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J.C. says sousas a doubt with the knock the animal gave him on tuesday. anyone know if Clarkys oer his injury?

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Cue 28?

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Fit and available.
But I don't play snooker.

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Aye, but I heard your trousers have six pockets! ;)

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I'm hoping for the return of the Conneely - Nolan midfield. Not perfect, but on recent evidence our best central midfield combo.

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think he plays golf as well, he has a hole in one.

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Need a central midfield.

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1-1 Hmmmm...better 1 pt than FA...

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Rousing finale as they lost their shape and we ran at them at will, but a point was all we deserved.
A few notable performances from the Don and McConville. Comedy panto award to McCleod's Boots.

Hopefully the last three games is our wobbly period and we can now start to recapture our form.

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For me we played far too many balls up in the air today. agree with LordD. a point was all we deserved. "Half Time Report" Must Do Better.

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Conneely has "torn" his groin.

Absolute catastrophe in my book.

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Have to admit didn't realise how much we would miss Connelly until he is injured. A point a piece was fair. Thought are forwards where looking for penalties too easily much rather they concentrated on shooting. Certainly Wilkes was a clean tackle. At least last 20 minutes, the subs helped us go for it (well not sure mekki did anything today) and we forced the goal. Agree with both cashman ( that we needed to adapt the game Billy was winning very little up front in the air so we needed to try and use pace and pass around or through them. We where too slow to adapt on this front) and lord didsbury (mcconville and the don where the best of the bunch). A combination of switching of at the corner and well executed finish was the reason behind there goal.

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Second Half jacko would be better advised to shoot, not blatanly throw himself to the ground, was right in front of us embarrassing.

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It was a very disjointed performance from us today. I don't know what the problem is but we don't operate as a team. Our passing was awful we didn't win a second ball in the first half. It was a poor performance all round. I hope things are changed around to get us back on track. Newport did stop us playing our game. Again it was not hard to work out our game plan as it rarely changes. we were lucky to get a point. but overall a draw was a fair result.

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Apparently, Newport came with a game plan (well there's a novelty!)
Trouble is, we played right into their hands for over an hour. This was Guiseley all over again.
Devoid of any creativity & oh so predictable, we simply allowed Newport to boss the game.
Too many panicky, hoof it anywhere high balls through the middle were intercepted with ease by their big midfielders.
Today we looked like mid-table mediocrity, it was the Exiles who looked more like promotion candidates.
Perhaps the poorest performance I've witnessed at the Wham this season.
If only we'd played from kick-off with the same guts & motivation shown in the last 10 minutes, this game might have had a different outcome.
Instead of three valuable points, we were lucky (lucky! lucky!) to scrape one.
Thought the 'Don' earned his m.o.m. award today. He was both our best defender & our best attacker. 'Big Ben' also put in a shift at the back.
We seem to have lost momentum of late & hit something of a brick wall. Are we too predictable?
I can just imagine the opponents manager briefing his team before the game; - 'Right lads, this is what they'll do.
Corners - McConville will take ALL their corners! He'll float a high ball into the centre of the box, make sure you don't let their big guys reach it.
Free kicks - ditto!
Throw-ins. They'll aim for little Billy Kee. We just have to mark him with our two biggest defenders - easy!'
Not much of a game plan but (apparently) - oh so effective!

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Hope our players aren’t as negative as our posters, Newport played their hoof it game of football very similar to Guisley not pretty but affective at this level, early on the main danger emanated from the long throw’s from Demetriou and they clearly dominated the first half, a well taken goal from Nouble early in the second half looked like enough to steal the points until a late goal mouth scramble produce a goal from Malic, next up is another hard game with Mackail-Smith & Akinfenwa

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Coley if you are thinking of playing McClown at any time on Tues please get him some studs for his boots

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[QUOTE=accybeme;1204724]Hope our players aren’t as negative as our posters, Newport played their hoof it game of football very similar to Guisley not pretty but affective at this level,

could well be the same again on tuesday night. not being negative but we do struggle against big sides who play that way and end up with an arm wrestle with them.

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Saying what yeh see is negative?:rolleyes:

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Accybeme, were we watching the same game?????
If anyone was guilty of 'hoof it' football it was us - bar the last 10 minutes.
By half time, Newport had exceeded 60% of possession. Far from hoofing it, they won every loose ball (we hoofed) & their passing was faster & more accurate.
They had only 2 corners & scored from 1 - 50% success rate! We had 10 corners & scored from none.
We had 14 shots, only 5 of which were on target. They had only 6 shots, with 4 on target.
Our defence were taken by surprise by the simplest 'set-piece' corner I've witnessed.
Our corners & free kicks were ineffective, because their defence knew exactly what we were going to do. We never varied it once!
You don't need Sherlock Holmes as your manager to deduce - 'The game Is up!'

