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Well said Rigsby,!
The pitch has been a major set back for us and will do for who ever gets the mangers job. In fact It has already put certain people off from what I here.
A while back there was a football household name at RH for a game. His job is to assess any clubs that his PL club may be looking to loan players to......He only came the once and didn't bother with any away games.
With players like Kightly, Wordsworth, McL etc then a bad pitch does them no favours. Even Wright has been slagged on here but is a very neat and fast passer of the ball which is lost on our pitch. Yes our away from has been shocking but none of our 'ball players' has the advantage of gaining confidence at home. History proves this has always been one of the unwritten laws of football.
The other zone myth that has emerged is "hoofball". Recent games when we lost to Bradford, Shrews and Fleetwood, they "hoofed" it far more than us. We as the home team tried to play a bit of football and it cost us goals. Other teams refused to pass it in their own half and were happy to almost miss out their mid-field.
First half v Fleetwood John White did exactly as he should on that pitch and cleared without fuss. Our fans jeered him. So a minute later down by the East Blacks he should have done a Bolger and put it in row Z but hesitated, under pressure not to hoof and then lost the ball. To the groans of some of our fans of course.
No manager and no set of players are going to play their way up the league on that pitch. That's not to say we can't win but you football purists who want to be "entertained", might just have to hold your noses. You might even find winning a match is far more entertaining than losing.
i actually agree with a lot of this. Knowing the pitch means our players are led likely to take chances as they are afraid of loosing their footing or the ball moving strangely. It means a lack of confidence and that Carries into away matches. That makes sense to me. It a component in the hat has gone wrong, but it’s not the only reason by a long way.
Agree, 100 percent. you put a post on like this, which is informative and well written, and yet you let yourself down by dissing other people posts as if they are off no relevance.The pitch has been a major set back for us and will do for who ever gets the mangers job. In fact It has already put certain people off from what I here.
A while back there was a football household name at RH for a game. His job is to assess any clubs that his PL club may be looking to loan players to......He only came the once and didn't bother with any away games.
With players like Kightly, Wordsworth, McL etc then a bad pitch does them no favours. Even Wright has been slagged on here but is a very neat and fast passer of the ball which is lost on our pitch. Yes our away from has been shocking but none of our 'ball players' has the advantage of gaining confidence at home. History proves this has always been one of the unwritten laws of football.
The other zone myth that has emerged is "hoofball". Recent games when we lost to Bradford, Shrews and Fleetwood, they "hoofed" it far more than us. We as the home team tried to play a bit of football and it cost us goals. Other teams refused to pass it in their own half and were happy to almost miss out their mid-field.
First half v Fleetwood John White did exactly as he should on that pitch and cleared without fuss. Our fans jeered him. So a minute later down by the East Blacks he should have done a Bolger and put it in row Z but hesitated, under pressure not to hoof and then lost the ball. To the groans of some of our fans of course.
No manager and no set of players are going to play their way up the league on that pitch. That's not to say we can't win but you football purists who want to be "entertained", might just have to hold your noses. You might even find winning a match is far more entertaining than losing.
The pitch has been a major set back for us and will do for who ever gets the mangers job. In fact It has already put certain people off from what I here.
A while back there was a football household name at RH for a game. His job is to assess any clubs that his PL club may be looking to loan players to......He only came the once and didn't bother with any away games.
With players like Kightly, Wordsworth, McL etc then a bad pitch does them no favours. Even Wright has been slagged on here but is a very neat and fast passer of the ball which is lost on our pitch. Yes our away from has been shocking but none of our 'ball players' has the advantage of gaining confidence at home. History proves this has always been one of the unwritten laws of football.
The other zone myth that has emerged is "hoofball". Recent games when we lost to Bradford, Shrews and Fleetwood, they "hoofed" it far more than us. We as the home team tried to play a bit of football and it cost us goals. Other teams refused to pass it in their own half and were happy to almost miss out their mid-field.
First half v Fleetwood John White did exactly as he should on that pitch and cleared without fuss. Our fans jeered him. So a minute later down by the East Blacks he should have done a Bolger and put it in row Z but hesitated, under pressure not to hoof and then lost the ball. To the groans of some of our fans of course.
No manager and no set of players are going to play their way up the league on that pitch. That's not to say we can't win but you football purists who want to be "entertained", might just have to hold your noses. You might even find winning a match is far more entertaining than losing.
All very well, but it is our pitch and we are responsible for it. We only have ourselves to blame for its condition.
Phil Brown said the pitch had "done for him". I simply don't accept that as the reason he lost his job.
rigsby, I am intrigued to know, if you are at liberty to say, who manager-wise who has been put off coming here by the state of the pitch ?
I don't know of any potential manger who has been put off by our pitch. What I said was certain influential football people have not been impressed. Don't think the atmosphere helped either.
In the summer everyone has time to become part of the club and play in friendlies etc. For anyone stepping in now it is our toughest time for 8 years. If you were a coach, agent or friend/family of any young lad who may be considering a move this January would you advice him to come here.
rigsby, I am intrigued to know, if you are at liberty to say, who manager-wise who has been put off coming here by the state of the pitch ?
I don't know of any potential manger who has been put off by our pitch. What I said was certain influential football people have not been impressed. Don't think the atmosphere helped either.
In the summer everyone has time to become part of the club and play in friendlies etc. For anyone stepping in now it is our toughest time for 8 years. If you were a coach, agent or friend/family of any young lad who may be considering a move this January would you advice him to come here.
I don't know of any potential manger who has been put off by our pitch. What I said was certain influential football people have not been impressed. Don't think the atmosphere helped either.
In the summer everyone has time to become part of the club and play in friendlies etc. For anyone stepping in now it is our toughest time for 8 years. If you were a coach, agent or friend/family of any young lad who may be considering a move this January would you advice him to come here.
I don't know of any potential manger who has been put off by our pitch. What I said was certain influential football people have not been impressed. Don't think the atmosphere helped either.
In the summer everyone has time to become part of the club and play in friendlies etc. For anyone stepping in now it is our toughest time for 8 years. If you were a coach, agent or friend/family of any young lad who may be considering a move this January would you advice him to come here.