Tooting reaction

[Coffin Ender]

Report on official website...

 

http://www.tmufc.co.uk./

 

Manager's comments...

 

http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/sport/footb...her_characters/

 

 

[Cookie]

They had 4 or 5 excellent chances to score in the 1st half from what I can recall.They weren't half chances as is mentioned.

They were chances that were more or less guaranteed to be goals but on the day Mullins made 4-5 super instinctive saves.Our defence were poor in those instances but they sure made up for it afterwards & especially in the 2nd half where they were unbeatable & on their game throughout.

For the rest of the 1st half it was pretty even I thought with us doing a fair share of the attacking too.They certainly weren't all over us like a rash.

Like mentioned elsewhere we were being caught on the break as has often been the case of late.I was dreading their first attack (after 15 minutes I think it was) as so often happens we concede (against the run of play).

I think this is where MM got the wrong impression,

understandably.

Yes, we could & should have been dead & buried by half time but only because of those handful of excellent chances they were presented with. Overall in that half we were equal to them at the least & territorially we probably shaded it.As for the rest of the report I think he got it about right.

 

[Chris1]

I couldn't make the game on Saturday (heard Wellsie's excellent commentary for the first time!). From all the reports it seems to have been a classic 'game of two halves'.

 

But why? Was it the half time pep talk? Did we change tactics? Or did we just happen to get a goal and that caused the oppo to chase the game?

[Wellsie]

I'm not so sure there was that much between the two sides in the first half. Tooting had the better chances and perhaps two or three more; our chances just seemed to go straight at their keeper or just(ish) wide of the target. I still think overall we were good value for the win.

 

Our goal straight after the re-start was crucial and I think losing Corbishley unsettled the balance. Gregs did well on that side but it took him a while to get into the game. Ironoc that we spent a number of years wondering where our left footers were going to come from and then we play on on the right! I did expect to see McGibbon come on for Gregory, but what do I know!

 

The system we're playing is realtively sophisticated I think. The wide players (Robinson and Corbishley/Gregory) give us a back 5 when we need it and numbers across midfuield too, but that coulped with an attacking three - Peters and Healy just behind Kenny - gives the whole side a fluid look that must be awkward to defend against. Just need someone to score regularly and we'll be fine.