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Post by herbie on Mar 30, 2024 9:15:39 GMT
A performance so dominant and complete that I was bored in the second half. I've read that they had an XG of 0.0. Surprised it was that high. We were as good as they were dreadful, they look doomed, we look good for the autos if not the title. That genuinely felt like a practice game for long stretches. Second week in a row Powell has put in a performance his reputation demands, long may it continue. Camps was also a busy nuisance quite apart from his goal - he's about the only player I don't get annoyed when everyone shouts shoot at. Touray's had a cracking game again too. 3 players who have at various points not lived up to billing with us hitting form for us at a vital time. Everyone at least a 7 for me. Even the subs who didn't really get to do anything oozed comfort and control. I did sort of worry that the subs had made us weaker but tbh it was just keeping them at arms length for the final 30 minutes. I'm a touch disappointed we didn't do much to try and rack up some goals. Highlight for me was Forest Green's 16 coming on and getting into an off the ball tussle with Touray which ends with him trying to two foot scythe Ibby down only to injure himself (and lose his headband) in the process. They had been tussling and Touray was giving as good as he was getting but the ref giving them a free kick for it, when he's clearly not seen it, felt like him taking pity on them. Unless the liner's decided it was Touray's fault that their player was in a heap. Their number 5 was a carthorse as well. I was actually taken aback at how bad they were. Aside from a 5 minute flurry in the second half (which led to the home fans doing the old "lets pretend we've scored a goal routine) they were among the worst I've ever seen at this level. Comically bad. I almost felt sorry for them and I think we did as we properly took our foot off the gas. I get annoyed when people say Ben's "had nothing to do" but honestly today you can probably fairly say that. Lots of shouting as you'd expect, and taunting opposition runners as he slowly picks up the ball after another hopeful punt forward, but I wasn't surprised when he engaged in a fine bit of sweeping charging out of the box to leather a ball over the top away - just for something to do it felt. Honestly they look doomed to me, but maybe we were just that good. As a day out though, if I never go there again it's too soon. I knew it would be a bad one when the journey across took as long as some drives I've done to Stockport, at half the distance! The postcode for the park and ride sends Waze to an industrial estate next door, the bus roof on the top deck was low enough that I had to duck (and I may be taller than Neil Edwards but I am not a tall man), the "fan zone" was pretty bleak and I didn't bother queuing for the bar as it was so long, though I did have a nice rocky road brownie. The band wasn't awful. That stand though - ugh. I'm properly feeling my back now being squeezed in with nothing to lean on and utterly soaked to boot. Decided to walk back to the park and ride after the game as the queue of people waiting for the single bus to return looked like I wouldn't get on. Definitely think I made the right call as it was under 20 minutes downhill. The final pain in the arse was the lack of data for anyone on Vodafone. Supposedly full signal on 4G but no data at all. Quite a few around me in the same boat. Not great for keeping up with scores or checking in on Fanhub. f*ck off back to non league Forest Green. It's where you belong. The vegan sausage roll I had was very nice though - the queues very long as well so clearly popular. To be fair to them on mobile reception, theirs was far better than our own. I was even able to check the half time scores which is something I can never do at Edgeley Park. I had the opposite problem, couldn't get any reception in the ground and was almost back at the primary school car park before messages started coming through. Never had issues at EP or any other ground I can think of
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Post by desmond on Mar 30, 2024 9:32:07 GMT
