Scunthorpe Thread.

[Kiwi John]

Originally Posted by Kiwi John

Heaven

Hell

[LongLostSon]

feel like I'd won the lottery and lost the ticket !

[Redraine]

Agony

[Chubbyman]

No comment

[cashman]

Thought twas a game of 2 halves, 2 sides played well in abysmal conditions, First half we had the wind played great, cannot remember a scunny shot on goal? second half they had wind behind em they played very well fer a spell then Stanley fought back, had quite a few efforts, They scored winner in injury time, overall we did not deserve the loss, but thats life, Noway any neutral could tell who was top of div2, Credit to the display given, gutted about the loss, Roll on Bury.

[SamF]

We came out the second half to sit back waste time, defend and try and hold onto the wind.

The wrong idea straight off but to try that whilst playing 4-4-2 was bloody suicide. If you are trying to hold then pack the midfield - especially when their CBs had the beating of Kayode and Bowerman all night!


Tactical naivety shown today - hope the management team learn from it.

[cashman]

Disagree Sam, they were obviously gonna come out all guns blazing wi the wind behind em, Aint top fer nowt.

[choirboy]

Gutted at losing three points but I am more GUTTED by the way we GAVE the game to Scunthorpe TONIGHT! Yes we played quite well in the first half. The wind was helping us as it blew hard and brought showers from the changing room corner diagonally down the pitch to the Clayton/ Whinney Hill corner from where they tried to pass it out, with confidence in there ability to play on the ball. In the second half we got it totally wrong tactically. Joyce and Murphy conceded midfield and defended as if they were in a back line of six with Joyce and Murphy often positioned either side of Aldred. Our centre midfiled MUST PRESS HIGHER UP THE PITCH even when playing against the wind! I thought it was a mistake to take Koyode off even though he wasn't having a good match because he had the height needed to defend corners and free kicks. It would have been better to bring on Liddle, Hatfield and Atkinson to fill the midfield gap that we allowed. Yes I accept that the conditions were worse for us to defend in the second half as the wind really got up and it lashed it down with rain...horrendous conditions in which to play and defend. There is an old saying that you all have heard......"The best form of defence is attack!" Which in football terms must mean play up in their half of the pitch!!

[LongLostSon]

much of a crowd on tonight or was the weather agin it ?

[cashman]

They said 1200 n odd but i find that hard to reckon.

[choirboy]

Originally Posted by cashman

Disagree Sam, they were obviously gonna come out all guns blazing wi the wind behind em, Aint top fer nowt.

Cashman I have to say I agree with Sam.
As I just said in my previous post, we gave midfield away in the second half. It would have been better to have packed the midfield with Liddle, Hatfield and Atkinson. I would have left Koyode on to defend free kicks and corners with his height and taken Moly, Murphy and Joyce off early on in the second half...as soon as they got one back was the clear signal for that!
Scunthorpe are clearly a good side though so we should give them credit and they are clearly up near the top of our division on merit. It's only a couple of years ago that they were in the Nationwide division, two levels higher than us!
Gee....FRUSTRATED though!

[LongLostSon]

disappointing for a friday night - but not surprised if it's half as rough up yon as here on the south coast.

[SamF]

Originally Posted by cashman

Disagree Sam, they were obviously gonna come out all guns blazing wi the wind behind em, Aint top fer nowt.

Exactly!

So how do you go about countering that?

For me you have two options:

* Push onto the front foot and go for a third
* Pack the midfield to plug the gaps and defend like your life depends on it.

We tried to hold onto the game playing 4-4-2 - they always had a spare man to pass to as we had a man short in midfield.

The ONLY way that play could work is if you had pace in behind with the 2 men you leave up front - then the opposition can't over commit for fear of being caught but with Kayode and Bowerman they were safe as houses!

[cashman]

Bowerman was a correct substitution i have no doubt, the lad was absolutely knackered. He had a decent game i thought but was well goosed.

[cashman]

I can remember our longest serving manager saying the best defence is in the opponents half.