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Re: Exiles thread - Forest Green (H)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:37 am
by moonwalk19
ContrifibulatoryFred wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:48 pm
FGR are a horrible team. Their play acting and cheating is really quite infuriating. The referee is bad but the Os have such naivity about their approach they deserve to lose.
We know they are a horrible team to play against but we are so naive . We let them boss us around .Although Happe was right to get a second yellow I noticed several of their players were surrounding the ref straight away giving him verbal . They are very clever at getting at the ref and at players . We fell into their trap today.
Re: Exiles thread - Forest Green (H)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:41 am
by Dohnut
moonwalk19 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:37 am
ContrifibulatoryFred wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:48 pm
FGR are a horrible team. Their play acting and cheating is really quite infuriating. The referee is bad but the Os have such naivity about their approach they deserve to lose.
We know they are a horrible team to play against but we are so naive . We let them boss us around .Although Happe was right to get a second yellow I noticed several of their players were surrounding the ref straight away giving him verbal . They are very clever at getting at the ref and at players . We fell into their trap today.
To be fair, plenty of teams do this, not just FGR. But they are Good at it. It’s not that they are a dirty team hacking players down, they niggle, jostle, agitate, annoy. Just enough to get away with it most of the time. And they got to us from the start, destroyed any rhythm we had and made us look like muppets. And took all 3 points.
Player for player they are not that much better than us. Yesterday in approach they were light years ahead of us. I dare say laughing all the way home on the coach enjoying a job well done.
Frustrating.
Re: Exiles thread - Forest Green (H)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:12 am
by Thor
The difference between the two teams yesterday could be viewed in pretty simple terms.
They kept their shape at all times
Well drilled in how they play
Knew our weakness so their homework was done well
Worried at the dark arts rather well although annoying
They are not better man for man nor as a footballing team. However, when you put the above together its enough to beat us yesterday especially as we never really looked like scoring.
Re: Exiles thread - Forest Green (H)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:56 am
by BiggsyMalone
UpminsterO wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:37 am
Token wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:35 pm
5 substitutions allowed and Kim Ling Un is still on the pitch playing centre back ffs
Look I don’t know how good or bad Sam ling is
But he was England C full back
But this post made me smile and that rarely happens reading this forum
I like the name “ Kim Ling Un” in this post as a jaundice joke - but I guess it rather degrading so I should not of smiled
Ling junior - this guy was given a unfair ticket by signing at a club with his dad as DOF
It’s ok to say the signing did not have the DOF active in the process but that is a shame and irrelevant as a statement
The player deserves better and I really can’t see how he can make a pleasant career at his work with his dad as DOF - his dad may be the best DOF in the land ( excluding fletcher story ) but it’s like a poisoned chalice both at the same club - bad idea in the first place
What?
Re: Exiles thread - Forest Green (H)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:34 am
by Ronnie Hotdogs
Thor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:12 am
The difference between the two teams yesterday could be viewed in pretty simple terms.
They kept their shape at all times
Well drilled in how they play
Knew our weakness so their homework was done well
Worried at the dark arts rather well although annoying
They are not better man for man nor as a footballing team. However, when you put the above together its enough to beat us yesterday especially as we never really looked like scoring.
All of this.
I said yesterday that most games you can see that player for player, we are better than the opposition. That’s regardless of the result or how we’ve played.
Against FGR that wasn’t the case. Players were pretty evenly matched* but they were so much more of a team.
* I thought they weren’t all that up top but that could have been due to Happe and Tunji playing well, and also their keeper was an untried kid that we didn’t test.
Re: Exiles thread - Forest Green (H)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:38 am
by Ronnie Hotdogs
I also have no issue with their approach. People moaning about it sound like they’ve got a massive dose of sour grapes.
It’s just professionalism.