V Marlow

[Martin]

No worries Neil, thanks for that.

 

I do find some of these post baffling. The marlow keeper was time wasting for the whole of the second half. Max may have made more saves but many of these were routine. Thought we looked threatening on nearly every attack whilst perhaps not being clinical enough.

 

As I've stated above apart from the late effort that rattled the bar most of their attacks were comfortably dealt with and they scored two freak goals.

 

I can't see how anyone can say that is a fair result. 99 times out of 100 their first goal is cleared away and 99 times out of 100 the referee doesn't see an imaginary penalty.

[staines_rebel_Jr]

Thought we deserved to win (if only by a goal). Not entirely convinced by max in goal today but think the first goal he let in will teach him a lot about the pitches he will play on in this league and he won't make the sameistske again.

 

If warren Harris lob went in first half we probably would have gone in with a lead instead of being behind. Second half could have scored 2-3 with a little more calm.

 

For me warren Harris was by far motm, have his all and looked most likely to score and caused the defence all sort of trouble. Also thought Fraser, parsons and wooz were excellent. The others were distinctively average.

 

It is good to have several attacking options again.

 

Personally not bothered about the players not going to the fans (I'm one of those behind the goal) as long as they show that they are committed on the pitch.

Though often the players who are remembered over time are those who show true commitment to the club and the fans!

[Slough Kitman]

I'm with Warren on this one, Since Dunstable I think (apart from Kettering) the support has been very quite. Today first half nothing, second half I think I 1 Give us an S ans a couple of Slough Towns. But must say I was not really taking to much notice.

 

On the game, we were coasting, confidence up then two howlers. I thought and I think players to, here we go again luck gone out the window and it showed in the second half. But we still had chances to win that game.

 

Nathan I can't see how every time you see a game all the opponents chances are goals and ours are misses. 

[Radders]

Spot on Martin. Apart from the issue I raised in my 1st post, and Neil I thank you for your response, I was relatively happy with the performance today. I think we were by far the better side with Marlow offering a few scares on the break but nothing that we couldn't handle. I feel we saw the majority of the action nearest to us and we tested their defence time and again. One thing that we possibly could have improved was our attacking line as we seemed to get caught offside a lot. All in all a game we very much deserved to win in my opinion.

[Radders]

I'm with Warren on this one, Since Dunstable I think (apart from Kettering) the support has been very quite. Today first half nothing, second half I think I 1 Give us an S ans a couple of Slough Towns. But must say I was not really taking to much notice.

Interesting mark that at the start of your paragraph you 'criticise' the support but by the end of it you virtually admit that you're not joining in or paying any attention to it. I realise that being a club official has its limitations but I'm pretty sure you'd be allowed to join in with an odd chant now and then. Warren, being one of the louder and more 'outspoken' members of the crowd maybe knows better when we are quieter than normal, etc but I so start to find it a little galling when the fans that turn up and do try and make some noise get criticised by people who don't. Just my opinion.

[Graham C]

We are having no luck which is an essential ingredient for a winning side and were undone by a couple of goals which should never have been.Having said that I think we are just not good enough as a team when it matters most- as others have said there was an apparent switching off in the 20 mins.

 

I also question the number of times we got caught offside.......it was clear in the first few mo ments that they were playing a high line and we fell for it time and again--surely we should be better than that and if need be revised tactics at half time to counter it.

 

Lots of good stuff--MOTM between Warren and Sean-- but we have still got to be better.

 

I will take a lot of persuading that Rumbold is better than Burgess but time will tell

 

We will all be back again Saturday---lets hope Lady Luck also turns up

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Interesting mark that at the start of your paragraph you 'criticise' the support but by the end of it you virtually admit that you're not joining in or paying any attention to it. I realise that being a club official has its limitations but I'm pretty sure you'd be allowed to join in with an odd chant now and then. Warren, being one of the louder and more 'outspoken' members of the crowd maybe knows better when we are quieter than normal, etc but I so start to find it a little galling when the fans that turn up and do try and make some noise get criticised by people who don't. Just my opinion.

Have to agree with radford here. We hear a lot of "the support was quiet/ poor" etc... Unless you are one of the 4/5 who actually start a chant I don't think you are really entitled to criticise. (Apologies if blunt)

[Mark44]

Right had a chance to reflect on the game and the posts above.

 

I am with the majority that we should have won the game and 9 times out of 10 we would have kept a clean sheet, it was only for two very unfortunate goals that we didn't.

 

I thought we played much better than at Sycob and Kettering games and think that the number of players coming back into the squad has helped with that.

 

Mentions for Ryan parsons. Sean Fraser and warren Harris who were all excellent.

 

The one thing that baffled me was our subs. I am not a manager and so could be talking complete crap but as I saw it we get back to 2-2 and get the momentum pendulum swing in our direction so we take off our two strikers (one of whom has scored with a very good finish) and replace them with 2 that have never played together, one on his debut and one who hasn't played for 6 weeks.

 

I think this really took the sting out of us as they needed to take 10 mins to bed in.

 

As I said. Probably complete nonsense but that's how I saw it

[3spirit]

Spot on Martin. Apart from the issue I raised in my 1st post, and Neil I thank you for your response, I was relatively happy with the performance today. I think we were by far the better side with Marlow offering a few scares on the break but nothing that we couldn't handle. I feel we saw the majority of the action nearest to us and we tested their defence time and again. One thing that we possibly could have improved was our attacking line as we seemed to get caught offside a lot. All in all a game we very much deserved to win in my opinion.

