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I just hope it is a better game than the away fixture or you people are in for one shocking afternoon.

We lost one nil but we largely neutralised there hoof ball that night and with a touch more luck and one less Mr Coburn moment of madness we could have come away with a point.

Therefore......

1 v 1

Fair point all round.

Aren't you getting your away defeats confused here? Stuart wasn't at fault for the goal at Histon and actually, although I didn't want to mention it at the time as it would have seemed disrespectful to the officials, I suspect there may have been a handball in the build-up. Handball, ref! Handball! Just then when he, you know, controlled it with his hand right in front of you! Handball!

The 1st is the Saturday - I imagine that JL has just forgotten to change the day as well as the date in his 'Next Game' box.

What formation did we play on Sunday?

Quote from: Pompey Robin on October 18, 2008, 06:34:17 PM

Too many times when we did get the ball the man in possesion had no options and we ended up playing a long ball in teh air which was easily dealt with.

Is this because the famous 3-4-3 in fact turns into a 5-2-3 when densmore and doughty become full-backs, leving the two isolated in midfield?

I hope today will not encourage us from playing attacking football.

That was the point about yesterday - we didn't play that system we've been playing in recent matches. Densmore was in central midfield, so it was a 4-3-3 and it just didn't work. Neither Doughty nor Lane looked as comfortable as conventional full-backs as they have as a wing-back and right centre-back respectively. Densmore wasn't in the game and I feel that his presence shunted Danylyk out of his favoured position and that meant he had an unusually ineffective day.

Why did we change the system that's been working so well for us? My guess is that it's that old fault of worrying too much about the opposition (and it was a response to Hollins's promise to pack the midfield) instead of about ourselves. I hope we revert to 3-4-3 for NBS.

I also felt that the substitutions in the second half never quite got the attacking balance right. Johnson was again excellent when he came on but by removing Senior, instead of one of the three central midfielders, it meant we had no threat down the right. Then when Elam was switched to the right, we had no threat down the left. Today was a day when we missed Denham.

A couple of other things - are we sure Little was flagged offside on that glaring miss at the end of the first half? I thought the linesman was just signalling a goal-kick. And I'm not sure where people are coming from with the complaints about the ref. I thought he was fine and that we could have no complaints about the second goal - it was a mix up, rather like Johnson's goal at Salisbury.

Quote from: Daycare Dan on October 14, 2008, 11:12:52 AM

Quote from: Longman on October 14, 2008, 10:40:25 AM

I agree with this, I think we should rest a few key players and play the likes of Street and Johnson for fitness etc.

Is there not a daft rule in this tin pot cup that we have to play 9 of the starting 11 from our last league game. Don't give us much room to change things about really?

If that's the case then Johnson for Little and Street for Danylyk for me, it would be a major blow for our league campaign for one of them to get injured.

Or maybe Street for Lawton? I assume Robbie is suspended for the game at Weymouth after the fifth booking against Oxford, so it would give Street and Danylyk a chance to play together in advance of Saturday's game.

We have a winner.

Jeff Johnson scored his 100th Alty goal in a 4-5 defeat at Kettering on September 19th 1981. I'm pretty sure no-one's done it since.

I think that puts what Colin Little's about to achieve in its true perspective. I sort of hope he doesn't get No. 100 against Farsley because it'll inevitably be a bit anti-climactic. And if he gets it at Weymouth, then I'd be there to see it.

Last time one of our players scored 100 goals for Alty?

What (if I've got my sums right...) is the significance of the date September 19th 1981?