Returned from Leeds a few hours ago
A very good performance.
A lot of lessons were learnt from Tuesday and after seeing that this afternoon, has confirmed that the other day was a blip.
Draw was a fair result and I would have taken that before the game.
Great atmosphere
We contained Leeds superbly in difficult conditions. As for our chances, Shelvey headed agonisingly wide and Burton had a great chance on the rebound.
Well done team, Parky and the the 1800 or so Addicks who made the trip.
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In the 1st half Leeds were better and we didn't try to attack that much, as if we didn't believe we could win. However in the 2nd half once we played our passing game we were as good as them. Sodje made the defence a more solid unit, Racon held the midfield but our attack didn't have many chances. Towards the end it seemed that we had settled for a draw and contained Leeds with few problems. Our support was noisy and gave as good as they got, the team showed their appreciation at the end lead by Kins.
A good result.
Draw a fair result, we had some good chances but the Robbie made a couple of really good saves from them so evens really, I am a very tiny bit disappointed as with a bit more composure in the final 3rd we could have won that as we bossed the majority of the 2nd half. Even so I would have grabbed a point before the game so overall I'm satisfied.
Good day- good performance - good result.
Men of the match - Sodje & Richardson.
To be honest it would be hard to draw too many conclusions from today given the conditions, but we adapted better and over 90 minutes probably shaded it. Thought Spring had a good 2nd half.
Was Enoch Showunmi the worse player you've ever seen? Some of our fans chanted "Leaburn, Leaburn" when he got the ball but that was so unfair on big Carl.
Long old trip for a blank but good performance.
Write more tomorrow, knackered
Thought the Leeds team and support would be a lot better but I dont think the weather helped with either.
Long day for a 0-0 but everyone I spoke to before the game said they would take a point.
Good support from our lot despite some over zealous stewarding (note the entire Revie end were allowed to stand)
And just for Ooo Ahh the mighty Exeter brought about 700 more to Leeds than we did :)
Enoch showami is frank bruno in football kit. What a useless lump.
cheers sarfend
yeah but exeter is much nearer to leeds and they have bigger home crowds than us and are higher up the table and a lot of exeterites emigrated towards leeds years back ;-)
ok it was a big game for them .....
anyway what a point ..... 6 points from our next two home league games and even i might fancy us for automatic prmotion!!
Elliot made an excellent save and did well.
Richardson - very good game
Youga - good game, apart from once near the end when he lost possession and didn't get up and chase back quick enough, which nearly cost us a goal.
Dailly - usual top class performance
Sodje - Excellent both in the air and on the ground
Sam - Decent but quiet game
Bailey- Decent game
Racon- Very skillful, nearly our matchwinner, but not quite
Shelvey - Another good game, bit better than the last few
Spring- Good game and 2 decent shots
Burton - Decent game, only one effort, which was offside in any case.
Wagstaff- Decent
Overall it was a very assured and confident performance, which I found most pleasing. We took a point, which we richly deserved against the best team in this division (though Snodgrass didn't play and Becchio went off on the half hour, which helped).
On this performance I think Leeds and Charlton will take the top 2 spots.
I can't see many teams getting anything there, with 30,000 partisan fans and no doubt the officials favouring them, like they did yesterday (and their iffy penalty awarded in Tueday's game at home to Carlisle).
Our vocal support was very good, well done to all.
On the games I've seen so far, which is all of them except Tranmere. I think the top 4 will be :-
Leeds
Charlton
Norwich
Colchester
And... what a crowd for the third division. A lot of premiership teams couldn't get that on a good run. Impressive (crappy ground though, really).
on another point, the ticket fiasco for yesterdays game was a farce. after waiting 10 days for my tickets to arrive, on friday i received two tickets for the colchester game??? i rang the club to be told to collect some duplicate tickets from the leeds ticket office. when i got there tat 2.00pm they told me my name wasnt on the duplicate tickets list. i waited around till 2.40pm when the tickets were brought by someone from charlton and luckily mine was with them. i was really sweating as i had rang the club shop which is closed on away game saturdays. much as it all turned out ok, i think the club have messed a few people around this last week as has already been posted.
Leeds!!! That's why they are top with a superior g/d. Charlton played well away with the awful gale conditions and Leeds didn't look a patch on what they are capable of.Everyone has an off day as Charlton found out against Colchester. Don't underestimate also what Leeds can do on their day. They were poor yesterday and they have now a string of (not serious) casualties of which they now have a 2 week break. A fit Becchio,Snodgrass,Crowe and Higgs the game would have been different.
Conditions poor, ground tattier every time we go. Their support quiet and fearful which transmitted to their team. I expected Leeds to go for us and impose themselves on the division. I think they gave encouragement to the likes of Norwich.
Enoch was just hideously embarrassing, poor bastard 31000 laughing at your childlike efforts. Falling over the ball was comedic genius.
Defence was static? Defence is patched up. Full back injured,left back injured,number 1 goalie injured and still not leaking goals!!.That's why a big squad is vital.
Into midfield and attack we are simmilarly lacking quality/experienced reserves, yet we sent Chris Dickson on-laon to Bristol Rovers. From what I've seen of Charlton and Leeds we are the best two teams in L1, but our weakness is a lack of depth in the squad. To date we've been lucky with injuries and have no suspensions, but a couple of injuries and the odd red card and we could see our promotion campaign veer off-course.
Excellent game for Sam Sodje in v difficuilt conditions.
He does. Not sure why because he is capable of scoring against better teams. He was non existant in the second half on saturday and no one can put their finger on it. Maybe this is a big question mark on why no big teams have come in for him. Offers did come in but the clubs were unnamed. I heard WBA was one of them and no figure was mentioned. I guess he does think he is bigger than what he is but to be fair he has popped up and scored many a time when we have been poor in the past (just not on sat). He is still a vital member as he is guaranteed to score over 20 in this league but just a bit annoying on big occasions!!
Frustrating point in that I think we were the better side with the ball. Didn't really carve out many chances. I thought at the start of the second half we would genuinely score 2 or 3 because of the wind, and to start with we weren't allowing Leeds to get out of their own half which had happened to us at the start of the first half. We dealt with it well in the first 45 and thought Mcleod could have been dangerous with the ball over the top as Leeds tried to do with Beckford (which worked once). Nearly worked for ourselves. Racon and Mcleod both had clear sights of goal.
I thought Leeds were average and played long ball for the majority of the game with and without Becchio. Granted I'm sure they've played better this season, but then thats because they haven't played anyone las good as us before. Thought Beckford was average as well. In my opinion the reason he scores so many goals in this division is because he's playing for a decent team like Leeds and has about 300 shots every game from ridiculous positons.
Good point away, but a good sign that a few are frustrated that we didn't get all three away at the league leaders.
It took Ronaldo a longtime to score goals in the big games so he may get there eventually.