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Post by Imposter on Nov 7, 2020 16:02:37 GMT
I see this post has pissed a few people off in Rochdale. I bear no ill will towards them. They mean nothing to me, they just happen to exist and they’re a team we happened to beat fair and square in the playoffs and they’re still not over it, an entire footballing generation later. They’ll probably beat us today because they’ve got a better team than we have. But they’re absolutely nothing to us and I can’t even begin to get worked up about them. Exactly that. For me, they're no more a rival than Cheltenham, Shrewsbury, Barnet or any other team we played around 2006-2008. I have nothing but absolute ambivalence towards them. I agree. Except that their attitude towards us has made me particularly dislike them. I don't remember Cheltenham, or Shrewsbury, or hell even Oldham or Bolton, expressing as much glee at our demise. Glee fuelled by inaccurate nonsense. If it hadn't been for that I'd have quite "meh" about them, as it is I'd cheerfully see them and Crewe disappear to eternal non-League hell.
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Post by BWScarf on Nov 7, 2020 16:03:36 GMT
I still don’t think we’ll win this. Can’t complain at that first half at all, we’ve equipped ourselves really well (apart from the now-customary shit goal we conceded).
We’ve allowed them back into the game through and I think their extra touch of quality, both technically and tactically means they’re probably still favourites.
Still, a goal up at half time isn’t to be sniffed at.
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Post by HTC on Nov 7, 2020 16:05:09 GMT
Agree about the commentary. What a difference compared to that chump last week. The reason it is working so well now is because JK is professional enough to realise that he is the co-commentator and has the awareness to adapt his bias level for an away stream. It could work well or we could end up with an away fan John Whelan which would be awful.
I'd say all the 'main' commentators have been good to a greater or lesser degree. It's the summariser that has generally been less good - most obviously Whelan, but the bloke for Torquay wasn't great either.
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Post by Spinks on Nov 7, 2020 16:05:31 GMT
Going to be a nervous second half this. I think the team who scored 3 will win it. Just hope we don’t go deeper and deeper, we’re better than that and we don’t have the outboard of Bennett
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Post by slomasscfc on Nov 7, 2020 16:07:26 GMT
Been easily the best stream I've had so far no buffering at all
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Nov 7, 2020 16:07:48 GMT
Really pleased with that. We were good value for our lead when we went two up but dale came back in to it and probably deserve one back. I wasn’t fussed about the result of this before the game. Really want to win now and I think we can It's the hope that kills you! Before the game I was more interested in the performance than the result. I just wanted us to show we could compete with a L1 outfit. Now we have a chance, even a good chance, of winning. Just want the boys to do us proud in the second half regardless of the result.
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Post by Ngard on Nov 7, 2020 16:11:05 GMT
Like I said above, if you’re in close contact *and* you get traced (which I assume he has), you have to isolate *even if your own result is negative*. I know this from personal experience. But not if the person you were in close contact with tests negative after only showing symptoms and he’s currently only isolating as a precaution. No wonder people aren’t isolating. Makes no sense that you should be expected to isolate for 14 days when you’ve tested negative!
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Post by edinburghhatter on Nov 7, 2020 16:11:57 GMT
PITA to log onto, and some people are clearly having problems with it, but it's the best stream of the season for me, picture quality, replays and commentary Yep... absolutely no buffering here at all, unlike all the games from EP that I've seen, which have buffered 4 or 5 times each half.
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Post by m20hatter on Nov 7, 2020 16:16:04 GMT
But not if the person you were in close contact with tests negative after only showing symptoms and he’s currently only isolating as a precaution. No wonder people aren’t isolating. Makes no sense that you should be expected to isolate for 14 days when you’ve tested negative! I had a completely different experience. Got a test, popped the negative result in the app, free to go
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Post by m20hatter on Nov 7, 2020 16:20:46 GMT
Going to be a long half with this shape!
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Post by ebbs on Nov 7, 2020 16:22:05 GMT
We won't survive like this.
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Post by trickster on Nov 7, 2020 16:22:11 GMT
Its hard to imagine this ending well if we carry on sitting this deep with a 40 yard gap between Reid and the midfield. Really need to get on the ball and have a little spell of possession
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Post by BWScarf on Nov 7, 2020 16:22:49 GMT
No wonder people aren’t isolating. Makes no sense that you should be expected to isolate for 14 days when you’ve tested negative! I had a completely different experience. Got a test, popped the negative result in the app, free to go It’s to do with the length of exposure you had to the person before you got a test. If you’ve had ‘prolonged’ exposure, you’re asked to carry on isolating.
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Post by Jack on Nov 7, 2020 16:24:54 GMT
Going to be a long half this
Once you set your stall out like this it’s difficult to change up if they score
Just hope like Yeovil away a few years ago we can snatch one to give us a gap
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Post by scfc73 on Nov 7, 2020 16:26:10 GMT
Its hard to imagine this ending well if we carry on sitting this deep with a 40 yard gap between Reid and the midfield. Really need to get on the ball and have a little spell of possession I know we're playing opposition two leagues above but it's something we do a lot, we're so much better when we take the game to the opposition, if we sit back like we're doing you know the inevitable will come.
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