Anyone else still annoyed?

I was more annoyed at the 2nd half performance against Cheltenham.
Yesterday just had an inevitability about it😕
 
It was just one of those games, it could have easily been 4-2 to us, put it down to being disappointed we lost but enjoying an exciting game of football.
 
Frustrated more than anything…

Interestingly Critchley was talking about timing in a recent interview and I think I’m this case Peterborough is a classic case of the wrong team at the wrong time.

Yet again we’d just started to feel like we might be getting somewhere and we come up against a good side, in form, when we’re missing our strongest midfielder and captain.

We’d need to be at our very best to beat them Yesterday and we’re just not quite there yet.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Frustrated more than anything…

Interestingly Critchley was talking about timing in a recent interview and I think I’m this case Peterborough is a classic case of the wrong team at the wrong time.

Yet again we’d just started to feel like we might be getting somewhere and we come up against a good side, in form, when we’re missing our strongest midfielder and captain.

We’d need to be at our very best to beat them Yesterday and we’re just not quite there yet.
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Agree ever since Virtue and now Norburn got injured we've looked a bit shit in midfield.
 
voyeur said:
It's all about the red card really. What would have happened without it?
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Good question but as others have said he should have changed it half time - had we done better from the free kick then who knows as often 10 men are harder to play against especially with an XIth man in the crowd.
 
Disappointed and frustrated really, more because of the fact this was a real opportunity to take points off a team above us in the league and to start making inroads into the gap Oxford and Portsmouth are opening up. In the cold light of today, it's just on to the next game.
 
Not annoyed, proud of our 2nd half performance with 10 men. We will learn a lot from Saturdays performance and it will make the players and Management stronger. Bring on Weds! UTMP 🧡
 
The Peterborough performance as a team in the 1st half was a League above us, and is something that we need to aspire to (and achieve quickly and then consistently) if we are to have any realistic prospects of top 6 this season. Admittedly I turned the TV off and took the dog for a walk after their 3rd goal, but up to that point they were head and shoulders above us in quality as a team unit. I can't help feeling that this is a season too soon for that to happen, but you never know in football. Recovery of our injured players plus luck with injuries generally over the remainder of the season, might have an impact at the top end of the table, but I'm not holding my breath.
 
voyeur said:
It's all about the red card really. What would have happened without it?
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That certainly didn’t help but the big factor is conceding the first goal..Oxford aside we just haven’t recovered once we have gone behind..we need to score the first goal in games and on Saturday we had little attacking intent in that first half
 
Had no complaints coming out of the ground. A feeling of being beaten by a better team who found it too easy to expose our limitations and weaknesses by imposing their strengths. I could see from kick off that Peterborough were going to cause problems that we weren't ready for, and Critchley's only tactical idea back at them was to wang it up in the air at Kouassi in the hope of a flick on for CJ running in behind.

Peterborough still showed some of the weak underbelly with Darren Ferguson sides where it doesn't take much to get them wobbling, and it was a spirited comeback in a game that could have got really messy, but the man advantage allowed them to just about stay in control with the counter attacking threat to see us off.

Plenty to learn from there, so we'll see if Critchley learns from it. For someone who we usually see obsess over using the players he has to try and limit the opposition, it's getting a bit slack and loose. For one I thought when he was singling out Olly Casey for praise in the media midweek that it was going to be code for taking him out of the team before a situation in a game took him out of it anyway.
 
poolfc said:
Had no complaints coming out of the ground. A feeling of being beaten by a better team who found it too easy to expose our limitations and weaknesses by imposing their strengths. I could see from kick off that Peterborough were going to cause problems that we weren't ready for, and Critchley's only tactical idea back at them was to wang it up in the air at Kouassi in the hope of a flick on for CJ running in behind.

Peterborough still showed some of the weak underbelly with Darren Ferguson sides where it doesn't take much to get them wobbling, and it was a spirited comeback in a game that could have got really messy, but the man advantage allowed them to just about stay in control with the counter attacking threat to see us off.

Plenty to learn from there, so we'll see if Critchley learns from it. For someone who we usually see obsess over using the players he has to try and limit the opposition, it's getting a bit slack and loose. For one I thought when he was singling out Olly Casey for praise in the media midweek that it was going to be code for taking him out of the team before a situation in a game took him out of it anyway.
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Having looked back at a few of our recent games, I’m inclined to think that the Red Card for Ollie Casey has come at a convenient time and forces a change that needed to be made.
 
I'm more cross than annoyed but that's approaching old age for you, oh God it's the gammon phase next where I go from cross to blazingly furious about everything.
 
