Mugged....again

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Originally Posted by ThePieWhoCameIn

The point I'm labouring to make is that my gut feel is the football is not substantially different from what it was under LW.

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My gut feeling is the opposite.

Clearly one of us has dodgy guts!

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

My gut feeling is the opposite.

Clearly one of us has dodgy guts!

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Luke Williams would have got this team, with this defence, promoted by early April.

Sadly I cannot prove this. It?s just a gut feeling. It?s a bloody shame we didnt get to see it happen though (yet?!)

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

My gut feeling is the opposite.

Clearly one of us has dodgy guts!

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Well, as I'm the one eating my wife's cooking, it's probably me.

(In the event she is ever able to pin this comment on me - it's been nice chatting with everyone, goodbye and good luck).

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Originally Posted by kill_the_drum

I said it last week but if anyone thinks that other teams in this league are playing better football than us, they?re wrong. I?ve watched a lot of games this season and only Doncaster come close to playing the standard of football that we play.
Let?s face it, if we had won, nobody is talking about boring football, we had 24 shots which is 8 more than when we scored 5 past them. The first 20 mins of the second half felt like a training exercise. We carved them open at will.
The performance was good, the result was terrible.
Cheltenham didn?t figure us out, there was no tactical switch. We gifted them a goal and they scored a worldy. As with so many games this season, we should have already been out of sight.
It?s the most frustrated I?ve felt leaving the ground yesterday, but the blame has to lie with the players. We cannot create that many chances and not win the game.

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Well said that man! Very well said... I think in the most part we play great football and compared to many many seasons I've seen as a Notts fan this is pretty decent. A couple of wins more and we'd be in auto playoffs and everyone would be happy as.... That's not to say it isn't frustrating and that we could have done better but it's a brutal game at times and that's not all down to the management and players etc...

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Excuse me for asking, but did you go to uni and graduate with an honours degree in cherry picking? I could easily cherry pick certain games which would suggest the opposite to yours, but I won't because I realise it would make me look a bit of a tw@t.

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Too late

Just to throw my two pennieth in - a lot of games under Luke we were **** - I also liked him but there was a lot that wasn't great!

The basic problem is that only AJ and Didzy are real goal threats at present
Others chip in very rarely
Only George Abbott looks like scoring otherwise, usually with a worldie
We miss chance after chance and AJ hitting a dry spell has come at just the wrong time
We aren't far from being a very good team
I'm hoping for a change in fortune starting this weekend

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Originally Posted by slack_pie

I was at the Harrogate away game last season, and it was so bad. There was a growing sense among the fans around that time that we'd be found out and had run out of ideas. I loved LW and would welcome him back, but there were signs towards the end of his reign that something wasn't right. His style of football was often exciting, but it could be frustrating too, and sometimes even embarrassing.

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Like Sutton on the first day of the season..

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Originally Posted by MagpieMeltdown

Luke Williams would have got this team, with this defence, promoted by early April.

Sadly I cannot prove this. It?s just a gut feeling. It?s a bloody shame we didnt get to see it happen though (yet?!)

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Newport job Vacant now and a lot nearer his home.

How can you say this is the same play as under LW? Maybe at it's most basic level but under LW we passed it quickly and then, and this is the biggest difference, we moved off the ball, I know amazing right. Watching Notts v Salford, Bradford and Cheltenham lately, I can safely say we don't move off the ball hardly at all. Sometimes Gordon may run down the wing or Didzy will run past the defensive line.........and that's it. We haven't even got JOB trying to make things happen or running past the defensive line.

Yes we pass it about now and that's about it, it usually ends up with a long ball to Jatta who gets out muscled and jumped by the CB, rinse and repeat.