[lindave]

Spire-Power, on 26 September 2018 - 07:34 AM, said:

How was the new signing Smith? Looked awful on Saturday.

He was even worse last night.

[lindave]

Siberian Spireite, on 26 September 2018 - 08:54 AM, said:

It really disappointed me how our players would go down and stay down pretending to be injured, even when play had continued, as if the ref would change his mind and call play back. Having Muggleton, JBW, etc down on the ground when play continued was no good to anyone. I don't know how badly Weir was hurt in the 50/50 he lost for the second goal (looked a fair challenge to me) but he went down, stayed down, and the ref blew the whistle as soon as he got back up, so that was the injury time used up at the end of the first half, oddly, by an injury. Not sure how the ref figured that one out but overall we cannot blame the ref for being physically second best.
Jalal also seemed to be pretending to be injured to cover his embarrassment for at least one of the three soft goals he let in.
Maidenhead timewasted as all teams do, but I've seen worse, and we would do the same if ever we could take the lead in a match.

Conclusion: we are just not 'up for it' enough in this league.

Weir was well and truly done for, it was a crunching tackle which neither player pulled out of. Weir could barely hobble off at ht. The blame for that was the hospital ball by Smith (he had a stinker, he reminds me of another Mark Randall and is just as poor).

[Siberian Spireite]

lindave, on 26 September 2018 - 10:55 AM, said:

Weir was well and truly done for, it was a crunching tackle which neither player pulled out of. Weir could barely hobble off at ht. The blame for that was the hospital ball by Smith (he had a stinker, he reminds me of another Mark Randall and is just as poor).

Good point re the Smith ball- I recall him playing one or two too short.

[SpireiTed]

lindave, on 26 September 2018 - 10:55 AM, said:

Weir was well and truly done for, it was a crunching tackle which neither player pulled out of. Weir could barely hobble off at ht. The blame for that was the hospital ball by Smith (he had a stinker, he reminds me of another Mark Randall and is just as poor).

Anyone doubting Weir's fight or commitment should watch that tackle, he didn't chicken out even tho he is on the transfer list. He went up in my estimation, hope he gets over the injury soon.

[hilly81]

http://www.thenation...entre/1-3613875

Absolutely vile highlights. Teams really don't have to do very much to score against us, do they?

[Stoptalkingbol]

hilly81, on 26 September 2018 - 01:32 PM, said:

http://www.thenation...entre/1-3613875

Absolutely vile highlights. Teams really don't have to do very much to score against us, do they?

Disgusting. The keeping for the second and third is embarrassing.

[Brookie]

Pathetic keeping
This was also my first view of Denton, can we have our money back please only we thought we had bought a footballer, not a garden post

[danblue]

What really makes my blood boil and eject out my eyes us that fact when we play it on the ground, we look half decent and have a bit of a threat.
Then for some inexplicable reason, from the back, starting with Nelson playing that telegraph if a diagonal ball to Denton - and we start playing dogga.
STICK WITH THE BALL ON THE GROUND FFS, it seems to work better that that long ball $h1t

[Siberian Spireite]

hilly81, on 26 September 2018 - 01:32 PM, said:

http://www.thenation...entre/1-3613875

Absolutely vile highlights. Teams really don't have to do very much to score against us, do they?

Thanks- I hadn't realised how bad the first goal was. Their midfielder ghosts through some half-hearted challenges by Smith and Weir (I think it was), Nelson in no-mans-land/two minds, Drew playing a quick lad onside that he then can't catch, and to top it all off JBW decides to slide into his own keeper in order to let their lad have the ball.
Second one, I wouldn't accuse Weir of neshing but he seemed to think he could play a pass whereas their lad put in a good hard challenge. Again, Nelson in no-mans-land as he knew he couldn't compete for pace so decided to be clever and play offside, but their lad was just on. Jalal floundered like an indecisive fish.
Their third.... just criminal. I've been toying with the philosophical question of whether Jalal is in fact a better keeper than Kepa and last night just about sealed it for me- he isn't. Time he was gone for a Burton.

[Albert Holmes Slides In]

"Losing" and "Maidenhead" used to appear together in such engaging circumstances.

