Highlights v Crewe

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Their first goal - look how easily they clear. Wilko loses first challenge, Wright to his credit wins the next one but then aimlessly hooks the ball back to them, Wilko again fails to challenge and they clear easily. Marsh's first thought as ever is to go backwards, not forwards. Then Sarge slips. If we apply proper pressure up the other end, defend from the front properly, that goal doesn't happen. IIf Macca had been up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared. If Angol is up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared as easily as it was. If Wright keeps possession rather than gifting it back to them, that ball doesn't come back to us. If a less defensive full back is playing instead of Marsh, say Judd, that ball doesn't go back to the keeper. It's all too easy to point the finger at Sarge for a slip, but others have contributed massively.

The close miss by Kirk - our midfield gets torn apart. Cisse is slow to react to the throw, JMD doesn't get close enough to the thrower who receives the ball back, Clay doesn't step into the gap left by Cisse, Ruel doesn't follow the full back. All the time Wright is standing motionless but at least he's marking his man and his hair looks nice. Marsh covers but leaves Kirk unmarked and doesn't shut him down properly.

Chance for us - we bypass our non-existent midfield, Marv giving the ball straight to Ruel who works his magic and gets a shot away. Really good play from the kid. Ball comes out to Wilko who's faced with an open goal but fluffs it. Not saying that was an easy chance, it came back to him at pace, but if that was Angol that essexbloke is on here whinging about how it should have been buried.

Shot/cross from edge of box by Wright straight at the keeper, easily palmed away. No idea why that's included in the highlights? Wright's hair still looking fabulous.

Their second goal - powder puff challenge from Brophy and their bloke gets the lucky break. He then shoves Happe off the ball, Dan loses his balance and he goes past him. Happe has to be stronger, should see the charge coming. But the effort to get back and cover Happe by Brophy is embarrassing. Wright, who to his credit as the 1 remaining midfielder is back in the box defending but instead of closing down the advancing striker, decides to stay covering the near post. Bloke has free shot from 6 yards out, does Sarge at near post.

I agree with others, we were ok for most of the game. But there are some fundamental errors which resulted in the goals and other opportunities for them. All of them basic, school boy stuff. Of course it's easy to take it apart after the event and players have to make split second decisions, sometimes even on instinct. But too often they're making the wrong call, taking the easy option, not giving 100%.

[Lucky7]

Their first goal - look how easily they clear. Wilko loses first challenge, Wright to his credit wins the next one but then aimlessly hooks the ball back to them, Wilko again fails to challenge and they clear easily. Marsh's first thought as ever is to go backwards, not forwards. Then Sarge slips. If we apply proper pressure up the other end, defend from the front properly, that goal doesn't happen. IIf Macca had been up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared. If Angol is up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared as easily as it was. If Wright keeps possession rather than gifting it back to them, that ball doesn't come back to us. If a less defensive full back is playing instead of Marsh, say Judd, that ball doesn't go back to the keeper. It's all too easy to point the finger at Sarge for a slip, but others have contributed massively.

The close miss by Kirk - our midfield gets torn apart. Cisse is slow to react to the throw, JMD doesn't get close enough to the thrower who receives the ball back, Clay doesn't step into the gap left by Cisse, Ruel doesn't follow the full back. All the time Wright is standing motionless but at least he's marking his man and his hair looks nice. Marsh covers but leaves Kirk unmarked and doesn't shut him down properly.

Chance for us - we bypass our non-existent midfield, Marv giving the ball straight to Ruel who works his magic and gets a shot away. Really good play from the kid. Ball comes out to Wilko who's faced with an open goal but fluffs it. Not saying that was an easy chance, it came back to him at pace, but if that was Angol that essexbloke is on here whinging about how it should have been buried.

Shot/cross from edge of box by Wright straight at the keeper, easily palmed away. No idea why that's included in the highlights? Wright's hair still looking fabulous.

Their second goal - powder puff challenge from Brophy and their bloke gets the lucky break. He then shoves Happe off the ball, Dan loses his balance and he goes past him. Happe has to be stronger, should see the charge coming. But the effort to get back and cover Happe by Brophy is embarrassing. Wright, who to his credit as the 1 remaining midfielder is back in the box defending but instead of closing down the advancing striker, decides to stay covering the near post. Bloke has free shot from 6 yards out, does Sarge at near post.

I agree with others, we were ok for most of the game. But there are some fundamental errors which resulted in the goals and other opportunities for them. All of them basic, school boy stuff. Of course it's easy to take it apart after the event and players have to make split second decisions, sometimes even on instinct. But too often they're making the wrong call, taking the easy option, not giving 100%.

Easy to say all this when your sat in your armchair

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[cymruO]

Wilkinson's miss could have been a game changer - as also the disallowed goal. Haven't seen any footage of that.

[Thor]

The slip is unfortunate. Wilko’s miss May have made a difference had it gone in. Small margins and it’s tough at present.

Still we fight again on Saturday.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Definitely small margins. But it's no surprise that those margins constantly go in the favour of teams like Crewe and not for teams like us.

If their keeper had slipped like that, would Wilko have been chasing up as hard to block the clearance and take advantage of the 'good luck'?

If Brophy goes past one of their defenders as easily as their 2nd goalscorer went past Happe, would he have then had a free run on goal or would there have been a second defender out to cover their team mate?

[Thor]

I’m with you Redo, the coaching team would be disappointed with the 2nd goal as we had enough opportunities to win the ball back and failed to do so.

Back to the training ground and work on things once more. However, it seems like from comments we were the better team, that’s a positive and if we can just get those small margins working in our favour would be good, but that takes work and effort.

