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Quoted from cmackenzie4

Does anybody know what's happened to Tait, Bogle, Amond, Marshall Toto  or what they have done wrong?  my lad and me think he is a quality player and should be playing.

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I'm in the Hurst out camp but today he was right to keep the same side after a big win.
I'm not a 'it's the ref fault sort of bloke' but fook me I have to be today. Him and his mates were the worse officials I have seen for Donkeys years.
Draw was a fair result as both teams found it difficult to get anything going because of that twit blowing his whistle all the flipping time.
After walking in the ground and seeing 40 fans from the team at the top of our league I wanted us to hammer them tin pot male masturbators. I really hope they crash and burn.

Think the absolute prime example of what posters were saying last week after the Southport game (ie yes we won but it'll convince Hurst to play that side more often which is a bad thing) has been proven today.

Not playing your two top scorers against the league leaders is absolutely inexcusable. Regardless of last week.

A pretty average performance from us today so I'm not surprised we didn't do enough to beat what was a very average-looking FGR team. How on Earth did that lot manage to win 9 in a row at the start of the season? I suppose their defence looked pretty solid (though the referee made things easier for them), but they didn't have any great nouse in midfield and the long ball up front towards Parkin and Guthrie seemed their main tactic.

I thought that both forwards worked hard and did good things at times (and Pittman took his goal very well) but they didn't link up very well at all and the interplay between forwards and midfield in the first half was dismal at times. Much improved in the second half, but then the final ball was always too poor so we didn't test their keeper once that I can remember from a number of promising positions. I thought Tomlinson should have hit the target with his headed chance from Mackreth's excellent cross but otherwise, the other crosses that came his way were all behind him. Crosses not good enough in general and neither was the final pass.

Defence played pretty well with Gowling a clear man of the match but East was all over the place today. Looked very much out of sorts and I think that must have been his weakest game for us, though it didn't cost us. A pity that Robertson was caught slightly out of position for their equaliser as this allowed Parkin to turn him. Not so sure about the follow up defending from there as Parkin went past a challenge (perhaps from Pearson?) far too easily before his classy finish.

Looking at the match stats, I see that we were apparently penalised almost twice as many times as FGR. That tells you absolutely all you need to know about the performance of the referee who was simply dire. Their defenders were pushing and shoving our players around throughout the game, almost with impunity, but their number 19 only needed to be brushed into and he was down, winning a free-kick! Their wrestling at set pieces was almost beyond belief at times with their No. 5 in particular getting away with murder almost every time the ball was put into the box. The referee was warning him not to grapple with Monkhouse and then completely ignored it when he did, right in front of him! The linesmen have to take some of the responsibility as well because, if I can clearly see our players getting their shirts pulled off them from the Upper Findus, then they sure as hell can from the pitch side.

I think I'd probably have brought Bogle on ten minutes earlier but I thought the decision to take off Pittman was the correct one as Tomlinson was causing them plenty of issues. I'm just a bit concerned that Bogle isn't smart enough in his decision-making at the moment. Tends to hold onto the ball when it needs to be moved on quickly and never seems to make a quick pass so he invariably found himself surrounded by 3 players trying to hold them off. It's a tough one, really. I think Pittman and Tomlinson as a pair offer more to the team in general (including being able to challenge aerially), but Bogle and Amond will obviously offer more of a goal threat.

Still searching for the right balance, unfortunately, but if we can get on a good run of form I'm not worried about the threat of FGR based on that game.

The ref certainly didnt help the flow of the game but we were pretty poor first half IMO, hitting long too early and with the non dynamic wide men in Monkhouse and Makreth the support for the front one (not counting Tomlinson as i thought he was non existent)  was not there, leading to attacks breaking down.
Lovely take and finish for Pitman for a suprise goal really. As soon as the goal went in we looked much more composed and confident on the ball but we gave up the lead far too quickly, Parkin isolating himself with Robertson who i thought made the wrong choice in engaging in a shoving match as the ball approached rather than just sticking to goal side and holding him up, lovely finish from the big man though.








Intentional gap....indicating the non footballing events inbetween half time and substitution time...or as we all know it..70 mins.......








