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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 11:05 - Jan 25 with 1400 views | samueloneils |
Since the York league defeat we have been amazingly lucky to have 9 games against "lesser" opponents. Positions 18th/13th/15th/17th/23rd/9th/24th/10th/22nd. I cant remember a run like that. We all know what is coming up the next few weeks.
Great to see Mani D back and Hendo firing, But we`ve now lost Tyler Smith with a hamstring for several weeks. Surely we must get a striker in urgently-what we have needed all season. We will need Mani D, Duku,Hendo and more if we are to score the necessary goals and stop missing so many opportunities.
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 11:05 - Jan 25 by samueloneils |
Since the York league defeat we have been amazingly lucky to have 9 games against "lesser" opponents. Positions 18th/13th/15th/17th/23rd/9th/24th/10th/22nd. I cant remember a run like that. We all know what is coming up the next few weeks.
Great to see Mani D back and Hendo firing, But we`ve now lost Tyler Smith with a hamstring for several weeks. Surely we must get a striker in urgently-what we have needed all season. We will need Mani D, Duku,Hendo and more if we are to score the necessary goals and stop missing so many opportunities.
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 09:39 - Jan 25 by TalkingSutty |
I also think the games in hand can be viewed as free hits for us. We are the only game on Tuesday so a defeat isn't going to damage us too much, that takes the pressure off us and the players should look at the game as a fantastic opportunity to put a marker down and go full pelt for the three points. That should be the mindset now, no point in playing for a draw. Southend have slipped out of the play off places, they are under pressure to pick up points.
We dont even have to win all our games in hand, just winning half of them would be great. We aren't expected to win the league and another three wins will probably secure a play off spot for us. The players and management shouldn't be feeling any pressure whatsoever because the expectation was to reach the play offs again which we will no doubt achieve. York were the favourites to win the league and their fans expect it, they have the pressure, not us. [Post edited 25 Jan 9:53]
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You definitely get that impression from York, they expect to win the league, they have the best finisher and top scorer in the league, on their day they are blowing teams away 3-0,4-0,5-0 - that is something we can't do with our poor conversion of chances every game. We have somehow managed to stay with them even with our number 1 and our number 9 missing for 6 weeks - mainly due to our great defensive record and our ability to grind out wins. York have beaten us twice so in their eyes already they are better than us. If it does go down to a final day disappointment for one of us I wouldn't expect that losing team to recover and win the play offs. |  |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 04:07 - Jan 25 by TalkingSutty |
Good post. You're correct, the teams we are about to face wont sit back and let us stroll around with the ball, they wont watch a centre half walk up to the halfway line unopposed and try to pick out passes through to our forwards. Southend have Dallas up front, he's going to be a handful on Tuesday. I watched Scunthorpe v FGR last night and both teams were full of attacking Intent, high intensity football. We are going to have to match that intensity and put our chances away and unlike the Hartlepool game we are going to have to be on our game from the first whistle. That performance from Hartlepool in the first half wont have gone unnoticed by other managers. We were like rabbits caught in the headlights.
I thought we played ok yesterday and bossed the game but Truro were awful, it was like a training game. A professional performance though. The return of Mani D is massive because it now gives us the option of negating the oppositions forward press and going long into him, we also need Rodney on his game, he needs to start playing with a bit more intent and urgency. We're more than capable of beating these teams but it wont be in the manner we beat Truro yesterday, these teams are going to want to knock us out of our stride.They wont sit deep and sacrifice their own game, they'll attack us and we have to do the same to them. Quick passing and high tempo football is whats going to be needed, we have the players, let the handbrake off and let them express themselves. McNulty and his coaches will know what we have to do, bravery and intent are the key elements we will need, he has the players to win all these games.
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According to the Match Stats in the Non-League Paper, we had 14 shots yesterday, the same as Scunthorpe and Forest Green combined in their game.
We've also collected nine points in the last week, whereas Forest Green have collected two.
Forest Green have one win in six league matches and are currently six points behind us having played four games fewer.
