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All the pressure is now on York City to complete the job, it will be interesting to see how well they cope. Its difficult not to conclude that the pressure of so many recent games and perhaps an over-protective instinct in our manager collided at Halifax last night. Most sporting outcomes are decided inside the player's heads, the ability to control emotions and retain focus , the ability to channel frustration and disappointment into meaningful actions. As a club and as individuals, we are in uncharted territory, we don't have experience of winning titles and cups to fall back on , expectations are high, but doubts abound too. The collapse at the the end of last season plays in our consiousness... Now is the time to set new targets, we have a 13 game season to play, we need 39 points. What has been, has gone. It was just preparation. We now have just 1200 minutes to play, 1200 " moments" of brilliance, and they will be gone in a flash but they will decide if these players will be engraved in our memories forever. Two years into the Ogden regime with another year of the initial plan to go and a mantra of " continuous improvement" echoing around the ground, we are no longer in the end game, we are poised for a major leap forwards... crowds are improving, the club is emerging from decades of neglect, the team may be running on fumes right now but its time to throw everything at the wall and see where it takes us... its all we can do... Play up! Play up! And play the game!
The days when as soon as you heard the music , you dropped everything and listened intently as the results were read out by James Alexander Gordon with that familiar cadence that gave you a clue to the result... In other news , Henry Nuttall , fish and chip shop range manufacturers , formerly of this parish, has gone into administration....160+ years of manufacturing an icon of the fish and chip world heading for oblivion...the country has gone to the dogs....
The days when as soon as you heard the music , you dropped everything and listened intently as the results were read out by James Alexander Gordon with that familiar cadence that gave you a clue to the result...
Ahh, but you have forgotten the " special arrangements " the BBC have with Bolton Wanderers...I can't be bothered with the "beeb" anymore. Even MOTD has been ruined by pointless conversations before and after games by people I have no interest in, so I record it and fast forward through the talking..I dont even put the radio on during the journey home from Spotland. Another formerly wonderful British institution ruined by educated idiots earning far too much for doing far too little...
Drysdale is an RAF Sergeant based at RAF Waddington...... in Lincolnshire...there is a long trail of his poor refereeing decisions online.. Prima Donna comes to mind ...or maybe Poundshop Collina is nearer the mark.
Agreed, he is a professional not a Sunday League player..Just hammer it into the net and argue later.....BTW.. Drysdale has never had a good game at the COA...
I am sure it will be raised at the next meeting, perhaps you should also drop a note to the CEO and outline your questions / solutions. As I do not represent that end of the ground, and do not sit there and didn't see any of it, my input would be minimal. However, I do stand next to the former policeman who oversaw the original ground safety recommenations, I will ask him to pass comment when I see him on Wednesday.
Was there any announcement about Carlisle fans being kept behind at the end of the match for 15 minutes? Can anyone confirm if they heard such and announcement, I didnt hear it personally.
Per the roadworks, it seemed legitimate to point out the current difficulties with the Cemetery junction in the hope that it might save someone from a serious accident... Its a nightmare during the week, as are all the local roads people are using to try and avoid Manchester Road, football traffic certainly will not improve it.
The roadworks situation has become ridiculous, just about every major artery has been affected, the works on Manchester Road are taking longer than building the pyramids ... We were told they would be finished for when the kids went back to school after the summer holidays..to be fair, noone mentioned which year...the knock-on effect is that Roch Valley Way and the new lights by the Cemetery are rammed . And all for a cycle path which I have yet to see what you might describe as a commuter using... £15m quid down the drains... and many months if not years of disruption...the amounts of CO2 from 1000s of cars stuck in traffic will never be mitigated by 2 blokes cycling to Manchester on an occasional fine day assuming that was ever the plan.... BTW beware the lights at the Cem...I nearly got rammed last week when a van decided that going straight on from the left turn lane coming up from Sudden was a really good idea...
In other news getting into the Sandy Lane End was relatively uneventful...
As someone commented up-thread, winning is everything.. do I get bored watching the side to side shuffle ? Yes I do. Do I wish we had a winger who could race past a fullback and leave him for dead? Absolutely, and a re- make of Murray, Holt or Lambert to get on the end of his crosses would be wonderful... proper football, BUT.. getting into the car and driving home with a big grin on my face and not wanting to kick the next-door's cat when I get there is brilliant. Winning isn't quite "everything" but its the best thing as far as football is concerned. At long last we may well be able to tell others about the season we won game after game and lifted a trophy.....and noone will give a toss about how we did it...
Given that Goalkeepers seem to keep records on the preferences of penalty takers in terms of which side and at what height they put their penalties, it strikes me that the system needs to be randomised from the perspective of the taker... So, there are 5 target zones bottom left, top left, centre top, top right and bottom right, call them 1-5 . If, pre-game , the penalty taker chooses a ball maked 1-5 out of the bag, and aims to hit that spot, the keepers attempt to know the takers preferred target is somewhat nullified. Also, the taker is relieved of the requirement to pick his own spot. He simply has to concentrate on hitting the pre-chosen spot....
"As well as not rushing, players are advised to pick a spot and commit to it. Changing your mind leads to uncertainty, stress and poor technique. Some players leave it to the last minute and wait for the keeper to dive before hitting it to the other side. However, this is a high risk strategy and is associated with a greater number of missed penalties. Penalties that are on target and high in the goal are rarely saved. This is because it is very hard for goalkeepers to reach these areas." Excerpt from Sports Psychology
There were several times on Saturday when Henderson, McBride or Barlow were alongside the centre halves and on the half-turn with an open run on goal; a quicker delivery from Hogan would have released them, but it simply wasn't forthcoming. I understand the notion that at 2-0 you just slam the door and kill the game especially with the games coming thick and fast but it seems counter-intuitive when the crowd is up by 1000 or so...I guess we have to accept its a means to an end,
It's becoming a question of pressure... who has the desire and who hasn't. This is where we find out who has the cajones and who does not, when the going gets tough and all that. So far the plan has worked brilliantly, and I guess the plans of the teams around us have worked for them too, but now it's getting to the nail-biting bit, and this is where we make History or do a "Dale" and leave everyone frustrated, per the previous 119 years... our expectations are perhaps lower than they should be, but, we can only do our best from the stands and hope that the assembled group on the pitch knows what is required and is prepared to carry the weight of history like a feather. "History is Bunk" .... "We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today". Henry Ford in 1916.......Write that on the dressing room wall Jim.
" on time and under budget," that must be a first.....and what a relief to know that postponements because of rain should now be a thing of the past....no more wasted journeys and wasted money for the foreseeable future....well done everyone... Now, lets get promoted......
33 years old and we are something like his 24th or 25th club .... well I guess he brings some experience... replacement for Amantchi presumeably, maybe he will teach Smith a trick or two....
Lost on sudden-death penalties, Myles didnt get a touch on any of them according to the commentary...Decent effort considering the team we put out, just the league to focus on now....probably a good thing all in all. 100% focus now...
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