Why does he leave it so long?? We are the home team, they really didnt offer alot in open play and we werent either so just bring the subs on and do us and the players a favour by givng them time to make a difference. Tomlinson could and should IMO have got in the bath at half time, his only real contribution getting No.5 booked.

We had the better of the second half but still didnt make their keeper make a save, might be wrong but i can only recall one shot on target in 90 mins...which i think was pretty much the same for the Tranmere game. Not good enough at home. 13 goals on the bench, at least one of them has to start on Tuesday.

They might be top of the league but they looked distinctly average to me and its our manager who has hamstrung us today i feel.

On my tablet so I appologise for the spellings now.

Hurst was caught between a rock and a hard place selection wise if he changed it people would of moaned why did he change a winning team, he doesn't play our best team and people moan.

Both sides were awful but I think we made FGR look good. We looked clueless from start we looked devoid of any sort of tactic apart from the usual crap of lets hoof it to Monkhouse and hope he wins it.

Clay and Disley did well but often played us into danger same with East and Robertson.

Pearson and Gowling were superb and Macca along with that as he had no hope of saving the goal.

Monkhouse started bright but the game was quickly bypassed him as he is obviously to slow to keep up.

Mackreth had spits and spurts.

Pittman looked lost with little support but ran his socks off working hard. Tomlinson was excrement, looked out of place and was god awful.

Why does Hurst A make some substitution choices and B leave them so late theres little chance it will help.

AAAAÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH so frustrating!!!

Best players left on the bench until too late .  The set up of the team I felt was more like a go out and not loose .  
McKeown  in the first half was lucky after dithering,  do I don't I go for the ball , other than that I think they had 2 shots resulting in a goal ,
Defensively Gowling managed Parkin well , East had a tricky winger to look after ,  Pearson had a battle with Guthrie a lot of pushing and pulling missed by the ref .
Midfield , was pushed back far to easily leaving Tomlinson and Pitman isolated . Both battled hard without creating much . Mackreth had good game putting in some lovely crosses.  
At 1-1 the game died at 65 minutes and only came to life when subs came on . Should have been earlier IMO  
F/Green , organised side moved the ball around well , like most teams they know how to make nigglie pulls trips blocks .
Suppose a draw was always always on the cards , we gave them too much respect . Knowing we can play better with the players we have its frustrating .
Ref missed a lot , didn't give us much , but that's why they are in this division .
Great crowd again , appalling away support . Not even a bus full .

Have to say that draw was about right and concur with most other posters thst neither side really deserved to win. I can take starting with the same team but agree that change should have been made at half time as front two were pretty ineffective although pitman took his goal well, Mcreth was his normal self, which is not meant to be a compliment and I do not what he brings to the team.

The disappointing aspect for me was the speed in which we get the ball forward but in the fitst half this was not helped by Tomlinson & Pitman not showing for the ball. Too many passes are "safe" balls played sideways, then to Macca boot for Monkhouse's head and too often he is beaten or FGR picked up the second ball.

Our midfield remains too weak IMO, Monkhouse has had better days and whilst obviously a good footballer like Kerr has arrived 3 years too late and the more the season has progressed the more ponderous he has become.

For tuesday I would change both wide men and recall Bogle &Almond, with Marshall & Arnold as our wide players.

Gives us pace going forward and players with movement, lets hope PH agrees but....

Quoted from Hagrid

Fair result, neither team particuarly impressive, but still a point gained imo, very very poor ref but not to blame for us not winning, but his decision to not give a penalty for the blating holding astounds me. Need to start getting 3 points on a more consistent basis but not going to slate the team, we didnt
Lose! gowling was superb, a deserves MOM, was very dissapointed to see some booing/ cheering when tomlinson went off, thought he battled all afternoon, 3 points please Tuesday!

So basically copy and paste week after week.

How long do you want to keep saying "but we need 3 points next week"

We are tenth and off the pace chopping and changing the team with no conviction in anything we do.

I bet if you asked all town fans would you be happy with being tenth place in october 99%  would say no and it puts operation promotion to a massive shame.

Shame because we all know fenty wont do jack excrement about it.

Didnt say it last week Jonny, we won, can you remember?