Good VIDEO of some of the attacking play produced by the Terrors during the second half:

http://youtu.be/UD9A7mqGSqM

I agree with Geoff.  A poor performance.  Long passes/ over the top balls played when a simple tap to a player in space would have done.  Dan was in a very good position on the left twice in the second half last night but was ingnored b the playing of a more risky ball that did not work.  We looked toothless up front in the second half and I think that the wrong forward was substituted at half time.

Last edited by evthedog (12/8/2015 8:40 am)

I'm not given to hyperbole, but that was the worst performance since we dropped down to this division.  There was so much wrong with the display last night, and so little right.  We created virtually nothing.  A soft Baxter shot in the 1st half was our only shot on target.  And the only well constructed attack was the drive by Summers which set up Pinnock to blaze over.  The set pieces were atrocious - there were 3 or 4 freekicks or corners that went straight out of play without a Tooting player anywhere near the ball.

It didn't look like we had a plan.  Were we looking to play forwards into the channels? Were we playing the long ball, looking for the flick on?  Were we attacking the flanks and trying to get crosses in?  Were we tying to play through the middle?  I don't know.

I felt sorry for Trevor having to choose a man of the match last night.  As one respected golden-goal seller said to me on the way out - he would have given it to one of the unused subs.

Lets get some perspective here its only the second game of the season! Give it time.   

LAST NIGHT THE PERFORMANCE WAS POOR-BUT THIS CAN BE PUT RIGHT.HOWEVER,WHAT WORRIED ME BEFORE BOTH THE EAST GRINSTEAD & CASUALS GAMES WAS THE NON INCLUSION OF LEON L.DELL.WHEN A PLAYER OF HIS ABILITY TO RUN AT DEFENCES & GIVE ACCURATE PASSES TO CREATE OPENINGS IS LEFT ON THE BENCH UNTIL THE LAST 30 MINUTES OF A GAME,I DO WONDER ABOUT THE MANAGERIAL FORESIGHT.WE WATCHED TJ & SOL CONSTANTLY HAVING POOR FIRST TOUCHES ON THE BALL & BLASTING ANY CHANCES WE DID HAVE INTO OBLIVION.
I DO FEEL SORRY WE WERE UNABLE TO SIGN ATKINS(EX FOLKESTONE) FOR WHATEVER REASON-IF IT  WAS ABOUT MONEY,SOMETIMES THE BUDGET USED FOR A COUPLE OF PLAYERS IS BETTER SPENT FOR ONE MORE EFFECTIVE.IT IS ALL ABOUT OPINIONS.
WATCH OUT FOR MICHAEL SOLAKO-PACEY & CLEVER.I HOPE THEY PERSEVERE WITH HIM.

 

The problem was everyone thought that their job was over as soon they hoofed it forward. no-one took responsibility for the creative play!

take a look at some of our attacking throughout the second half:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9A7mqGSqM

 

What a shame you had to raise the 'why did we get rid of Craig?' option Benchey.
Even Gary Walked has held back from declaring the season already over and we should follow his usual patient, balanced and reserved example.
As Ollie reminds us - ONLY THE 2ND GAME IN.

Lack of original and creative play was the problem last night with Sol and TJ well contained wide.
Fully agree Leon is the natural one to provide this. 

After trying one set of strikers on Saturday I also had fully expected to see the greater physical of Dan Summers and Gareth Chendlik last night.  But clearly Frank and Mark have otrher ideas at the moment.
But we will need to adapt our play accordingly.

4 bookings last night? And 3 were for stupid dissent I believe.  That needs to stop quickly..

Nice work Ashtree, I hope it does the trick, that performance was abysmal. I felt demoralized when I got indoors last night (not least cos the cat had shat on the hall carpet) but I can't see what it is we're trying to achieve (unless it's relegation). Still, early days, perhaps we wont all feel so deflated after Saturday when yours truly has the onerous task of picking a Man of the Match.......I wonder who will be on the bench ?

I'll let Joe know he's on the old bone-shaker with me on those 2 dates.

Cheers Mate

alanj wrote:

By the way, what is carpet?

It's that stuff DeePee's old lady knits his cardigans out of 
 

Now I am even more confused

59robbery wrote:

Well that was well worth rushing home 4000 miles for!

The curiosity is killing me. Only one city on the entire planet is EXACTLY 4000 miles from London.....Indianapolis in the USA. But I suspect old 59er may be talking a few miles either way which opens up the possibility he was in either New Delhi or Mumbai (formerly Bombay) India, Nairobi in Kenya or even possibly our very own Serge Makofo's birthplace Kinshasa in DR Congo.

Come on Pod, where were ya ? My money's on Mumbai for some unknown reason.......perhaps because it's the only one of the 5 that's actually nicer than Pollards Hill Estate 
 

59robbery wrote:

But I'll give you a clue. You need to think about AlanJ's nickname for you.

There's a place called c*ntyb*llocks !!!!! I'm amazed What country is it in ?