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 Post subject: The Match
PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:42 pm 
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Possession: Leeds 40 Hartlepool 60 (second half 10-90)
Chances: Leeds 2 Hartlepool 400
Goals (kind of important this one): Leeds 2 Hartlepool 0

Leeds had two chances and took them both, its been said before that the main difference between Div 3 & 4 and I assume div 2 & 3, is that you get punished for mistakes. The first goal seen the Leeds man have hours in which to pick out his cross and for their second,Beckford was allowed several unchallenged touches before he very nicely put it away.

Still, we played very very well apart from the forward line which to be brutal is simply not up to the job.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:02 am 
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I was talking to your kid yesterday near the end of the match, he was shaking his head in disbelief like me, but like you said it's all about sticking the chances away. I wonder what the score would have been if the two up front for them had been playing for us, and vice versa.
I'm willing to bet neither of our forwards would have scored that second goal, maybe Barker would have put the header away for the first, given a chance like that.
Or then again maybe not, seeing as how he missed an easy one at the start of the 2nd half when it was still 1-0!!!!
I think their two forwards would have relished the number of opportunities our players had to score!!!!

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:03 am 
And the seven in the previous two games?? :roll: :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Mr I wrote:
Possession: Leeds 40 Hartlepool 60 (second half 10-90)
Chances: Leeds 2 Hartlepool 400
Goals (kind of important this one): Leeds 2 Hartlepool 0

Leeds had two chances and took them both, its been said before that the main difference between Div 3 & 4 and I assume div 2 & 3, is that you get punished for mistakes. The first goal seen the Leeds man have hours in which to pick out his cross and for their second,Beckford was allowed several unchallenged touches before he very nicely put it away.

Still, we played very very well apart from the forward line which to be brutal is simply not up to the job.


Sorry, but he didn't actually beat ANY challenges except for the defender closest to him who suddenly woke up to the fact (as indeed we were in the crowd) that Beckford isn't your 'typical ten touches and a back passs to the keeper type forward'. He never got close to him before the chip was on the way.

This may inadvertently prove your point but in a different way.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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We're saying the same thing; I'm saying that Beckford was allowed several touches without a challenge and you're saying that he wasn't challenged. Great chip either way.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:49 am 
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He had two touches. One to control the long ball, and one for the chip. I think you're a bit harsh on your defender there :sweeeet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuSFd5-VxiU


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:52 am 
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Aye, maybe you're right, sometimes a great goal is unstoppable and that was a great goal.

Edit: the space your player had for the cross was obscene.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:00 am 
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And the seven in the previous two games?? :roll: :roll:


Explain, please

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Just nipped out for a cig and was going to point out, to make you feel better of course, that the defending for the first goal was indeed pants.

The space down the right was quite well worked if you see the whole picture, but the centre half needs to get the glue off his boots :wink:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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LeicesterPoolie wrote:
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And the seven in the previous two games?? :roll: :roll:


Explain, please


We scored 3 against Chesterfield & 4 against Oldham which were our previous 2 games.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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MadJohn wrote:
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I am not saying I dont want Joel to start, but I can see why he isnt.


That's pretty much my stance exactly. I would pick Porter, but that doesn't make me right and Danny Wilson wrong.



As a stats man John, surely the figures tell their own story. Two from open play this season says a lot.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:52 am 
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Joel doesnt work like Moore and Barker do.



:laugh:

Perhaps it's because I love Porter, but I've never questioned his work rate. He works really hard I tell ya. Remember his first full season; he hardly finished a game because he'd worked himself into the ground! Perhaps you missed it as it was all intelligent running! :laugh:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:21 am 
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Here's a stat for you.
There are always going to be games where the ball just won't go in. There's been ONE like that out of eight games so far.
There's also only ONE game where we haven't conceded.

What those stats tell me is our priority should be the defence, and I'd be happy to see last season's restored with the only change being Jamie instead of Mick who visibly has no designs on regaining his place.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:50 am 
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errrr...moore and barker didnt get 7 goals from open play in those 2 games. moore wasnt even on the pitch for one of them. stpid


Yeah I know.

