Just back.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

At risk of upsetting a few, I can’t honestly see what Holohan brings to the team. His first four passes lost possession. Emmanuel had his worst game for the club and yet, but for one dreadful piece of marking (same culprit), we’d have got three points.

Obviously McAtee MoM for the one bit of quality in the game.

2 penalties, a FA cup quarter Final and a trip to Brighton, plus a few £100K in the bank.

Quoted from DB

2 penalties, a FA cup quarter Final and a trip to Brighton, plus a few £100K in the bank.

Of course. I forgot. He did it all on his own.

It was like most of the home games. We have been rubbish at home all season. Love the mariners but watching this team at home is a chore. Never mind the fact we rarely win we play very little decent football.
The whole midfield was abysmal and we have no width, Effete and Emmanuel do not work well together. I would try Emmanuel at full back and rest Effete.
Waterfall battled well as did Lloyd . This is a team of grafters with no guile. We look better with a target man who the midfielders can work off. I would go for this, we cannot create chances from open play and I am glad Taylor is back. If we are playing big boot football we need the personnel to do it. Not sure what they do on the training ground.
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PH post match strikes me that he’s happy to just avoid relegation now and that’s projected onto the players.

Fine based on this mental cup run, but not exactly fun for those of us watching it every week.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

The Southampton goal Efete sees the danger late tries to get to the back post but Waterfall literally pushes him the other way as he turned, watch it on slowmo.

He was marking their guy that scored at Southampton and then went walk about, no wonder he saw the danger late. I'm sorry but as a defender he is pretty poor.

I'd take the Newport No2 in a heartbeat. He was great tonight.

His contract runs out in June.

Agreed, looked decent. Whether he plays like that more than not I haven’t a clue, but he’ll have interest if he does

Our possession is abysmal. We never seem to keep the ball for more than a couple of minutes, any promising string of passes always undone with a final overhit or wayward pass. We also get drawn into long tedious bouts of head tennis, no one seems capable or willing to get the ball down and it's invariably either headed out if play or lumped up, either way we see possession conceded.
The earlier post was right, passion and determination in spades but little guile.

Quoted from ginnywings

I'd take the Newport No2 in a heartbeat. He was great tonight.

His contract runs out in June.

ex Norwich - didn't we have a link on the coaching side with Norwich?

The beautiful game, that was not. More like a rugby match,

I don’t understand the sense in us just aimlessly hoofing the ball. We don’t have the players to play that sort of football effectively even if we wanted to, because we lose nearly every header and second ball so were just playing into Newport’s hands.

Awful stuff but didn’t lose at least. Cracking goal from McAtee that was almost from a different game.