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macbeth

macbeth

Dismembered
Jan 3, 2018
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six feet beneath the moon
never been more confident of anything in my life. why are we so crap against bottom-of-the-table teams? it’s not even a ‘playing against a low block’ thing, we were awful in the second half. i just can’t comprehend how we can do this with such regularity, whilst being so excellent the rest of the time. i’m not disappointed, christ, we’re in the top four. i’m just more perplexed, than anything else, with the certainty of it all
 




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Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
14,661
Cumbria
macbeth said:
never been more confident of anything in my life. why are we so crap against bottom-of-the-table teams? it’s not even a ‘playing against a low block’ thing, we were awful in the second half. i just can’t comprehend how we can do this with such regularity, whilst being so excellent the rest of the time. i’m not disappointed, christ, we’re in the top four. i’m just more perplexed, than anything else, with the certainty of it all
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Yes - they didn't really play in a low block. They played football and attacked where they could - should have been just the sort of team we enjoy playing against.
 


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Reddleman

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May 17, 2017
2,206
It’s a mentality issue. You can see from the decisions the players make on the pitch, there’s an arrogance that creeps in that top teams don’t have. It’s been like it for two/three years and it’s what’s holding us back.

At 1-0 I stick £20 on the draw. Won £150. Free money given how many times this has happened.
 




Justice

Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
21,134
Born In Shoreham
Reddleman said:
It’s a mentality issue. You can see from the decisions the players make on the pitch, there’s an arrogance that creeps in that top teams don’t have. It’s been like it for two/three years and it’s what’s holding us back.

At 1-0 I stick £20 on the draw. Won £150. Free money given how many times this has happened.
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Agree we stop playing and start making stupid passes against these sides top sides don’t panic.
 




jcdenton08

jcdenton08

Offended Liver Sausage
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Oct 17, 2008
15,023
It’s true that many of us expected it. I was surprised by just how sloppy we were tonight though. Mitoma was decent, otherwise nobody really stood out and the best player on the pitch was Dibling, who was superb.

Put it down as a bad job, take it and move on. It’s about how we respond now.
 








Hamilton

Hamilton

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Jul 7, 2003
12,990
Brighton
pb21 said:
It was going OK until we scored, then it went as it usually does.
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True, but by then we were already letting them get some dangerous balls into the six yard area.

We just played poorly.

Lampty is not good enough
Weiffer is not an improvement even with fresh legs.

In fact, we just looked leggy. There was little movement and in the second half we gave them too much time on the ball.
 


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Mancgull

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Nov 28, 2011
5,636
Astley, Manchester
Kalimantan Gull said:
Our midfield struggle when teams come on to us and play with freedom. Missed Baleba in that second half. And Dunk returning could have come sooner, for the organisation and leadership as much as his play.
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Agree with both.
Getting Baleba will help and we certainly missed him second half.
Dunk made us look more organised in moving the ball forward.
We did also miss Veltman in terms of us being a sound defensive unit, especially in the second half.
 








A1X

A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
20,803
Deepest, darkest Sussex
They seemed to go a goal up and think “right, job done” and just started trying ridiculous flicks and lazy passes which got punished
 








Me and my Monkey

Me and my Monkey

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Nov 3, 2015
3,474
Reddleman said:
It’s a mentality issue. You can see from the decisions the players make on the pitch, there’s an arrogance that creeps in that top teams don’t have. It’s been like it for two/three years and it’s what’s holding us back.

At 1-0 I stick £20 on the draw. Won £150. Free money given how many times this has happened.
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I agree it's a mentality issue, but don't think it's arrogance. I think it's more not being able to handle the weight of expectation, which tonight must have been huge. We've a squad full of youngsters, which maybe is part of the problem. Not that I think our squad is a problem, I think they're f***ing brilliant. Just struggling to get to grips with the emotional side of the game maybe.
 


Deadly Danson

Deadly Danson

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Oct 22, 2003
4,710
Brighton
Hamilton said:
In fact, we just looked leggy. There was little movement and in the second half we gave them too much time on the baball.
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I think "leggy" is exactly how I'd describe us today which is odd. I wonder if there's a wee bit of sickness about in the squad or whether it's just more psychological and players finding it difficult to change the tempo once they equalised.
 


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Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
14,661
Cumbria
Me and my Monkey said:
I agree it's a mentality issue, but don't think it's arrogance. I think it's more not being able to handle the weight of expectation, which tonight must have been huge. We've a squad full of youngsters, which maybe is part of the problem. Not that I think our squad is a problem, I think they're f***ing brilliant. Just struggling to get to grips with the emotional side of the game maybe.
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It's simply human nature to feel slightly over-confident and a little more relaxed when up against someone/team that are not as good as you. And by the time it's gone wrong, it's too late to change the mindset back to one of 100% mentality. Neither arrogance nor weight of expectation really. Just human.
 








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