Quote Originally Posted by MikeSB View Post
I did enjoy the game folks as its been a while since I have been to one and when they scored after about 6 mins, I thought they were going to slaughter us but I must admit, I was surprised how good we were when its been pretty negative reporting recently, even by me and I thought our players were excellent in how they responded. In fact I thought we were on top for loads of time in the game and we showed tenacity and passion in going after them. I was also surprised how good some of our football skills were by the forwards and midfield and the defence were pretty solid too. Just looking at the highlights, you can see how professional the goal scorer was as he knew exactly where to strike the ball and the third goal was sublime by the pass onto his head but he was as cool as a cucumber heading it into the goal.

I will also say seeing that performance live tells me that we have a pretty decent team and we need not be as negative as some of us has been. This win should inspire us to start winning games again and listening to Dave Artell after the geme, he said that his team did not perform very well. I have news for him as that was because we were better than his team full stop and he would not have expected to lose that game given the start they had. I would be a little concerned about the left sided full/back/midefield as two of their goals came in from that side. But we'll let that go with the geat win we had.

I met DA at HT to say hello but he said he was working and interesting to see that he and his coaches stayed behind on the bench for a few minutes at HT to examine in detail the reasons they let in two goals.

He must try and learn,sometimes its because of gritty determination to get back into the game and push on and that's what we did..

Well done team. It was very cold second half but I did enjoy the game and would like to go again even at my age ie 81 and my 70th year watching the Alex..
Decent interview by Dave Artell after the game, as outspokenly honest as the ones he did for us. He said they deserved to lose, because they didn't play as well as us (or take on board what he told them at half time, when he'd said to them they didn't deserve to be level and had to do better). Yes, he was as frantic on the sidelines as ever, ranting at his coaches (and he had a lot) and the 4th official as ever.

In answer to your question Mike, in theory you're only allowed one coach in the technical area, apart from when someone's doing paperwork for subs, preparing the board, quickly conferring, etc, but some refs don't enforce it while others do. Who knows what Coy enforces - certainly not yellow cards for fouls! Ryan Dicker was down at times (normally he and Kenny sit where Dario used to, observing the play from above) but in other games spends more thime there. Fred Barber always sets the subs board, but otherwise is on the bench.