Hatter's Match Thread
 

So today sees 3rd placed Stanley play 5th place Luton at the Wham, with a good chance for the red men to put some day light between our selves and Town :) Nathan Jones has praised Accrington chief John Coleman
Jones pays tribute to Stanley boss Coleman - Luton TodayNewsNow: Loading story... And our Billy NewsNow: Loading story... and Sean Mc NewsNow: Loading story... Officals for todays game • Referee - Martin Coy

• Assistant Referee - Matthew Parry

• Assistant Referee - Anthony Moore

• Fourth Official - Billy Smallwood

The referee, Martin Coy, was born in Durham, so far this season he has taken charge of 7 matches and has issued 7 yellow cards and issued 0 red cards.

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Lets just hope hes a decent Ref.

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Subs: Wolland (GK), Richards-Everton, Dallison, Johnson, McLeod, Sousa, Wilks

Chapman
Donacien
Rawson
Hughes
Thorniley
Conneely
Brown
Nolan
Clark
McConville
Kee
Nolan

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*^&*^%$#^%$$*$@&*&!!!!! :( :(

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First half the hatters won it through a combination of out competing us and referree giving them every 50/50 decision. To be honest mainly the first reason. We improved second half without looking like getting back in game. First half we tactically played into there hands with everything aimed at Billy on his own against two big defenders. Luton pressed us into it but we needed to get the ball down on floor in midfield and further forward. Never mind big week of prep for Coventry test.

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No complaints about the ref. Our ill discipline was to blame in the first half. Hughes pretended to have been head butted. Kee stupidly got involved with argu bargy for the rest of the match. The Don made a rash challenge for the penalty.

Second half and McLeod dived for a penalty.

The fans stupidly goaded their players, a fan chucked a pie crust at the ref.

Ludicrous.

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Can someone explain WHY we have played 11 League games with 2 strikers, scored in every game, then started today with only 1, Its rank poor judgement in my book. Luton are the best side ive seen this season yet we do this!! Brown i thought was poor very poor today yet Sean Mac and Clarkie were taken off when both were doing reasonable, and Brown remained on,we looked more dangerous when Mcleod came on but too little to late.:(

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Couldn't agree more, and whilst others will no doubt be providing us with an in-depth analysis, my only thoughts as I left the ground were " this is not a promotion chasing team "
which really saddened me.

( Mind you, sitting next to a smug Luton Director didn't really help matters one little bit ! ).

On Stanley !.... on to greater things !.

KTF.

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We were a poor second all over the match. We hardly won a second ball. some of our players should practice their diving skills as they were so obvious it was embarrassing. The officials were not the best but that is no excuse for today's performance. Cashy asked the question many times. Why when we are at home do we play with one striker up front? Billy is a good goal poacher but he can not plough a lone furrow on his own against teams like Luton. In fairness to Luton they battled for every ball where we didn't. Player for player they were not better than us but they did their homework like other teams have and we became easy to frustrate and beat. Our passing is still woeful at times. Our distribution from the goal keeper is too slow. We had the wrong team out there today. We did not seem to have a decent game plan. Despite the changes which did help it was too little too late. Wilks never got a look in. we were well contained, I think we had two shots on target. Our corners were telegraphed so they offered little or no threat. There is a big job to do in turning this team into a promotion team. We play too much hit and hope balls along with a large dose of desperation at times. We are not clinical enough in front of goal consistently enough. Tactics and team selection has to looked at as we are looking poor at the moment. We have the players but we nedd to get the mixture right.

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We had to change from plan A due to fitness issues with Jackson. Playing 1 up front worked well last week so was worth a go.

Coley changed it with plenty of time today. Just needed a break. Team played well second half.

Luton man for man superior to our XI and best team I've seen this season.

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Cant agree, we got Edwards, Wilkes, plus Brown was way off the mark today, shoulda removed him at half time imho Going 4-3-3 last week did the trick. what was up with Sean Mac @ crooksie? neither were playing poorly, yet they were taken off with Brown still on.

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It was worth a shot swapping McConville for mcCleod. Thought the little fella looked a threat for a while.
Not sure about Wilks. Maybe Cashy's assessment of him from a couple of weeks ago is correct.

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Difficult to argue that the substitutions did not improve us today.

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I thought we were more dangerous when Mcleod came on, but thought S.M.had put a few decent balls in, may have been worth trying Mcleod through the middle? But weres Edwards? seems a big lad, hard to knock off the ball?:confused:

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Thornily, Hughes, Rawson, Donacien.
-----Conneely, Brown, Nolan.
Clark-------------------------- McConville.
-----------------Kee.
our front line were never going to win the high ball against this Luton side, our passing when keeping the ball on the ground was seldom accurate or quick enough to cause them problems, Luton were much the better team on the day and deserved their win