Sorry it's late but my senses of recovery are not what they were after an awaday day and 20 pints, but this is what I think I saw.
That footballing expert Francis somebody, turned up in shirt and tie, dut, black crombie and his nannas umberella, I knew then it was gonna be a long day. Train left on time 8:15 arrived Wetherspoons Huddersfield town centre 10:45
Canny crowd, almost 15,000 with about 650 odd from Pools but no one odder than our resident expert.
Disaster for Huddersfield, they hadn't scored after 5 mins, let's put pressure on the ref and sure enough it worked the ref fell for it, this multi ball carry on was a joke, Flinders being accused of time wasting after 10 minutes, someone needs to tell them that just because they throw the ball back on the pitch within a milli second of it going out of play, we don't have to re-start until we're ready FFS there were 2 balls on the pitch at least 4 times before the ref finally told them to collect them all in, ooh they didn't like that and the Lee Clark show was in full swing by then, arms waving all over the place letting everyone know he was there but couldn't fathom out why his team with a wage bill of over 8 million was losing to a team with a wage bill of just over 1 million, don't they know who we are, we want every decision, we want to be able to take throw ins from anywhere, we even want to take free kicks from off the pitch, and we want anyone who tries to tackle us booked, they got all there wishes granted. With Austins booking in the first half being the most damaging to us.
Any how we held on to Liddles headed goal at the back post off a good free kick from Austin and should have gone in 2 up, but Boydie missed his headed opprtunity from 2 yards out from a similar position. We were looking comfortable, the defence passing it out through the midfield, Jones and Humphreys controlling things and playing simple football to Monkehouse, Browny and Boyd who all looked dangerous going forward, but then half time came and that was that.
It looked to me as if we thought we could just defend the lead, there was no attempt to play the ball out any more and as a consequence it kept coming back relentless, it was crying out for us to either change the way we set out in the 2nd half and get back to what we were doing the 1st half, or make some personell changes, we did neither and they equalised from a free kick from a similar position to ours, the only problem was it was given for a nothing challenge by Collins. It hit the post and bounced out to Hartley and rebounded into the net, it was harsh on Hartley who looked as though had been singled out by Huddersfield as our weak link, but stood up to the challenge till then.
Larkin then pulled up with a Hamstring injury so a change was forced upon us, and we decided to try and completely fool them by not only replacing Larkin with McSweeney but we'll also take off our leading goal scorer because we won't need him because we won't attack anymore we'll just play the way we are and hold on to a point.
But almost immediately there full back ran unapposed, Austin daren't put a challenge in for fear of getting a 2nd yellow, the central defenders didn't close the ball down and it was rifled into the top corner from 20 yards.
And that was game set and match because we in effect played the remainder of the game with 10 men.
Don't think Behan got a touch, Browny left isolated and our top scorer sitting in the dug out.
They could have scored a couple more but that would have been harsh on Liddle who was Man of the Match by miles, but depite the crowd, the stadium, the wage bills etc etc we should have got something from that game, they are in the same division as us for a reason but we appear to always have an inferiority complex and it's not funny any more.
And that Francis fella won't be laughing today either because he lost his nannas brolly.
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