I’m beyond annoyed, I’ve gone through seething to furious. Having a few San Miguel’s now to try to get to merely angry.
 
rememberlesshannon said:
Neither do I really but it sums up my feelings about team selection, setup and 1st half performance.
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I've watched the full replay. I liked Brett's take on the game. He thought Posh were easily the best side to visit us this season, and they certainly had an attacking threat. He praised out team for the fight back and said it was a great game and just wasn't our day. That doesn't mean there weren't issues, but fans have a tendency to paint defeats as all bad and iverlook the good. And there was a fair bit of good. Came close to a 3-3 with ten men. What I'm hoping is that Critch sees the value of allowing the players more freedom, more Holloway. Somewhere between default Critch and Holloway maybe.
 
voyeur said:
I've watched the full replay. I liked Brett's take on the game. He thought Posh were easily the best side to visit us this season, and they certainly had an attacking threat. He praised out team for the fight back and said it was a great game and just wasn't our day. That doesn't mean there weren't issues, but fans have a tendency to paint defeats as all bad and iverlook the good. And there was a fair bit of good. Came close to a 3-3 with ten men. What I'm hoping is that Critch sees the value of allowing the players more freedom, more Holloway. Somewhere between default Critch and Holloway maybe.
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My point was really, would we have gone for it like we did with 10 men and 3-0 nil down, if Casey stayed on, would we have been 3-0 down ?
Coaching manual chapter 3 page 1, says no substitutions before 60 minutes. Oakley-Booth off at half time, Dembele and a reshuffle would have been a statement.
Agreed about Peterborough, although I took a bit of stick for saying it on Saturday.
 
rememberlesshannon said:
My point was really, would we have gone for it like we did with 10 men and 3-0 nil down, if Casey stayed on, would we have been 3-0 down ?
Coaching manual chapter 3 page 1, says no substitutions before 60 minutes. Oakley-Booth off at half time, Dembele and a reshuffle would have been a statement.
Agreed about Peterborough, although I took a bit of stick for saying it on Saturday.
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Yes I understood what you meant and we don't know what would have happened. At 1-0 down with 45 minutesto go, though, kicking towards the kop, we were well in the game, 11v11.
 
Just to add, Cheltenham manager made 4 changes at half time and it seemed to give them the kick up the arse they needed. I know we were only one nil down at half time Saturday, but sometimes it's about holding your hands up and saying " I've got this wrong "
 
Not annoyed in fact I stopped getting annoyed about football matches many years ago. Disappointed yes but it only lasted until we went out on Saturday for a nice meal & a few beers. You’ve got to get things in perspective, so why let a football result ruin a weekend away.
 
Water under the bridge, we didn't deserve anything from the game although I was both impressed and happy with the 2nd half performance. It's a typical Critchley team, it takes a while to start putting in 90min displays.
 
We lost the game on the 1st half performance unable to move the ball forward through midfield. Pboro did there jobs,
snuffed out our front 3 and moved the ball with precise efficiency which is something we cant do yet ?.
 
Not really. Posh are a good side and will challenge this season, as we should too. We were knackered once Casey stupidly got sent off, showed character 2nd half to give us a glimmer of hope.

It is how we respond over the next 2 or 3 games that matters. We will lose a fair few between now and May 2024, get over it.
 
FY3SEASIDER said:
Not annoyed, proud of our 2nd half performance with 10 men. We will learn a lot from Saturdays performance and it will make the players and Management stronger. Bring on Weds! UTMP 🧡
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Maybe proud but felt the defeat was inevitable, and wondering why it took giving a team a 3 goal lead to start attacking the opposition.
 
voyeur said:
1-0 down at half time is hardly game over. Peterboro nearly threw the game away against ten men.
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Time and time again teams struggle to do well when the opposition go a man down. It’s a weird psychological thing. That team wasn’t a winning team it was a keep it tight and nick one trying to be too clever team.
 
clappers said:
Time and time again teams struggle to do well when the opposition go a man down. It’s a weird psychological thing. That team wasn’t a winning team it was a keep it tight and nick one trying to be too clever team.
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I reckon we would have gone 2-0 down but, with eleven men, would then have brought Dembele on and come back to win 3-2! 😀
 
voyeur said:
I reckon we would have gone 2-0 down but, with eleven men, would then have brought Dembele on and come back to win 3-2! 😀
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I reckon I’ll have what he’s having for breakfast 🙂

It’s odd that under Critchley the wins feel ‘professional’ and occasionally exciting and the draws and losses feel a bit ‘meh’…shrug your shoulders/accept/move on. It’s very different to how things felt under all the other managers Sadler has been through (save He Who Must Not be Named on here) and maybe that’s his appeal to our esteemed custodian.
 
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