CUFC v CUFC 2/6 (Cambridge v Carlisle)

[hellogregory]

I'd have started like this.

Gillespie
Miller Raynes Gillesphey Grainger
Jones Kennedy
Lambe Devitt Adams
Ibehre ​

 

[shoddycollins]

I'd have started like this.

Gillespie
Miller Raynes Gillesphey Grainger
Jones Kennedy
Lambe Devitt Adams
Ibehre ​

Don't know, I think the way Joyce has played this season he's certainly worthy of a start, and him and Jones as a midfield core aren't purely defensive, they do both bring the ball forward too.

I don't think we should underestimate Cambridge because they've had a bad start to the season, they were expected to do better given their signings, and they are at home, today could be the day they rise to those expectations.

 

[hellogregory]

I'm not surprised we're losing already. Shite team selection.

If we keep it tight we can maybe just scrape a point, but with our toothless attack I have my doubts.

 

[hellogregory]

A complete and utter shambles.

It's going to be a long hard season.

 

[Vanni]

Are you at the match HG? Dunno pal, but I reckon we're a bit lucky going in ahead at ht.

 

[hellogregory]

Are you at the match HG? Dunno pal, but I reckon we're a bit lucky going in ahead at ht.

No. But I've seen all of our matches prior to today and it sounds more of the same, playing OK but absolutely hopeless when it comes to actually putting the ball in the net.

 

[hellogregory]

We're just a slow paced one dimensional side that will have no relegation fears but will be no where near the promotion or playoff places. That's what I've observed from pre season and the first 4 games in league and cup.

 

[cufc17]

I'll take a point, still unbeaten.

Cambridge will be a good side this year despite their slow start, and it sounded like we played fairly well.

Onto Derby in the League Cup and then Barnet away next week, a tough run.

 

[hellogregory]

Unbeaten yeah, but I'd rather we lost the other night and won today, or vice versa.

We're dominating games but failing miserably to turn dominance into wins.

Our shots to goals ratio must be the poorest in the league.

 

[Vanni]

Hard luck Carlisle, definitely better than us on the day and we were very lucky to get a point. Just like we were lucky we only lost at Colchester 2 nil and at Donny by the one goal. Afaic, we have to thank Carlisle for some poor finishing on their part and most definitely to Will Norris who had a great game bar the first goal of course.

Sooner Derry gets the sack the better. Undoubtedly a poor manager, though I have no doubt at all he'll say it was a 'pleasing performance' in his post match interview.

 

[hellogregory]

Hard luck Carlisle, definitely better than us on the day and we were very lucky to get a point. Afaic, we have to thank Carlisle for some poor finishing on their part

It's becoming an all too common theme.

 

[Alan Partridge]

Nicky Adams is far, far too good for us.

Same old, battered them but no clinical finishing to finish it off.

 

[Vanni]

I wouldn't worry too much if I were a Carlisle fan. Creating chances but not sticking them away is far better than creating very little, and I'm sure it's just a matter of time before this little problem gets rectified.

 

[Laker]

We've played 5 games so far and we're very lucky not to have lost them all. Things can only get better but our league position actually flatters us at the moment - we should be further adrift.

Derry has been unlucky with the injuries to Corr, Dunk and McGurk but we still shouldn't be this bad. We just look devoid of creativity and the defence looks so shaky. Also the full back selection seems to change every week based on nothing sensible.

I'm prepared to give Derry til the end of September on the basis of giving him time to get his side playing. But fuck me its desperate at the moment.

 

[Arbury]

We are utter garbage!!

 

[shoddycollins]

There's so much deja-vu about the comments of the Cambridge fans, you could almost copy and paste the comments from the Cheltenham or Port Vale or Plymouth forums into this thread and it would sit nicely with the U's comments.

Too early yet to be worried but it's slightly frustrating that the story at Cheltenham is repeated here. My concern is that other teams will suss out how to stop us creating chances before we can suss out how to put them away. We've pretty much dominated in every game this season apart from the one where we were down to ten men before the half-hour mark.

We did score twice yesterday, perhaps we should have scored even more but two goals would have been perfectly good had we not let any in, and penalties will always happen and sometimes the opposition will have a strong striker playing a blinder, as I believe Leon Legge did yesterday.

Don't know how we compare to other teams, but if you exclude the Pompey game from the stats (just because it was the total reverse) then in the last four games we have had

61 shots on goal
17 shots on target
6 goals
40 corners (is that a lot? Seems like a lot)

 

[Habbinalan]

.......and sometimes the opposition will have a strong striker playing a blinder, as I believe Leon Legge did yesterday.

Leon may have been our strongest striker but he got MotM for his efforts as our strongest defender.

 

[Tom_CUFC]

It was better than Doncaster, but once again that isn't saying anything at all. Completely toothless up front, Berry has been absolute garbage last 3 games, give the captaincy to Legge immediately. Mingoia was really poor yesterday, Norris had yet another shocker, and the full backs were an absolute embarrassment, Sean Long would look out of his depth 3 divisions lower than this one. Dunne was better, Gosling played well until he tired, Legge and Coulson are by far the best centre back pairing we have, and I don't think Elito was quite as bad as some people are making out, think a lot of people made their mind up on him after the first couple of games but he was good at Donny and about a 5/10 yesterday, which is still better than at least half the team. Ultimately brought in as a utility man though and we can't be relying on him to be consistent, it's the others mentioned previously who have to do that, as well as the two, maybe 3, big misses through injury.

Derry's interview was very concerning in that it suggests something strange is happening behind the scenes. He has to get his head right and those of his players too, we don't need to win on Tuesday at all but we need to battle and do ourselves justice, and then we need to win next Saturday. There are plenty of people (still unnecessarily early, 4 games FFS) on his back already, but if it goes on 3 or 4 more games then he'll start to really feel the heat, and he probably has another 6 league games (end of September) before we have to have not only made noticeable strides in our performances, but have 3 or 4 wins on the board and be up in the top 10, because then the table will really start to matter, whereas now it's means pretty much the sweet some of fuck all, but the performances are the opposite.