Carlisle 0 v 0 Crawley

[darren gregory]

Having looked through the other match threads I feel kinda deprived that there are no Vale fans weighing in on our game, there seem to be on all the other games.

Good win.

 

[Casey]

As I said, light in attack and always likely to concede a goal.

We have forwards coming out of our ears but our forward play is not much cop really. 20 shots but only four on target and our main striker had none on target.

From the news feed and from fans who were there it seems Thomas was the big difference between the sides. Two shots our keeper could only parry to other forwards for two goals, another shot hit the post. Our player marking him (Sesay) has been rumoured to be a target of championship clubs at 350k. They might be reconsidering that now.

From those pictures I would say that one on the line looks over but it would have been hard for the ref to give it. What side was the linesman on?

Casey

 

[shoddycollins]

What side was the linesman on?

The left hand side in the behind the goal photo

 

[Boletus Edulis]

I'll jump in ahead of HG then with the negatives and positives, or positives and negatives.

Positive - we won
Negative - we made hard work of it

Negative - Mellish had a poor game at LB
Positive - It's not his natural position, he was preferred over Iredale perhaps because of Iredale's fitness, or because Mellish had been in that position through most of the friendlies. Easy decision to put Iredale in there next week.

Positive - Both our new strikers had good games
Negative - Neither of them threatened the goal particularly, our attacks were mainly from attacking midfielders and the strikers dropped back to join in
Positive - but they both held the ball up well when it was played up to them, neither was anywhere near a waste of a shirt, and this after only a few days with the squad, there's time yet to improve

Negative - We were a bit shaky at the back, overplaying it or making a hash of the simple things and giving it away
Positive - But NKP was very good today, can see a good partnership forming between him and Webster
Negative - still we need to do the simple things better or else better teams than Crawley will punish us

Negative - We left big gaps in midfield, we have mainly lightweight players who wanted to get involved in the attacks
Postive - But two of those lightweight players got our goals, and Carroll came on in the second half and looked up to speed and ready to maybe start now and add some solidity to the middle of the park, also every game is a game closer to Etuhu returning.

Shoddy, did you take A levels in the 1970s/80s? All that was missing from the approach to an essay we were taught was an overall analysis concluding both the pro and con of the question set.

 

[shoddycollins]

Shoddy, did you take A levels in the 1970s/80s? All that was missing from the approach to an essay we were taught was an overall analysis concluding both the pro and con of the question set.

Hah!, I may feel like a bit of an old fart but not 'A levels in the 80s' old. Don't know what possessed me to put my thoughts across that way but it was a lot easier than waffling on so I might make a habit of it.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

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Hah!, I may feel like a bit of an old fart but not 'A levels in the 80s' old. Don't know what possessed me to put my thoughts across that way but it was a lot easier than waffling on so I might make a habit of it.

Okay, but don’t forget the analysis at the end summing up whether the positives outweigh the negatives. Otherwise you’ll only get a B.

 

[shoddycollins]

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Okay, but don’t forget the analysis at the end summing up whether the positives outweigh the negatives. Otherwise you’ll only get a B.

I refuse to be drawn on whether the positives outweigh the negatives.