Penis. Utter penis.
No, scrub that – complete utter penis. With some cock added for good measure. And a few snarls of ginger pissflaps too. Some arse, maybe? How about some flabby old man buttock? Liver spot option. With wirey pubic hair too, for the white sticky stuff on the cake.
OK, all that may sound like a dodgy “specialist” porn movie, but watching something like that has to be better than what DOA 1 FGR 1 was. Flabby old man arse cheek or not. It was dire, grey, pointless, full of people who don’t want to be there and for whom kicking a football would be considered a step too far.
The players weren’t much better either.
It started off all right, we had about five corners in the space of about 2 minutes. You thought it was going to be the 4-0 arse whipping we believe we deserved. Then FGR went up the other end, scored, and all of a sudden our jaws dropped. Worryingly enough, instead of us waking up and getting our backsides into some sort of gear, we became worse and worse. The curse of a decent performance again…
When Christian Jolley slotted home, it saved our embarrassment. What was worst of all was this was one point gained as opposed to two lost. Yes, it was that bad. There was little urgency, little idea of what to do. This was worse than Kiddie (where we did at least have some kind of excuse, having won the World Cup Final the Thursday before). Actually, I think it was somehow even worse than Rushden.
Sure we’ll find out sooner or later why, whether this is “just another blip” or something else. But you’ll have to excuse me tonight, it really is difficult to get up much more energy on this. Hell, the players didn’t…
Plus points: At least we got to go home afterwards.
Minus points: 3pm-4.50pm.
The referee’s a…: Another game, another little prick who loves the attention. Clearly a frustrated footballer, which explains why he liked to get involved. Literally, if the amount of times he got in the way early on were anything to go by.
Them: They wanted it, we didn’t. Simples. Nothing wrong with the FGR support, even if they did spend their time pointing at the airplanes and yelling “witchcraft”. Oh, and why are they sponsored by Coventry Building Society?
Point to ponder: Have we gone back into Ryman Premier syndrome? While we have “bigger” games more regularly these days, there’s always that psychological mental block when we play the so-called lesser teams. I honestly thought with the move to full time, better preparation etc, it would be a thing of the past. Obviously, as much as I’d like us to go to these sort of games without breaking a sweat it doesn’t happen in the real world.
Actually, that might be half the problem – be honest, who here turned up today all relaxed, expecting a 3-0 comfortable win and go home again to watch the Ryder Cup? The players certainly had that attitude, and the fans did too – KM is a murmur of disapproval rather than a cauldron of noise at the best of times, and it managed to get worse as the game went on. We went 1-0 down, realised very quicky it was going to be horse cock and we simply waited until it was over…
Which begs another question – are we spoilt? We’ve had it pretty much our own way since 2002, and even being in the Conference we’ve been a side that falls away rather than one punching above its weight. We are a pretty complacent bunch, bordering on self-satisfied. Others say we’re very sanctimonious, but I won’t suggest that 😉
With that attitude comes these sorts of games with these sorts of atmospheres. Why should we bother to get behind the team? We’re happy to have a club after all. And here may lie an attitude defect of AFCW, one that seems to be quite deep rooted. I wouldn’t have blamed anyone for booing the team off today, but some people clapped. Yes, clapped. It does suggest to the players that no matter how badly they play at Theme Park KM, they’re not going to get stick that sometimes they richly deserve.
It’s games like this where, if anything, we are too soft on our players. Where’s the ability to give them a much needed white hot poker up the jacksie? TB/SC/Bassey can’t do it all the time. We won against Cambridge because we were stung by how badly we played against Kiddie the Sunday before. Today, we didn’t treat going a goal down as somebody pissing over one’s mother…
You may accuse me of encouraging booing against our players (for the record, I didn’t boo. I am a hypocrite), and in a way I suppose I am. Yes, we may be second in the league still, but today was unacceptable on every level. I know it’s easy for people to say that the players know they played badly, but do they? An off day is one thing, but this is happening more regularly now. We don’t look like a team in second place, at least not this afternoon.
I suppose what I’m saying isn’t that we should now start mass abusing the players (although some did take delight in attacking the much maligned Sam Hatton), I’m suggesting that maybe on a few more occasions we could give the impression we give a toss…
Meet the manager: He wasn’t exactly happy. Gregory was sick at half time (no quips about the carvery, please) and suggested that we have too many youngsters in. Would have hoped that he didn’t read the SW19 Kiddie report before coming to that conclusion. Oh, and Brett Johnson is out for another 3/4 weeks…
Incidentally, there won’t be any more audio streams of TB’s post match press conferences, at least on this site. I’ll let you into a little secret – they were done to prove the point that uploading such content after a game is quite easy to do, and if I could have charged for it, I would have got some takers. After my recent comments about the OS, and if anyone can find any online stats for it (ie how many people read it), it’s worth bearing in mind for the club – especially if they decide to charge…
Truth is stranger than fiction: (1) Took ages to get out of the TE for some reason at the end. Unless it’s like that strange phenomenon you experience during a very dull game, where the 90 minutes feels like 90 years. (2) 31 FGR fans. Fair play to them, but not sure if I particularly like having away attendances announced like that. Those who went to those evening games at Sheffield Wednesday back in the day will know what I mean. (3) Speaking of the PA, does Phillo do it any more? Seems to be all Mikey T now. Not that I mind, especially when he plays the Big Match theme tune beforehand…
Anything else? Not really. Just read Erik’s piece in the programme, and it does confirm that KM is only going to be the new Underhill at best. I did like the use of the “buy the next programme to see how our new stadium plans are getting on”…
So, was it worth it? The editor’s lethargy in writing this feels like Paul McGee on speed compared to today.
In a nutshell: So, how many will Mansfield score against us…?