The new white kit and a few observations

I thought it looked very good watching on my screen, and the tv highlights this morning. A very classy kit in my opinion and one the players will feel better in than that appalling pink outfit last season.

Things like this make all the difference with the team looking the part and we outplayed Plymouth in most areas of the field. I’m not having this “we gifted them the three goals” rubbish from Tom Not-So-Cleverley. A beautifully flighted free kick put their dozy no 4 under pressure for the first. Our pressing forced 2 or 3 errors for the second, a superb finish by the way. The third came from a fantastic pass the length of the field from Cooper and our master finisher did the rest.

I’ve already seen evidence of our new keeper’s kicking at Hg and York and I expect more assists from him as the season progresses. For me the excitement was back yesterday, along with the tension at the end praying we wouldn’t let another in and open the door for the man in blue and his green team mates to celebrate a point.

I am full of optimism for this season - it just looks and feels like a different setup to last season and I fully expect us to win more than we lose, especially at home. We have a man IN CHARGE who clearly knows what he is doing and what he wants. Contrast that to the hopeless incumbent last season who started this campaign losing at home to Harrogate yesterday.

 

To be fair to their manager, they did gift us 3 goals. The last 2 took some finishing but their defence was horrific. And there we were worrying about ours……

 

With respect the 2nd and 3rd. Still needed putting away.
2nd a great strike and 3rd still had work to do. Evaded the defenders and Goalie still to beat one on one. The same opportunity just b4 was saved. And I think the lads who scored deserve credit.

 

But how many times have we blown chances like that or folded under pressure in recent seasons.
Didn't drop back to the edge of our penalty area and kept threatening with pace

 

Sorry I stick with my original comments. Sometimes you have to give the attacking side the credit for making the defence make errors. We did that, they messed up (especially the cheat at no 4) and we took advantage. All good here

 

Under the last halfwit we had last season the players were nothing near fit enough for a tough and competitive league.
Houriane has at least recognised this and we're capable of playing at full tilt for 90 minutes plus.

 

Seems that way, so far. Its puzzling though that a professional football team should have been hampered that way

 

"To be fair ..."
"With respect ..."

Had to check the URL.

 

I don’t think the players are all that bothered about kit colour, I know I’m in the minority but I actually liked it apart from the Toby badge. I much prefer the official club badge.

 

I wonder how long it was after his appointment that they realised they'd dropped a bo||ock?

 

I liked it too.

And you’re right. The players won’t have cared in the slightest.

 

They gifted us opportunities for the second 2, as we did them for theirs by not contesting the first header.

Phillips & DKD still had the job of putting the ball in the net.

We also ran through them at times, even with a man short. Vickers gave their left side a head ache which allowed Phillips to slip into some great right sided positions in the first half.

I thought there were times when we moved the ball so quickly it was a joy to watch.

Plymouth were very suspect defensively, and I only feared for our lead when they started getting niggly, got the crowd going and the referee seemed to play to that.

 

But wasn't Coner involved with the training last season wasn't he on the coaching staff, are we saying that Coner recognised that the players weren't fit enough last season but sat on his hands and did nothing about it up until he was head coach.

 

No, I don’t think he’s saying that at all. Afterall, Conor may have been on the coaching staff but he obviously didn’t have the final say on things, probably just working under instructions. Not everything has to have a negative undertone you know.

 

I did worry about the fitness thing.

There’s a lot you can’t control as a Football Manager, but fitness you can. I can’t understand how any manager can let them get away with being so unfit last season. Was it a staff issue, or was it a lack of respect from players for the manager?

 

A. His name is Conor.
B. He was a coach, but he wasn't the fitness coach, and won't have had any sway to start shouting the odds. Even in the small aspect of the coaching he was working on it will have been under instructions.

 

Does that mean the Urinal ?.

 

It bugs me though how we keep hearing this garbage, about them gifting us 2 or even all 3 of the goals.
Which kind of suggests no credit whatsoever, to our players for how they played.
And that they deserved better (a draw at least), and were unlucky, and had some bad decisions from the ref etc.
Their goalscorer Watts is saying it as well now.
And apparently when they scored, he says they were the only team who looked like they were going to win it!!.
Are we talking about a different match here, compared to what they're on about.

 

They come to us on Easter Monday. Let's hope we beat them again.

 

Now that does bring back memories of season '90, when they also came to ours at Easter.
And our away visit to theirs, was actually on Boxing day, of all days!!.
And speaking of boxing, they were the dirtiest team I'd ever seen then.
And Mark Smith's bloodied headband, against a team who he used to play for, is one of the reasons why.