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MOTM - Barnet

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Sounds like an awful performance, but if you were there then please could you list up to five players who deserve some recognition today. Remember you don't have to choose five if you don't want to.
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Post by knh316 »

for effort and determination only one name..............mark ellis
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Post by Plymouth Gull »

1. Ellis
2. Branston.

Says it all really.
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Ellis
Brano
Mansell
Kee
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Post by Fletch »

Mansell
Branston
Robertson
Benyon
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Post by yellow »

Trojan 67 wrote:50/50 draw ticket seller
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Not wishing to be picky but I think you may have overlooked the turnstile operators.

They perform a valuable role in welcoming you in and taking care of your hard earned so that you can enter the theatre of dreams (and pasties) and listen to goal music should we be fortunate enough to score.

Personally with the advent of the dreaded goal music I am praying for lots of 1-0 victories from now on. I think that Bucks should study the Italian formations from the 60 s. Catenaccio has to be the way forward. And no, that is not an operatic piece from the three tenors...
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Post by pcm »

1. Ellis
2. Branston
3. Mansell
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Post by ferrarilover »

Write this one off mate, it will only sully the results. No one deserved it today. Pickles was the best of a bad bunch, but not to the point of winning an award for it.

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Post by kbgull »

1, Ellis
2, Branston
3, Bevan
4, Robertson
5, Nicholson

Basically the back 5 in any order
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Post by Mav »

I have read mansell several times, I must be looking in the wrong man of the match page as I am sure this said barnet. Or is the award now voted on with regards to the reciever running around like a headless chicken and giving the ball away at every opportunity?
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Post by Kit_robin »

Mav wrote:I have read mansell several times, I must be looking in the wrong man of the match page as I am sure this said barnet. Or is the award now voted on with regards to the reciever running around like a headless chicken and giving the ball away at every opportunity?
Hmm. This seems increddibly harsh. If you mean "run around breaking up play, getting in the opposition's faces" when you say headless chicken, then I guess you're spot on. The reason Mansell had to run around like a headless chicken? Because Nicky Wroe today was not interested in playing for Torquay United, and Danny Stevens is a defensive liability, meaning that Mansell had to simultaneously defend three areas of the midfield all by himself. As for giving the ball away, I can't remember him being especially bad on Saturday, and posession football and pinpoint passing is hardly his game, is it?

As for 5 players, you can pick the two centre halves and two centre forwards. Benyon and Kee did everything they possibly could with what they had (which was B****R all) and actually managed to create some pressure from their own tireless running. And Benyon scored. Ellis and Branston stood up well to Kabba (who belied his years and looked useful) and Gallen (who looked just like his years and looked ponderous), as well as not conceding much from the pacier lot.

I can only presume that our tactics of hoofing the ball is our manager's idea, but it doesn't help Nicholson look good. Also, I don't think we've tried a long ball behind the full-back in the last three years.. seeing as we have pace on the wings, can't we do this instead of hoofing it up to short people?
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