Looks like the same questions should be asked of Manchester City at the moment.

County Exile wrote:Looks like the same questions should be asked of Manchester City at the moment.

i'm sure the poor things aren't getting paid enough

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:it seems to me that when something totally unexpected happens e.g. County's performance v Yoevil, it is human nature to desperately search for an explanation, thus given forth many a conspiracy theory. Argument over wages, dressing room bust up etc. All of which in my opinion are total nonsense.

I agree. There were contributory factors, namely that we previously had two long away trips putting in phenomenal effort to secure 6 points at Port Vale & Oldham. We were also away at Swindon on the Tuesday and whilst we fielded a weakened team , Butler and Bennett still played 90 minutes with both having uncharacteristically poor games against Yeovil.

When you consider that a very good Yeovil team (who have not conceded a goal in 5 games) had their feet up for two weeks you can see where the extra sharpness came from.

Perhaps a more experienced manager would have shut up shop at half time and tried to sneak the second half 1-0 subsequently preventing the hysteria, but no criticism from me, it was just a game laden with inexplicable individual errors and time to move on.

Alan G Bryant wrote:

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:it seems to me that when something totally unexpected happens e.g. County's performance v Yoevil, it is human nature to desperately search for an explanation, thus given forth many a conspiracy theory. Argument over wages, dressing room bust up etc. All of which in my opinion are total nonsense.

I agree. There were contributory factors, namely that we previously had two long away trips putting in phenomenal effort to secure 6 points at Port Vale & Oldham. We were also away at Swindon on the Tuesday and whilst we fielded a weakened team , Butler and Bennett still played 90 minutes with both having uncharacteristically poor games against Yeovil.

When you consider that a very good Yeovil team (who have not conceded a goal in 5 games) had their feet up for two weeks you can see where the extra sharpness came from.

Perhaps a more experienced manager would have shut up shop at half time and tried to sneak the second half 1-0 subsequently preventing the hysteria, but no criticism from me, it was just a game laden with inexplicable individual errors and time to move on.

You were doing so well with this post until the last paragraph. I broadly agree with your summation. 'Preventing the hysteria' eh? You do like this word. You cannot resist having a go at fans who are annoyed can you?

Who are this hysterical minority that you refer to then? I would suggest by the number of posts since Saturday that they are not in an actual minority. The only hysteria I saw was on the Yeovil bench after Robbie's antics.

The Bryant concise dictionary

Hysteria.

Noun. Any view which is in any way critical of any aspect of Newport County.

Exile 1976 wrote:One defeat at home in the League, playing some excellent football (the best we've played in many a year according to a lot of our fans) and you're going to struggle to get enthusiastic about the next one.....due to ONE bad performance? Oh dear.

It wasn't the "ONE bad performance"--I too believed that County were playing a better type of passing game, on the floor too" I noticed it this season moreso, because I had not been to a game since the second game of the previous season ,but to suddenly have such a pathetic performance versus Yeovil, and then go to Tranmere and win there.------ How can that be !

BertieB wrote:

Exile 1976 wrote:One defeat at home in the League, playing some excellent football (the best we've played in many a year according to a lot of our fans) and you're going to struggle to get enthusiastic about the next one.....due to ONE bad performance? Oh dear.

It wasn't the "ONE bad performance"--I too believed that County were playing a better type of passing game, on the floor too" I noticed it this season moreso, because I had not been to a game since the second game of the previous season ,but to suddenly have such a pathetic performance versus Yeovil, and then go to Tranmere and win there.------ How can that be !

Simple. It's League 2 football. It happens. Yeovil got spanked yesterday at home.
Luton beat Yeovil last season 8-2, Yeovil then beat Accrington Stanley in their next league game....

BertieB wrote:

Exile 1976 wrote:One defeat at home in the League, playing some excellent football (the best we've played in many a year according to a lot of our fans) and you're going to struggle to get enthusiastic about the next one.....due to ONE bad performance? Oh dear.

It wasn't the "ONE bad performance"--I too believed that County were playing a better type of passing game, on the floor too" I noticed it this season moreso, because I had not been to a game since the second game of the previous season ,but to suddenly have such a pathetic performance versus Yeovil, and then go to Tranmere and win there.------ How can that be !