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Post by rjdgull on Feb 27, 2023 20:03:48 GMT
Quick turnaround with potential to make up for Saturday’s defeat as we host another playoff chasing team in the form of Bromley. Every match is now becoming crucial, and if this is the type of game that we need to have some form of return. TUFC match preview |
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Post by Jon on Feb 27, 2023 23:35:54 GMT
We are desperate to get Hall back alongside Lapslie.
Mensah or Crowe at right back, Hanson or McGavin centre midfield - no thanks. Marshall best joining Omar, Mensah and Tomlinson on centre backs not considered good enough list.
If we had the famous two holding midfield, I would nominate Wyatt as winner of “hide the donkey” playing as an orthodox left back to allow Moxey to a partner Lawrence in the middle of the defence.
Perm two from Evans, De Silva and Collins wide. I might leave De Silva on the bench as has been looking a shadow of his former self. But he might perk up if played in a sensible position. Odd one out gives us one forward option on the bench. Best bench balance for me has three forward options. How many teams pack a bench with left backs and centre backs other than us?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2023 12:00:42 GMT
Match days have almost become a thing of dread, and to judge by the posts on various sites and indeed the lack of anything from Plainmoor, it’s just a case of going through the motions!
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Post by plainmoorpete on Feb 28, 2023 14:58:51 GMT
Match days have almost become a thing of dread, and to judge by the posts on various sites and indeed the lack of anything from Plainmoor, it’s just a case of going through the motions! I think the majority now accept relegation as a fait accompli. Gary Johnson has lost the plot as witnessed by last Saturday's performance but never the less remains in situ, the ownership don't appear to be bothered by another spell in regional football. What the hell does it all mean? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2023 15:43:12 GMT
Match days have almost become a thing of dread, and to judge by the posts on various sites and indeed the lack of anything from Plainmoor, it’s just a case of going through the motions! I think the majority now accept relegation as a fait accompli. Gary Johnson has lost the plot as witnessed by last Saturday's performance but never the less remains in situ, the ownership don't appear to be bothered by another spell in regional football. What the hell does it all mean? It’s almost as if certain people want the club to be relegated? 🤔 |
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Post by Jon on Feb 28, 2023 19:13:52 GMT
Evans and Lewis in for Mensah and De Silva.
No Hall so McGavin starts.
Looks like 4-4-2.
Martin drops out of the 16.
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Post by stig123 on Feb 28, 2023 20:44:47 GMT
This is becoming reminiscent of the David Webb era.
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Post by petef on Feb 28, 2023 21:17:04 GMT
This is becoming reminiscent of the David Webb era. Worse at least we were a football league league club back then. Its all a complete shambles this season. |
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Post by stig123 on Feb 28, 2023 21:48:29 GMT
Game over. Season over. Put the kettle on..
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Post by petef on Feb 28, 2023 21:59:36 GMT
Shambolic defending for their first following on from the shambolic defending from last week. Im one of a few who have stuck with you but Garry you've had your time buddy and quite obviously have no answers to the problems you have created for yourself and its only going to get worse with some of the players we have who haven't got a brain between them.More idiotic individual decisions cost us again. Nothing has really changed from day one of the season.
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Post by chelstongull on Mar 1, 2023 7:22:21 GMT
Game over. Season over. Put the kettle on.. Once again we are in reach of some points and yet again chuck it away - I make that 5 points lost in the last 3 games. |
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Post by stefano on Mar 1, 2023 9:54:19 GMT
Looking on the bright side match day Football League programmes of former Football League clubs increase markedly in value on the market over time. Timbo will be sitting on a fortune! 😉⚽️
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Post by stig123 on Mar 1, 2023 20:43:15 GMT
Every cloud.....more good news...we might actually win a few games next season! Shorter away trips and more elbow room on the terraces. Happy days!
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Post by Jon on Mar 4, 2023 13:54:45 GMT
I don't know how many times I have seen United lose three in a row, but I can't remember us ever having to work quite so hard to secure the three defeats.
Despite having so many poor players and performing so badly. it has not been at all easy to clinch the three defeats.
It has taken dogged determination to be able to throw away winning (or drawing) positions with such consistency.
On the bus for the first half at Dorking. Still managed to be 2-1 up before a daft sending off and then letting a player run through midfield, another one have a free cross and another one have a free header .... not once but twice!
1-1 v Southend attacking free kick.... have only one man back, give the ball away, fail to track back, fail to challenge the man on the ball.
1-1 v Bromley ...... ridiculous bowl out from Halstead, Collins not reacting, Donnellan making up for failing to flatten the Southend player in a goalscoring position outside the box by flattening the Bromley player in a non-threatening position inside the box.
We were less bad than we were against Southend. The shape was better. We started out trying to hide two donkeys (Marshall and McGavin) in the starting XI. We ended up with two more (Wyatt and Hanson) on the field but still should have secured a point against a team chasing a playoff place.
You do not have to be any good to grind out the points to get to safety. You just have to stop doing utterly stupid things. Can we stop doing stupid things? Maybe we can and maybe we can't.
I am used to crap football and almost expect it. What irritated me more on Tuesday were the continuing efforts of the football club to alienate its fan base. Our support is very good - but those running the club do not deserve it.
I was stopped from walking round from the Pop to meet friends who sit in the Family Stand and in the Bench. The joys of sharing grief with like minded sufferers is what makes us still go to games when the standard of football does not deserve it.
I was told by a steward who I have never seen before that I could not go through that way and that I have never been able to go through that way. Funny that. I have been doing it for 30 years! I did get stopped once earlier this season and raised it with George Edwards. He said that it had been because there had been an "incident" in that corner. There had indeed been an incident - about twenty fans trying to get through to spend their money in the Gulls' Nest angrily protesting at the club's stupidity in stopping them and vowing never to return to Plainmoor. The "good" news for the club is that it looks like they have successfully driven them all away from coming to matches, because it was just me being told I was a liar for saying I regularly went that way - although I have heard that my friend Dave hit the same brick wall a few minutes later. Gate receipts thrown away. Gulls Nest revenue thrown away. Why?
Even dafter are reliable reports that a young supporter was threatened with police action for having a sign suggesting that it might be a good idea to consider changing the manager. Can you believe it? Would the police just lauigh at the stupidity or charge the club with wasting police time? The people running the club seem to utterly despise people who are passionate about football. You cannot run a professional football club without the support of people who are passionate about foootball. That seems bleeding obvious. Amazing that some cannot see it.
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