FAO pants/Himsworth

Re: Your reply to my post this morning - (couldn't reply at the time as I was on a break at work)

I'll cut and paste it so that I can dissect it in as much detail as you offorded my rather blunt and offensive retort (I wouldn't want you to think I was slagging you off just for the sake of it and without any proper reasoning to back it up):

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no need to be like that

But seen as you've asked so nicely

Coventry home, take the lead, sit back and let them dominate, draw

Crewe home, let them take the lead, edgilly come back into the game against a poor side and draw

Palace home, take the lead early, sit back and let them dominate, equalise and then seriously look like taking all 3 points

Southampton away, turn up for a draw, unlucky to get one with a re taken pen fiasco

Leeds home, very embarrassing game allowing leeds to hit the woodwork twice and have 15 corners. We did have our chances but they dicked all over us

Stoke away, turned up for a draw, sadly this pattern of crap isn't doing the team any favours and they are 1 nil up after 7 minutes. Frustration boils over the whole team and stoke comfortably beat us 3-1

Plymouth, just as edgy as usual, own goal helps the team, second goal miles offside, then we see out the game allowing Plymouth the bulk of the possession, which left me fearing the watford game

Watford away, nothing new here, turned up for a draw, was 2-0 down after 20 mins. Good second half, bit late after you've screwed the first up though

Ipswich away, first time this season we've done something very good from the start and attacked a team. Pressure pays off five mins after half time and we score. Worryingly though, we sit back on a lead and soak up pressure against a poor team with ten men. We have our chances on the break and win the game

And thats where we are now

Sorry if you don't agree, I think my intitial point shows how negative we've been, and to a point we still are

Posted By: pants on September 20th 2005 at 11:04:05

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Crewe - "edgilly come back into the game"?! Are you mad?! We were all over them from start to finish, and it was just a combination of bad luck and poor finishing which meant we didn't win.

Leeds - certainly didn't "dick all over us" as you so eloquently put it. They were piss poor and we just gave them enough time to piece together a few moves - none of which ever looked like threatening us with a goal.

Stoke - we didn't "turn up for a draw", we were just s**t.

Plymouth - quite comfortably beat a poor team with the class difference in previous leagues showing, again should have finished clear chances - certainly not "as edgy as usual".

Watford - see Stoke.

Ipswich - we didn't sit back after we scored, we just didn't have possession for the full thirty eight minutes, understandably. In fact we kept on pressing for a killer second goal, and were very unlucky not to get one - Saf should have shot not passed never mind Hucks subsequent skyed shot. Only once did Hucks hold the ball in the corner, and this was only because he had two men on him, and he couldn't find a way through them to cross. They never really looked like scoring, their shots on target were tame and well covered by Green, and the rest of their goal mouth action, other than wild shots wide, were pin-ball scrambles with many bodies in the way.

The point I want to make, other than above, is that Worthy certainly doesn't set out to 'acheive' a nil-nil draw; the comments about the players not doing what he had instructed them in training made this quite clear (eg the long ball crap he hated from the Coventry game and the poor decision making he berated in the Palace game).

I think perhaps you should consider listening to a different commentary on the game, as basing your opinion on the match on the opinion of the two people commentating for Radio Norfolk has clearly left you well wide of the mark. Or you could go to games.

Posted By: DJ Ginga, Sep 20, 19:55:44