| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 14:31 - Mar 16 with 1179 views | Leadbelly |
Same side as last game except Prosser in for the suspended Nouble. |  |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 14:52 - Mar 16 with 1174 views | gerry_us |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 14:31 - Mar 16 by Leadbelly |
Same side as last game except Prosser in for the suspended Nouble. |
Let's just hope they have different game plan to Tuesday but not holding my breath. |  | | |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 15:04 - Mar 16 with 1170 views | Leadbelly |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 14:52 - Mar 16 by gerry_us |
Let's just hope they have different game plan to Tuesday but not holding my breath. |
That would be unwise | |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 15:09 - Mar 16 with 1166 views | RSCOSWORTH |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 14:31 - Mar 16 by Leadbelly |
Same side as last game except Prosser in for the suspended Nouble. |
Think that’s pretty shocking personally. Most of them didn’t turn up second half but still get to start today. Doesn’t send out a great message to the rest of the squad. |  |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 15:51 - Mar 16 with 1155 views | RSCOSWORTH |
Losing 1-0. Top corner from outside the box according to the BBC. Just before half time too. | |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 16:35 - Mar 16 with 1137 views | Leadbelly |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 15:51 - Mar 16 by RSCOSWORTH |
Losing 1-0. Top corner from outside the box according to the BBC. Just before half time too. |
Just made a cup of tea and return to find we are losing 3 - 0 | |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 16:43 - Mar 16 with 1127 views | Moor_Pinot |
Another hammering Lead. We have a manager who has made no progress in three years and yet our squad is decent. The ability to motivate has never existed. We play one way and since November most teams have worked out a method of nullifying this. Next Saturday should define the season against an opposition on the sort of run U's fans can only dream of.
Exasperating and unnecessary - we are better than what we have achieved. |  |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 16:48 - Mar 16 with 1122 views | Leadbelly |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 16:43 - Mar 16 by Moor_Pinot |
Another hammering Lead. We have a manager who has made no progress in three years and yet our squad is decent. The ability to motivate has never existed. We play one way and since November most teams have worked out a method of nullifying this. Next Saturday should define the season against an opposition on the sort of run U's fans can only dream of.
Exasperating and unnecessary - we are better than what we have achieved. |
Tramere will be a very tough game then on to Cambridge who will be scrapping for survival. We need to stop shipping goals and toughen up sharpish. | |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 16:54 - Mar 16 with 1119 views | Leadbelly |
It’s only three points lost, we’ll regroup and go again...again. | |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 17:37 - Mar 16 with 1099 views | Leadbelly |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 16:54 - Mar 16 by Leadbelly |
It’s only three points lost, we’ll regroup and go again...again. |
McGreal trots out the usual hackneyed cliches but apparently he was very comfortable with our performance until Exeter scored and thought the result was harsh. Also cites lack of confidence, young squad, wind. At no point did he mention anything he could or should have done to deal with any of that. Perhaps having the safest job in football leads to an absence of thinking about how to deal with the challenges you have to face every game. | |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 19:25 - Mar 16 with 1061 views | GOSBTS |
Sadly, a team who have lost three out of the last four games 3-0 are not in the kind of form usually becoming of playoff contenders. I'd like to see us win 2-1 or draw 2-2, i.e. be able to recover from negative circumstances in matches. It seems like it's game over when we go a goal down.
I fear at the moment that even if we do make the playoffs, recent results suggest we wouldn't be able to outlast a team over two legs. Really hope I'm wrong. Hope to be in attendance next week against Tranmere! |  | | |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 20:08 - Mar 16 with 1033 views | thrillseeker |
A truly awful performance.
I really cannot comment on what I watched without it being full of expletives.
I feel mugged travelling on way home to Colchester | | | |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 21:01 - Mar 16 with 1009 views | mfb_cufc |
"Perhaps having the safest job in football leads to an absence of thinking about how to deal with the challenges you have to face every game". So true Leadbelly. It is not worth the fans calling for McGreal's head, because we will only get the next puppet off the production line.
This is the frustration of being a Colchester fan. We all know a decent manager would have no problem getting this squad into a least a play-off place, but the stubborn owner wants to stick with this failed philosophy of employing internal managers. |  |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 21:15 - Mar 16 with 1005 views | oxfcolu |
We looked ragged today,at times totally unorganised and lacking any self-confidence. We are missing our injured midfield , but that is no excuse for their continuing lack of consistency. I totally agree with the comments about the management. Stop making excuses and pussy footing around and drop the golden boys. I would prefer to lose with a team showing some passion and commitment. |  | | |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 10:40 - Mar 17 with 927 views | durham_exile |
| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 20:08 - Mar 16 by thrillseeker |
A truly awful performance.
I really cannot comment on what I watched without it being full of expletives.
I feel mugged travelling on way home to Colchester |
Sunday morning do I feel any better NO a truly lamentable performance against a team that frankly we gifted goals to.