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disagree they never once played the ball out every time it was booted down field from there the ball spent more time in mid air than on the ground

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We were doing "Exactly" the same,was painful to watch cos were much better than that.

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So we had a 50% better corner ratio than Newport

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It appeared to me...but then what do I know about Soccer ?, that Newport's midfield were
bigger, faster, and more skilful than Scotty and Callum, which not only nullified any attacks which the REDS set up, but were always a real threat going forward !. This made life for their back four considerably more comfortable whilst ours were continually under pressure ..
It also seemed that there was at regular intervals vast areas of space in the left attacking quadrant ( beginning to sound like F19 now !)... which had been vacated by the wanderings of the Captain for the day. Opponents appear to have worked out by now that the majority of our attacking play is generated down our right wing and thus concentrate their defence accordingly... is the weight of the Captain's armband weighing so heavily on the Golden One's right limb so as to affect the quality of his play ?.. (choosing my words of slight criticism of his abysmal performance yesterday extremely carefully as AccyMad will be reading this at some point !).

Like others, my overall feeling is one coloured by the image of several recent performances
which have suggested that our play is , for most of the time predictable and thus probably so easy for opposing Managers and Players to plan a successful method of playing against us.
But, Akinfenwa permitting, a return to our erstwhile , point-winning style will I feel make a welcome return to the Wham on Tuesday evening... ever the optimist I hear you say ?..

KTF.. AND.. ON STANLEY !, ON TO GREATER THINGS !!.

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Yonmon - whilst i completely agree that our problems stem from our lightweight midfield, i can't actually believe you thought McConville was abysmal, whilst i thought he was MOTM contender. isn't football brilliant!!

Lord Stiff - firstly you are factually incorrect on our corners. do you not remember the daisy cutter Sean fired in from a first half corner? (It was rubbish, so i forgive you for instantly forgetting it). Secondly, his corners were floated in slightly differently and also they were not without some threat. A few half chances came of them.... even if the end result was a rubbish header here or an easily scrambled clearance there. I'd keep sticking decent crosses in, away from the keeper because whilst we don't have Harvey and Omar on the end of them mathematically it could still yield the higher % of goals and it keeps a certain pressure on the opposition.

I'm not entirely convinced we hoofed it that much. We certainly tried to pass it around at the back, tried to get it to our wide men, but I just don't think we have the players in midfield to link it all together. I'd love it if Johnson matured quickly, concede that Scott Brown's energy brings something to the team, but overall this is where we have a weakness. I think when Seamus returns that will make a big difference, but we really could do with someone good alongside him. Nolan seems to have a good 45 mins in him, but never 90. Maybe we just have to accept Nolan playing 45-60 mins and then bringing one of the others on later. Johnson was much more effective as their midfield started to fall apart.

Or, is there anyway to accommodate Wilks, Jackson and Super Bill in the team by juggling things into one of these new fangled formations?

Sorry, wittered on for too long.... hope I've not sounded too negative, since the team individually (including England's No 1) are putting the work in and we are in a bloody great position.

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Couple of points..........Newport played better than us for most of the game when they were without the ball. They do what lots of teams do against us, they press the ball and our players as Chappy rolls the ball out from the back. We don't press the same and we didn't on Saturday. We give up territory too easily allowing them to advance 30 or 40 yards without any pressure or challenge. Our defence is solid, much better than its ever been and we kept Podge and the other big Newport forward mostly quiet. We are missing Conneleys distribution in midfield and my favourite central partnership is Conneley and Nolan. Nolan is improving with game time, it's a major step up for him from non-leagues. Kaden not back to his early season best, but our now bobbly pitch is not helping give him decent passes for his runs into the box. We are going through a poor patch performance wise, but still picking up points ☺

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Highlights here:

Accrington 1 - 1 Newport - Match Report & Highlights

May I draw attention to the fantastic tackle by Mekhi around the 50 second mark.

Created a goal through sheer determination there.

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Agree I thaught donacian an mcconville were the pick of our players on Saturday , big game Tuesday night and in my eyes if we keep akinfenwa under wraps we should win the game.

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Don't think anybody keeps Feckinmenu under wraps for 90mins or whatever he plays.
Hope I'm wrong.

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Few seasons ago, Deano had Bayo in his pocket, he did not get a look in.

I feel sure that Big Ben could do the same tomorrow ;)

:) :) :)

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problem is cashy we seem to get dragged down to the standards of other sides in the hoofball stakes. when i side comes and attempts to play football we look a good entertaining side. seem unable against some sides to play our natural game. missed saturday but hope for some improvement in the mud tonight.