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 11:59 - Jan 25 with 1230 views | Clivert |
Us and York are both going to finish on 100+ points, if we finish above York I will happily hug Jim and apologise to him for everything that I have said about him on here as it would be an epic achievement. |  | | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 09:39 - Jan 25 by TalkingSutty |
I also think the games in hand can be viewed as free hits for us. We are the only game on Tuesday so a defeat isn't going to damage us too much, that takes the pressure off us and the players should look at the game as a fantastic opportunity to put a marker down and go full pelt for the three points. That should be the mindset now, no point in playing for a draw. Southend have slipped out of the play off places, they are under pressure to pick up points.
We dont even have to win all our games in hand, just winning half of them would be great. We aren't expected to win the league and another three wins will probably secure a play off spot for us. The players and management shouldn't be feeling any pressure whatsoever because the expectation was to reach the play offs again which we will no doubt achieve. York were the favourites to win the league and their fans expect it, they have the pressure, not us. [Post edited 25 Jan 9:53]
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Sorry, TS, I can't agree with that at all about free hits.
We need to keep winning, especially as York aren't showing any let up. Forget goal difference, that's irrelevant now, we are going to have to beat them on points.
If we win on Tuesday, we go top and the pressure is then suddenly back on York to get something at Solihull next weekend.
The ball then swings back to our court when we play Boreham Wood as York don't play that night. They then have Forest Green at home on the day we play Carlisle.
If we lose on Tuesday and York win on Saturday, we're four points behind them and suddenly the games in hand stop being free hits.
One loss could easily become another (see Boreham Wood) and then momentum is lost and can be hard to get back.
Let's try to keep up what we've achieved so far. It won't be easy and there will be bumps in the road, but one thing this season should have taught us is that the characters in this squad clearly have a winning mentality, and it will be needed in the next three months. | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:14 - Jan 25 with 1185 views | TalkingSutty |
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Sorry, TS, I can't agree with that at all about free hits.
We need to keep winning, especially as York aren't showing any let up. Forget goal difference, that's irrelevant now, we are going to have to beat them on points.
If we win on Tuesday, we go top and the pressure is then suddenly back on York to get something at Solihull next weekend.
The ball then swings back to our court when we play Boreham Wood as York don't play that night. They then have Forest Green at home on the day we play Carlisle.
If we lose on Tuesday and York win on Saturday, we're four points behind them and suddenly the games in hand stop being free hits.
One loss could easily become another (see Boreham Wood) and then momentum is lost and can be hard to get back.
Let's try to keep up what we've achieved so far. It won't be easy and there will be bumps in the road, but one thing this season should have taught us is that the characters in this squad clearly have a winning mentality, and it will be needed in the next three months. |
Reverse psychology with how the players handle any perceived pressure was what i was suggesting. The league table wont change in respect to the chasing pack if we lose on Tuesday. I haven't met one supporter who expects us to win the league and that's how it should be. We are more than capable though. Handling pressure and the enormity of games is something the players suffered with last season. McNulty referred to that in a intervew in relation to the Spennymoor game. Going into the Southend game and viewing it as a must win isn't the right aporoach i don't think, it puts too much pressure on the players. The Southend Play Off game waa a must win. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:20]
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:18 - Jan 25 with 1161 views | 442Dale |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 11:59 - Jan 25 by Clivert |
Us and York are both going to finish on 100+ points, if we finish above York I will happily hug Jim and apologise to him for everything that I have said about him on here as it would be an epic achievement. |
I’m sure he’d be happy with being rated as slightly better than Alan Buckley. |  |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:20 - Jan 25 with 1156 views | TVOS1907 |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:14 - Jan 25 by TalkingSutty |
Reverse psychology with how the players handle any perceived pressure was what i was suggesting. The league table wont change in respect to the chasing pack if we lose on Tuesday. I haven't met one supporter who expects us to win the league and that's how it should be. We are more than capable though. Handling pressure and the enormity of games is something the players suffered with last season. McNulty referred to that in a intervew in relation to the Spennymoor game. Going into the Southend game and viewing it as a must win isn't the right aporoach i don't think, it puts too much pressure on the players. The Southend Play Off game waa a must win. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:20]
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:25 - Jan 25 with 1135 views | TalkingSutty |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:20 - Jan 25 by TVOS1907 |
Someone posting on here expects us to win the league. |
Well maybe at this stage the league table suggests that, there are plenty of neutral fans on social media who think we will. I think we are more than capable and there's also the possibility that York could hit a bad run of form. The fact we are having these discussions is great. I'd fancy us to win the Play Offs also, i just think this could be our year. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:27]
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:37 - Jan 25 with 1086 views | TalkingSutty |
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According to the Match Stats in the Non-League Paper, we had 14 shots yesterday, the same as Scunthorpe and Forest Green combined in their game.
