Post by Dave on Apr 24, 2009 20:16:08 GMT
Well another enjoyable week on the forum fellow members and some great pictures put up by Chris Hayes.
Felt the need to just remind us all that on the forum its fine to disagree, but that we need to do it in a friendly way, it really is the best way to do things for the good of the forum and slagging matches that get personal only make the forum look no better than any others and we know this is a quality forum.
Missing Barton this week, but what a man he is, you never know where he will turn up next for a walk and I look forward to having him back with us soon. Thanks for all your posts this week, keep them coming as I love reading your views as do all the other members.Great match report by capitalgull and he came close to winning this week.
This weeks winner is a man you love or hate, but this forum would feel a much poorer place if he ever left us. I set this place up with him in mind as at his best you will not find a more knowledgeable person. not even on mastermind.
You should never take his jibs to heart, I know I did in the past, but he is harmless and means no ill to anyone, he just has a way of saying things that might just wind you up.
He claims he does not like such awards on forums, but I have to disagree as why should a person who puts so much effort into making the forum great, not get the praise and reward he deserves.
This weeks winner is Merse well done Merse
I have chosen his great match report he made this week.
A strange and hitherto unknown experience for me to come through the front door within an hour of the final whistle, but with a family that MAY need me tonight (still hanging on) and hearing TB1s usual drivel after the game I decided to head straight back down the A1 rather than hang around.
What an atmosphere OUR Yellow Army created and maintained throughout today's game ~ absolutely inspirational and experiencing it from the main stand when they were all in the seats behind the goal, all the more impressive and visual too!
The home crowd played their part too and thus the atmosphere was brilliant and fitting of a very good game indeed between two sides of no mean ability, properly managed and correctly attuned to go at one another without forgetting the need to avoid defeat.
With Peter Taylor out of the way and Graham Westley in situ, Borough are no longer the push over we found them last season and we had to fight them every inch of the way...............pass for pass, tackle for tackle, aeriel challenge for aeriel challenge and shot for shot. We had a goal chalked off for an offence I could not see from a second half corner, and they made a hash of their finishing and they got more and more nervous in this facet of the game as it wore on.
I'd heard that Wayne Carlisle had incurred the wrath of the manager after Monday at Salisbury..................well if that is a fact he certainly responded as every professional should and exactly as his manager would have wished with a quite inspirational and match saving performance (especially after we went down to 10 men) that he can be truly proud of. I thought both he and Wroe played with such poise today and Greavsie put in one of those age defying performances that would condemn most normal human beings to a weekend of hobbling about and long hot thermal baths. The man would throw himself in front of a canon ball if he had to such is his commitment and his commitment to the cause when his own future could well be in question certainly puts that of a recently disposed of former captain in perfect perspective.
There was an occasion when the awesome Scott Bevan went crashing head first into the goal post, but in true "Bevanator" style he merely shook himself and got on with the job in hand without recourse to the physio's attention..................great stuff and in a microcosm, truly indicative of the spirit and commitment that ran through the whole team today.
To say Lee Mansell was the victim of a mugging today would be an understatement, although he had just been yellow card for a seemingly innocuous trip on Scott Laird, and he WAS stupid to launch himself straight into another one on Mitchell Cole; he was the victim of a crass bit of refereeing from otherwise fully in control ref when the home player decided to con the ref that he had been clattered...................nothing of the sort (I was close enough to see) and that he launched himself into a somersault should be enough for Cole to question his own integrity this evening. Not content with that, Laird then tried exactly the same dirty trick on Carlisle but the ref wasn't buying this one and correctly booked the home defender for blatant cheating.
That Boro' had now resorted to this and long range hit and hope shooting told a story and although we had shut up shop and got all but Sills behind the ball, there was still every chance that Caryol or Wroe would waltz through them at the end.
Fair result, fair play to both managers for an enterprising and positive approach to a "mustn't lose" game; and we've every chance of going on and cementing our play off place come the end of next weekend!