Yes the weather was cold wet and very windy and neither team coped well in the conditions.
The 167 of the faithful were strangely subdued from the start and were never at their best. The new stand on the railway side of the ground is good albeit limited by the proximity of the railway line but the new terracing behind the goal is awful shades of Fleetwood.
My son and I sat in our usual spot in the stand and no sooner had I sat down than the thought police were onto my case about my camera. A real jobsworth but I could video the entire game on my phone if I wanted but couldn't use my dslr camera. Absolute nonsense.
Anyway I will contain my comments to the players
Gilmartin - all I can say is come back Sam Walker who is not even getting a game at Reading.
Prosser - unfit and was at fault for the first goal strangely quiet and subdued before being subbed after 71 minutes
Kent - gave Eastman a real rifting at times was guilty of a shocking backpass but did at least show passion
Eastman - took a real whack in the face from a Gilmartin clearance which the keeper didn't apologise for. I thought he was not at his best at all
Jackson - my man of the match constructive going forward and sprayed passes sensibly and with a view to moving forward
Stevenson - always been a favourite of mine but he is not fit and Diaz Wright should have played in his place
Senior - ran Jackson close for MOTM lively and tried to make things happen
Vincent-Young - another player not at his best but at least tried to be productive
Mandron - must learn how to finish, perhaps he should become a midfield player
Norris - at Oldham earlier in the season was unplayable yesterday he was shockingly lazy idle and failed to link up with his strike partners
Szmodics - should have scored immediately after the interval but struck his point blank range effort straight at The keeper
Subs
Eisa - anonymous after his arrival on 71 minutes
Miller - at 16 years and 166 days the youngest ever debutante for Colchester. JM gave him three minutes plus stoppage time and he achieved more during that time than many players over the full 90 minutes.
His first touch was a clever intuitive pass in the box. He was very unlucky to be flagged offside after a decent Szmodics pass and he looked a real star in the making.
Chilvers Wright and Dickenson were all unused subs.
JM is simply not up to the job. I'm not even sure the team is serious about promotion. We will lose Kent Senior Dickenson Stevenson Pell etc if we fail to earn promotion and another year in this league is not appealing.
Tranmere up next and only 8 games to play. I might feel better next Friday but at present I am hurting. Three defeats out of four and all 3-0 is not promotion form. 57 points means that we are safe from relegation but this is turning into a shocking season.
The only way is up for the U's
I do hope that the changing room door was shut for 45 minutes to allow some venting to take place because the fans deserve much better than this dross.
Things can surely only get better. |  |
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 11:44 - Mar 17 with 917 views | Moor_Pinot |
How horrid for you again Durham,
I have watched most games now since the end of October - we were okay then, p'raps it's my fault - and once again our forum has 'said it all'.
The players are good enough, better than in recent seasons so the deduction that - as termed by Leadbelly - the safest job in football is McGreal's is the root of all this. We have actually conceded 3 goals in a game 5 times in the last 11. Our manager was apparantly a defender.
I too have picked up some disharmony over the last 2 or 3 months, not only Prosser. I mentioned that things in the dressing room were maybe not as we'd wish a week or two ago. I have few issues with the players myself, although Nouble has been over played and one or two in midfield have been half fit [especially the totally underwhelming Stevenson] but the goalkeeper is a problem. It cannot be right that the coach plays, plays poorly, cannot kick and seems somewhat remote from the team in front of him. We have a problem [solvable] there, though Barnes may not be the solution.
I feel that we are unlikely to make the top 7 now. Northampton's well timed run could see them being the third of last year's 4 relegated sides from lg 1 in the running to return - with Bury & MK. As I said before the Tranmere game against a side on a run we can only dream of will be instructive.
As mfb says the manager is safe. Mr Cowling probably has the temporary Needham Market coach from the academy in line to be the next to 'have a go at being at football manager'. The policy has not worked yet and gives our owner such a meagre return on his huge investment......season after season of decline if you think about it. Has he the passion for this to matter ? I dunno, I like Robbie and am glad of him but our latest manager lacks passion and is inarticulate which isn't much help to young players with ability. I am beginning to resign myself to many years at this level [how many years were Rochdale in Div 2 .... 34 35 ?] because it has seemed this season when there was the genuine potential for progress, that potential has been wasted.
Hope I am wrong but, like you Durham, it will take me until at least Friday to believe we could make changes for the better in the last eight games. At the moment a day spent birdwatching is feeling favourite over the Tranmere game.
As I posted before.
Dis-spiriting stuff since November time. Nothing's changed, we just play the same way and are now gettting regularly stuffed. God.....3 three-nils in a fortnight. When did that last happen?
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| Grecians to have hair raising experience against Super U's on 19:46 - Mar 17 with 862 views | mfb_cufc |
The default score for not turning up for a game is 3-0. Says it all really. | |
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