[danblue]

Siberian Spireite, on 26 September 2018 - 02:15 PM, said:

Thanks- I hadn't realised how bad the first goal was. Their midfielder ghosts through some half-hearted challenges by Smith and Weir (I think it was), Nelson in no-mans-land/two minds, Drew playing a quick lad onside that he then can't catch, and to top it all off JBW decides to slide into his own keeper in order to let their lad have the ball.
Second one, I wouldn't accuse Weir of neshing but he seemed to think he could play a pass whereas their lad put in a good hard challenge. Again, Nelson in no-mans-land as he knew he couldn't compete for pace so decided to be clever and play offside, but their lad was just on. Jalal floundered like an indecisive fish.
Their third.... just criminal. I've been toying with the philosophical question of whether Jalal is in fact a better keeper than Kepa and last night just about sealed it for me- he isn't. Time he was gone for a Burton.

Nelson was the same for one of the Gateshead goals too. Just went past him like he wasn't there. Absolute statue.
In fact, Nelson's Column like.

[hilly81]

danblue, on 26 September 2018 - 02:20 PM, said:

Nelson was the same for one of the Gateshead goals too. Just went past him like he wasn't there. Absolute statue.
In fact, Nelson's Column like.

Nelsons column at the back and a telegraph pole up front.

[Siberian Spireite]

Denton backwards is 'Notned', which I'm not sure is correct, having seen him last night.

[Arnold Tabbs]

I didn't go last night & will probably never go again because I'm moving to Scotland in a couple of weeks. If so, the match against Gateshead will have been my final Town game after 55 years. Even after such a long time I can honestly say that Town's display on Saturday was the worst I have ever seen not just from Town but from any professional football team anywhere, ever.

It's now just before 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon and if Martin Allen is still the manager by now then all fans are entitled to boycott the ground till he has gone. Failing that, burn the place down on Bonfire Night. He has been provided with ample money to improve the team and instead has created the least talented squad in the history of Chesterfield FC. Not only are they slow, weak and inept but the players appear also to lack any smidgen of confidence. Just "take care" on your way to the station, Martin. And it should be a criminal offence for anyone to play "Sweet Caroline" anywhere in the town again.

2 points from 10 games would be a disgrace in any League but in the Vanarama National League is beyond pathetic. I honestly can't find the words to describe how shameful the current state of the club is. Another relegation currently looks like a racing certainty, and there's nothing to suggest anything better at the level below either. This bunch would struggle at any level. Gateshead played them off the park. In summer Scott Boden publicly said he would love to come back to Chesterfield but it seems he wasn't considered good enough; as if the players up front are better than he is! I felt sorry for Denton on Saturday because he repeatedly headed the ball into areas where it might be useful but nobody apart from Hines had the gumption to anticipate where it was going, and he only lasted 10 minutes before being sent off.

For the last few years I've not had a very high opinion of Scottish football but I reckon that my new local team, at £10 per match, is likely to provide much better value in the 4th tier across the border even in front of 400 or so fans. They can't possibly be worse to watch than the current squad at Chesterfield FC.

[Siberian Spireite]

animal, on 26 September 2018 - 03:10 PM, said:

I didn't go last night & will probably never go again because I'm moving to Scotland in a couple of weeks. If so, the match against Gateshead will have been my final Town game after 55 years. Even after such a long time I can honestly say that Town's display on Saturday was the worst I have ever seen not just from Town but from any professional football team anywhere, ever.

It's now just before 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon and if Martin Allen is still the manager by now then all fans are entitled to boycott the ground till he has gone. Failing that, burn the place down on Bonfire Night. He has been provided with ample money to improve the team and instead has created the least talented squad in the history of Chesterfield FC. Not only are they slow, weak and inept but the players appear also to lack any smidgen of confidence. Just "take care" on your way to the station, Martin. And it should be a criminal offence for anyone to play "Sweet Caroline" anywhere in the town again.

2 points from 10 games would be a disgrace in any League but in the Vanarama National League is beyond pathetic. I honestly can't find the words to describe how shameful the current state of the club is. Another relegation currently looks like a racing certainty, and there's nothing to suggest anything better at the level below either. This bunch would struggle at any level. Gateshead played them off the park. In summer Scott Boden publicly said he would love to come back to Chesterfield but it seems he wasn't considered good enough; as if the players up front are better than he is! I felt sorry for Denton on Saturday because he repeatedly headed the ball into areas where it might be useful but nobody apart from Hines had the gumption to anticipate where it was going, and he only lasted 10 minutes before being sent off.

For the last few years I've not had a very high opinion of Scottish football but I reckon that my new local team, at £10 per match, is likely to provide much better value in the 4th tier across the border even in front of 400 or so fans. They can't possibly be worse to watch than the current squad at Chesterfield FC.

Try the 'Tell him he's Pele' podcast about lower divisions Scottish football. It is very well done and keeps alive my interest in football in these dark times.