Barnet Match Thread - Page 11

Outback Ozzy · 13-03-2010, 19:07

Never mind Saturday, lets hope Tuesday night and another 3 points against the Millers.
Sounds like a great win today, just unfortunate I am on nights and in bed during the match, beginning to feel like our anitpodean friends. At least the bus home will be buzzing and some on here will be glad Boozers back in now that Bav's will be out for 3?
Who cares, we won and another 3 points towards safety in the football league.

smudgie · 13-03-2010, 19:32

Was gonna say Molloy has broke his hand????

Heres hoping Bouza stays fit.

Ahh the good old jinx position at stanley strikes again

Fantastic 3 points today

VALAIRIAN · 13-03-2010, 20:03

We have always got Billy to play in goals!!!

lancsdave · 13-03-2010, 20:14

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Originally Posted by Outback Ozzy

now that Bav's will be out for 3?

It will be 2 unless he has already been sent off this season.

nige b · 13-03-2010, 20:36

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Originally Posted by sparkie

Erm unless they've changed the rules so he can play in a plaster cast or he's made a miraculous recovery then I very much doubt Josh will on the bench for the next few games. He bust his hand in the ressies against carlisle about 10 days ago, we got pasted too!!

interesting so thankfully the imbargo has been lifted and we have to bring in a keeper this week. David Martin now at Derby and would have love'd to see him back but in a reverse of fortune brilliant to see Boozer back between the sticks

Phil Whalley · 13-03-2010, 20:50

Vintage, gutsy Stanley for the last half hour, but didn’t look too good until Edwards’ equaliser. We were definitely second-best in the first-half, although Kee should have scored after being put through superbly by Turner, but he blazed over. It was a poor touch by Deano that led to their pen, no real arguments there, and we were glad to get to half-time just the one down.

Coley then made a big call and got it right by taking off Turner and shoring up the central midfield with Ryan. Chris was finding it tough against Lockwood, who looked solid at left-back. It still took us a while to get going after the break. The plan seemed to be for Ryan, Joyce and Proccy to break it up in the middle, and for Kee and Symes to take up wider positions than normal, holding the ball up while the midfield – especially Ryan – got up to support. Coley also wisely didn’t ask the full-backs to do too much overlapping as Barnet were dangerous down the flanks, with both Deano and Tom Lees suffering the odd roasting.

So it wasn’t an overly-attacking set-up in the second-half, the difference I think was in the extra industry that Ryan brought at the heart of the action. It gave Joyce a bit more time on the ball, and his passing was excellent. We then enjoyed the sight of Stanley slowly but surely pushing the oppo back until Bouza became, by and large, a spectator. The equaliser was well-deserved, as it had followed a couple of chances created by long balls out wide to Kee and Symes, both put wide. A decent corner in was met by a Stanley head and it was one of those unstoppable looping headers into the corner. No idea who scored, too busy going mental.

The question now was whether Stanley could continue to press or whether Barnet would come back. They did skim a couple of dangerous low balls across the box, courtesy of the excellent Adomah, that we scrambled away before we won the pen. Difficult to say whether it was deserved, there was contact, but the ref was well-positioned, so who am I to argue? Phil’s pen wasn’t disastrously bad, low to the keeper’s right, but he got down well and pushed it around the post. We were cussing like buggery then, thinking that the chance to win was gone, but Stanley kept on pushing, and some good running off the ball from Symes gave Kee a bit of room on the edge of the box, and he fairly slammed the ball home, a real beauty of a finish.

Barnet had one last chance that should have brought the equaliser but their man headed wide at the far post when unmarked, but that was our only let-off. In sum, a battling, grinding performance more than anything else, not a great deal of passing football, but we kept possession much better in the second half and used the long ball well. Joyce was probably the pick of our players, alongside Kempo, who won everything in the air.

Well done to Coley and the lads.

Have a good evening everyone

Phil

Mr Matthew · 13-03-2010, 20:52

Phil did not score 8 penalties in a row...Fact. Maybe 3 or 4 and some of those scored pens looked decidely dodgy. 66% success rate not good enough for me I'm afraid. How about the wonderful Michael Symes.

Great win though, chuffed...Well done red men.

VALAIRIAN · 13-03-2010, 21:02

Phil scored 6 in a row, which aint too bad!!!

nige b · 13-03-2010, 21:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil Whalley

Vintage, gutsy Stanley for the last half hour, but didn’t look too good until Edwards’ equaliser. We were definitely second-best in the first-half, although Kee should have scored after being put through superbly by Turner, but he blazed over. It was a poor touch by Deano that led to their pen, no real arguments there, and we were glad to get to half-time just the one down.

