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Post by voiceofreason on Oct 6, 2007 16:31:00 GMT
Sounds quite a game!
2-2;0-2 down in the 86th minute, with a late sending-off for their player. Well done, lads!
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Post by wakefield on Oct 6, 2007 19:14:53 GMT
Yes it was an excellent game, apart from the poor officiating. appalling.
Perhaps our Chairman should speak out more often? Because...
.....our team performed really well.
Camped in the Boston half for most of the game it was galling to see the confusion surrounding Boston's free kick goal after - what - 5 mins? - all created by the Refereeing.
The free header to put the Pilgrims 2 up was the usual defensive mess.
However, Well done to the team for endeavour and effort to secure the draw.
2 points dropped? Yes Worcester put the ball in the net 4 times so were unlucky not to win the game.
Boston? Very poor (even their own supporters agreed that)
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 6, 2007 19:42:45 GMT
Spot on Wakey. Their manager called his own team rubbish at least 15 times in his post match interview as I was driving home!
A two goal win would not have adequately measured the gulf between the sides today.
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Post by aj on Oct 6, 2007 21:09:42 GMT
Yes it was good to see the team turn it around - first half was all aerial, second half we kept the ball on the ground much better and created enough chances to have won comfortably. If only we could play like that consistently - playing like that we would probably have beaten Tamworth, got a point at Alfreton, and stuffed Solihull.
And well done to the support, one of the Boston guys in the pub afterwards said we were the noisiest away support they had seen this season.
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Post by DazaB on Oct 6, 2007 22:39:29 GMT
1st half we played it alot in the air and didnt get very far, 2nd half was mostly on the floor, played really well, much the better team in the second half and deserved a point. The goal that wasn't given when wilding's shot was saved by the keeper, he fumbled, onto the post, off his head, and from where i was standing looked in, but the linesman wasn't in the position to give it. He was behind the play as wilding's shot was from just inside the box, the lino went right up to the corner flag to look across but by that time the keeper had already pulled it back over the line. Good performance on the whole though.
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Post by DazaB on Oct 6, 2007 22:57:35 GMT
oh and attendance 1398, about 50 worcester fans
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Post by darrellbutler on Oct 7, 2007 20:53:22 GMT
How we didn't win that game I will never know. A poor first half admittedly but in the second half we were awesome. We played football - and showed just how good we can be when we do play football. We gad two 'goals' disallowed. The second I can understand but the first?! I thought offside but apparantly he flagged for a push. That's what someone in the Eagle said anyway! Patrece was excellent (JT's natural replacement?)
I fancy us to get a result against Southport if we play like that!
The Boston people were fantastic. Patto & I got put up for the night by a lovely Aussie (12-10) and her fella (along with a fantastic brekkie) and had a fantastic night in Boston - we were welcomed by everyone. Completely the opposite from what I was expecting, I have never heard anything good about Boston in the past. The club was playing decent music too. It was actually music and not noise. Nowhere in Coventry does I know that much!
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Post by Tim Munslow on Oct 8, 2007 9:03:14 GMT
I didn't go and was driving back from Wolverhampton (no, not the footie, a cultural NT visit) when the announcement came on BBCHW that there was another goal at Boston and Peter McMillan said it was now 2-0 to Boston and "there's no way back for City now". Disgusted by this I turned the radio off.
At 5.00 I thought I'd better hear the final score (thought it might have been 3-0 the way things were going!) only to hear them say it had been quite a last five minutes and City had drawn 2-2. What a result.
Barbara Singleton, writing in the NLP, commented "...efforts by Nwadike and Wood gave them a draw that, in truth, their superior performance merited."
Well done lads! Let's have more of the same at home now.
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Post by colinlayland on Oct 8, 2007 9:24:02 GMT
The ball was definitely over the line,I was stood to the right of the goal and there goalkeeper pulled it back,and because the lines man was not up with the play he could not see it,another poor side we should have beat,and who was two City supporters who left the ground when Boston scored there second ,look what they missed.
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Post by Tim Munslow on Oct 8, 2007 9:34:07 GMT
I have just B*ue Dragonstanders match report on the City website, which is a joy to read and full of the Queen's English. The sort of reporting that, alas, one sees so infrequently.
Malcolm - your talents are wasted.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2007 10:52:24 GMT
Yes excellent report BDS. Did you spend your winnings on a Thesaurus?
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Post by jupu on Oct 8, 2007 23:01:03 GMT
The report accuses the referee of a basic error that allowed Boston to score their first goal. What exactly was it?
As I understand, referee is not required to hold up a free kick to allow the defending team time to organise a wall. As long as the ref has given the signal that he is ready, the kick can be taken, and the signal doesn't have to be a whistle.
If the ref was in the process of moving our wall backwards when the ball was kicked, then I guess that would be a different matter as the kick would have been taken without his knowledge.
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Post by LeedsWCFC on Oct 8, 2007 23:23:44 GMT
The report accuses the referee of a basic error that allowed Boston to score their first goal. What exactly was it? As I understand, referee is not required to hold up a free kick to allow the defending team time to organise a wall. As long as the ref has given the signal that he is ready, the kick can be taken, and the signal doesn't have to be a whistle. If the ref was in the process of moving our wall backwards when the ball was kicked, then I guess that would be a different matter as the kick would have been taken without his knowledge. The error was by City's defence in not keeping an eye on what was going on and presuming that they had all the time in the world to prepare to defend the free kick. The referee does not have to give any signal that he is ready. The award of the free kick is signal enough that the team which has been given the free kick may take it unless the referee indicates otherwise. The referee did have his back to the kicker when it was taken but there was no infringement by the attacking side so he was right to award the goal. |
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Post by darrellbutler on Oct 8, 2007 23:49:22 GMT
As far as I understand it, the attacking say may take the kick at any time unless the ref indicates otherwise, such as if they were to ask for the defending sides players to be moved back 10 yards...  |
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Post by sleepinggiant on Oct 9, 2007 11:57:07 GMT
I think that the problem Preecey had was that when the free-kick was given the referee stopped Boston taking it quickly because he wanted a word with the offending player.
Once he finished talking to the player he then let the free-kick be taken straight away whilst the wall was still being constructed.
Once he denied Boston the opportunity of taking the free-kick immediately he then should restart the game with the whistle.
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Post by LeedsWCFC on Oct 9, 2007 12:02:28 GMT
Once he denied Boston the opportunity of taking the free-kick immediately he then should restart the game with the whistle. It is up to the defending team to be aware that the free kick may be taken at any time to the attacking team's advantage unless told otherwise. |
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Post by carsten on Oct 9, 2007 15:01:27 GMT
spot on LeedsWCFC, unless told otherwise.
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Post by Tim Munslow on Oct 9, 2007 17:23:18 GMT
We all know that now - but do the manager and players understand that? They need to more than we do!
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