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Post by sirroger on Mar 8, 2014 17:48:43 GMT
When you think you've reached your lowest ebb, along comes another and hits you in balls.
Staggering what we've endured over recent years.
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Post by shropshirehatter on Mar 8, 2014 18:08:42 GMT
Dreadful result, absolutely heartbreaking. Hard to believe that was more or less the same team that stopped Barrow's away run on Tuesday. We missed Jacobs massively, especially when you consider his replacement. Fagbola had a diabolical game. Admittedly he isn't a full back but he wasn't even getting the basics right today and it was his mistake that created the second goal. I thought Duxbury, Platt, Milligan and Jevons all had poor games and service the strikers were getting was not good enough. O'Halloran had a decent game at centre back (surprisingly) and Lees played ok beside him.
Something needs to change for Tuesday if we're going to have any chance of getting a decent result though. I would like to think Lordy would drop Fagbola but we have no one to replace him!
Only positive was seeing the fellow Heaveners who travelled today, just a shame the game was utterly awful!
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Post by Epworth Hatter OLD account on Mar 8, 2014 19:51:02 GMT
What is going on? I really thought we'd turned a corner at Christmas. Very depressing. It's also worrying that we couldn't score against such a lowly team.
Sounds like countytom was right about Fagbola all along?
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Post by ceefer on Mar 8, 2014 20:19:05 GMT
Like many others been to Leiamimgton and Cheltenham.
The football being served up is just not good enough.
I would agree the scores on the doors should be 2s and 3s.
I know the play offs are never going to happen and some players may feel like the season has ended but fans are paying good money to go to the matches and deserve better. Missing Cowens height and Jacobs. Passes today were in the main poor and we created little. Gloucester fought for every ball. If Cowen isn't good enough sorry to say Fagbola certainly isn't. Sure he tries but it's not good enough. Not to say the blame should rest with him. How many headers in midfield did we get? The only person doing that was OHalloran who to be honest put in a good shift. Yes we have to take the ups and downs, just disappointed we got turned over by a relegation team. Jevons got pushed by either their manager or coach , their guy should have known better. Lordy has done a good job overall but imho we are far away from being a promotion chasing team.
I don't know what it is with away games ...anyway time for a beer to once again drown my sorrows.
that said I ve every faith in Alan and coaching team.
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Post by bristolexile on Mar 8, 2014 20:33:31 GMT
OK, where to begin. First game for a while and first in tier 6 of the league. I think my first thought has to be one of sympathy for my fellow heaveners who are lucky enough to be able to attend more games than I can. If that is what you all put up with week in week out than you have the patience of angels. I can only say that I really hope as the reports come in that it becomes clear that I was just unlucky today!!!!
In short that was awful, insipid is a phrase already used but it does sum it up for me. I cannot honestly remember us stringing three passes together all afternoon. I lost count of the number of free kicks / through balls that were picked up by the keeper or went out for goal kicks. Even when players did get into good positions the last pass or shot was poor. Seeing the keeper as MOM suggest something that I just did not see. In my view the only players to come out with any credit were as previously mentioned O'Halloran and Lees who looked solid, I am afraid to say on first look no-one else is worthy of merit.
So sadly the highlight of my day remained an excellent Burger in a pub in Cheltenham town centre.
Good luck for the rest of the season you mad attending fools and I hope the news that comes in from elsewhere proves that I am the jinx.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Mar 9, 2014 1:28:54 GMT
the oates miss. commentary almost as awful.
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2014 3:53:43 GMT
Boourns
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Post by bristolexile on Mar 9, 2014 8:26:29 GMT
The worst thing about this from the game point of view is that it came (if memory serves) straight from kick off after going 1-0 down. Could have been the game changer.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 9, 2014 20:38:57 GMT
First things first - an apology from Radio Macc to 'Captain Marvel' Jevons, for reporting at half-time that he, rather than Oates, had missed the Rosenthal-esque sitter, Sorry, Skip! Other than that, all apologies due should be from the team - hopefully, in the form of a much-improved performance at Guiseley on Tuesday night. Yesterday's was as abject a showing as I care to remember, and the only saving graces for us Maccs were that we got to enjoy the company of other Heaveners - hello, Bradders, Cap'n, Sandy and Shropshire! - during the game, and a weekend of glorious weather to follow while visiting Sister-in-Law Macc and her family. Earlier posters have pretty well covered all the salient points about the match - and I certainly agree that O'Halloran made a decent-enough job of standing in. At least he looked up for the game, and gave it a bit of a go. The rest of the side, by and large, had a collective off-day... not unlike those that County were consistently having in the early stages of this season. Let us hope that yesterday's blip was rather more temporary. The atmosphere was noticeably muted at the away-end from the outset, although, whilst a stadium-wide buzz was never going to happen, with two sides of the ground unused, the gaggle of Gloucester fans in the stand to our left never stopped singing. Their officials were very welcoming, too. In reply to exile's question, I did indeed find myself gazing wistfully at the pleasing Cotswolds-backdrop the longer the game went on! The trees at Harrogate, at Shrewsbury's former ground and (as you say) at Wycombe have served similarly useful purposes when the County cause has become hopeless there... The game yesterday was also notable for being the first I can remember, in many years of following County, that did not feature Rodger Wylde on the touchline. Rodge was apparently laid low with a bug, so best wishes to him for a speedy recovery. Gloucester's rather nice lady-physio was on hand to tend to any stricken away-players, although, to be fair, none seemed to take advantage of this by feigning injury too obviously...
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 9, 2014 21:34:43 GMT
To add to the general embarrassment around yesterday's events, I have just heard that, apparently, Battersby was left behind by mistake at the Motorway Services!
Does anyone have any further light to shed on this?
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Post by gazz on Mar 9, 2014 21:53:29 GMT
To add to the general embarrassment around yesterday's events, I have just heard that, apparently, Battersby was left behind by mistake at the Motorway Services! Does anyone have any further light to shed on this? It's mentioned in Hedgie's blog too, matey. Shameful.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 9, 2014 22:19:18 GMT
Ah, yes - just spotted that, while catching up on my Heavenly reading! Cheers, gazza.
Begs the question still of how on earth it happened, mind. Shambolic doesn't come close...
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Mar 10, 2014 9:12:08 GMT
Hew didn't play that badly did he ? Lordy's punishment from on high ?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 9:38:07 GMT
Hew didn't play that badly did he ? Lordy's punishment from on high ? It was on the way there!
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Mar 10, 2014 10:39:45 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!
Incompetence at it's most extreme.
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