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Post by westendspitfire on Mar 17, 2018 15:58:52 GMT
Find it hard to believe horsey Will is boasting about a park run and not an Iron Man 😀
First half was bloody awful though. Get Matthews on the pitch and bloody quuckly. Also ditch the long throws complete waste.
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Post by nobadspitfire on Mar 17, 2018 17:49:33 GMT
We've had some rubbish games at home this season, but that takes the biscuit. Two positives I can think of, a second clean sheet in a row and another point towards safety. But entertainment from two poor sides? 1 out of 10. How SD plans to increase season ticket holders to 2000+ when we get served up with dross like that is beyond me. And I'm usually one of the more positive ones on here. What is the point of having Ryan Broom on loan from BRFC when we don't even give him a run off the bench? But blame also goes to LO for providing such inept opposition. Willkmcwilkface certainly had the right idea in cuddling up in front of the fire.
Can't wait for the next home game which is Dover on 27th, not Ebbsfleet as announced by the announcer chappy!! And what's the point of having a scoreboard if it doesn't work?
Rant/moan over
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Post by horseymchorseface on Mar 17, 2018 17:54:31 GMT
Bomber -hope you and your lad had a brilliant afternoon. I know I did. I’m sure your 10 year old wouldn’t have really preferred staying in the warm playing his xbox. Still, complete dross in sub zero temperatures good for the lad...
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Post by westendspitfire on Mar 17, 2018 17:54:41 GMT
Lets be honest there wasn't much point wasting the electric on the scoreboard today. Fair play to 450 LO fans that traveled to watch that rubbish, think the teams could have swapped shirts at half time and none of us would have noticed.
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Post by slewmcg on Mar 17, 2018 18:20:07 GMT
I would've preferred the score board on purely for the reason I could watch the clock rather than that game
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Post by hantslondoner on Mar 17, 2018 18:22:52 GMT
Not as bad as Halifax, first half meh, a half-decent second half where Orient even looked like they might win.
Both sides looked to have the same problems - painfully slow transition from defence to attack, a pair of forwards who were well-marshalled by the central defenders. Sub forwards looked better: Zebroski for us, Bonne for Orient (who replaced Holman, who IMO was really terrible). Yeates as usual tried hard to make things happen, but as usual was a bit hit and miss.
As with the Halifax game - it's all very well playing three centre-backs and two wing-backs, but those two wing-backs have to be effective. Actually it's a mixture, Hoyte is better defending but not good coming forward, Wood is not good defending but better coming forward (IMO Wood is a left midfielder, not a left-back). Stack made one brilliant save when one-on-one otherwise had little to do.
A point is probably OK for both sides in their painful grind to gather enough points to stay up.
Pitch was pretty good, snow held off (but of course it was cold), for me it was worth going today to see a big club like Orient down here. The expected good support from them.
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Post by michaelefc on Mar 17, 2018 18:53:16 GMT
Thought Leyton Orient defended quite well and were the better of two poor teams. Can't think of a shot we had on target, Orient hit the inside of the post from a free kick and if anybody was going to win it it was them. I think we probably still need a couple of points to be safe, and with the run of fixtures coming up, I am not sure where we are going to get them.
Once we do, assuming we do, thoughts turn to next season, and if we are honest, and we need to be, the current Eastleigh team, look to me, like a bottom 6 side. I cannot for the life of me think we can start next season, with anything resembling this squad. What do we lack? - where do we start? We lack at the back, we lack in the middle, at the moment we lack up front and we lack pace everywhere, we lack strength, we lack even physicality, especially for a fairly big team. I always try to look on the positive, but this team, with this management, IMO are going to achieve nothing more than survival. We need a radical overhaul in time for pre season, that is for sure.
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Post by badger on Mar 17, 2018 19:02:16 GMT
Matthews, our most talented player by far, on the bench....what is the point?
Hoyte is a cheat who spends more time rolling on the floor and whining at refs than he does working hard for his team. Sooner he goes the better.
On the positive side, Stack (despite) being a statue for the free kick, made an excellent save with about 20 mins to go.
Roll on spring/summer. Roll on a fresh start. Let's leave the last 2 disaster seasons behind us pretty quick.....things can only get better.....surely!?!
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Post by back4more on Mar 17, 2018 19:08:58 GMT
We had a couple of players who were well below National League standard but we had enough good players in the side to be able to get a result against a very average Leyton Orient side. Unfortunately we didn't function as a team. I know the gusting wind down here is always a challenge but it's the same for both teams. We were unable to put more than two or three passes together for most of the game. Orient in the second half, with a very ordinary set of players, had sussed us out well enough to be able to dominate possession. We don't seem to think further ahead than the next ball. Positioning was all over the place with no on-the-pitch leadership whatsoever and little evidence of coaching from the dugout. I am at a loss as to why one of our best players on the day was taken off with half an hour to go. That really relinquished any vestige of opportunity we might still have had from taking anything from the game. And why there wasn't a red card for the leg breaker of a two footed attack on Sam Matthews when he came on I can't imagine. Zebs started to get us some initiative back in the brief time he had but it was too late by then. It looked like an excellent attendance and I just hope some of them come back. I hope we have a more credible set up next season when, as looks likely, we will be up against Havant and Waterlooville.
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Post by taylov on Mar 17, 2018 19:27:51 GMT
Don't think I've felt as cold and miserable since the Luton Town v Blackburn game on Boxing Day 1980andforgotten which was called off at half-time due to a frozen pitch.
The only positive was that we moved a point closer to National League safety. Indeed it's increasingly hard to see any of the bottom 3 - Guiseley, Chester and Torquay escaping, which leaves the last spot to drop being between Solihull and Hartlepool. Barrow with games in hand and a vastly superior goal difference look to be safe unless they have a 'mare in their remaining games.
We remain 10 points above the drop zone, a gap which has remained stable for the last few weeks.
Crowd of 2013, second highest in the NL, only (just) beaten by Maidenhead v Sutton, 2065.
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Post by unknownquantity on Mar 17, 2018 20:19:41 GMT
My understanding was that it was Maidstone v Sutton not Maidenhead v Sutton.
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Post by taylov on Mar 17, 2018 20:38:56 GMT
My understanding was that it was Maidstone v Sutton not Maidenhead v Sutton. Makes more sense, thanks.
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Post by spitfire9 on Mar 17, 2018 20:42:32 GMT
Lets be honest there wasn't much point wasting the electric on the scoreboard today. Fair play to 450 LO fans that traveled to watch that rubbish, think the teams could have swapped shirts at half time and none of us would have noticed. That score board clearly never wanted to be moved to the silverlake have we ever had a spell a games with no issues with it pile of ****
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Post by michaelefc on Mar 17, 2018 21:14:53 GMT
Have to agree with you about the scoreboard. Frankly I would get shot of it. That said, there are one or two slightly bigger issues we need to be focussing on - like this team!
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Post by unknownquantity on Mar 18, 2018 7:40:01 GMT
I actually think that having an exact record of how much time has elapsed in a game and carrying other information irrespective of whether the game is good, bad or indifferent is a useful reference source.
I do not why though it seems that every scoreboard we have had fails to function more often than it should.
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