Originally Posted by
tarquinbeech
Superb first half of FOOTball.......yes, we must have played it from the back and through the midfield a dozen times.....Collin has rolled the ball out to the new guy at least 5 times, he calmly puts his foot on it and picks a pass....it is weird to watch a team totally change the gameplan.
Toots is awesome, Dicko ok....FGR have had only one long range shot that Collin fumbled and Toots mopped up.
Our goal was a huge penno shout from quite a few Notts fans around the iFollow camera, ref waved play on...so the immense Noble calmly slammed home....queue some great Notts celebrations.
Grant is in acres of space on the left, Hewey had a glorious chance palmed around the post on 5 minutes, Stead and Aless are running the channels and chasing back.
Great game....we need another to calm my nerves but so far so good.....RIP hoofball
Second half....ohh dear, I thought we had thrown this away after a pretty comfortable first. Stead went down for what looked like a penalty, his shirt was definitely being pulled with the ball at his feet....Grant was still in acres of space down the left and Hawk was quiet but effective on the right..... when we suddenly decided to change the formation, no idea why.....Hawk went off, Aless moved from centre to right wing and Virtue took up a central role on the shoulder of Stead...our free kick in their half, ball falls to their guy on our right wing who runs the full length of the pitch with 3 Notts players chasing him....disaster, crosses it into the box for Campbell to score at the post, he ignores his own fans and comes over to the Notts fans to wind them up....weird
A few minutes later we are suddenly on the ropes as they are flooding through midfield and absolutely smash one into the crossbar, bounces back and hits Collin and nestles in a muddy patch.....bizarre.
I honestly thought we were going to lose the game before a great bit of build up play involving Stead, Grant and Aless fed Toots of all people on the edge of the box.....low and hard, keeper got fingers onto the shot but it went in......PHEW
We hung on a bit at the end, Virtue had one great chance to put me out of my agony, the new boy at the back took a wack to the face and came off....Bris looked solid......Shola came on for a knackered Stead who had chased literally everything, but never got into the game.
Summary, a game of two halves.....Notts were definitely the best team for the first 45 minutes, after we brought on Virtue we suddenly looked shaky, let in one goal, almost two....recovered nicely with a superb winner.
ps Dodgy Slug impression Toots.....needs more work lad.....great goal