Today is a rest day, tomorrow it will be a light session and Friday very light so maybe not much time to work on what the coaches would want to work on. Here’s to hoping the improvement continues and we start to string a few wins together on the spin.

[Writtlered]

I’m with you Redo, the coaching team would be disappointed with the 2nd goal as we had enough opportunities to win the ball back and failed to do so.

Back to the training ground and work on things once more. However, it seems like from comments we were the better team, that’s a positive and if we can just get those small margins working in our favour would be good, but that takes work and effort.

Today is a rest day, tomorrow it will be a light session and Friday very light so maybe not much time to work on what the coaches would want to work on. Here’s to hoping the improvement continues and we start to string a few wins together on the spin.

I’d spend these next few days doing shooting practice

[Thor]

From what others have said it might be a good idea!

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

I’d spend the next few days trying to beat some desire and determination into 3/4 of the squad.

[jamespevans]

Their first goal - look how easily they clear. Wilko loses first challenge, Wright to his credit wins the next one but then aimlessly hooks the ball back to them, Wilko again fails to challenge and they clear easily. Marsh's first thought as ever is to go backwards, not forwards. Then Sarge slips. If we apply proper pressure up the other end, defend from the front properly, that goal doesn't happen. IIf Macca had been up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared. If Angol is up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared as easily as it was. If Wright keeps possession rather than gifting it back to them, that ball doesn't come back to us. If a less defensive full back is playing instead of Marsh, say Judd, that ball doesn't go back to the keeper. It's all too easy to point the finger at Sarge for a slip, but others have contributed massively.

If Sergeant doesn't slip it's not a goal. If we are not chasing the game with 20 minutes to play they don't score their second. If a butterfly doesn't flap a wing in the Amazon there isn't a typhoon in a small mid-west US town.

[Top of the JES]

Read a post on Crewe's forum that basically said if you had swapped the keepers over last night Orient would have won, Sadly I have to agree. Sarge needs a rest for his own good IMHO first goal would have done nothing for his and others confidence, second goal beaten too easily at the near post and the ball seemed to go through him.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Their first goal - look how easily they clear. Wilko loses first challenge, Wright to his credit wins the next one but then aimlessly hooks the ball back to them, Wilko again fails to challenge and they clear easily. Marsh's first thought as ever is to go backwards, not forwards. Then Sarge slips. If we apply proper pressure up the other end, defend from the front properly, that goal doesn't happen. IIf Macca had been up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared. If Angol is up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared as easily as it was. If Wright keeps possession rather than gifting it back to them, that ball doesn't come back to us. If a less defensive full back is playing instead of Marsh, say Judd, that ball doesn't go back to the keeper. It's all too easy to point the finger at Sarge for a slip, but others have contributed massively.

If Sergeant doesn't slip it's not a goal. If we are not chasing the game with 20 minutes to play they don't score their second. If a butterfly doesn't flap a wing in the Amazon there isn't a typhoon in a small mid-west US town.

That is a very simplistic way of looking at things.

[Sid Bishop]

First goal conceded, enough said. Our chance, good work by Marvin to set Ruel on a run, the youngster is hard to knock off the ball and note the excellent drag back just before his shot. Wilko a really sloppy attempt at goal , just sticks his left leg out, leans back and hits the ball over the top of the goal. Note the difference when Ruel scored his last goal, he got OVER the ball, did NOT lean back as he hit it and hit the ball down. So many players now have bad technique, lean back as they shoot at goal, result over the top even from close range. This boy Ruel is starting to look a ''special player'' The second goal by Crewe, OMG, we had more than enough chances to get at their number 7, really bad defensive play to let him wriggle through to score.
Wilko and a few others need to watch a few of the old ''Bobby Charlton'' highlights, he knew how to keep the ball down. Perhaps Ross can give a master class on correct technique when taking a shot and how to keep the ball low when kicking it, ohh no, on second thoughts, a job for Jobie.''

[BoniO]

Their first goal - look how easily they clear. Wilko loses first challenge, Wright to his credit wins the next one but then aimlessly hooks the ball back to them, Wilko again fails to challenge and they clear easily. Marsh's first thought as ever is to go backwards, not forwards. Then Sarge slips. If we apply proper pressure up the other end, defend from the front properly, that goal doesn't happen. IIf Macca had been up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared. If Angol is up top instead of Wilko, that ball isn't cleared as easily as it was. If Wright keeps possession rather than gifting it back to them, that ball doesn't come back to us. If a less defensive full back is playing instead of Marsh, say Judd, that ball doesn't go back to the keeper. It's all too easy to point the finger at Sarge for a slip, but others have contributed massively.

If Sergeant doesn't slip it's not a goal. If we are not chasing the game with 20 minutes to play they don't score their second. If a butterfly doesn't flap a wing in the Amazon there isn't a typhoon in a small mid-west US town.

That is a very simplistic way of looking at things.

He's right though.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

That’s second goal is about as embarrassing as i can remember.

Looked like Scott Kashket had made a few calls.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

If Sergeant doesn't slip it's not a goal. If we are not chasing the game with 20 minutes to play they don't score their second. If a butterfly doesn't flap a wing in the Amazon there isn't a typhoon in a small mid-west US town.

That is a very simplistic way of looking at things.

He's right though.

Let’s hope those within the club look at things a bit more deeply, eh.

[Article_50]

Just when you think that things can't get any worse they do.

[Adz]

Brophy showing he's not a left back with that 2nd, but awful positioning from sarge, should not be beaten so easily at the near post