Friday 8/Saturday 9 November fixtures

[HutchECFC]

We used to have a specific away ticket booth but seem to have done away with it this season with all collections being from the home ticket office/ portakabin, literally 20 yards away.
Given that we aren't exactly flush with space, I'm not buying that.

Think it’s still used, the away one. I know they change the posters on there about welcoming whichever away team we are playing. I’ll have a gander on Saturday, as I go in Jungle Path entrance

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

We are pretty pants (in general) but especially away from home. Leaburn is back in the side and has a few goals in the cup competitions. Again, our weakness is creativity, we play two pressing midfielders in attacking midfield but neither have any attacking ability if they do win the ball on the press. Tyreece Campbell is our main threat but he is a winger and we don't play with wingers.

With Lloyd Jones and Kayne Ramsay out for a while our defence is looking leaky.

I can't see us winning this.

I saw you a couple of months ago against Stevenage and the pressing wasn’t right yet.

With how NJ has played since his second spell with us, the key thing was to set traps in the press which got us into areas of the pitch we couldn’t have done through incisive play as to be frank we didn’t have the quality of player to do it. So the pressing system became the playmaker rather than any one individual. We also had 2 mobile centre forwards who were the trigger for it too and whilst Godden has scored a few goals for you, he didn’t look like that sort of player to me. Maybe it could be Leaburn.

There’s also the added issue that in games where we were expected to make the play ourselves rather than let the other team expose themselves to our press, we often struggled - see the record we had in cups against lower division opposition. I imagine that happens to you a lot which kind of nullifies the whole thing.

 

[masi51]

I saw you a couple of months ago against Stevenage and the pressing wasn’t right yet.

With how NJ has played since his second spell with us, the key thing was to set traps in the press which got us into areas of the pitch we couldn’t have done through incisive play as to be frank we didn’t have the quality of player to do it. So the pressing system became the playmaker rather than any one individual. We also had 2 mobile centre forwards who were the trigger for it too and whilst Godden has scored a few goals for you, he didn’t look like that sort of player to me. Maybe it could be Leaburn.

There’s also the added issue that in games where we were expected to make the play ourselves rather than let the other team expose themselves to our press, we often struggled - see the record we had in cups against lower division opposition. I imagine that happens to you a lot which kind of nullifies the whole thing.

The problem with playing one way with one system is that you soon get sussed out. What worked three or four seasons back hinders these teams/managers today. We have seen this in the way Bolton/Evatt play. Some say Evatt is still making it work as we are continually in the top six. Bar Birmingham we have the best squad/team in the league and it would be criminal not to get into the top 6. Problem with Charlton is they have a team fans more hoped than expected to get into the top 6 and what worked 4 years ago with Luton will not Work Today hence the best they will end up is 6/10th