Bondeswell booked for complaining about not getting a penalty for handball

Sounds like a horrendous second half. 10 mins added time though...

Positives from this game: if we can get Bogle back and find the ideal forward line up, we can score goals

Negatives: if we have any two of Clarke, Jameson or Delaney injured at any one time, we are going to struggle to win any games

Really disappointed to hear Wildig has been off his game, he was good at the weekend

Wé should gavé dropped Bennett info defence when Jamieson went off.

bedeck wrote: August 15th, 2023, 9:47 pm Wé should gavé dropped Bennett info defence when Jamieson went off.

Indeed

Noticeable that GC went nowhere near the Ref at the end, who in fairness was poor.

Appalling in second half. They stopped doing what they were doing in the first half. And were risk averse when the subs eventually came. Wildig was poor all game...

Ran out of steam second half .pressed really well first half looks like it took it out of us couldn't get close to them after the break

FGR had a CM sent off which will help us on Sat (and lost the game).

owlsabout wrote: August 15th, 2023, 9:59 pm Ran out of steam second half .pressed really well first half looks like it took it out of us couldn't get close to them after the break

Just a thought. Teams tend to be more cagey first half. Signs on Saturday that the high tempo press can't be kept up for 90 minutes. I wonder would a better plan be to be far more negative for 45 mins and turn on the high press after half time?

We failed to adapt to the changes made by their manager at half time and lost tour momentum allowing them to get on top. WE made substitutes too late and when we did we went to Evans up front on his own when chasing the game.

GC has been getting praised,and rightly so.I would say GC has to take some blame tonight for not changing things.They came out a different side and we were unable to cope.4-1 is far too late to change things,Wildig was poor tonight yet stayed on,baffling that we then played with Evans as lone striker.Was it damage limitation? .

Upset that we lost but I think its going to be a season of these types of performances mixed in with last Saturdays displays'

That said if the ref had given the penalty ( how was it not a pen ?) things may have been totally different...
that non pen and Townsends mistake seems to have cost us...Oh and the 15 minutes of madness when we were all at sea.


Hopefully get something off the Vegans to keep the momentum going as we dont need to go on a run of bad results or it could be a long hard season.

We are 18th in the league at present...We would all take that come the seasons end wouldnt we ?

If he gave our first penalty he had to give a red card as well as there was no attempt to tackle. The same for our second as the ball was goalbound when handled.

Clarke not on the bench is another strange decision and a costly one

Amber Caerleon wrote: August 15th, 2023, 9:28 pm Miss Jameson second half , weak in defence not enough back up . Strange not making substitutes earlier .

Totally agree. Was there and others agreed with me also, Jameson being replaced cost us