Weston-super-Mare v Torquay Tues 25th Feb 7:45pm

[MoxGull2502]

1-0 down

[desperado]

This is utter garbage. I despair. Obvious which team
wants it more.

[numpte]

Sloppy passes after sloppy passes, little movement up front, generally feeling sorry for ourselves. Quite a few missing in action and lucky it’s only 1.

[North Curry House]

Listening to the radio, the Comms is absolute shite, get rid of him, say it as it is, for heaven sake. We are second best to another poor side and at the moment, we are out of the play off places. Clearly not good enough.....not looking forward to Saturday,vwe could get a real pasting!

I hope we can reverse our current poor form in the next 45+ minutes and come home with the points.

COYY.

[simjones1980]

Is it me or does Hamon look devoid of any confidence, not left his line once and putting us under even more pressure at corners! A little worrying.

[numpte]

Slightly better in the second half if only for the goal. Pitch looked a shocker with the amount of players slipping about.

Up a place and only 6pts off the top. All to play for!

[Dave_Pougher]

Tough game, Weston are now a very physical side. Wotton gets my MOM, he didn’t stop encouraging, shouting, boll**king the players ref officials the whole game. Flurry of cards in the last quarter, probably justified. Think we should have had a pen first half, two hands on our players back & pushed him over whilst going towards goal! Weston should have been out of sight first half so a draw just about a fair result.

[bobbytanz1963]

Fairly drab game, we had a lovely spell for 15/20 mins after half time and could have nicked it.

Players looked tired, disinterested first half. We lack a dominant captain who barks and organises things, you could only hear the WSM players shouting.

Pitch was ok given the wet conditions in WSM recently, never a good defining pitch.

Ref ok let a lot go in fact too much, WSM brutal side lots of shoving players towards barriers. Typical dude bearing in mind their thug manager !!

Lino on dugout side atrocious never up with play !!

Clearly we are a team lacking confidence and needs to be sorted soon.

Difference between sides was WSM got the ball and moved forwards at pace whilst we went sidewards again abd again. Sometime direct us the way to go

Think PW cuts a frustrated man so this is a good test of his credentials

Finally Hamon ….. he needs to dominate his 6 yard box …. He is like a rabbit in the headlights when the ball cones in !! Oh for a Bobby Ojenik !!

Looked nasty

[desperado]

Why do we only play and compete for one half ?
Wotton must be tearing his hair out , he's been shouting at them from day one at Buckland to get up the pitch , press , anticipate second balls and don't drop deep and he's still having to do it. It's not as if we can soak up pressure and hit opposition on the break.
Bit better second half but how many shots did we have
and how many chances did we create ? we just cant seem to do it. With Threlkeld and Hayfield in centre mid theres no one making runs and getting up to support Cooke and Jay. Mussa's a bench player nothing else , play Hasani or Jenkins-Davies who can get forward and will have a shot.

[culmstockgull]

A frustrating watch not just first half which wotton maintains we were not at it(where have we heard that before) WSM, a big tough physical team and we are not, first 45 they had control of the flanks and there was some serious crosses coming into our box, Thomas, certainly and Carson maybe will become good fullbacks in time but both were seriously bullied last night. I thought Mussa was scaring them first 20 minutes and until his booking for the nasty two footer he was going to cause them serious problems, I saw the weston player he fouled never rolled around trying to win the oscar, get up and put his arm round Mussa's houlder and had a quick chat which I imagine went something like, you come near me for the rest of the game and you will wake up in casualty becuase from that moment until he was rightly subbed Mussa never went for a tackle.
Weston's goal from my position 6 foot away was 100 per cent down to Hamon, we know he can save penalties but the nitty gritty of six yard aggro is not for him, which is odd considering his size and when he warms up he rises up to catch any number of high crosses, does his side hustle away from football involve being a male model or something to do with his hands becuase yet again he was just a statue on his line,he does not have the strength of character for the pushing and shoving where he might break a nail but that is what his defence needs someone to command his box.
Dreyer and dyer. seemed back to their steady best, our midfield was lacking in strength and industry and weston had huge areas to work in, I wondered why Threlkeld played last nght, mind you If I am honest I think that most weeks, he was anonymous, lacked interest and everything you hope from a captain is absent in him, even from behind the goal we could hear wotton screaming, Oscar get involved, or at the defense get higher, everything you would expect a captain to be organising.
I will take the point but all three were there for us last night, we are short of a keeper, a no nonsense midfielder in the mould of lapslie or dawson and a good right winger, hopefully they will come in the summer.

[PainInTheGULLiver85]

Disappointed with a draw. Felt after we scored we needed yo push on but infact weston came back and a fair result. Felt Palmer coming on way earlier would have helped as needed someone to win headers - as weston threat was from crosses. Also Palmer wins knock downs in opposition box on set plays. The league is still so open, just need to grab that opportunity.

