stands watching your team and as that is such a rare occasion these days, I'm excited just being there. Mind you, I haven't seen them lose for three years - I must be very good at picking the right ones to get to!
I have always felt that TUFC has an ethos (better word required here but I can't think of it) of playing football the 'right' way; I don't know why I have this idea in my head that we are the West Ham of the lower divisions but I always have had it. When I get a crick in my neck watching the ball at out games I get a little upset and may have a rant or two at the time. But the times I see the team pass the ball around and through teams I get all proud as though the boys were something to do with me!
If I just want to be entertained I watch Harry Hill's TV Burp.
Is this post too negative? Why's Merse a Knight on a White Charger? Why do people still have a downer on Buckle? Why did Thatcher steal my milk? Why is Japan's economy crashing? Why didn't China buy Woolworth's? Why am I sitting here in my missus' underwear?
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jan 6, 2009 20:53:49 GMT
midlandstufc, you crack me up as you always do, merse does not know its a knight, he thinks its a jockey on a racehorse, so please don't tell him other wise. |
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Post by jmgull on Jan 7, 2009 0:04:32 GMT
A night match at Plainmoor..........1-0 down at half time, in a tense top of the table match.
We attack the ellacoombe end in the 2nd half and come out all guns blazing.
Chance after chance passes us by, as the noise levels rise and the desperation in the air increases, we scramble an equalizer from our umpteenth corner with 5 minutes to go.
Plainmoor erupts as we gloriously get the winner in injury time.
...Thats the ultimate TUFC entertainment for me, as much as a new stadium would be beneficial in so many ways, i would miss Plainmoor big time.
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Post by buster on Jan 7, 2009 13:53:18 GMT
For me it is all about the feel good factor of the whole match day experience. Not so much the entertainment on the pitch.
If I look back at memorable days such as;
1. Listening to Utd at the Wolves on club call as we won the 2nd leg and sinking to the floor at the final whistle shocked that my little club was going to Wembley.
2. Sherpa final - it was looking up at the scoreboard and seeing Torquay united 1 Bolton Wanbderers 0. What I felt in those few minutes just couldn`t be understood by any one who doesn`t have a passion for a small club.
3. Play off final post pen shoot out and later watching the video countless times.
4. Roots Hall - being part of the Utd fans and standing on the touchline at the end as we celebrated.
5. 5-4 at Histon- Came away thinking what a night felt really good as we drove home.
These are for me memorable occasions that I would call enteretainment but which are not necesarily reflected in what quality is being displayed on the pitch.
I may not have posted as the topic intended but for me the whole experience is what counts not so much how it was achieved.
buster
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Post by bbcgull on Jan 7, 2009 14:19:03 GMT
Re: Wolves.....I still have the tape recording of the Radio Devon full match commentary (Mark Tyler WAS awesome that night) I STILL get a knot inthe stomach when he and Ken Furphy shout "It's all over". We then procedded to go in to the street of Compton Place and do a conga with 3 of us!!!
Also have tapes of Spurs home and away, Bristol City and Coventry in the relevant cups. and many many more.
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midlandstufc
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Post by midlandstufc on Jan 7, 2009 14:27:09 GMT
Wolves - me too remember - only that I was listening with the headphones in, as the first born had just got to sleep and so had my missus of the time.
You ever had to scream and jump around with delight in complete silence?
Must have looked a right muppet (but what's new?)!
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nice passing and good moves, even if no goals are scored. Maybe its the derby type games, full of blood and guts, maybe the game that would only entertain you, has to have plenty of goals in it. It could be the games where you end up biting down your finger nails, as we hold onto a one nil lead.
