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RE: Hudds V Brum - Lord Snooty - 18-02-2023
Best half of the season and there's a proper excited buzz around the ground.
Come on Town.
RE: Hudds V Brum - theo_luddite - 18-02-2023
When did we last score 2?
RE: Hudds V Brum - theo_luddite - 18-02-2023
Well, Nicholas Bilokapic didn't cover himself in glory with that sliced clearance that lead to Deeney scoring. He sure as hell made up for it with some brilliant saves and that punt to Headley to set up the winner. Who needs old farts when the kids are willing to run their socks off? The same kids that didn't look fit enough to last an hour, let alone 90 minutes as recently as Wednesday at Stoke? Glad to see my bread, fish and wine helped Warnock with his first miracle. 6 more required I think, who cares where?
RE: Hudds V Brum - Lord Snooty - 18-02-2023
Ten years ago, Town appointed Mark Robins as manager. After a few years of quick, entertaining football under Lee Clark and Simon Grayson, we became a boring team overnight, with tippy tappy sleepy snoozy football.
This game plan was kept up by every manager since. A couple of them, David Wagner and Carlos Corberan, actually got it to work, but it was dull to watch.
Today, all that ended and we went back to fast paced, in your face, up and at 'em football. There was no passing along the backline that so infuriates a large portion of the Town fanbase. There was none of this everybody in the penalty area to face a corner. We actually left somebody forward, meaning they had to leave a couple back, just in case.
And so when Billo took the ball from one of their corners, we were able to break at pace through the brilliant Jaheim Headley and as the ball came to young Hungbo, he had players up with him. He didn't have to look back for assistance and so the ball ends up back with the back four playing it to each other. No, he had team mates there that the retreating defenders had to deal with and so left him with room to manoeuvre into the box and unleash an unstoppable shot.
And then in the second half, young Billo played another great pass to young Jaheim and he took it on, with pace, to beat the keeper at his far post.
It wasn't just the two goals though. The whole match was played with determination and a passion that has been lacking for so long. With over twelve minutes of added on time, the crowd were right behind the lads and there was no way we were going to throw it away again. All season, the stadium has been half empty by a quarter to five. It was still full at three minutes past five when the ref eventually blew for time. What a win and what a well deserved lap of honour for the team, Rocket Ronnie and the gaffer, Colin, sorry.... Neil Warnock.
Keep it up, lads.
RE: Hudds V Brum - ritchiebaby - 19-02-2023
I've never understood why more teams don't keep a couple of players up towards the halfway line when defending a corner or free-kick. Firstly, as Snooty says, it keeps a couple of their players back just in case, and secondly, half the time attackers doing defending are a liability in their own penalty box. Just my opinion, though.
RE: Hudds V Brum - jjamez - 19-02-2023
There was a clip where Paul Warne spoke about his reasons for not having a man up, but I'm with you, keep a quick man or a smaller one up there or both, more up the more they leave back.
Anyone know where Rhodes was today
RE: Hudds V Brum - Amelia Chaffinch - 19-02-2023
Rhodes was in the community hub, we heard.
RE: Hudds V Brum - Lord Snooty - 19-02-2023
He was poorly for the Stoke match. Maybe he was better but not ready for playing a match.
RE: Hudds V Brum - Devongone - 19-02-2023
Message for Theo - it doesn't matter how often a team has beaten you in the past, each new game starts level. And if your manager is a well-past-his-sell-by-date Neil Warnock in his baggy old unironed Chesterfield shorts, then you've got the psychological edge.
Will he stick with your young Aussie giant keeper and keep bringing in the youngsters I've no idea, but if any of your players don't really want to go out and play for him, then the release button, sans parachute should be activated at the end of the season.
You could have got Paul Cook and heard how well the team had played without looking like scoring. If you score you can win, if you don't you can't. Football is simple.
RE: Hudds V Brum - Lord Snooty - 19-02-2023
We've gotten rid of two big bogies this season, Devon. Whether games start level or not, some teams just seem to have that effect, for no apparent reason at all.
Fothers became the first Town manager to win at Deepdale since 1969. And now Warnock has beaten Birmingham in a home league game, the first since 1996. Those two sequences have had loads of games in between.
On the other hand, we beat Wolves every time we play them, even in the Premier League when we were shite.
The big test will come next week when we travel to Burnley to play the runaway leaders and Warners will come up against one of the new crop of up coming managers, with hardly any managerial experience at all.