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What was that???????
So negative, no chances.
Any chances made were hit straight at the keeper. Why so many over hit crosses? Can anybody score?
So many questions and so little answers.
This is how Revell plays and has proved it before. Confused why he was given the job.
Roberts and Simpson not good enough, list made no impact, Sweeney shakey again.
Need changes.
Cheers,
InvaderOfPitches
Edited by InvaderOfPitches1 at 15:09:49 on 24th August 2024
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Revs Ball is negative and pretty boring. What I’ve seen so far is nothing different to his first spell as manager.
I’ve seen people on social media celebrate Steve Evans Rotherham have a tough start to the season. Strange considering what a brilliant job he done at this club.
People will view Revs though with rose tinted glasses as a former player, former manager and a top man who’s been at this club in various guises.
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Equally those who don't want him in the job will view through their "rose" tinted specs too, its human nature to enforce your own opinions
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You couldn't be any more wrong with the last two paragraphs.
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Being amused by an ex manager doing badly is simply not strange. The Germans invented a word for it - schadenfreude
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So did the Swedes when referring to Evans
“ Smorgasbord “
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The modern depiction of Steve Evans is the Dutch version of St Nicholas
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His approach is very different to his first time around.
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People who think he's the wrong choice will look to amplify any poor performance to back up their opinion.
Those who wanted him to get the job will look for evidence he has improved since last time.
The rest of us will remain cautiously optimistic or mildly pessimistic.
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I wouldn't say we were negative yesterday at burton. In the last half an hour we were the only team that was going to win, if any. And AR replaced a midfielder with a striker, so he certainly wanted to win. The fact Simpson offers nothing up top is a problem, and the fact we have only one creative, attacking midfielder in Kemp. When we get in wide positions the crossing is abysmal. Time and time again we overhit crosses, way too deep to cause problems. Basically this is the difference between a top 6 team and us, having that bit of composure in the final third. I thought the defence played well overall, and in particular Smithy. Pidge's distribution for the most part was very poor, with wildly over hit passes. Roberts offers very little. We definitely MUST start with Appere up top against Lincoln. Unless the chairman finds £5m under his pillow this isn't going to change an awful lot. We are a small club batting above our weight.
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White and Kemp had the fewest touches of any player on our team yesterday, and those are potentially the two most creative.
Our crosses are all from in front of the 18 year box curling towards goal, which to me aren't proper crosses and rarely cause any problems for the opposition. We should be getting to the by line and crossing balls in front there. Rarely did we do that but when we do it causes defenders problems.
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Assume King will be in for White soon ?
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Didn't realise that about the touches.
The fact Kemp still.looked our most dangerous player says a lot.
Revs has to find a way to feed him the ball more.
White only played a bit of the game so more understandable, and I'd expect to see more of him at home than away as he builds experience.
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I'd like to see Kemp more central, behind the striker.
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Four points from three games with two clean sheets, two of those three games being away.
Three clean sheets in five games across all competitions.
Scored in four of five games.
Won three home matches on the spin under Revs.
My bed remains shit free for now, thanks.
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Three games in and we’re only three points above the relegation zone. It’s totally unacceptable. Man the lifeboats.
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I wasn't for the reappointment of Revell. However, it seems stupidly early to throw toys out of the pram. 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss.
At least give it until the clocks go back to a) turn your heating on and b) hang Revell out to dry.
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Agree plus the upcoming transfer deadline could be critical given our injuries.
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Are you related to Rotterdam?
I know it was a bit shit but some perspective would be nice.
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It was more than a bit shit. Poor game, tiny crowd and I bloody hate 12.30 kick-offs.
Like (almost) all of us of here I really wish Revs well, but his post match interview was verging on delusional.
Does anybody else think we really should have seven points by now? We created next to nothing despite his claim we had 'lots' of shots on target. This is a decent squad, but at the moment we are not seeing it to best effect.
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Edit; ignore me, misread :)
Edited by CDawg at 11:16:26 on 26th August 2024
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It is a decent squad , probably the strongest we have ever had - for us . I suppose the problem is that the other teams in our league have also assembled decent squads . We were the team most likely to score in the second half and looked solid at the back . This is the only game this season we have not scored and have created chances in every game / good chances - missed penalty, List at Huddersfield. We scored 3 away to Norwich and have 2 out of 3 ( in the league ) and 3 out of 5 ( all competitions) clean sheets .
It’s a good solid, promising start to the season. Well it is unless people are thinking we should be on 9 points with a +10 goal difference and won away to Norwich .
I’d say to the moaners - alter your expectations, get behind the team , oh and stop fucking moaning .
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I must admit, I was slightly surprised by his post match interview.
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His post match interview was worrying certainly.
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I just wish he'd stand still, he's like a six year old who really needs a wee.
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I thought that was just you Baldock Boro, hahaha 😆.
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I can’t watch the interviews because of his moving. Makes me feel uncomfortable 🤣
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Always done it and he must know and can't stop himself ,but like Kane always says er in most sentences .Human thing and thinking about it prob makes it worse for them to try to stop
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Watch yourself back on video.
It's cringey but it kills annoying physical ticks and comfort words really quickly.
How he presents on camera is really key to how he is perceived. Especially so if he wants to move up the divisions.
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Marcelo Bielsa stares at his feet and only speaks Spanish and he's great fun.
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If Revell sat on a bucket and only spoke Spanish, you'd all be lauding him as a genius!
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I can only speak for myself but yes, yes I would
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Yeah, me too actually. Exotic, innit
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This sounds like a Balders problem!
Football is a results business, unless you played at the highest level so instantly get a top job with zero experience.
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Evans wobbles about and rocks side to side on camera too (and sounds perpetually out of breath and gasping for air), and it hasn't held him back.
Edited by Chuds at 10:02:35 on 25th August 2024
Edited by Chuds at 10:02:49 on 25th August 2024
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Not an expert, but bit like tourettes could be worse if he tries to correct it .On your final point prob true but shouldn't be
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According to BBC - 6 shots on target from 11 attempts.
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Yes, but they were tame shots from 20 yards never even troubling the keeper and if anything a sign that we had no idea how to create a proper chance so resorted to just taking pot shots outside the box which Burton would've been more than happy for us to do.
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My take on the match was that you can only beat what's put in front of you, but we didn't.
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What happened to Phill T? He was a glass half empty sorta chap.
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Wasn't he run out of town by by Mr Fish?
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Revell has the tactical brain of a small dachsund with learning difficulties. There is no up side to him in charge.
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Thought we might have sto common ground but seems the inane rants are already back
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It would be a dull world to agree on everything. It’s plain to see - well for me anyway - that this version of Revell is no different to the last. And that means only one thing - a basement battle. Why not make the change now?
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This a good point , even if or I or others may not agree. But there is no need to use demongning language in general.
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What is ‘demongning’ language, may I ask?
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I thought you of all people would be fluent in Demongning!
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I’m not, unfortunately. Nor the ‘corrected’ ‘deamining’ either!!
Edited by Spirit of East Coast Boro at 15:47:53 on 28th August 2024
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Sweeney with another clean sheet. Made one mistake early first half (and Pidge kicked it straight to their player instead of anywhere but no one criticises that mistake), made some important interceptions. Restricted Burton to one chance when they got behind Butler. Had our best chance (header).
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Pidge is a great defender but his long ball clearances are woeful.
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So play it short to Louis or Harvey in CM. Or to Butler to his left.
(Not Sweenz obv, he'll just lump it anyway).
One of them should be showing most of the time
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Sadly it does limit the way we can play to an extent.
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