Coley then made a big call and got it right by taking off Turner and shoring up the central midfield with Ryan. Chris was finding it tough against Lockwood, who looked solid at left-back. It still took us a while to get going after the break. The plan seemed to be for Ryan, Joyce and Proccy to break it up in the middle, and for Kee and Symes to take up wider positions than normal, holding the ball up while the midfield – especially Ryan – got up to support. Coley also wisely didn’t ask the full-backs to do too much overlapping as Barnet were dangerous down the flanks, with both Deano and Tom Lees suffering the odd roasting.

So it wasn’t an overly-attacking set-up in the second-half, the difference I think was in the extra industry that Ryan brought at the heart of the action. It gave Joyce a bit more time on the ball, and his passing was excellent. We then enjoyed the sight of Stanley slowly but surely pushing the oppo back until Bouza became, by and large, a spectator. The equaliser was well-deserved, as it had followed a couple of chances created by long balls out wide to Kee and Symes, both put wide. A decent corner in was met by a Stanley head and it was one of those unstoppable looping headers into the corner. No idea who scored, too busy going mental.

The question now was whether Stanley could continue to press or whether Barnet would come back. They did skim a couple of dangerous low balls across the box, courtesy of the excellent Adomah, that we scrambled away before we won the pen. Difficult to say whether it was deserved, there was contact, but the ref was well-positioned, so who am I to argue? Phil’s pen wasn’t disastrously bad, low to the keeper’s right, but he got down well and pushed it around the post. We were cussing like buggery then, thinking that the chance to win was gone, but Stanley kept on pushing, and some good running off the ball from Symes gave Kee a bit of room on the edge of the box, and he fairly slammed the ball home, a real beauty of a finish.

Barnet had one last chance that should have brought the equaliser but their man headed wide at the far post when unmarked, but that was our only let-off. In sum, a battling, grinding performance more than anything else, not a great deal of passing football, but we kept possession much better in the second half and used the long ball well. Joyce was probably the pick of our players, alongside Kempo, who won everything in the air.

Well done to Coley and the lads.

Have a good evening everyone

Phil

cheers Phil after reading that there is apparently a job at the Evening Stan
dard for a Stanley correspondent.... I'm sure you could fill those shoes!

Love to you and Karen

Nige and Ange

shakermaker · 13-03-2010, 22:03

Bloody hell that was knackering just to watch!
Good memories though

ALEC GILROY!

Mr Matthew · 13-03-2010, 22:04

Correction after checking on stats Phil has a 71.5% success rate. 5 out of 7 and getting worse still not good enough :-(

shakermaker · 13-03-2010, 22:12

I see the consensus is that Phil scored the first... a few of us thought it was Kempo.

LongLostSon · 13-03-2010, 23:19

Well that's just my second viewing of Stanley this season. Have been reading about super performances on here all season (recent form excluded). Now I'm Stanley thru'nthru' but old enough to tell it like it is. Phil's report is a fair reflection of events, if rather polite. We had 3 good chances in the first half, Billy driving wide when well placed & he an another blazing over the bar instead of hitting the target. Seems like there is a fixation with finding the extremities of the goal instead of making the keeper work and maybe get a deflection, rebound or fumble. We aren't good enough in league 2 to be consistently precise so why not choose percentage shots ? At times the defence was open more than Arkwrights corner shop and first half the ball was airbourne so much the physio is going to be busy healing sore neck muscles. As for the sending off, why oh why do Stanley keepers opt to give a penalty in exchange for a red card. We still went 1 down but with a massive handicap & a forthcoming keeper problem. Not exactly the best choice. Half time came with me muttering about park standard footie and calling for the young mascot to be brought on second half - a tad disallusioned you might say.
Thank goodness they got it sorted after the break and our 10 bossed the game, even managing to keep the ball on the floor at times. I regarded our penalty effort as full credit to their keeper rather than Phil Edwards' shortcoming. Our goals were superb and overall we deserved the win.
You all have seen many more games than I - do we always play park football against the lower sides ? they are better at it than us but we are a different prosition when we keep the ball on the turf. An alternative report perhaps - but as scoop bluebottle once replied to eccles "what paper do I represent ? - brown wrapping paper my man" . Nice to re-acquaint and have a laugh over pre-match drinkie-poohs.

Redraine · 13-03-2010, 23:45

Well done to Coley for swapping Chris for Jimmy for the second half - he was great. What a goal for Billy Kee. It reminded me of one that Shearer scored at Ewood against Man U when he shrugged off Pallister and blasted the ball past old red nose Schmeichel. Billy should have had a hat trick, but now he's got his eye in I think his goals will propel us into the play-offs. Massive desire from the lads was great to see. Lovely real ale pub called the Mitre in downtown Barnet IF we are down there again! Presumptuous, Moi??

Dan · 14-03-2010, 00:07

Match report now on the fishy site if you'd like a read:

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