But the team scored seven so where's the fire?? Does it really matter where the goals come from as long as we get some?? Saturday was the first time this season that we HAVEN'T scored. It sounded like we did everything but. Moore and Barker might not be filling their boots but they seem to create enough diversion so someone else does.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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The season, Boyd and Porter were on fire,
didn't Sweeney chip in with double figures, from midfield.

I haven't checked the stats, but I'm sure we had other
significant contributions.

The point I'm trying to make is, the 'strikers' are supposed
to score, backed up by goals from midfield, not vice versa.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:06 pm 
Sure, it's in the job description I expect but my point is that as long as someone is scoring, is it crucial who it is?? Nine in five will do for the time being I would have thought.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:50 pm 
LeicesterPoolie wrote:
The season, Boyd and Porter were on fire,
didn't Sweeney chip in with double figures, from midfield.

I haven't checked the stats, but I'm sure we had other
significant contributions.

The point I'm trying to make is, the 'strikers' are supposed
to score, backed up by goals from midfield, not vice versa.


He sure did. I remember over 60 goals from these 3 alone!


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:51 pm 
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:laugh:

Perhaps it's because I love Porter, but I've never questioned his work rate. He works really hard I tell ya. Remember his first full season; he hardly finished a game because he'd worked himself into the ground! Perhaps you missed it as it was all intelligent running! :laugh:


:evil:

Remind me when you are next coming up for a game. So I can cave your head in. :grin:


:laugh:

The only way you'll cave my head in, is if it implodes with all the drivel you spout!

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:33 pm 
Aye but of the 15 we've scored they've got 5 between them albeit Barkers are penalties, you've still got to score them. Browns weighed in with 4 and Foley 3 so if you look at it from the angle of 'are the strikers scoring?' yes they are. Brown might be on the right wing but he's still a striker.

He's scored as many as Boyd has this season so far an' all. :grin:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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I think it might be as simple as that. The lad tries hard but so did I in Art at school, trouble was I was shite with a paintbox. I could throw paint around all day long earning the teachers praise for effort but nobody had any idea what I had painted.

Mr Moore is a grafter but doesn't put the ball in the net very often you could say the same about Darren Knowles.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Moore's career goal per game ratio is 0.17,
which just about sums it up I think
A goal every 6 games

Barker's is 0.26 and Joel's is 0.25 i.e 1 in 4

and yes I know he's played at a higher level,
but he's hardly ripping League 1 defences apart.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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So we're scoring more goals a game than last season, conceding more, therefore the biggest concern is the attack.

Fookin' 'ell I sure even Martin Scott could see the anomaly there.
Way to go. :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Whereas he who should not be named has averaged 0.4 goals per game including substitute appearances.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Well then, there's your problem.

Goals are scored in whole numbers bbolt


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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At this stage of the season I do have concerns over the pairing of Barker and Moore. Whilst I appreciate their workrate and the chances they may create for others, I feel it would be nice to have that workrate and a couple of goals extra as well from them. Moore strikes me as a slightly more refined Proctor type of player and to be honest the similarities are quite uncanny.... Barker....and I my get some stick here and I hope I'm proved wrong, appears to be a bit out of his depth. so far this season. He was the sort of player we needed to lead the line last season and get us out of the 2nd division, but that was then and this now.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:37 am 
See?? We're doing it again.

They've scored a third of our total goals to date. By whatever means, and we're amongst the divisions highest scorers so far.

The Bunker way is to invent a crisis and then scratch around for evidence to support it. Then when the stark truth is presented, to say 'but I'm entitled to my opinion,' the mark of the man without supporting facts.

From Leeds line living a charmed life, we're already, in 72 hours, desperate to sign new strikers or break up a team that played that well against opposition of that class.

You're all mental. :roll: :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:01 am 
Just while we're arsing around with stats as well, Joel, though I love to watch him play, started 17 games last season and subbed in 9. He got 5 goals. This in a team that scored for fun after November.


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Joel looks totally uninterested this season. yawn1

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Pooliekev wrote:
See?? We're doing it again.

