Good Friday fixtures

[BigDaveCUFC]

Carlisle won 3-1

Too little too late for the league but pleased for that bunch of fans spending cash week after week watching terrible stuff.

Draw and win now, not much but getting back some momentum to end the season can be important heading into next season.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Probably a fair result, bit disappointing to concede late on to an own goal, but delighted to see Alfie May miss a sitter.

 

[gijsbert_bos]

Brilliant! We were really poor but academy product Makama has come on and created a goal from nothing. In the playoffs on goal difference withOxford still to play. It's in our hands now. Erhahon back for the next match and we should look a bit better.

 

[kieran_vale]

Comfortable victory in the end. Nice to go back to back and with clean sheets too. Excellent win for Cambridge which doesn’t help us but even so things looking quite interesting there now.

 

[folletto]

Draw probably fair. Unbeaten run extended but again we didn’t look great, way too many errors. We’ve still not lost a game this season in which Aneke has played in.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Awful. I genuinely believe we are the worst team in the league at this moment in time.

I would normally say we made the opposition look good but we didnt. That's the poorest side ive seen us lose to in a while

 

[Floreat Salopia]

Jack Price with a brilliant volley for his hometown club at the end. Either side could have won it but a point was a fair outcome, happy with that. Onto Bristol Rovers on Monday.

 

[CTFCfan99]

Aidan Keena's first goal since last May and what a time to get it!! Think we deserved the win overall although credot Fleetwood who were much improved second half. Vital win with Vale and Cambridge also winning.

 

[BogDaddyO]

I've now had the distinct displeasure of having to sit through nearly 270 minutes of Lincoln playing football and I have no idea how they're anywhere near the playoffs.
16 goals in 3 games?
Zero sign of that today, thought they were incredibly pedestrian and aside from a flukey late goal, offered absolutely nothing.
Not counting that as a double after the Reynolds theft, will play then again next year, no doubt in my mind.
Nothing against the club, but the 3 point reversal from earlier in the season left a sour taste and that smash and grab today does little to alleviate that.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Jack Price with a brilliant volley for his hometown club at the end. Either side could have won it but a point was a fair outcome, happy with that. Onto Bristol Rovers on Monday.

ffs dont remind me there is another game on Monday. We have conceded 10 and scored 0 in the last 4 games now (1 amazingly being a clean sheet) so you can fill your boots

 

[valefan16]

Good win and back in the mixer now. Looked dead and buried. Not there as in the states at the moment, shame Cambridge went against us but Burton are close now.

win 3 in 7 and we probably survive.

 

[codaplenty]

Well deserved win by Cheltenham today, easily Fleetwood's most disappointing performance in a number of weeks. Great results by Cambridge, Port Vale and Carlisle today. Fleetwood have punched above their weight for the last 10 years and it's finally caught up with us. Be glad when this season is over and we can start planning for league 2

 

[leedsvaliant]

Awful. I genuinely believe we are the worst team in the league at this moment in time.

I would normally say we made the opposition look good but we didnt. That's the poorest side ive seen us lose to in a while

We're not great but I thought we looked alright today. Created a few decent chances and looked the better team. I've certainly seen worse teams than us today.

Thought you just looked like a team that were going through the motions. No real effort or desire to do anything. There's a few half decent footballers there but nobody really gave their all.

What you definitely need to do is replace your goalkeeper. Looks like a little boy and was appalling throughout. How is he getting a game for you?

 

[BRFC_Gas]

We're not great but I thought we looked alright today. Created a few decent chances and looked the better team. I've certainly seen worse teams than us today.

Thought you just looked like a team that were going through the motions. No real effort or desire to do anything. There's a few half decent footballers there but nobody really gave their all.

What you definitely need to do is replace your goalkeeper. Looks like a little boy and was appalling throughout. How is he getting a game for you?

He has just been given a contract extension until 2028! Rookie keeper though as only played a handful of league games.

 

[Don Tonberry]

Another huge result for us today after what was a fairly comfortable win in the end against a fairly good Wycombe side and most of the chasing pack dropping points.

Beat Derby on Tuesday and I think you can crown us. We only need a maximum of eight points for promotion now and it all seems very, very real.

 

[Gassy]

We're not great but I thought we looked alright today. Created a few decent chances and looked the better team. I've certainly seen worse teams than us today.