We've also collected nine points in the last week, whereas Forest Green have collected two.
Forest Green have one win in six league matches and are currently six points behind us having played four games fewer.
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You know yourself that stats don't always tell the story. We played a very poor Truro team, both Scunthorpe and FGR looked good in the final third yesterday, both defences were terrible. They also scored five goals between them from the same amount of shots as us, we scored two. Both games will be a real test for us defensively, we'll find out soon enough. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:39]
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:51 - Jan 25 with 1025 views | Dale_4_Life |
First of all a win is a win and our dream season continues.
20 wins from 25 games (80%) is unbelievable.
Regarding our latest win regardless of XG bollox I thought we we too slow moving the ball around and Hogan (under instructions I know) the main culprit. Back to the walking football of last season and I could hear groans around me, it’s an attritional watch.
Then there is our wastefulness in front of goal.. taking that extra touch… playing that extra pass… if we can find that missing X factor in front of goal for Southend and the February we will run York really close.
We have a fantastic set of players and the management team are all experienced. I agree with handbrake off time…..
Southend is huge.. they looked more than decent in the abandoned game they will not allow the defensive slow build so Tuesday will be one to show us all how we will fair in the next 5/6 weeks v the bigger guns of the division.
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:37 - Jan 25 by TalkingSutty |
You know yourself that stats don't always tell the story. We played a very poor Truro team, both Scunthorpe and FGR looked good in the final third yesterday, both defences were terrible. They also scored five goals between them from the same amount of shots as us, we scored two. Both games will be a real test for us defensively, we'll find out soon enough. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:39]
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Forest Green scored as many as we did yesterday from fewer shots and lost.
Our attacking intent was shown in the number of shots we had. The fact we didn't take as many of them as we should is a separate argument. [Post edited 25 Jan 13:08]
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 13:07 - Jan 25 with 966 views | 442Dale |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:51 - Jan 25 by Dale_4_Life |
First of all a win is a win and our dream season continues.
20 wins from 25 games (80%) is unbelievable.
Regarding our latest win regardless of XG bollox I thought we we too slow moving the ball around and Hogan (under instructions I know) the main culprit. Back to the walking football of last season and I could hear groans around me, it’s an attritional watch.
Then there is our wastefulness in front of goal.. taking that extra touch… playing that extra pass… if we can find that missing X factor in front of goal for Southend and the February we will run York really close.
We have a fantastic set of players and the management team are all experienced. I agree with handbrake off time…..
Southend is huge.. they looked more than decent in the abandoned game they will not allow the defensive slow build so Tuesday will be one to show us all how we will fair in the next 5/6 weeks v the bigger guns of the division.
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It was explained by the manager why we play the way we do. It’s designed to make us as effective S possible at both ends of the pitch. There was a general acknowledgment that it could have led to a 6-0 win.
Watch both goals, they came as a result of how we are set up to play: waiting for the right opportunity to arise to create chances to score. Change that and we will be impacted at either end of the pitch. Do we want to risk that 80% win record?
Again, having Dieseruvwe back increases the options when it comes to having the right opportunities to cause issues for the opposition. | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 13:13 - Jan 25 with 958 views | TVOS1907 |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 12:51 - Jan 25 by Dale_4_Life |
First of all a win is a win and our dream season continues.
20 wins from 25 games (80%) is unbelievable.
Regarding our latest win regardless of XG bollox I thought we we too slow moving the ball around and Hogan (under instructions I know) the main culprit. Back to the walking football of last season and I could hear groans around me, it’s an attritional watch.