They've scored a third of our total goals to date. By whatever means, and we're amongst the divisions highest scorers so far.

The Bunker way is to invent a crisis and then scratch around for evidence to support it. Then when the stark truth is presented, to say 'but I'm entitled to my opinion,' the mark of the man without supporting facts.

From Leeds line living a charmed life, we're already, in 72 hours, desperate to sign new strikers or break up a team that played that well against opposition of that class.

You're all mental. :roll: :roll:

C'mon kev admit it ... the seasons over. :wink: :laugh:

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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Pooliekev wrote:
Just while we're arsing around with stats as well, Joel, though I love to watch him play, started 17 games last season and subbed in 9. He got 5 goals. This in a team that scored for fun after November.



Oooh...... slightly selective there Kevin. now tell us in how many of those games was he 100% fit ?


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:33 am 
69.731% :wink:

It gets better, we lost in three of the games he scored in as well........ :laugh: :laugh:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:16 am 
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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:11 pm 
Ah well, if no-one ever invented anything we'd all be sat in a cave naked and very very cold wouldn't we??

So we think that 15 goals in 8 games is a bad return do we then??

Just so we poor unknowing distant observers know, like?? :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:07 pm 
Ermmmm..........no, I skipped dinner on Saturday.

Well there's only one paw left on the dog and we're saving it for a special occasion. :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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as mr mad john has already pointed out kev an awfully high percentage of those goals have come once either barker or moore has been off the field.



I refer the right honourable gentleman to a statement I made before the Oldham game where I suggested that the tactic seemed to be for Barker and Moore to knacker the opposition defence in readiness for others to cash in towards the end of games.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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mind you its often him what has given them it in the first place. sadx


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:38 pm 
Pooliekev wrote:
Ah well, if no-one ever invented anything we'd all be sat in a cave naked and very very cold wouldn't we??

So we think that 15 goals in 8 games is a bad return do we then??

Just so we poor unknowing distant observers know, like?? :roll:


I suspect your move to China was secretly to gain a really dispassionate view of Pools Matches?
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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:07 pm 
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clearly danny wilson sees something in the partnership that the majority of fans dont. and that is why he is a successful football manager and we arent, although i believe if i was given the chance i would do just as well as he has and probably better.


Tschah, Mr Fireball. I believe you are setting your sights too low.

After Brazil's ordinary showing in the last World Cup, I think you should throw your hat in that particular ring.

If you need any advice on South American rings I believe our own moist padrone has expertise in those particular circles. :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:16 pm 
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i think id make a good manager, but at the moment i want to concentrate on my playing career and help tech maintain their 100 per cent start to the season in division 3 of the russell fosters sunderland and district over 40's league.

big game on saturday against darlington r.a. and i want to be 100 per cent focussed on that, especially as im now playing alogside a former hartlepool united player.


do you play any of the over 40s teams from wingate or thornley in that league chip, if so tell me your shirt number :wink: :grin:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:28 pm 
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yeah thornley celtic are in our division. they are unbeaten from 3 games this season.

and wingate will be in our division next season when we get promoted.


my mate has played for thornley he plays for wingate now, bit of a piss take calling it over 40s like when most are in there mid-late 30s :grin:


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 Post subject: Re: The Match
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and that is why he is a successful football manager and we arent, although i believe if i was given the chance i would do just as well as he has and probably better.

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and that is why he is a successful football manager and we arent, although i believe if i was given the chance i would do just as well as he has and probably better.



stpid stpid[/quote]

I said after the Luton game that I could see that being a typical performance from us this season as we have a masterful midfield but no natural goalscorer in the box. Teams are going to struggle to handle our midfield and we're going to control games in the same way we did against Luton and supposedly on Saturday but still come away with a clean sheet.

The only playing I feel who gives you that goalscorers instinct in the box is James Brown but I can't see Wilson playing him there.

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 Post subject: Re: The Match
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:24 pm 
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and that is why he is a successful football manager and we arent, although i believe if i was given the chance i would do just as well as he has and probably better.



stpid stpid


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