Friendly - Wed 27th - ST COLMCILLES 9PM KO

homerjay2005

2-2 draw. another decent get together and with a little bit of luck, could have won it, but result doesn matter 1 bit. hit crossbar 3 times, though we scored from one of them on the rebound. defended well and created chances and all 5 new players virtually played the full game and all showed well once again. shocked that the ref doesnt know the difference between putting a foot in on the ball and a sliding challenges, but these things happen.

playing them again next wed night. may as well keep the momentum going. a tough physical game i may add, alot of aerial balls in it too.

homerjay2005

sockdolage wrote: »

Did anyone pick up a blue hoody after the match? I couldn't see it when I looked but the gates were locked at that stage anyway..

ya mark, i brought it on with me. just spotted it as i was leaving.

Baggly

homerjay2005 wrote: »

playing them again next wed night. may as well keep the momentum going. a tough physical game i may add, alot of aerial balls in it too.

Thought we played much better when we tried to pass the ball around on the ground. Personally speaking im shocking aerially, so i hold my hands up there and promise to work on it, but i think we should be looking at if we are an aerial team or a team that plays it on the deck.

sockdolage

homerjay2005 wrote: »

ya mark, i brought it on with me. just spotted it as i was leaving.

Cheers man.. I'll get it off ya the next time

homerjay2005

LOTP wrote: »

Thought we played much better when we tried to pass the ball around on the ground. Personally speaking im shocking aerially, so i hold my hands up there and promise to work on it, but i think we should be looking at if we are an aerial team or a team that plays it on the deck.

ah this will come with time, remember, half the team are new . we generally play the ball about a bit and are able to mix it up a nice bit. however, sometimes, the opposition does not allow this to be played and astro, this happens alot. several games last year, we dominated possession from start to finish but ending up drawing or loosing the game. sometimes you need to be direct. the game was very narrow tonight and there was a severe lack of room to pass the ball at times.

also, just a note. alot of goals on astro are scored from set pieces. we got one tonight, as did they and we got one last week, condeded 2. if we get a free kick in a wide position, and a corner also for that matter, we should always be wipping them into the box. no exceptions, its really easy to score goals on astro if your set pieces deliveries are top notch. its something we need to work on over the next month, cos its a resource that can win us games.

_blank_

LOTP wrote: »

Thought we played much better when we tried to pass the ball around on the ground.

Indeed.

Pity we lost Gav so early to injury (lets hope it's not too serious).

But all in all, a decent work out for the new lads.

One thing though.

Can we start to talk on the pitch. It's not a funeral we're at lads, it's a football match.

thelepo

Ed's quite right on the set pieces. We used to score a lot of goas from corners and long free kicks. It's definitely not pretty most of the time, but it was effective and helped us a lot. We don't train, so we haven't practised any short routines, and you don't get a lot of time on the ball in astro so there is pressure on as soon as you are passed the ball. Far more effective to give it a launch and see if Eddie, Jules or someone can skim one in.

_blank_

Yep.

Please cut out the little bitty sideways passes from free kicks won in the middle of the pitch lads, they ALWAYS come to nothing. Get the ball into the box early, get challenging for headers, and get pouncing on the dropdowns. Get someone downt he 'keepers throat, get a man free outside the box.

From corners, whip it in around the penalty area, we have a couple of decent headers of the ball now who we should be aiming for.

helimachoptor

Was an improvement on last week. They got themselves 2 soft goals, though our first one should never have went in:D. 2nd goal was some good work though.

And as for my eric cantona chip, i'll do some more practising.

Will be a good game next week too, they were a physical bunch last night and we need to be the same we lost a lot of balls by not getting stuck in, we drifted in and out of the game in the physicality aspect, but good signs were there.

Keeper as I said last week you need to be very very loud!

emc2

There needs to be a lot talking on the pitch, I know that some players are only getting to know each but that shouldn't be an excuse. It was good to see another decent performance from us.

homerjay2005

emc2 wrote: »

There needs to be a lot talking on the pitch, I know that some players are only getting to know each but that shouldn't be an excuse. It was good to see another decent performance from us.

the master has spoken

and oh mikie, love the new sig

maybe we are just a bunch of quite lads (bar me, martin and jules) and that will never chance??? once we have somebody talking in each line we are ok. big thing though, Keeper needs to be constantly roaring and shouting. Daryll, next week, i want to hear ya!!!

LeixlipRed

Missing my big mouth already lads?

dfx-

We are quiet, but I think we are still dealing very well defensively despite this/because of this.

It was a different and changing back line last night under a significant aerial attack and through balls (the first goal) and despite that, we were unlucky to not win and again I only had two shots, a header and a few balls to collect...so we are well organised defensively. We are cutting the ball out, clearing it away, we are marking up and set-pieces have been handled well outside of the short corner last week. Sometimes last night we were over-run through the middle and back post with huge gaps in the middle of midfield, but we are cutting the delivery out there.

As said above about set-pieces...if we can defend them as well as we have been doing during the coming season, then we will do well.

Sometimes, we have to look at what we are actually doing right. Oh and it was never ever a penalty

helimachoptor

dfx- wrote: »

We are quiet, but I think we are still dealing very well defensively despite this/because of this.

It was a different and changing back line last night under a significant aerial attack and through balls (the first goal) and despite that, we were unlucky to not win and again I only had two shots, a header and a few balls to collect...so we are well organised defensively. We are cutting the ball out, clearing it away, we are marking up and set-pieces have been handled well outside of the short corner last week. Sometimes last night we were over-run through the middle and back post with huge gaps in the middle of midfield, but we are cutting the delivery out there.

As said above about set-pieces...if we can defend them as well as we have been doing during the coming season, then we will do well.

Sometimes, we have to look at what we are actually doing right. Oh and it was never ever a penalty

The first goal was a bit unlucky i thought you had both hands around it and it was kicked from your hands, if i had been a couple of feet back i probably would have got a head on it, i thought the ref would have given us a free out for it.

Baggly

I had great fun down the wing last night as well. thats another positive. Just saying.....:P

Also im claiming credit for their OG cause i put myself in the keepers way. so it wasnt just luck for them. VIVA Boardeaux!!!

helimachoptor

LOTP wrote: »

Also im claiming credit for their OG cause i put myself in the keepers way. Do it wasnt just luck for them. VIVA Boardeaux!!!

no chance! that was mine it went exactly how I had planned

Baggly

Has noone noticed when we have set pieces i usually stroll over to the keeper and block his view.

Fox in the Box

FrankGrimes

Fair play on another good showing lads, good there's plenty of new lads getting a run out. Spot on about the set pieces aswell - we need them whipped in, not floated in, and lads need to be prepared to burst through a man to throw their body at it.

What was the story with the ref, was he acting up again? They say a good performance by a ref is one in which he goes mostly unnoticed but this fella has a bit of an ego.

dfx-

I thought the ref wasn't as bad as he was last week, but the crucial decision he had to get right, he didn't.

LeixlipRed

Which ref is this? The baldy lad from Wesley?

homerjay2005

lads, ease off on the ref . i may have been giving him stick during the game, but once you cross the white line, its all forgotten about. and there only friendlies, without him, there would be chaos. im happy to have him reffing, cos it gives an idea of what we need to do and it does make friendlies more competitive, no messing etc. its well worth the extra 40 quid.

the decision Daryll is on about is he gave a penalty against me for a sliding tackle (their equaliser) when i was no where near the player. i put a leg in with one knee on the ground, but he couldn tell the difference between putting a leg in and a tackle.

the one good thing about it is it happened in a friendly and not a competitive match and its just something to all be aware of, during the season.