 

Radders,an interesting point you raise about strikers keep getting offside.Ed Smith seemed to be the main culprit in this and never quite imposed his game.

As mentioned before,surprised Bakes and Unders made the double substitution considering Ed's been out for 6 weeeks and that Ed doesn't know Adam Cornell's game.

Ed Smith's link up play is second to none in our team IMO and he and Johnny Dyer have built an understanding with each of the other's play.So it was a bit of a strange one, bringing  on a rusty player[Ed] and a player who hasn't played at all for us[Adam] together.

Johnny had just scored that peach of a forward's goal and the managers take him off !

 

On a side note,saw three ex-rebels in the crowd with Eddie Denton,Stuart Swift and Paul Coyne all watching the game. 

[Sir Rebel1965]

4-5 of the slough fans start a chant, 10-20 join in, the other 90% just moan!

 

As said above there will not be many of this team who will be remembered as they are far too average.

[Slough Kitman]

Radders /Marcus not criticising just an observation, I think it great when you lot are at full throttle, and the players do notice it when you are. 

 

As you said Radders in my part I'm busy nearly the whole game and I miss things now so if I'd join in ( NO ) I'd miss even more.

I do have my say at officials (loud at the time ), then I face them after and say the same ( but a bit more polite )

Some of the reason I miss the chants is I am doing other things.

[3spirit]

We are having no luck which is an essential ingredient for a winning side and were undone by a couple of goals which should never have been.Having said that I think we are just not good enough as a team when it matters most- as others have said there was an apparent switching off in the 20 mins.

 

I also question the number of times we got caught offside.......it was clear in the first few mo ments that they were playing a high line and we fell for it time and again--surely we should be better than that and if need be revised tactics at half time to counter it.

 

Lots of good stuff--MOTM between Warren and Sean-- but we have still got to be better.

 

I will take a lot of persuading that Rumbold is better than Burgess but time will tell

 

We will all be back again Saturday---lets hope Lady Luck also turns up

 

Graham C, I think Leigh Rumbold looks an entirely different type player to Ollie Burgess.Time will tell if he is any better, although I think it will be difficult to compare their style each to the other.

 

Actually thought Ollie would have been useful as a sub yesterday[his creativity] for the tiring Leigh.

George Short had little impact and struggled to get into the pace of the game,when he came on.  

[Graham C]

Thanks 3Spirit

 

What I should have made clear is that talking about Ollie being better was in the context of being a better player for our squad, mainly on the basis of what you said about creativity. There was not enough of that yesterday except for that one super McClurg pass!

 

And what about these refs..........so many are poor lately........are they getting games at our level too soon in their time ?

[readingrebel]

They did.

 

We perhaps had fewer, but better chances, and failed to take them. They certainly made our keeper make more saves, and generally had more possession, winning more 50/50 tackles. Each side hit the bar once, and we also cleared a shot off our line. To me they were, for much of the game, edging a close contest. Not a huge amount in it, but they were better for much of the game.

 

 

Ted, with your above comments I'm surprised you think a draw was a fair result.

[3spirit]

Thanks 3Spirit

 

What I should have made clear is that talking about Ollie being better was in the context of being a better player for our squad, mainly on the basis of what you said about creativity. There was not enough of that yesterday except for that one super McClurg pass!

 

And what about these refs..........so many are poor lately........are they getting games at our level too soon in their time ?

 

Graham C, I think that you have to rationalise how Bakes and Unders want their central midfielders to work.

Ollie Burgess is somewhat of a luxury player,in the fact that he is offensively good but defensively poor.He was considered lightweight in what was being asked of him IMO. 

 

As proved yesterday,sometimes our wingers play like forwards ie high up the pitch.This leaves huge gaps which the central midfield pairing and the full backs have to deal with.

 

Ollie to my mind fitted better in a centre midfield three,with him playing behind the strikers.Thought Ollie had worked hard to fit in with the new style this year but can understand why the joint managers having taken the decision to release him.

It was no co-incidence that Sean Fraser and Ryan Parsons were seen to have such good games,as they had to deal with a lot of Marlow attacks because of our wingers pushing on.Thus why we need energetic,hardworking centre midfielders who are good at tackling. 

Edited January 12, 2014 by 3spirit

[brighton_rebel]

Its catch 22 regarding vocal support. People join in when people start off the chants but we need more youngsters to start the chants. And we won't get more youngsters coming along till we get a new ground....

[Fulham Rebel]

Its catch 22 regarding vocal support. People join in when people start off the chants but we need more youngsters to start the chants. And we won't get more youngsters coming along till we get a new ground....

 

Over the years I have heard the odd chant started by someone outside the regular 4-5 and it has had no response from the rest of us, who (after that) would try again?

[Rebel yell]

Over the years I have heard the odd chant started by someone outside the regular 4-5 and it has had no response from the rest of us, who (after that) would try again?

 

I second that FR. I also have seen individuals attempt to start a chant only to get shot down. Then one of the 4-5 regulars start a chant immediately after and get a full chorus. I personally wouldn't make a second attempt at embarrassing myself either and would leave it to the little clique.

[GarySTFC]

Happens to all of us, but you're right. Will start up a separate thread on this.