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There's always cynical speculation when a game is called off.......... Nothing to beat being out on that pitch at the time of the inspection and experiencing for yourself the underfoot conditions; how much water is in the sub surface and being the person to judge at that time just how much capacity...

Not so sure it is the set pieces which are at fault, the players up for them have to be more alive and aggressive, as Taxilady said the key word is anticipate, gamble, attack the ball , get there first Look at Boreham Wood's first goal on Saturday. Look how they employed the 'bus stop queue' tactic...

....we are being told that the owners are putting a considerable amount of money into the squad, far more than the previous manager had. There's more to it than though isn't there....... There's the day to day running of the whole business within the constraints that the extremely limited revenue s...

SuperNickyWroe wrote: ↑01 Jan 2018, 11:55there you go again Merse...... :-o

You should have sat beside me at Borehm Wood and seen me grinding my teeth, my feet and anything else I could in an attempt to keep my mouth shut in the face of that shit-fest from our midfield; then you would understand! :B

There are some very good management and coaching teams in this league ~ Gary Waddock and his staff at Aldershot; Ian Baird ~ the Head Coach at Sutton ~ is very good, and Luke Garrard's coaching set up at Boreham Wood is well known to me. Then there are Neil Smith and Mark Hammond at Bromley; more in...

It looks to me that the management's first priority has been to stabalise the defending, instil a better shape into the formation and encourage players to pass the ball rather than hoof it forward into channels and indeed just anywhere as long as it was towards the opposition's goal.........that don...

Water never lies Dave!

Mind you it lays, but the problem will be how much is laying below the surface.

hope we still have this forum in 2018. Soon everybody will be afraid to post anything at all in case it offends anybody. Yes; I opened the forum this morning to all that hysterical nonsense ~ Happy New Year everyone! Ignore the nutters and remember the argument which basically was that we might as ...

John Rowlands was a gangly, awkward striker who's 'main problem' in the minds of most of his critics was that he was not Robin Stubbs........ However, getting over that major crime; he was also just as I described him above and not in any way pleasing on the eye; which of course Robin was. In the re...

Shangull wrote: ↑31 Dec 2017, 18:32Nancy boy displays? I'd love to know what you mean by this. What's your definition?

Abjectly failing to compete in their personal one-on-one battles with their opposite numbers ~ failing to compete!

nickbrod wrote: ↑31 Dec 2017, 18:04 Wonder if anyone's thinking of watering the pitch?!

Boreham Wood used their pop-up sprinklers both before the match and at half-ime on Saturday and that pitch is so perfect there wasn't one single divot on it come the final whistle!

Erm; they only had fifteen players in the squad and two of them were goalkeepers. If you mean the 'ultra-defensive' formation that is a different matter but in all honesty I don't see 3-5-2 as 'defensive' but the FACT that not one shot had to be saved by their keeper; our creativity was non existen...

The next highlight straight after their first goal shows one of our players going in with both feet off the ground and takes their player out. Who the hell was it, and how were they still allowed on the pitch? Shocking, disgraceful tackle in my opinion. That was Davey too ~ totally missed by the re...

Shouldn't have been a penalty. The first offence is what counts?

........and if the 'first offence' has been missed or ignored because the ball is in the keeper's hands and therefore it is in the United interest to get the ball rolling quickly?

Think about it; Davey was stupid.

How is it a penalty for Christ sake? Andrade pulls Davey by the leg and then shoulder barges him. If you want to be pedantic there are two fouls by Andrade. So you can quite merrily run into a player and shoulder barge him when the opposition have the ball. Its football not **** Roller Derby - its ...