Old 'un
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:25 pm
well nobody seems to have had much to say about saturday, and i'm not sure if i'm going tonight, so better late than never...
that was a strangely tempestuous game. I don't think of Us as a dirty team, but is that yellow-tinted spectacles? mark next to me thought we left elbows in on a number of occasions. my comment was that oldham's players didn't seem to be on the floor for extended periods quite so much after we equalised. rob hall was lucky to stay on the pitch after he reacted to being chopped down with a shove on his tackler. apples dismissed from the touchline in an unusual display of anger. i'm not quite sure where all that came from.
all in all I wasn't sure whether to be pleased or disappointed. at half time I said that appleton rarely allows his team to give a poor second half after a poor first half and I was confident we'd get back into the game, and that proved to be the case. the first half was strangely flat though, particularly when the popular analysis of our improved performances in recent weeks was that we'd made sure to start well. so i was pleased with our second half improvement, but I thought the winner was there for Us if we'd just pressed a bit harder. we didn't manage to do so, and the game drifted away.
I sort of feel that's starting to look like our season. we'll be an alright, mid-table side (and i'm happy with that in terms of what I wanted before the season started) but I also would be interested to see what would happen if we pushed a bit harder. I wonder if the talk about needing a bit more experience in the side is right. I feel the personnel is there to do better than we currently are doing. we just seem to be delivering to potential far too irregularly.
the one thing I will say is that I like appleton's ability to analyse and address situations. but I'm starting to think that like his first season, this might be a learning season.
that was a strangely tempestuous game. I don't think of Us as a dirty team, but is that yellow-tinted spectacles? mark next to me thought we left elbows in on a number of occasions. my comment was that oldham's players didn't seem to be on the floor for extended periods quite so much after we equalised. rob hall was lucky to stay on the pitch after he reacted to being chopped down with a shove on his tackler. apples dismissed from the touchline in an unusual display of anger. i'm not quite sure where all that came from.
all in all I wasn't sure whether to be pleased or disappointed. at half time I said that appleton rarely allows his team to give a poor second half after a poor first half and I was confident we'd get back into the game, and that proved to be the case. the first half was strangely flat though, particularly when the popular analysis of our improved performances in recent weeks was that we'd made sure to start well. so i was pleased with our second half improvement, but I thought the winner was there for Us if we'd just pressed a bit harder. we didn't manage to do so, and the game drifted away.
I sort of feel that's starting to look like our season. we'll be an alright, mid-table side (and i'm happy with that in terms of what I wanted before the season started) but I also would be interested to see what would happen if we pushed a bit harder. I wonder if the talk about needing a bit more experience in the side is right. I feel the personnel is there to do better than we currently are doing. we just seem to be delivering to potential far too irregularly.
the one thing I will say is that I like appleton's ability to analyse and address situations. but I'm starting to think that like his first season, this might be a learning season.