TV Highlights Fleetwood Town 2 Southend United 4

Taters123 said:

Some great goals there but not sure Ferdinand covered himself with glory for their first

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DCC said:

An aside: a farcical 5 minutes entering the ground when I was allowed to walk in with a cup of hot tea that I'd bought at the chippy across the road and my wife was stopped from bringing in an unopened bottle of water. Farce ensued as we had to leave the bottle of water at the ticket office but then once in the ground we convinced them to give us an empty paper cup from the kiosk, then said bottle of water was allowed to be decanted into paper cup and brought in in cup form.

Quoted "FA Rules" when asked why it was not permitted to bring in a bottle of water, even with lid off. (My hot cup of tea attracted no comment and wife's bag wasn't searched.)

Then inside the ground bottles of Coke, with lids on, sold at the kiosk and widely seen amongst fans in the away end.

World gone mad??

Didn't spoil a great day out, but if anyone from Fleetwood is reading this, come guys, do on yourselves a favour - treat people like human beings please. The rest of your stewards were great as per previous trips to the ground.

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DCC said:

An aside: a farcical 5 minutes entering the ground when I was allowed to walk in with a cup of hot tea that I'd bought at the chippy across the road and my wife was stopped from bringing in an unopened bottle of water. Farce ensued as we had to leave the bottle of water at the ticket office but then once in the ground we convinced them to give us an empty paper cup from the kiosk, then said bottle of water was allowed to be decanted into paper cup and brought in in cup form.

Quoted "FA Rules" when asked why it was not permitted to bring in a bottle of water, even with lid off. (My hot cup of tea attracted no comment and wife's bag wasn't searched.)

Then inside the ground bottles of Coke, with lids on, sold at the kiosk and widely seen amongst fans in the away end.

World gone mad??

Didn't spoil a great day out, but if anyone from Fleetwood is reading this, come guys, do on yourselves a favour - treat people like human beings please. The rest of your stewards were great as per previous trips to the ground.

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Leoblue said:

Because he's not a gangster and he needs to keep his nose clean. He brings it all onto himself, when will he learn. He's in the public eye at the moment and doing what he did just doesn't help at all.

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AndyT said:

Fair comment, having now seen the full celebration.

That said, I'd stand by the fact that it's a lot of fuss about nothing. Sadly, that's modern 24/7 media saturated life these days.

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AndyT said:

Blimey. What a miserable bunch of negative comments.

We scored 4 goals away at a side renowned for keeping clean sheets!

Thought there were so many good things about our goals as well

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A Century United said:

Not exactly. They've conceded 12 goals in their last four games.

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MK Shrimper said:

If we're to go up the league then we need to tighten up at the back. We can't expect to win just by simply scoring more goals than the opposition. 1-0 will do for 3 points.

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enfieldblue said:

I thought that was how the game worked!!!!:smile:

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MK Shrimper said:

If we win 6-5 on Saturday I'll eat my hat and change my name to Roy Race.

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A Century United said:

Not exactly. They've conceded 12 goals in their last four games.

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MK Shrimper said:

Please don't try and undermine nonsense with facts Tom. It doesn't work like that on here.

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GNH said:

If there was ever an argument for spot match fixing then this is it..................

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AndyT said:

You see, I was with you there 'Tom' for a moment. You make a good point. 8 goals in the previous 3 games says they are wobbling a bit, but I was looking at the overall facts. Some say "nonsense". :winking:

20 clean sheets out of the last 34 competitive matches (59%) and that includes those last three games.

A pretty impressive record and I doubt there's many, if any, league sides with a percentage that high.


Edit : I've checked and there aren't.

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Magnum PI said:

I didn't go today so relying on the goal highlights... but it further confirms for me that Ferdinand and Kyprianou are not the answer. Ferdinand is out of his depth at moment without a commanding partner and Kyprianou for a tall bloke is lower League Two for me at best at the moment. The first goal looks bad for Anton but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt as I dont think he expected the defender there or that Oxley or the full back not dealing. Even so there is a lethargy and stiffness in him which reminds me of Barrett early last season. Maybe if has Turner or Kiernan as a partner things might improve. The first goal was awful and although the second wasn't great it was mainly down to an individual mistake by Kyprianou.

On to the positives of which it looked there were many. Great to see Lenny getting forward more and no doubt as a result of Wright's inclusion. The move for our second goal was fantastic and Glash's finish was sensational. Wasn't the best header from Cox - Keeper might be disappointed and that was probably just a penalty as although the defenders legs were clumsy Nile certainly made a meal of it.

Two home games... if we get all 6.. who knows.

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MK Shrimper said:

If we're to go up the league then we need to tighten up at the back. We can't expect to win just by simply scoring more goals than the opposition. 1-0 will do for 3 points.

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blues exile said:

A welcome three points and a goal glut. Before we get too carried away, Fleetwood looked the worst side we have played so far and clearly something has gone wrong there after such a good season last time. They allowed us time and space on the ball and at last the midfield looked constructive and inventive, keeping the ball on the deck instead of hoofing it, resulting in an excellent second goal. However, we can't count on playing against ten men every week and the manner in which we conceded the two goals was alarming, lapses in concentration which will cost us dear if not eradicated in the future.

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AndyT said:

You see, I was with you there 'Tom' for a moment. You make a good point. 8 goals in the previous 3 games says they are wobbling a bit, but I was looking at the overall facts. Some say "nonsense". :winking:

20 clean sheets out of the last 34 competitive matches (59%) and that includes those last three games.

A pretty impressive record and I doubt there's many, if any, league sides with a percentage that high.


Edit : I've checked and there aren't.

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Jam_Man said:

Season is only 8 games old, not much point including last season in any stats, teams change.

They have conceded 2 or more in 5 of the 9 games.

However they did better than us last year and they had only lost two games this season so its a decent win up there however you want to look at stats.

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