Thought you just looked like a team that were going through the motions. No real effort or desire to do anything. There's a few half decent footballers there but nobody really gave their all.

What you definitely need to do is replace your goalkeeper. Looks like a little boy and was appalling throughout. How is he getting a game for you?

Tbf I thought Vale looked alright, worked hard and seemed organised. The beginning of the game looked like a classic beach Vs fighting for your life game, but we actually got worse as it went on. I dont know how many times I can keep watching a game and say "thats the worst performance of the season". Thank god we picked up points earlier, because we are an absolute shambles. No fight, no passion, just no one giving a shit.

Ward is a good lad, he's young and honestly he's been 10x better than on loan Cox. But today he was awful, he looked the youngster we suspected he would be. I'll give him benefit of the doubt though, he's still very young and has quite literally saved us in 50% of the games this season - couple of weeks ago Orient fans were moaning he was the best player on the pitch.

Both goals extremely avoidable though. Conteh who is usually an outstanding player was atrocious, no idea what he was doing on the first. 2nd goal was handball to bring it down, but the defending after that was a joke. Even the shot wasn't that good, Ward should be saving that all day, not much power and right at him ffs.

Still, Vale absolutely deserved winners.

I've stuck up for Taylor for so long, but I have to say, I am really having some strong f*cking concerns right now about him and the owners.

 

[Valeite]

I thought Rovers were much improved on their showing last season and it was handball for the second but appalling defending and decent play by Dipepa

 

[EricSabin]

Moment of class separated the two teams at the Madjeski. Feel a bit aggrieved we didn’t get anything as we had 19 efforts on goal and had fairly long spells of pressure but couldn’t convert. Striker needed next summer for definite. At least we didn’t look like we were on the beach.

 

[thewwfc]

Another huge result for us today after what was a fairly comfortable win in the end against a fairly good Wycombe side and most of the chasing pack dropping points.

Yeah, we never really looked like getting back in it in the second half, and didn’t have the pace at left back to deal with Kamara.

We did compete, and no real evidence of shirking the challenges and trying to avoid injury pre-Wembley, but were beaten by the better team. Oh well.

 

[Luke Imp]

Had 0-0 written all over it from early on today, I didn't think either side did enough over the 90 minutes. Orient made it a very scrappy game and came for a point I thought, lots of slowing the game, taking an age over every restart etc. Not that I blame them for that at all, it's what they should be doing. It was an Erhahon, McGrandles, Hamilton type of game and none of those were available today, so in that respect it panned out how you would expect to and the midfield we had out couldn't get to grips with their physicality or outnumbering us.

Draper gave Beckles and their other CB a different type of challenge when he came on and it could have been tiredness or complacency but they started to try and step in front of Draper, and latterly Makama, and that was where the goal came from I think. We ended the game with a striker in midfield and the two up front are Academy boys.

Jenson and Roughan had absolute mares today with their distribution. I know it was a little windy but Jenson in particular had a sand wedge for a football boot.

We struggled to get going, we didn't have the answer, or probably options, to change too much but we were excellent defensively again. Had a massive Erhahon sized hole in our midfield. McGrandles can play in a similar way to him but he's out on his own when it comes to receiving the ball off the CB's and starting attacks, breaking the press with his passing range.

Thought Orient were a bit of a weird side, I don't really know what style of play they were going for. They outnumbered us in midfield so were tidy in possession at times and played out from goal kicks but only passed sideways - anything that went forward was either overhit, a long throw or a set piece. They had enough about them to keep us on our toes but aside from one shot that Jenson tipped around for a corner and a header over the bar, I can't remember too much? It all broke down too often just as they got into the final third. Their number 8 was excellent in the '6'.

 

[Pompeyblueboy]

Carlisle won 3-1

Too little too late for the league but pleased for that bunch of fans spending cash week after week watching terrible stuff.

Draw and win now, not much but getting back some momentum to end the season can be important heading into next season.

Thanks Carlisle

 

[leedsvaliant]

This is what annoys me about this league. Barnsley and Peterborough put in pathetic performances today. Yet when they play us they look like Real Madrid. You can guarantee that Peterborough will absolutely bum us when they play us in a few weeks but today they've been absolutely pathetic...that performance never comes against us. Likewise Barnsley.

