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Post by ChrisB on Oct 27, 2017 14:13:56 GMT
A must-win for City? Oxford Mail preview HERE ...with possibly some absentees because of sickness, and news of a new signing. |
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Post by exile on Oct 27, 2017 14:41:24 GMT
City to win 2-1
Attendance: 300
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Post by Padz on Oct 27, 2017 16:40:43 GMT
Let’s go mad 5-2 City, 237
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 27, 2017 17:42:21 GMT
Good to see that the National website are keeping on top of the news (not!) CLICK HERE...or have we secretly changed managers? I'm not hugely surprised when I saw the OM discussing Banbury's, Kidlington's, etc's chances in the FA Vase(!!) this weekend, but you'd think the League's website could check things a little more carefully! |
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Post by Padz on Oct 27, 2017 18:06:43 GMT
I’ve already had a whinge to the national league about making a hybrid of Fordy and Jonah
Added to the fact they often name our ground Marsh Farm, wouldn’t be so bad apart from the fact they are pretty much copy/pasting from our website (mostly without crediting) and then making edits which make the articles wrong!!
And people are presumably getting a wage to do it!
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Post by clive on Oct 27, 2017 19:53:02 GMT
City win 2-1 ( att : 204 )
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Post by shutler on Oct 27, 2017 23:58:10 GMT
Emphatic 4 - 1 City win😀 att 245
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 28, 2017 9:20:21 GMT
Good to see that the National website are keeping on top of the news (not!) CLICK HERE...or have we secretly changed managers? I'm not hugely surprised when I saw the OM discussing Banbury's, Kidlington's, etc's chances in the FA Vase(!!) this weekend, but you'd think the League's website could check things a little more carefully! Both the National League, and the OM, have now corrected their items...which is something. Good luck with 'Marsh Court Lane Farm Place', though!  Big performance needed this afternoon - COYHs. |
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 28, 2017 16:29:15 GMT
What happened to the new signing (Ethan Lamptey) mentioned in the Oxford Mail's website item...or was it an OMism?
Nothing on the City website about a new signing.
Shame we can't (regularly) hold on to a lead: perhaps we should be grateful for a point?
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Post by shutler on Oct 28, 2017 18:25:31 GMT
Let totally deflated and disappointed 😔 changed formation again, and we struggled to get anything going up front. That said, today really highlighted the need to play two up front, Pato won a lot of headers and flick ons but with no support they came to nothing. Second half was better we looked a threat and it was a great little goal. Had no more than a couple of half chances after that, but it felt like a comfortable 1-0. Then defensive calamity again and it’s two points down the drain ☹️
Thought Poku was excellent today and my motm. Zac is a talent, no doubt, he has some brilliant ‘tekkers’’, But he seriously needs to lift his head and pass the ball, instead of trying to do it all on his own, infuriating at times! Finally, Jack, his best game for us, and at least two worldy saves 😀👍
Jonah is hanging on by his fingernails, he needs something from the FA Cup game imho.
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Post by Rijs on Oct 28, 2017 21:30:50 GMT
'he needs something from the FA Cup game imho.'..which seems about as likely as promotion at the moment!
A game of two halves, but with no real difference in the result of each. To be honest I think Concord fans will be more disappointed at today's result because they dominated long periods (including most of the first half), had far more corners, created more chances and had more shots on goal, and had it not been for three or four fine saves from Stevens, we would have been blown away today, but he kept us in it.
The worrying thing is that we were playing at home to one of the weakest teams in this league, who had played a gruelling cup replay midweek at Woking, and were without their top scorer. If we can't win under those circumstances, you wonder where our next win is coming from. Unusually, we reach the end of October with more FA Cup wins than league ones under our belt, and it's obvious now that we face a long battle against relegation for the next two-thirds of the season.
True, we missed playmaker Fleet and harrier and chaser Forde, and it really showed in the first half when we failed to press upfield, the midfield left Patterson isolated and we exerted no pressure on a defence which might have been troubled had we played as we did against Bognor in the first half. Jonah's team selection puzzled me as it left us playing too narrow again, with a team full of central midfielders, but he improved it with the half time substitutions and David Pearce had an almost immediate impact. He could still be even more effective though, especially if he had a go down both flanks, not just the left; nothing was coming from the right today, and the goal, well-worked as it was between Sinclair and McEachran who both had much better second halves, came through the middle.
We know we have some vulnerability at the back -- only Whyteleafe have let in more goals -- so one is rarely going to be enough, and it always looked as if Concord were worth at least one goal. Our failure to add to our single goal during that spell in the second half when we were on top and, for the only time in the match, really seemed to have them on the rack, was predictably punished in the end.
Next week at least we will not have the pressure of being expected to get a result; anything less than another 'hefty' Colchester win against a team from this level would be a pleasing bonus. It's time to show a wider audience what some have been saying all season: that we can play some decent football; but this time we shall have to work very hard and be more clinical in each box if we are to frustrate a now on-form United team. Let's hope Mark will have everyone fit (barring Justin, of course) and over their illnesses so that his whole squad will be up for it next Saturday.
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