A performance so dominant and complete that I was bored in the second half. I've read that they had an XG of 0.0. Surprised it was that high. We were as good as they were dreadful, they look doomed, we look good for the autos if not the title. That genuinely felt like a practice game for long stretches. Second week in a row Powell has put in a performance his reputation demands, long may it continue. Camps was also a busy nuisance quite apart from his goal - he's about the only player I don't get annoyed when everyone shouts shoot at. Touray's had a cracking game again too. 3 players who have at various points not lived up to billing with us hitting form for us at a vital time. Everyone at least a 7 for me. Even the subs who didn't really get to do anything oozed comfort and control. I did sort of worry that the subs had made us weaker but tbh it was just keeping them at arms length for the final 30 minutes. I'm a touch disappointed we didn't do much to try and rack up some goals. Highlight for me was Forest Green's 16 coming on and getting into an off the ball tussle with Touray which ends with him trying to two foot scythe Ibby down only to injure himself (and lose his headband) in the process. They had been tussling and Touray was giving as good as he was getting but the ref giving them a free kick for it, when he's clearly not seen it, felt like him taking pity on them. Unless the liner's decided it was Touray's fault that their player was in a heap. Their number 5 was a carthorse as well. I was actually taken aback at how bad they were. Aside from a 5 minute flurry in the second half (which led to the home fans doing the old "lets pretend we've scored a goal routine) they were among the worst I've ever seen at this level. Comically bad. I almost felt sorry for them and I think we did as we properly took our foot off the gas. I get annoyed when people say Ben's "had nothing to do" but honestly today you can probably fairly say that. Lots of shouting as you'd expect, and taunting opposition runners as he slowly picks up the ball after another hopeful punt forward, but I wasn't surprised when he engaged in a fine bit of sweeping charging out of the box to leather a ball over the top away - just for something to do it felt. Honestly they look doomed to me, but maybe we were just that good. As a day out though, if I never go there again it's too soon. I knew it would be a bad one when the journey across took as long as some drives I've done to Stockport, at half the distance! The postcode for the park and ride sends Waze to an industrial estate next door, the bus roof on the top deck was low enough that I had to duck (and I may be taller than Neil Edwards but I am not a tall man), the "fan zone" was pretty bleak and I didn't bother queuing for the bar as it was so long, though I did have a nice rocky road brownie. The band wasn't awful. That stand though - ugh. I'm properly feeling my back now being squeezed in with nothing to lean on and utterly soaked to boot. Decided to walk back to the park and ride after the game as the queue of people waiting for the single bus to return looked like I wouldn't get on. Definitely think I made the right call as it was under 20 minutes downhill. The final pain in the arse was the lack of data for anyone on Vodafone. Supposedly full signal on 4G but no data at all. Quite a few around me in the same boat. Not great for keeping up with scores or checking in on Fanhub. f*ck off back to non league Forest Green. It's where you belong. The vegan sausage roll I had was very nice though - the queues very long as well so clearly popular. To be fair to them on mobile reception, theirs was far better than our own. I was even able to check the half time scores which is something I can never do at Edgeley Park. No surprise really given the size of the crowd v EP.
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Post by desmond on Mar 30, 2024 9:38:09 GMT
Not long since got back. A bit of an odd area down there isn’t it? Bizarre place for a league team. Didn’t they used to be in league one too? Can only imagine what Nailsworth is like crawling with Sunderland fans. I’m waking up in Nailsworth this morning so was thoroughly enjoyable day for me, drive had a fair bit of traffic, few beers in Britannia before the match to fortify me for that walk to the ground - proper hill that 30 mins of graft getting up that. Left 5 mins before the end so I could steal a march on what I assumed would be a fairly chaotic situation with 4K people trying to stick to the pavement on a small country lane. More beers in the villiage then a banging meal in Williams - a seafood restaurant in Nailsworth. Shame the ground isn’t closer to the centre of the village really, would change the whole experience - the hill is a killer and I guess anyone going on the train would come in via Stroud so it just adds an extra element of ball ache. But yeah thoroughly enjoyed my day out, was a real novelty as we won’t be getting too many more of these kinds of experiences where we’re heading. It’s not everywhere where you get to park in a farmers field and walk down (not up) hill to the ground in 5 minutes.
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Post by chadders on Mar 30, 2024 9:47:09 GMT
You know we’ve played okay when people are complaining about the phone signal.