Felt the need to just remind us all that on the forum its fine to disagree, but that we need to do it in a friendly way, it really is the best way to do things for the good of the forum and slagging matches that get personal only make the forum look no better than any others and we know this is a quality forum.
Missing Barton this week, but what a man he is, you never know where he will turn up next for a walk and I look forward to having him back with us soon. Thanks for all your posts this week, keep them coming as I love reading your views as do all the other members.Great match report by capitalgull and he came close to winning this week.
This weeks winner is a man you love or hate, but this forum would feel a much poorer place if he ever left us. I set this place up with him in mind as at his best you will not find a more knowledgeable person. not even on mastermind.
You should never take his jibs to heart, I know I did in the past, but he is harmless and means no ill to anyone, he just has a way of saying things that might just wind you up.
He claims he does not like such awards on forums, but I have to disagree as why should a person who puts so much effort into making the forum great, not get the praise and reward he deserves.
This weeks winner is Merse well done Merse
I have chosen his great match report he made this week.
A strange and hitherto unknown experience for me to come through the front door within an hour of the final whistle, but with a family that MAY need me tonight (still hanging on) and hearing TB1s usual drivel after the game I decided to head straight back down the A1 rather than hang around.
What an atmosphere OUR Yellow Army created and maintained throughout today's game ~ absolutely inspirational and experiencing it from the main stand when they were all in the seats behind the goal, all the more impressive and visual too!
The home crowd played their part too and thus the atmosphere was brilliant and fitting of a very good game indeed between two sides of no mean ability, properly managed and correctly attuned to go at one another without forgetting the need to avoid defeat.
With Peter Taylor out of the way and Graham Westley in situ, Borough are no longer the push over we found them last season and we had to fight them every inch of the way...............pass for pass, tackle for tackle, aeriel challenge for aeriel challenge and shot for shot. We had a goal chalked off for an offence I could not see from a second half corner, and they made a hash of their finishing and they got more and more nervous in this facet of the game as it wore on.
I'd heard that Wayne Carlisle had incurred the wrath of the manager after Monday at Salisbury..................well if that is a fact he certainly responded as every professional should and exactly as his manager would have wished with a quite inspirational and match saving performance (especially after we went down to 10 men) that he can be truly proud of. I thought both he and Wroe played with such poise today and Greavsie put in one of those age defying performances that would condemn most normal human beings to a weekend of hobbling about and long hot thermal baths. The man would throw himself in front of a canon ball if he had to such is his commitment and his commitment to the cause when his own future could well be in question certainly puts that of a recently disposed of former captain in perfect perspective.
There was an occasion when the awesome Scott Bevan went crashing head first into the goal post, but in true "Bevanator" style he merely shook himself and got on with the job in hand without recourse to the physio's attention..................great stuff and in a microcosm, truly indicative of the spirit and commitment that ran through the whole team today.
To say Lee Mansell was the victim of a mugging today would be an understatement, although he had just been yellow card for a seemingly innocuous trip on Scott Laird, and he WAS stupid to launch himself straight into another one on Mitchell Cole; he was the victim of a crass bit of refereeing from otherwise fully in control ref when the home player decided to con the ref that he had been clattered...................nothing of the sort (I was close enough to see) and that he launched himself into a somersault should be enough for Cole to question his own integrity this evening. Not content with that, Laird then tried exactly the same dirty trick on Carlisle but the ref wasn't buying this one and correctly booked the home defender for blatant cheating.
That Boro' had now resorted to this and long range hit and hope shooting told a story and although we had shut up shop and got all but Sills behind the ball, there was still every chance that Caryol or Wroe would waltz through them at the end.
Fair result, fair play to both managers for an enterprising and positive approach to a "mustn't lose" game; and we've every chance of going on and cementing our play off place come the end of next weekend!
Thanks for those kind words Dave and I do hope everyone can differentiate between life in the debating chamber (of which this is the cyberspace equivalent) and that outside. Getting into a verbal (keyboard) punch up with me is no different than being on the receiving end of a tackle from Norman Hunter.