Match Thread vs. Wealdstone FC 13.03.21 [NL]

[optipez]

Reading these threads sometimes I feel like an alternative universe exists on NCM. Suddenly, because we won, the players have apparently taken over from the manager, the players' meeting is a bad thing rather than a good thing, NA has lost the dressing room etc., etc. As far as I'm aware none of these theories/rumours are based in any fact or actual knowledge. These are just the latest chapters of this enthralling but fictional psychodrama, it has been happening for donkeys' years.

It makes for a fascinating and entertaining read wondering where this rabbit hole of invented story lines will go next but blimey it's surreal and weird to watch these things sustain a fictional life of their own. Long may the entertainment continue!

COYP! Viva NCM!

Spot on. The main difference was the midfield held their ground which let the wing backs push up, we won the midfield battle.
Ardley was explicit in his post match interview that we'd played too many games in our own half and not created enough and he changed it.
All the psychobabble is just that.

[tied_up_in_notts]

Sir Jimmy had a phrase for all of this. He said "the best team always wins, all the rest is just gossip".

[Elite_Pie]

Ardley was explicit in his post match interview that we'd played too many games in our own half and not created enough and he changed it.

I don't get how it's psychobabble and an alternative universe on NCM. A lot of posters have been saying all season long that we'd played too many games in our own half and not created enough. Ardley finally recognises it 23 games in, and is applauded for changing things?

[laddo]

Reading these threads sometimes I feel like an alternative universe exists on NCM. Suddenly, because we won, the players have apparently taken over from the manager, the players' meeting is a bad thing rather than a good thing, NA has lost the dressing room etc., etc. As far as I'm aware none of these theories/rumours are based in any fact or actual knowledge. These are just the latest chapters of this enthralling but fictional psychodrama, it has been happening for donkeys' years.

It makes for a fascinating and entertaining read wondering where this rabbit hole of invented story lines will go next but blimey it's surreal and weird to watch these things sustain a fictional life of their own. Long may the entertainment continue!

COYP! Viva NCM!

NCM it's all 'ifs, buts and made ups'

Can be entertaining but you can't take anything too seriously.

Add a pinch of salt to all your read.

[Elite_Pie]

NCM it's all 'ifs, buts and made ups'.

So does a lot of posters saying all season long that we'd played too many games in our own half and not created enough fall into the 'ifs, buts and made ups' category, or is it a logical, rational assessment based on what we've regularly seen before yesterday?

[laddo]

So does a lot of posters saying all season long that we'd played too many games in our own half and not created enough fall into the 'ifs, buts and made ups' category, or is it a logical, rational assessment based on what we've regularly seen before yesterday?

That latter for certain. Identifying issues isn't the tough part of the equation it's the finding solutions that is.

When I saw you had quoted my post I feared that you were objecting to my NCM 'tag line', now that would have been ambitious.

As you know there is an endless supply of 'ifs, buts and made ups' on here #vivaNCM

[Elite_Pie]

When I saw you had quoted my post I feared that you were objecting to my NCM 'tag line', now that would have been ambitious.

As you know there is an endless supply of 'ifs, buts and made ups' on here #vivaNCM

Of course there is, it's a football messageboard. You would have to be incredibly naive to expect otherwise.

[laddo]

Yet some experienced NCM folk take what's guessed or simply made up as gospel after all these years. Now that's what you call naive.

Swale's post nailed it. Why let facts get in the way of a good story. I believe they call it the 'rumour mill'.

[Elite_Pie]

Yet some experienced NCM folk take what's guessed or simply made up as gospel after all these years.

Who are these posters? Could you name any?

[laddo]

Of course I can , it's a case of take ya pick. However that would go completely against your stated desire to maintain a 'respectful tone' on NCM which as you know I fully support so probably best I don't