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Post by houldsworthhatter on Mar 30, 2024 9:49:20 GMT
Not long since got back. A bit of an odd area down there isn’t it? Bizarre place for a league team. Didn’t they used to be in league one too? Can only imagine what Nailsworth is like crawling with Sunderland fans. I’m waking up in Nailsworth this morning so was thoroughly enjoyable day for me, drive had a fair bit of traffic, few beers in Britannia before the match to fortify me for that walk to the ground - proper hill that 30 mins of graft getting up that. Left 5 mins before the end so I could steal a march on what I assumed would be a fairly chaotic situation with 4K people trying to stick to the pavement on a small country lane. More beers in the villiage then a banging meal in Williams - a seafood restaurant in Nailsworth. Shame the ground isn’t closer to the centre of the village really, would change the whole experience - the hill is a killer and I guess anyone going on the train would come in via Stroud so it just adds an extra element of ball ache. But yeah thoroughly enjoyed my day out, was a real novelty as we won’t be getting too many more of these kinds of experiences where we’re heading. They were in League One last season.
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Post by sherbertdab on Mar 30, 2024 9:58:14 GMT
Anybody remember a game where we were so dominant away against a team in same division. Darlington away 5.0. ….2007 ??
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Post by houldsworthhatter on Mar 30, 2024 10:07:18 GMT
Anybody remember a game where we were so dominant away against a team in same division. Darlington away 5.0. ….2007 ?? Doncaster this season?
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Post by sherbertdab on Mar 30, 2024 10:16:39 GMT
Anybody remember a game where we were so dominant away against a team in same division. Darlington away 5.0. ….2007 ?? Doncaster this season? Donny were ok second half they had some attempts and not surprisingly have only lost 1 in 11 league games since then.
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Post by Chaddz09 on Mar 30, 2024 10:18:23 GMT
Anybody remember a game where we were so dominant away against a team in same division. Darlington away 5.0. ….2007 ?? Doncaster this season? Would agree until we ran the subs, allowed Doncaster into the game even though it was obviously a far gone conclusion
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Post by dunkerrrrr on Mar 30, 2024 10:23:57 GMT
Anybody remember a game where we were so dominant away against a team in same division. Darlington away 5.0. ….2007 ?? Hartlepool last season, looked like they weren’t arsed.
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Post by timberwolf on Mar 30, 2024 10:49:29 GMT
Anybody remember a game where we were so dominant away against a team in same division. Darlington away 5.0. ….2007 ?? Hartlepool last season, looked like they weren’t arsed. Having Keith Curle unvailed as their new manager before the KO would not have helped them.
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Post by County Blue on Mar 30, 2024 11:09:23 GMT
Bizarre place for a league team. Didn’t they used to be in league one too? Can only imagine what Nailsworth is like crawling with Sunderland fans. I’m waking up in Nailsworth this morning so was thoroughly enjoyable day for me, drive had a fair bit of traffic, few beers in Britannia before the match to fortify me for that walk to the ground - proper hill that 30 mins of graft getting up that. Left 5 mins before the end so I could steal a march on what I assumed would be a fairly chaotic situation with 4K people trying to stick to the pavement on a small country lane. More beers in the villiage then a banging meal in Williams - a seafood restaurant in Nailsworth. Shame the ground isn’t closer to the centre of the village really, would change the whole experience - the hill is a killer and I guess anyone going on the train would come in via Stroud so it just adds an extra element of ball ache. But yeah thoroughly enjoyed my day out, was a real novelty as we won’t be getting too many more of these kinds of experiences where we’re heading. They were in League One last season. I’d completely forgotten that. Unbelievable to think that they’d actually got so far. A real Rise & Fall story.
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Post by timberwolf on Mar 30, 2024 11:29:35 GMT
A mini version of yeovil.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Mar 30, 2024 11:42:47 GMT
I'm on Tesco mobile which uses the O2 network. Completely useless at EP on matchdays. I bet you get messages elsewhere in Edgeley though. Or 20 minutes walk away from the ground. Nailsworth doesn't like Vodafone. Quite seriously if it was just dodgy inside the ground I wouldn't have cared, just chalked it up to too many people trying to use it. But it was useless across the whole village even when there was nobody about.
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Post by The Real Exile on Mar 30, 2024 11:46:23 GMT
You can get multi sims which hop on the best carrier they can find, *there is of course a premium for this so tends to be used as either a primary 4/5g for pop up business sites or used as a backup often in retail.
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