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Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Kinky Tom on Monday, May 9, 2005, 12:37:06 Just had a look through our results this season and I've highlighted 6 games that have effectively cost us a shot at the play-offs, and effectively Sam Parkin.
First off we have Walsall away - 0-2 up, and we lose 3-2. Stockport away - 0-3 up (20 mins to go!) we draw 3-3 Torquay at home - 3-1 up, we draw 3-3 Franchise away - Last gasp penalty saved 1-1 Walsall at home - 1-1 with a couple of minutes to go, we lose 1-2 City 0-0, but should have been about 7-2. So that is 12 points from these 6 games that we really should have made sure of, but didn't. All we needed was a little bit more professionalism and we'd have been sitting pretty in 4th 75 points, above Brentford on goal difference. I know we don't deserve to be up there, but looking at the other clubs in there, I don't consider any of them worthy of going up either. All in, this has been a very poor division this season, I only hope it continues to be, else we could be in a lot of trouble next season if all the rumours are to be believed. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: sonicyouth on Monday, May 9, 2005, 12:43:50 I think another thing that cost us all season was our inability to score first in games. From the Doncaster game in February until the Dhesterfield game on Saturday, we failed to score first in any game. As proved above, we were incapable of killing games off anyway so I doubt it would have mattered much.
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: DMR on Monday, May 9, 2005, 19:16:47 We've made lots of individual mistakes, and we never ever ironed them out. What a thoroughly disappointing season.
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Dazzza on Monday, May 9, 2005, 19:23:46 Would be interesting to see what formation we played during these games, easy to blame the tactical side of things but again I think a lot of unnecessary tinkering has cost us this season.
Whether we miss him or not replacing Mooney with a consistant goalscorer never really happened what with injuries and the like. Next season things have to be right from the off as there will be no bringing in new faces to patch up the gaps once things get under way. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: adje on Monday, May 9, 2005, 19:29:09 1.King persevered with Hewlett til it was too late
2 King took too long to realise Smith was one of the best players at the club 3 King did not persevere with Fallon after he scored 4 goals in 6 games' Pretty much the manager's fault I'd say Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Asher on Monday, May 9, 2005, 19:57:24 I think the whole club from top to bottom has been to blame this year if im honest!
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Johno on Monday, May 9, 2005, 19:59:45 also whats annoying about that list off 6 games, is that i was at them all :(
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Ben Wah Balls on Monday, May 9, 2005, 20:20:30 Quote from: "adje" 1.King persevered with Hewlett til it was too late 2 King took too long to realise Smith was one of the best players at the club 3 King did not persevere with Fallon after he scored 4 goals in 6 games' Pretty much the manager's fault I'd say Smith's been playing over half the season, we haven't had anyone that much better than Hewlett available and Parkin and Fallon don't combine that well together. I don't think any of those factors have made much of a difference. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: spacey on Monday, May 9, 2005, 20:33:56 Quote from: "Ben Wah Balls" Quote from: "adje" 1.King persevered with Hewlett til it was too late 2 King took too long to realise Smith was one of the best players at the club 3 King did not persevere with Fallon after he scored 4 goals in 6 games' Pretty much the manager's fault I'd say Smith's been playing over half the season, we haven't had anyone that much better than Hewlett available and Parkin and Fallon don't combine that well together. I don't think any of those factors have made much of a difference. Smith scored 10 goals in 23 games, you've gotta wonder how many he'd have got if he'd played the rest. I don't want to go on about it though, there was a bloke sat in front of me on saturday that was going on about Smith not playing the first half of the season.He was the biggest nerd ever, I thought he was gonna start speaking Klingon at one point. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: yeo on Monday, May 9, 2005, 20:37:38 With you Whits and Sonic that would have been 4 nerds in one place.You bring shame to STFC with your nerd collecting 8)
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Whits on Monday, May 9, 2005, 20:51:22 Quote from: "Yeovil Red" With you Whits and Sonic that would have been 4 nerds in one place.You bring shame to STFC with your nerd collecting 8) i'm not a nerd 8) plus i wasn't in the arkells... \o/ Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: spacey on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:02:44 I'm outraged :x I'm like the Fonz except I don't hang out in the toilet with younger boys.
Sonic and Whits are like Richie and Ralph 8) Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Whits on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:03:23 (who are richie and ralph?)
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: spacey on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:07:30 http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/downloads/happy_days.jpg
Richies at the back, Ralph's in the middle, I'm on the left. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: yeo on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:09:18 :D
8) Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Piemonte on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:12:06 Quote from: "Ben Wah Balls" Quote from: "adje" 1.King persevered with Hewlett til it was too late 2 King took too long to realise Smith was one of the best players at the club 3 King did not persevere with Fallon after he scored 4 goals in 6 games' Pretty much the manager's fault I'd say Smith's been playing over half the season, we haven't had anyone that much better than Hewlett available and Parkin and Fallon don't combine that well together. I don't think any of those factors have made much of a difference. I'm not going on some anti king rant, but points 1 & 2 clearly had a significant influence our season, especially with migz injured for 4 months. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: spacey on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:12:20 Yeovil's on the right
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Whits on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:14:51 ahhh happy days :D not sure whether to accept that or start an arguement :twisted:
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: Whits on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:18:28 i think i'd rather be richie rather than ralph :x
Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: sonicyouth on Monday, May 9, 2005, 21:38:46 Quote from: "spacey" I don't want to go on about it though, there was a bloke sat in front of me on saturday that was going on about Smith not playing the first half of the season.He was the biggest nerd ever, I thought he was gonna start speaking Klingon at one point. That bloke was one of the few highlights of Saturday to be honest. Pretty much everything else was an anti-climax :cry: I'm Ron Howard, woo, eat my dirt Whits! anyway back to football 8) I think Dazzza's got a point about needless tactical tinkering, King simply couldn't/wouldn't go for a settled formation and stick with it. He'd change formations, players, positions etc for no reason at all totally at random. I can't understand that. Title: Where did it all go wrong? Post by: adje on Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 20:13:00 Quote from: "Ben Wah Balls" Quote from: "adje" 1.King persevered with Hewlett til it was too late 2 King took too long to realise Smith was one of the best players at the club 3 King did not persevere with Fallon after he scored 4 goals in 6 games' Pretty much the manager's fault I'd say Smith's been playing over half the season, we haven't had anyone that much better than Hewlett available and Parkin and Fallon don't combine that well together. I don't think any of those factors have made much of a difference. I stand by it.If Smith had played the first half of the season INSTEAD of Hewlett things would have been different.and Fallon's form towards the end suggests he would have been more successful than Slabber if given a decent run. |