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Royston at home - 28th April 2018

Curtis

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After the late drama at the end of the Hereford game,words were said in the dressing room about kicking the ball into row Z instead of faffing around.A harsh lesson learnt which I think they haven't forgotten.Agree its not pretty to watch playing into the corners with 5 minutes to go,but if we use those tactics for the next couple of games resulting in wins,who will care?

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After the late drama at the end of the Hereford game,words were said in the dressing room about kicking the ball into row Z instead of faffing around.A harsh lesson learnt which I think they haven't forgotten.Agree its not pretty to watch playing into the corners with 5 minutes to go,but if we use those tactics for the next couple of games resulting in wins,who will care?

 

 

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Agree with 3spirit's point of view that it isn't pretty to watch but why should we be different to most teams in the country?

 

Codpiece is right and I'm sure 3spirit will admit that in the semi final or if we get to the final and we are leading by the odd goal with 5 minutes to go and we try to keep the ball in the corner to win the game he won't be complaining. 

 

The opposition would certainly be doing it.

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Keeping the ball in the corner at 2-1 with 5 minutes to go is not pretty but it's something that most teams in the country would do in our situation.

 

Whether the time wasting worked or not is neither hear or there but if Royston had equalized because we gave them the opportunity by taking a normal corner we would have rued not keeping the ball in the corner.  

 

The bottom line is we won the game 2-1 so our tactics of keeping the ball in the corner IMO proved to be the right decision.

 

My point was about how long we wasted time. I can totally understand wasting time to see out a game but not when we have ample time to score another goal.

I know that every team in the land does it to a certain point, in important one off games but can you imagine the very best teams doing it for ten minutes, when they know they have the arsenal to score another goal.

Slough shouldn't be afraid to attack. To me it just seems like bottling it.

 

I wish the authorities would introduce a rule to prohibit too much of it in games and then the players who do it could be booked for  ' ungentlemanly behavour '. 

That way it would speed up the game, make it more enjoyable to watch and not be, so on the side of the perpetrators who persist in it.

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I think 3spirit has a point.

 

When it happens to the losing teams supporters it's hated by them but when the winning team does it it's normally accepted and loved by the winning supporters.

 

It's part of the game because it's been accepted as the norm.

 

If a rule was put in place that say within the last 5 minutes of normal time you couldn't do it and if you do it the first time a free kick would be given and the second time you would be booked then maybe it would not be accepted as the norm and gradually irradicated from the game.

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Where’s the harm? Yes obviously if a team is doing it for the whole match then yes that’s not right and a little odd. But defending a lead for the last 5-10 mins is fine with me.

 

Well, Glen STFC, you obviously like watching boring play.  I don't.

 

To me, it cheats supporters from watching an exciting game and benefits the culprits, rather than rewarding  the team with the most adventure.

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Keeping the ball in the corner is game management. Supporters would be the first to moan if someone slung a cross in the box and the opposition immediately broke down the other end to equalise.

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Keeping the ball in the corner is game management. Supporters would be the first to moan if someone slung a cross in the box and the opposition immediately broke down the other end to equalise.

 

As Reading Rebel pointed out, it is what now, has become 'normalised' in every game. I can't stand diving and players making out they are injured ,when they are not but I have to accept it's part and parcel of every game but that doesn't make it right.

 

Of course, I understand a couple of minutes of time wasting can get you over the winning line  but I also do not think I'm wrong, when I say that with more adventure and better endeavour Slough could of been, at least, two goals distant from Royston on Saturday but instead made hard work of the proceedings and were lucky not to draw the game. 

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Stuart we were not lucky to not draw the game, yes they had a chance in the last second, but we had plenty of chances and could have been more comfortable.

With so much at stake we are always going to manage the game, and whether you think it is right or not is I guess irrelevant.

Someone mentioned how we did not manage the Hereford game well enough and were right, and we got loads of stick for that result... same would have happened had we been going away to Kettering.

With so much at stake you just want to do the right things and not take chances, I think you have all been spoiled with entertainment this season from the lads, so a few times during the season when games are tight and we try to keep the ball is hardly the worst thing...

Anyway let’s look forward to Wednesday now and trying to get us to the Final, we will 100 per cent need everyome to get out and support the lads.

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Stuart we were not lucky to not draw the game, yes they had a chance in the last second, but we had plenty of chances and could have been more comfortable.

With so much at stake we are always going to manage the game, and whether you think it is right or not is I guess irrelevant.

Someone mentioned how we did not manage the Hereford game well enough and were right, and we got loads of stick for that result... same would have happened had we been going away to Kettering.

With so much at stake you just want to do the right things and not take chances, I think you have all been spoiled with entertainment this season from the lads, so a few times during the season when games are tight and we try to keep the ball is hardly the worst thing...

Anyway let’s look forward to Wednesday now and trying to get us to the Final, we will 100 per cent need everyome to get out and support the lads.

 

Neil, I would have worded it that we 'should of been more comfortable' not 'could of'.

 

We will have agree to disagree on this one. 

 

Anyway good luck on Wednesday [ and Monday if we make it ]. Whatever the outcome ,the lads have done us proud this season.

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Agree with 3spirit's point of view that it isn't pretty to watch but why should we be different to most teams in the country?

 

Codpiece is right and I'm sure 3spirit will admit that in the semi final or if we get to the final and we are leading by the odd goal with 5 minutes to go and we try to keep the ball in the corner to win the game he won't be complaining. 

 

The opposition would certainly be doing it.

 

My point was about wasting opportunities to score in the 90 minutes. 

 

I don't mind us going to the corners to see out an important one off game,in added on time. What I mind, is when we do it early,when there is still have plenty of time to score goals.

 

After the play off games, when the football season is over, I will post a new thread about what people see as rules being bent and what constitutes fair play.  

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