⚽ Match Thread vs. Shrewbury Town FC 01.12.23 [FAC R2]

[Elite_Pie]

Just got back home after trip to Nottingham including this game.

I do not think I have ever been so dispirited after a Notts game. We have truly gifted Shrewsbury a third round tie. The defending is beyond bad. Are they being paid to throw matches??

Seriously pi55ed off.

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Exactly how I felt then and now. I've got used to coping with disappointment over the years, but this one was hard to take.

Shrewsbury didn't win it, we lost it.

[OP67]

If Tipton doesn't get a chance after Fridays comedy show I'd be returning to Wolves if I was him. Is here purely with us to make up the numbers for the 11v11's in training???

[keldsyke]

Had a message from my mate in Australia taking the piss this morning, they are now showing Baldwin’s master classes over in Australia, not good. I hope the players and club realize the damage not taking these Cup competitions seriously does to the clubs reputation , for all the hard work that has been done by the club to get us where we are these instances let us down.

[thefulltenyards]

I saw it made some of the tabloids, it looked that bad! Although I'm still waiting for Miss Taylor Swift to purchase the club after reading that incredible Headline. Not read a word on it since. Old news and forgotten within a week.

[keldsyke]

I saw it made some of the tabloids, it looked that bad! Although I'm still waiting for Miss Taylor Swift to purchase the club after reading that incredible Headline. Not read a word on it since. Old news and forgotten within a week.

Laddo, not the point, the Cup competitions need to be taken seriously by the club and players, anyone (including your trusted sources) who pays to get in deserves a 100% effort by the club and players.

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Had a message from my mate in Australia taking the piss this morning, they are now showing Baldwin’s master classes over in Australia, not good. I hope the players and club realize the damage not taking these Cup competitions seriously does to the clubs reputation , for all the hard work that has been done by the club to get us where we are these instances let us down.

I think people are overegging this a little. The first goal was due to pitch conditions, sure the pitch was safe to play in but would still have been slippy, studs wouldn't have been as useful and hence Baldwin slipped.

The other two goals come from trying to make head it, kick it, kick them type defenders into cultured ball playing centre backs, for the majority of the time they will be ok but they will make absolute hashes of it from time to time and in this instance, in tricky conditions, it happened twice. If we want to keep playing like we do, we need to invest in centre backs that can play that role and also expect that ball playing centre backs in league 2 are either going to cost a pretty penny or be prone to the odd mistake (and in some cases, both!)

[OchPie]

Having avoided watching any of the game up to now, two friends (not Notts fans) asked me about what happened so I finally watched.

And no, I don't think it was overegged at all. You would have struggled to believe it at the 8th tier, especially the first and third.

[SaltySeaDog]

The first goal was due to pitch conditions, sure the pitch was safe to play in but would still have been slippy, studs wouldn't have been as useful and hence Baldwin slipped.

Even if the conditions were perfect, it was still completely the wrong move to try and take on the forward that close to goal

[thefulltenyards]

I did not see the game but the fact there appears to be almost total agreement that we gifted the opposition three goals with schoolboy defending and therefore the game then we did take the match seriously.

I was under the impression bar the horrific individual mistakes and decision making we actually played quite well with pleasing Gosling and Austin impressing and we were actually the better side over the 90+ minutes. So selected a side which turned out to be good enough and put enough effort in to win it without the costly errors.

Perhaps you can't always believe what you read.

Anyway I am far more interested in the league and how we respond against Walsall. I think we will bounce back positively.

[Old_pie]

Laddo, not the point, the Cup competitions need to be taken seriously by the club and players, anyone (including your trusted sources) who pays to get in deserves a 100% effort by the club and players.

How exactly does Baldwin & co slipping/making bad decisions constitue a lack of effort?

Row Z and we win 2-0.