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National League TV don’t do Saturday livestreams for NLN or NLS.
For those leagues they only do midweek fixtures and Saturday fixtures on international break weekends.
If and when we get back to the National League Saturday games are then available to “international” customers. This is a rule instigated by the Premier League but can be worked around using a VPN set to a foreign country. Used to do this in our EFL days and last season in the National League.
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It is not the end of the world but it’s not much fun to watch after spending 2 hours plus each way and a fair wadge of cash to attend.
Seen all league away matches so far this season and it hasn’t been enough to inspire me to travel to Blyth and Banbury for the next two.
Hopefully I am the jinx and we actually play a bit of football in those 2 games.
I’ll probably still suffer the RH commentary Saturday and the livestream on Tuesday.
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Yes but he is from Middlesbrough so Sunderland probably looks good to him.
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Of course we didn’t know then that Darlington are a poor side even by National League North standards. They have only 1 win from 12 games.
Even Scarborough are no great shakes sitting in lower mid table.
We have yet to put in a consistently good performance against a genuine top 7 team.
Tomorrow would be a great time to start. Suspect we might see Clunan and Law pushed back in a bit earlier than ideal.
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We have 3 central strikers in Whitehall, Bennett and Elliott.
We have 2 right sided forwards in Wilson and Sembie-Ferris.
We have 2 left sided forwards in Law and Roberts. Dean was also playing Beestin there before his injury.
I really think 10 forwards is enough bordering on overkill.
Our real problem is that only one of our 10 or so midfielders seems capable of creating chances.
Apart from spells against Darlington and Scarborough we have never put teams under sustained pressure. Given our advantages over most teams in this division are our fitness levels and a higher skill level why are we not playing a high tempo passing game at all times?
Whenever we do it we look like scoring goals. A bit more Klopp and a lot less Guardiola please Jimmy.
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I have never been a fan of 5-3-2 at the lower levels of professional football and I think I am correct in saying most of our managers over the last 10 years have tried it and failed to make it work.
It is only a valid defensive tactic if you are trying to snatch a point (or 3 if you are very lucky) when you are playing a vastly superior football team. Should not be relevant to us this season then.
It is only a valid attacking tactic if you have full backs that can go past defenders and cross the ball properly and at least one centre back with the ability to step into the base of midfield and pass the ball forwards with decent accuracy. We have none of these things so should not be relevant to us. It allows us to get more sideways and backwards passes whilst we wait for the opposition to get into their defensive shape before we knock it long anyway.
That said the formation worked OK for 30 minutes yesterday. But for a incorrect offside flag we would have been 1 up and with a bit of luck it could have been 2. Chester were no threat and a high press was causing them to go long which was playing into our hands.
Once we gifted them a goal their building frustrations lifted, our heads dropped and we pretty much didn’t lay a glove on them after that. I didn’t see anyone on the pitch or the touchline doing anything to change how badly the team played for the last hour. If anything was said at half time by way of motivation or tactical change then nothing was apparent on the pitch.
On a related note could someone ask Whitehall to occasionally win the ball and do something with it instead of constantly sitting on his arse and claiming he has been fouled. Officials and opposition coaches are well aware this is his default tactic so it rarely results in a free kick even when he is fouled.
I’ll keep an eye out for him Awaywego.
Make sure he behaves better than his Grandad.
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Perhaps the mods think Peter is so childish that he won’t sell the club their ground back if he gets criticised on here.
Surely not.
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It’s a shame Beestin and Clunan picked up such bad injuries at Rushall. Not in the same class as Butterfield but a bit closer than Shrimpton and Scales. We certainly created more when those 2 were playing.
I do think though that Shrimpton, Scales and Jenkins will all be better from playing with him and all 3 will go on to have decent careers.1 user thanked author for this post.
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Only 1 letter out.
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Could we just leave the bickering and the search for a new bogeyman for a week or two?
I don’t know Simon personally but it is blatantly obvious he cares about our club passionately. Unlike most of us anonymous experts he has got off his arse and tried to help. With Sharp he tried to put a better option on the table and was knocked back by Swann. He didn’t throw his toys out of the pram but tried hard to support what was the only option once Hilton took over. With hindsight we now have many who claim to have known Hilton was a wrongun from day 1. Shame none of them spoke up at the fans forum.
Nothing is resolved until the ground is secured and Swann has nothing to do with the club. It would be good to keep the unity thing going until that is sorted at least.
While I am at it I want to apologise to IB who was actually was giving out warnings about Hilton pretty much from the start. I questioned his motives a number of times but whatever his motives actually were his warnings were substantially correct.
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Agree IA. Bennett won his fair share of headers yesterday and put 3 or 4 of them into good areas. If Elliott and Wilson had been switched on chances would have resulted.
Biggest problem this team has is that none of our forwards look like they can score 20 goals a season from open play. Dean has the team favouring a pass back to the halfway line rather than hitting a hopeful cross. Not necessarily disagreeing with that tactic but for it to work we need the crosses to be high quality when they do come in. Neither Elliott or Wilson cross the ball well and Ogle/Denton/Kelly don’t either.
Butterfield can deliver but is rarely in a crossing position in open play. We are comfortably the best football team in this league (based on the teams we have played so far) but we create a low number pf chances relative to the football we play.
Fine if you have a Sharpe or Hooper up front but a problem if you don’t.
Roberts might have the quality to make the difference if an when he finally plays but until then I would prefer getting the ball into the box more quickly and more often.
Then we might see what Whitehall, Bennett and Elliott can do.
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