 

[Pompeyblueboy]

Yeah, we never really looked like getting back in it in the second half, and didn’t have the pace at left back to deal with Kamara.

We did compete, and no real evidence of shirking the challenges and trying to avoid injury pre-Wembley, but were beaten by the better team. Oh well.

A great result for us. We're getting there.

Nightmare parking

 

[Pompeyblueboy]

This is what annoys me about this league. Barnsley and Peterborough put in pathetic performances today. Yet when they play us they look like Real Madrid. You can guarantee that Peterborough will absolutely bum us when they play us in a few weeks but today they've been absolutely pathetic...that performance never comes against us. Likewise Barnsley.

Well maybe thats because you're not very good

 

[The Terminator]

We didn't deserve to lose the game, which overall was scrappy and the wind I thought played a big factor in that, many overhit balls from both sides, neither side really did enough I thought.

Last 20mins we pushed harder, but we're the lowest scorers in the top half of the league for a reason - we don't do anywhere near enough to punish teams when we have them on the back foot. Most of our games are 1-0 or 2-1 because of this and when chances do come our way we don't often take them, we've had Dan Agyei fit for 6 weeks this season and he won us a fair share of points because he was clinical with his chances.

Game ultimately won I thought due to a mistake from Beckles and Brown and a bit of luck with the bounce which you get sometimes when you're on a long unbeaten run - we had plenty of that last season.

Bad Injury for Idris El-Mizouni though which rules him out until next season, Wellens reckons 3 months out. Might be the last time we see him play for us, losing him today is a huge blow for our remaining games.

 

[leedsvaliant]

Well maybe thats because you're not very good

Well....yeah. But that was not the point I was making.

 

[leedsvaliant]

Just a shout out for Baylee Dipepa. Ripped it up for the England under 17's whilst playing alongside Man City and Liverpool youngsters and then scored a superb goal today. We've got a real talent on our hands.

 

[Pompeyblueboy]

Well....yeah. But that was not the point I was making.

 

[Dan Phillips]

We're not great but I thought we looked alright today. Created a few decent chances and looked the better team. I've certainly seen worse teams than us today.

Thought you just looked like a team that were going through the motions. No real effort or desire to do anything. There's a few half decent footballers there but nobody really gave their all.

What you definitely need to do is replace your goalkeeper. Looks like a little boy and was appalling throughout. How is he getting a game for you?

Tbf I thought Vale looked alright, worked hard and seemed organised. The beginning of the game looked like a classic beach Vs fighting for your life game, but we actually got worse as it went on. I dont know how many times I can keep watching a game and say "thats the worst performance of the season". Thank god we picked up points earlier, because we are an absolute shambles. No fight, no passion, just no one giving a shit.

Ward is a good lad, he's young and honestly he's been 10x better than on loan Cox. But today he was awful, he looked the youngster we suspected he would be. I'll give him benefit of the doubt though, he's still very young and has quite literally saved us in 50% of the games this season - couple of weeks ago Orient fans were moaning he was the best player on the pitch.

Both goals extremely avoidable though. Conteh who is usually an outstanding player was atrocious, no idea what he was doing on the first. 2nd goal was handball to bring it down, but the defending after that was a joke. Even the shot wasn't that good, Ward should be saving that all day, not much power and right at him ffs.

Still, Vale absolutely deserved winners.

I've stuck up for Taylor for so long, but I have to say, I am really having some strong f*cking concerns right now about him and the owners.

What?? Am I missing the joke here?

He was the best player on the pitch for Rovers ffs? If it wasn't for him, we would've won by 5 at least. He made two outstanding saves first half. Could've done better with the second goal but questions should be asked of the defenders there, personally.

I have no idea where this notion of us being poor has come from either. We were decent today. We battered Rovers from start to finish. Fought for every loose ball, didn't back out of tackles and generally had all the things we've been lacking for a good while now.

19 shots, 11 on target, Ward made 9, yes, NINE saves. They had 2 shots, 0 on target. Yet we were poor, apparently.

 

[Pompeyblueboy]

Yeah, we never really looked like getting back in it in the second half, and didn’t have the pace at left back to deal with Kamara.

We did compete, and no real evidence of shirking the challenges and trying to avoid injury pre-Wembley, but were beaten by the better team. Oh well.

What was the handbags about in your side stand looked like some Pompey fans getting booted out?