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

[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!)

[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