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Post by petef on Oct 15, 2022 13:30:24 GMT
The Nice was a noun .... a music group featuring the legendary Keith Emerson 😉🎶 As old bands go I much preferred The Pheasant Pluckers to The Nice ....🤣 |
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Post by Rob on Oct 15, 2022 13:50:28 GMT
Thought Donnellan and McGavin looked poor at York. Both give the appearance of running into a headwind through treacle.
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Post by petef on Oct 15, 2022 13:59:37 GMT
Thought Donnellan and McGavin looked poor at York. Both give the appearance of running into a headwind through treacle. Bodes well with Hall starting 😩 our opponents do at least have a full bench whereas we, a full time outfit in a higher division have quite obviously gone for player quality over quantity 😂 |
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Post by hullgull on Oct 15, 2022 14:06:30 GMT
🔝 I think the two above posters have confused the word nice with the word miracle? 🔝 stop being grumpy pew lol |
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Post by stig123 on Oct 15, 2022 14:51:29 GMT
Torquay 3 Spurs 3...1965!
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Post by Jon on Oct 15, 2022 14:56:34 GMT
Oh dear.
We may need to turn to the fire power on the bench.
Oh dear again.
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Post by petef on Oct 15, 2022 14:56:52 GMT
Big crowd by the sounds of it I can hear at least two supporters booing on the half time whistle.
GI's plan taking shape nicely...
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Post by tjgull on Oct 15, 2022 14:58:09 GMT
This is truly dreadful. 3 outfield players on the bench, no striking options at all. H&R should be 2 up. This club is dying before our eyes.
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Post by Rob on Oct 15, 2022 15:51:52 GMT
Thought Donnellan and McGavin looked poor at York. Both give the appearance of running into a headwind through treacle. May have to slag a couple off each week prior to the game. Our goal scorers, Donnellan and McGavin. Come on, let’s have another. |
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Post by rjdgull on Oct 15, 2022 16:42:59 GMT
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Post by rjdgull on Oct 15, 2022 17:09:26 GMT
That was a pretty poor performance against a pretty poor side and somehow we contrived not to lose the game although we know what happened last year after a 2-2 draw at home against Havant and Waterlooville.
We started okay for the first 15 minutes applying a bit of pressure from some corners but the first time Hampton were able to put pressure on our goal, the ball was bouncing around in the box and the ref saw a handball to give them a penalty. Something I missed. It was well saved by Halstead diving to his right but when you’re down, you’re down and the ball fell kindly for the striker who reacted the quickest to knock it in despite Halstead getting a hand to it..
Going one down and you could see the confidence slowly ebb out of the players and despite Wyatt hitting the bar from a shot outside the area, their keeper had little to do for the rest of the half. In the second, we seemed to go to pieces and forgot how to pass the ball. They scored a good goal with a long ball that kindly fell for them although our two centre halves both went for the same ball leaving too much space and a good back heel opened us up giving them a free hit to strike the ball into the bottom right hand corner of the net. 68 Hampton and Richmond supporters went into celebration mode as to all intent and purposes we look like we were dead and buried.
Somehow within a couple minutes we got a goal back with McGavin finding space outside the area to shoot into the top right hand corner given their keeper, who was a little on the short side no chance. This did give both the crowd and players a bit of a lift and we then had probably our best spell of the match and less than 10 minutes later, some good play down the left saw a cross finding Donnellan to routinely head home at the far post in perhaps our best move of the match and unexpectedly it was game on. We had a few free kicks in promising positions but they were squandered. In what seemed like a meagre three minutes of injury time, Hampton opened us up and really should have scored from two attempts, Halstead saving the first and the second cleared off the line by Omar leaving us to defend a few corners but somehow we just managed to survive.
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Post by rjdgull on Oct 15, 2022 17:18:59 GMT
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Post by stig123 on Oct 15, 2022 17:27:41 GMT
Just after the draw was announced I posted..." When is the replay?".I thought I was joking!
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Post by Swanny on Oct 15, 2022 17:38:07 GMT
So ok we got a draw in the end but it was another desperate performance from the Gulls. At 2-0 down, we looked down and out as chants of "we are f'ing shit" were ringing from the Pop side and quite rightly so. Then out of the blue McGavin, who was having his usual frustrating game, hits a worldly from about 25 yards out into the top corner. Game on, again. The real hero for me today was loan player De Silva who replaced the injured Wyatt at half-time. De Silva played left midfield and at last Torquay had a player with skill and pace who worried the opposition and got behind them. It was De Silva's telling cross that Donnellan headed in for our equaliser. De Silva near the end had a chance of glory near the end but blasted the ball over. In truth H & R had a glorious chance in added time to score but first Halstead saved then our other impressive young loanee Okoli brilliantly blocked the follow up. So it could have easily ended up in tears for the Gulls.
H & R took the lead in the first half with their first meaningful attack. There was some last ditch defending going on in the box and Moxey was adjudged to have handled one such block. Halstead brilliantly parried the penalty; H & R were quicker to react and slotted in the rebound. That rather summed up Torquay's ponderous performance in not being alert enough. Torquay's build up play lacked pace, there were some good link up play at times but in truth we rarely troubled their keeper. Wyatt, who looked one of our liveliest players unleashed a spectacular long-range effort that their keeper tipped on to the cross bar. It was a rare moment of excitement for the Gulls. Torquay had lots of corners in the first half but made little use of them. Then Torquay like in previous games totally wasted a free-kick in a dangerous area just outside the box with some short passing that missed the target man. In contrast, H & R attacked with more purpose and quickly got the ball into dangerous areas.
In truth, Torquay got out of jail today by drawing today and for the majority of the game we looked desperate and bereft of ideas. We need more players like De Silva who have a bit of pace and skill who can stretch defences. Our strikers Goodwin and Jarvis were both anonymous today. I thought Goodwin was particularly poor today as not much came off for him today when he did get the ball. Donnellan looked better when he did switch to midfield today when Omar replaced Lapsie and headed firmly for our equaliser. Lapsie and Hall both struggled and looked off the pace. McGavin scored a worldly today like he did against us last season for KIngs Lynn but apart from the odd decent pass is too slow to keep up with any sort of tempo.
So there lies the problem, we are too ponderous and lack real tempo and skill to get behind defences. If we get in another winger like De Silva we might start improving but we cannot simply rely on loan youngsters from clubs higher up the ladder to bail us out. As I said, it is all prestty desperate and today's draw felt more like a stay of execution. I do not have much confidence in the replay.
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Post by sporty60 on Oct 15, 2022 22:10:07 GMT
Have to have some sympathy for GJ having lost Little,Lemon,Wright, Lewis and Wynter, all proven players at the level. Add them to Cameron,Whitfied, Nemane from the previous year and most clubs would struggle.
Some of the new recruits will mature into decent performers but others are far below the required standard.
We definitely seem to be shopping at Lidl lately so tough times ahead unfortunately.
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