Match Thread vs. Boston Utd. 20.07.22 [PSF]

[Notts78]

1-0 down already. We have a strong side out too

[Notts78]

1-0 down already. We have a strong side out too

Scrap that 1-1 after 6 mins

[BigFatPie]

JOB mistake for their goal. Honestly, I’ve never known a player so crap and so associated with failure, but so popular with supporters. Except maybe Michael Doyle.

And yet here he is for another season.

[BanjoPie]

JOB mistake for their goal. Honestly, I’ve never known a player so crap and so associated with failure, but so popular with supporters. Except maybe Michael Doyle.

And yet here he is for another season.

He plays with his heart and is good for the squad but it takes a certain quality to see that

[BigFatPie]

He plays with his heart and is good for the squad but it takes a certain quality to see that

I think I can recognise someone who plays with his ‘heart’. I would if I had a Notts shirt on. As for being ‘good for the squad’, how do you know? I think I’d be quite disillusioned with someone who makes mistakes that lead to goals.

[BanjoPie]

I think I can recognise someone who plays with his ‘heart’. I would if I had a Notts shirt on. As for being ‘good for the squad’, how do you know? I think I’d be quite disillusioned with someone who makes mistakes that lead to goals.

I suspect that all players make mistakes that lead to goals at sometime, it stands to reason that if player gets ‘stuck in’ he will make some mistakes - if the player got everything right, he would probably be playing for Man City. Players that shirk responsibility by leaving it to others are rarely seen to make mistakes and so have little influence on the match.

[irishpete]

JOB mistake for their goal. Honestly, I’ve never known a player so crap and so associated with failure, but so popular with supporters. Except maybe Michael Doyle.

And yet here he is for another season.

Tony Agana

[jackal2]

JOB mistake for their goal. Honestly, I’ve never known a player so crap and so associated with failure, but so popular with supporters. Except maybe Michael Doyle. And yet here he is for another season.

I agree Michael Doyle was way overrated in that he never had the influence on the team that he was slated to have and was massively overplayed. He didn't have the influence of a player like, say, Don O'Riordan many years ago, who came from virtual semi-retirement to become a key part of Neil Warnock's team which won promotion to Division One.

Jim O'Brien does sometimes make mistakes, but he usually makes them being brave and trying to take the initiative and do something positive. Most players like that have their good and bad moments, but I prefer them to the Mark Fotheringham or Ian Hamilton types who basically sat in midfield and did nothing. The biggest concern I have about JOB is simply his age and the fact his game is based on energy and enthusiasm. I can't see him being anything more than a squad player in what is presumably his final year, at least as a player.

[TSANHO]

I agree Michael Doyle was way overrated in that he never had the influence on the team that he was slated to have and was massively overplayed. He didn't have the influence of a player like, say, Don O'Riordan many years ago, who came from virtual semi-retirement to become a key part of Neil Warnock's team which won promotion to Division One.

Jim O'Brien does sometimes make mistakes, but he usually makes them being brave and trying to take the initiative and do something positive. Most players like that have their good and bad moments, but I prefer them to the Mark Fotheringham or Ian Hamilton types who basically sat in midfield and did nothing. The biggest concern I have about JOB is simply his age and the fact his game is based on energy and enthusiasm. I can't see him being anything more than a squad player in what is presumably his final year, at least as a player.

Good grief, I’d almost wiped Ian Hamilton from my memory. Without doubt a shoe in for my worst ever Notts 11, maybe even captain.

I like JOB, he obviously can’t influence games like he used to but one of the only players who never went missing or tried to positively affect a game. How many great runs did he make in behind the opposition defence last year only for the CB’s to opt to pass it backwards or sideways?

[magpie_mania]

I agree Michael Doyle was way overrated in that he never had the influence on the team that he was slated to have and was massively overplayed. He didn't have the influence of a player like, say, Don O'Riordan many years ago, who came from virtual semi-retirement to become a key part of Neil Warnock's team which won promotion to Division One.

Jim O'Brien does sometimes make mistakes, but he usually makes them being brave and trying to take the initiative and do something positive. Most players like that have their good and bad moments, but I prefer them to the Mark Fotheringham or Ian Hamilton types who basically sat in midfield and did nothing. The biggest concern I have about JOB is simply his age and the fact his game is based on energy and enthusiasm. I can't see him being anything more than a squad player in what is presumably his final year, at least as a player.

O'Riordan semi-retirement?

We paid £16k for him. The season before he was at Grimsby and won their player of the year, and the Sunday People player of the season for that league.

Regarding JOB, he spent so much time at Cambridge shouting at everyone else that he wasn't concentrating on his own game.