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Yeovil away match thread
at 11:43 27 Aug 2024

Great win.

First half was far too slow and looked more like a performance from last season. We lacked intensity.

The moment from the GK was a real scare but luckily we survived. We had the best view in the ground but I still couldn’t say either way for certain. The linesman had no chance either given he was behind play the entire half.

Interesting that Jim spent 10 mins of the half time interval sat on the bench with all of his staff(obviously discussing how we cohld improve second half). Whatever they said clearly worked and the subs did improve us, particularly the introduction of Hendo and McBride.

Really happy for McBride as he has made so many intelligent runs down our right channel since the start of the season but has unfortunately lacked the killer pass/cross get rewards. He links well with TAR and we do get to the byline often with that pattern of play. That finish was special and was such a great moment between the players and fans. These players certainly do care and their passion is brilliant.

There’s still lots of room for improvement and we do need to move the ball quicker. We seem to let the opposition get into shape before trying to break them down.

As others have alluded to, the defensive record is a big positive and will hopefully let us build the foundation to move upwards. Years gone by we seemed to be too easy to score against and conceded chances on goal at will. Mcnulty does deserve some credit for that (albeit it is early days)

Injuries are a concern as we have lost 2 major players to our spine of the team. The need for a centre half has amplified even further.

All in all a great day and chance to build at home on Saturday.

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York away match thread
at 12:17 23 Aug 2024

First post on here but a long time reader.

My thoughts from the other night.

I don’t think we played as poorly as many seem to think, albeit I appreciate it’s an opinions game.
I thought that we were well worth a point, at least.

We had plenty of chances to score on the night, namely Mitchell’s, Mcbride’s, Ebanks free header and a real poor squander of a chance from Allarakhia which required a simple pass which would’ve led to a chance from 6 yards out, all spring to mind.

They didn’t seem to have much joy that wasn’t from our own doing until the final 10 mins when we was pushing to get the equaliser and the game became very stretched. Of course, the defending and goalkeeping for their goal was very poor. Jury remains out on the new GK.

I didn’t understand Armstrong coming in for Beckwith on the night.

Definitely agree that we’re a few short in defence and think we could do with a CF that could hold the ball up better and provide us with a better outlet to get us up the pitch. Rodney and Mitchell both poor on the night.

Burger seems to have a nice technique and showed some promising signs when he came on (as he has in all games so far) so I’d definitely start him tomorrow.

I think York will be there or thereabouts but did expect more from them on the night.

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