Then there is our wastefulness in front of goal.. taking that extra touch… playing that extra pass… if we can find that missing X factor in front of goal for Southend and the February we will run York really close.
We have a fantastic set of players and the management team are all experienced. I agree with handbrake off time…..
Southend is huge.. they looked more than decent in the abandoned game they will not allow the defensive slow build so Tuesday will be one to show us all how we will fair in the next 5/6 weeks v the bigger guns of the division.
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We had 14 shots.
How do you know what Southend will or won't do? None of us have a clue. Look at Solihull last Wednesday; they had scored 7, 5 and 3 in recent games, yet showed no attacking intent whatsoever. | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 13:21 - Jan 25 with 926 views | jonahwhereru |
Off the highlights that was much better than I had expected from the result alone. I said after Solihull Perry will do a job for us. That statement undersold him. He looks a real quality signing. We did it well I thought.
Now looking to the future I expect the strongest side available to be out on Tuesday night. Manny D will probably only do 45 minutes, which needs to be the first half. But let’s have.no moaning if we are not winning when he is removed. With him slow and steady will reap the rewards. Southend set up beautifully against us in December and stopped our intent without stifling their own. We changed it up a half time and we’re better. So if Southend try and repeat the same trick on Tuesday we should already have the answers from lessons learned.
As for York since Maynard took over I can’t say how many points they have dropped, but they have dropped 16 points from draws this season. I wouldn’t be surprised if our points per game tally is not any worse than their’s since the managerial change. Definitively this league title is still ours to loose. That’s not putting pressure on the players it’s a fact. There will be points won and lost from now on in but if we win 3, draw one and loose 1 of the five games against the top 8 clubs in the next month we will still be the team to beat. The is achievable.
Let’s keep the positive vibe going.
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 13:30 - Jan 25 with 909 views | dannyuk |
When we're comfortable in a match, with a hectic schedule coming up, I'm very happy to see a bit of energy conservation from the team. |  | | |
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Someone posting on here expects us to win the league. |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:33 - Jan 25 with 757 views | samueloneils |
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Forest Green scored as many as we did yesterday from fewer shots and lost.
Our attacking intent was shown in the number of shots we had. The fact we didn't take as many of them as we should is a separate argument. [Post edited 25 Jan 13:08]
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The "separate argument" you mention being the inability to convert chances, backed up by the very poor goal contribution from midfield in the last 2 seasons.
I find it disappointing that voices are appearing that say we will not match York when we are only halfway through the season. We cannot match their goalscoring or probably their goal difference, but we have every chance of matching their points. We may never get another chance like this.
In 70 years of supporting the Dale, we have never won anything- a title. This is the best chance I have experienced.
We are one striker short of a good squad. How many of the younger squad members will be with us next season I wonder?
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:35 - Jan 25 with 746 views | TalkingSutty |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 13:07 - Jan 25 by 442Dale |
It was explained by the manager why we play the way we do. It’s designed to make us as effective S possible at both ends of the pitch. There was a general acknowledgment that it could have led to a 6-0 win.
Watch both goals, they came as a result of how we are set up to play: waiting for the right opportunity to arise to create chances to score. Change that and we will be impacted at either end of the pitch. Do we want to risk that 80% win record?
Again, having Dieseruvwe back increases the options when it comes to having the right opportunities to cause issues for the opposition. |
We don't have to agree that the way we played out from the back was entertaining to watch though, neither was the performance at Solihull on Wednesday. Players walking around with the ball and standing with their foot on the ball on the halfway line is anti football to my mind and i'm not bothered what McNulty says to be honest. I'm not the only one, there was discontent every time Hogan was on the ball. I don't believe that's the only way we can pick up points neither, we scored after three minutes and should have overwhelmed them but we didn't. I haven't seen any other team employ this tactic of theoretically using the central defender as the play maker and dictating play from the halfway line and i dont believe that the manager is some sort of footballing guru who is educating the fans on what's good to watch. Let's see if we play like that against the better teams if it's so instrumental in us keeping clean sheets. [Post edited 25 Jan 14:45]
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:36 - Jan 25 with 742 views | 442Dale |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:33 - Jan 25 by samueloneils |
The "separate argument" you mention being the inability to convert chances, backed up by the very poor goal contribution from midfield in the last 2 seasons.
