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Smudgie, I think Jimmy has been one of our best players in the time he has been at the club and I think him to be loyal to Stanley!!! :)

But, in my opinion, he has not played well in the last month or so, his first touch has been poor and the amount of wayward passes have been high!!

I know you favour him - as I did Milesy - but, by his standards, he has not been at his best, he looks tired/injured!!

Just to re-itterate, I LOVE JIMMY RYAN, but he has not been at his best, there have been plenty of games in recent weeks were Razor could have had a game, or come on earlier, it is just Coley being Coley!! :)

Now Jimmy will be M.O.M. On Saturday, score a hatty and I will be on here eating himble pie!!! :D :D :D

:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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Nice one Smudgie ;) :D

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Didn't go the game ,but my mate,with no acci connection,went. He said that accis front men didn't hold the ball up enough which is key to there play.
he said a draw was a fair result, and a few players struggled to get in the game,he mentioned Sean and craney,but as I said,didn't go ,so I will sit on the fence

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coley was furious with the team afterwards.

we did ok, as the earlier post mentions our front men did not hold the ball up.

macc where effective going forward and dominated in the air

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They were more effective when they didn't have the ball, chasing Stanley down

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Ok can understand that, but cannot understand why he did sod all about it.:confused: re substitutions.:(

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:) Fridays Moss Rose goals,Towns 2nd seemed to be a mile offside!! check it out BBC Sport - Football - Highlights - Macclesfield 2-2 Accrington

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:( seans goal wasn't offside the linner made a big cock up:(

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I thought Sean was offside at the time and the video seems to confirm that he was in an offside position both when Joe crossed the ball and also when it deflected off the defender. If you can't be "played on" by a defender anymore then it wasn't a goal. If it's back pass by the defender though, then surely it's a goal? Which is it?
In any case, Macc's last minute goal looked yards offside, both at the time and on the video.:(

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Just got back after making a weekend of it. My two pennorth - why oh why play the first half with the ball in the air when Macc were 6 inches a man taller than us, and far too many clever-clever delicate flicks and backheels from Sean and Ian in particular - we're gettting good but we're not bloomin Barca yet! Second half was much better but we really should have been able to see the game out against 10 men. Fair play to Macc for the way they went at us after the pen and sending off though. Proccy's goal was fantastic but my m-o-m would be Terry for the pressure he put on their defenders. All just my opinion and what do I know anyway?

Actually, one thing I do know - it was a great atmosphere! Roll on Oxford!

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Given the massive swipe the defender took at the ball then I'd say it wasn't a deflection.

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yeh shoulda gone to specsavers.:rolleyes:

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Cashy, having watched the replay on the BBC I have to agree wi' Dave, that wasn't a deflection and Sean was not standing in an offside position. That swipe looked more like an attempted clearance to me which backfired horribly and the ref took sympathy on Macc. However, if you want to see an offside goal, look at Macc's second now that was offside by a country mile.
There's a conspiracy I tell you.

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Massive swipe may have been a slight exaggeration, but he definatley went to kick it and missed :p

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On the Macc equaliser - though I hate to say it - as the ball is crossed there's a Stanley player trying to cut it out who is less than a yard from the goal line just inside the penalty area. Given the way he's facing, I fear he was probably still there when the last forward pass was made - which would make Mukendi onside. Unfortunately there's no "influencing play" caveat when it comes to where defenders are As far as I know .....

Hockey abolished the stupid offside rule entirely years ago and it's much better for it - removes the perpetual arguments and the umpires can concentrate on what's going on without fretting about where people are on the pitch. Not to say we don't still have some chap (sp) umpires though ....