[BigDave]

A frustrating watch not just first half which wotton maintains we were not at it(where have we heard that before) WSM, a big tough physical team and we are not, first 45 they had control of the flanks and there was some serious crosses coming into our box, Thomas, certainly and Carson maybe will become good fullbacks in time but both were seriously bullied last night. I thought Mussa was scaring them first 20 minutes and until his booking for the nasty two footer he was going to cause them serious problems, I saw the weston player he fouled never rolled around trying to win the oscar, get up and put his arm round Mussa's houlder and had a quick chat which I imagine went something like, you come near me for the rest of the game and you will wake up in casualty becuase from that moment until he was rightly subbed Mussa never went for a tackle.
Weston's goal from my position 6 foot away was 100 per cent down to Hamon, we know he can save penalties but the nitty gritty of six yard aggro is not for him, which is odd considering his size and when he warms up he rises up to catch any number of high crosses, does his side hustle away from football involve being a male model or something to do with his hands becuase yet again he was just a statue on his line,he does not have the strength of character for the pushing and shoving where he might break a nail but that is what his defence needs someone to command his box.
Dreyer and dyer. seemed back to their steady best, our midfield was lacking in strength and industry and weston had huge areas to work in, I wondered why Threlkeld played last nght, mind you If I am honest I think that most weeks, he was anonymous, lacked interest and everything you hope from a captain is absent in him, even from behind the goal we could hear wotton screaming, Oscar get involved, or at the defense get higher, everything you would expect a captain to be organising.
I will take the point but all three were there for us last night, we are short of a keeper, a no nonsense midfielder in the mould of lapslie or dawson and a good right winger, hopefully they will come in the summer.

[BigDave]

A frustrating watch not just first half which wotton maintains we were not at it(where have we heard that before) WSM, a big tough physical team and we are not, first 45 they had control of the flanks and there was some serious crosses coming into our box, Thomas, certainly and Carson maybe will become good fullbacks in time but both were seriously bullied last night. I thought Mussa was scaring them first 20 minutes and until his booking for the nasty two footer he was going to cause them serious problems, I saw the weston player he fouled never rolled around trying to win the oscar, get up and put his arm round Mussa's houlder and had a quick chat which I imagine went something like, you come near me for the rest of the game and you will wake up in casualty becuase from that moment until he was rightly subbed Mussa never went for a tackle.
Weston's goal from my position 6 foot away was 100 per cent down to Hamon, we know he can save penalties but the nitty gritty of six yard aggro is not for him, which is odd considering his size and when he warms up he rises up to catch any number of high crosses, does his side hustle away from football involve being a male model or something to do with his hands becuase yet again he was just a statue on his line,he does not have the strength of character for the pushing and shoving where he might break a nail but that is what his defence needs someone to command his box.
Dreyer and dyer. seemed back to their steady best, our midfield was lacking in strength and industry and weston had huge areas to work in, I wondered why Threlkeld played last nght, mind you If I am honest I think that most weeks, he was anonymous, lacked interest and everything you hope from a captain is absent in him, even from behind the goal we could hear wotton screaming, Oscar get involved, or at the defense get higher, everything you would expect a captain to be organising.
I will take the point but all three were there for us last night, we are short of a keeper, a no nonsense midfielder in the mould of lapslie or dawson and a good right winger, hopefully they will come in the summer.

Hamon is Wotton's buddy from Truro but is an atrocious keeper even at this level. Good goalkeepers are largely inconspicuous because their positioning and ability to read the game mostly removes the need for spectacular looking saves. Hanson can stop shots but is awful at all of the other aspects of the modern goalkeeper's job; his distribution is poor and he seems to be physically attached to his goal line whenever the opposition have possession within 30 yards of his goal - he appears to think that high balls are best left in a cocktail glass and coming to get a cross is reserved for his reaction after conceding a goal, whilst narrowing the angle relates to his eyes rather than his body movement. However, he is very good at imitating a fledging albatross whenever he concedes a goal as the rest of the defence is always to blame for his mistakes. This actually might explain his reluctance to leave his line because if he actually moved whilst flapping his arms he might possibly fly. If his problem is 'lack of confidence' what does that do for the morale of the team (particularly defence) in front of him?

[UnitedinDevon]

Hamon is Wotton's buddy from Truro but is an atrocious keeper even at this level. Good goalkeepers are largely inconspicuous because their positioning and ability to read the game mostly removes the need for spectacular looking saves. Hanson can stop shots but is awful at all of the other aspects of the modern goalkeeper's job; his distribution is poor and he seems to be physically attached to his goal line whenever the opposition have possession within 30 yards of his goal - he appears to think that high balls are best left in a cocktail glass and coming to get a cross is reserved for his reaction after conceding a goal, whilst narrowing the angle relates to his eyes rather than his body movement. However, he is very good at imitating a fledging albatross whenever he concedes a goal as the rest of the defence is always to blame for his mistakes. This actually might explain his reluctance to leave his line because if he actually moved whilst flapping his arms he might possibly fly. If his problem is 'lack of confidence' what does that do for the morale of the team (particularly defence) in front of him?

A really poor assessment of Hamon

[desperado]

Agree, ridiculous post. He's not the best we've ever had but far from the worst. Without him our losses column would be a lot higher.
His claiming of crosses could be better but not even sure I agree that was his to claim last night. Difficult when there's a lot of the bodies in there and we seemed to have 3 defenders who tried to deal with it and failed