I find it disappointing that voices are appearing that say we will not match York when we are only halfway through the season. We cannot match their goalscoring or probably their goal difference, but we have every chance of matching their points. We may never get another chance like this.
In 70 years of supporting the Dale, we have never won anything- a title. This is the best chance I have experienced.
We are one striker short of a good squad. How many of the younger squad members will be with us next season I wonder?
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09/10 was our best chance to win a title.
We were well clear before that awful run at the end of the season. | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:36 - Jan 25 with 742 views | onedalefan |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 20:01 - Jan 24 by TalkingSutty |
A very comfortable win today against a limited Truro team, did Watmuff have a save to make? The only disappointment was that we didn't put the game to bed and get the third goal. Another penalty miss also, Henderson has never been great from the spot. Smiths injury was also a worry.
We've always said that tempo is important and every time we upped it we looked a different team, i thought we were too slow moving it into our opponents half today and the main culprit was Hogan. The walking football, side to side passing and standing with your foot on the ball kills momentum not only in the performance but also in the crowd. Against really poor opponents i thought there was too much of that today which was a shame when you think we had a crowd of over 3000 home fans. Still a very good win though. Finally the pitch, i don't think we can complain with how it played, it was never going to be perfect but it played alright. [Post edited 24 Jan 20:11]
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At least I'm not alone in thinking Hogan was too slow. Didn't look up enough to consider options, missed numerous instances of people running into space and when he did pass forward, often it was to someone who had no option than to pass it back to him. |  | | |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:40 - Jan 25 with 727 views | 442Dale |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:36 - Jan 25 by onedalefan |
At least I'm not alone in thinking Hogan was too slow. Didn't look up enough to consider options, missed numerous instances of people running into space and when he did pass forward, often it was to someone who had no option than to pass it back to him. |
He was involved in the lead up to both goals. | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:45 - Jan 25 with 714 views | TVOS1907 |
| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:33 - Jan 25 by samueloneils |
The "separate argument" you mention being the inability to convert chances, backed up by the very poor goal contribution from midfield in the last 2 seasons.
I find it disappointing that voices are appearing that say we will not match York when we are only halfway through the season. We cannot match their goalscoring or probably their goal difference, but we have every chance of matching their points. We may never get another chance like this.
In 70 years of supporting the Dale, we have never won anything- a title. This is the best chance I have experienced.
We are one striker short of a good squad. How many of the younger squad members will be with us next season I wonder?
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I agree this is our best chance of a title and I've said all along, that whoever finishes above York will most likely win the league.
We are actually doing better than them on PPG and we are showing without doubt that we have the credentials to do it. | |
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| Refwatch - Rochdale v Truro City on 14:35 - Jan 25 by TalkingSutty |
We don't have to agree that the way we played out from the back was entertaining to watch though, neither was the performance at Solihull on Wednesday. Players walking around with the ball and standing with their foot on the ball on the halfway line is anti football to my mind and i'm not bothered what McNulty says to be honest. I'm not the only one, there was discontent every time Hogan was on the ball. I don't believe that's the only way we can pick up points neither, we scored after three minutes and should have overwhelmed them but we didn't. I haven't seen any other team employ this tactic of theoretically using the central defender as the play maker and dictating play from the halfway line and i dont believe that the manager is some sort of footballing guru who is educating the fans on what's good to watch. Let's see if we play like that against the better teams if it's so instrumental in us keeping clean sheets. [Post edited 25 Jan 14:45]
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You're being harsh on the game at Solihull. Conditions dictated the game that night - believe me, it was wild and windy at times - and the number of times passes were overhit and/or caught on the wind and wet surface was significantly more than we are used to seeing.
It needed a patient performance, especially as the home side did everything to stifle us, which was odd considering how many goals they have been scoring lately. [Post edited 25 Jan 14:52]
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