Torquay Thread.

smobile said:
Awful decision. But we weren't at the races today. All changed when podge came on, but their second goal so early hurt us. Off to Torquay now to drown my sorrows. Great show by the 82 today.
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How did Dixon look when he came on mate?
 
Looked decent, crossed for podge and seemed to want to play the ball when he could. Game changed when him and podge came on. Did enough for a start next week.
 
Yes, the penalty was a poor decision and the officials were poor all afternoon - but they cannot take the blame at all for the defeat. Paul Cook was spot on in his interview - we simply were not good enough. Torquay beat us to just about every ball and they were better than us in every department except one. Had it not been for Ian Dunbavin, the score could well have been 7 - 1 in Torquay's favour.

I do have a worry which I have aired before and that is the number of loan players. Sampson did well enough on his debut but I am starting to wonder just how helpful it is to the team constantly to be introducing new loanees.
 
Spot on. Was wondering if the loan players upset the balance of the team. Just not good enough today in all areas. They did a job on us and Rene Howe is awesome at this level. Held the ball up and did his job. Could have been embarrassing bar for bavs. He was outstanding today. Murphy was blowing out of his arse after 60mins. Don't know why he wasnt subbed or if he was injured. Dean was same too.
 
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To say I was surprised dean playing would be the understatement of the year,but hear goes my view of the game.The pitch looked like it had taken a lot of rain and was a bit of a pudding,a swirling wind and bright sunshine didn't help our style of play.
Both teams set up very similar,and we got of to the worst possible start..
Although the set ups were similar,they were more direct and Howe bullied our centre backs and was excellent in his hold up play,indeed he should a decent turn of pace as well.
Upto the sixty minute mark I thought acci had more of the ball,but Torquay created all the chances,this was due to Howes ability to hold the ball up and midfield runners not being tracked.
That really was the main difference,indeed cooky put dean at centre back to try and stop Howes influence,but he was too good on the day.
Have to agree five loanees can't help,but on the day,Torquay were very effective in the way they played,were Howe is key o that way
 
Just looked at the match stats and it backs up what I thought on the day,acci had 59% possession,but they had 7 shots on target to our 1
 
just back from a break in Devon and haven't read beyond this particular page but here's my two pennoth. Apart from Bavs, Atkinson, Padraig when he came on and the latest loanee Samson, I thought the rest just didn't want to be there. From down south I read what you lads n'lasses say about our passing game - but has nobody said you're not supposed to pass to the opposition - look before you pass and not to a man-on situation ! Very disappointed. No complaints about the pen - thought Liddle made no attempt to get his arm out of the way. Worried about Paul's bloodpressure trying to get them to understand about getting out of our pen box with little success. And £16 for an old codger to watch !!!
 
LongLostSon said:
but has nobody said you're not supposed to pass to the opposition - look before you pass and not to a man-on situation !
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I think you are being a bit harsh there. Because Torquay were so quick to challenge our player in possession, too many of our passes were hurried and careless. It was also noticeable that they put at least two men on Rommy as soon as he got the ball. We wanted more time than they gave us. The more I reflect on it, the more the number of loan players worries me. Sampson, for example, has come to us a "left-sided striker" yet his role on Saturday seemed to be one of the three behind Sheppard/Amond. I'm not sure how he could know what was expected of him nor how he could link up effectively with the others.

LongLostSon said:
No complaints about the pen - thought Liddle made no attempt to get his arm out of the way.
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Again, harsh, I feel. I have not seen a replay but I thought at the time that Liddle had turned away and that the ball struck his arm. Maybe the replay proves me wrong.
 
Thanks for your response RR - always nice to get another take on things and do confess to a dose of the miseries on the back of pre-game expectations. Don't believe on-field abuse to Stanley players helps so resorted to yelling abuse at their time wasting keeper as an out for my frustrations. I dunno, nearly 69 and still passionate about a game of footie - perhaps I ought to get a life while I still can (lol) !
 
The defence is the area that really concerns me at the moment. Only a combination of few Bavs “wonder saves” and poor finishing from the Chipnickers kept the score slightly respectable.
We couldn’t have complained if we had shipped FIVE.

Went to both the Rochdale & Torquay games in which we managed to score a total of 3 goals. Earlier in the season when the defence was somewhat tighter, this would have earned us 4, possibly 6 points for the two games.

Still, win our game in hand and we go back into a play-off spot, so I will keep the faith and continue to believe that Cookie & Leam will solve the defensive mistakes and get us back to winning ways.
 
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