Thoroughly enjoyed tonight, a cracking game of football.
End to end, plenty of needle, players getting stuck in and a real urgency about the play, from both teams. Very decent supportive atmosphere.
Thought it was a pretty solid team performance throughout, first real time Forster has really shined in my opinion. A solid acquisition and looked a good brave header for the goal after some superb work from Lloyd Sam.
Not really going to highlight anyone though. It was a tough, tight enjoyable game with a bucketload of committment from both sides. But i think we deserved to edge it.
Agree with the above, no one player stood out as below par, all players seemed to stand up and be counted.
Main thing i thought was the atomosphere, thought it was one of the best this season, looking forward to saturday, another win keep this mini run (minus southampton result) going ...even if we miss out on 2nd, playoffs will be won by the team on form.
Agree with those above, we did just enough and we move on to saturday.
What was Randolph doing in injury time though, was he pushed or did he just completely miss it?
My only issue is Bailey and/or Racon still do not work on the left. We've known this for weeks/months yet Parky persists with one of them there. Whilst i agree we can't leave Bailey out, at home we need to open teams up and to do that we need natural width.
Colchester are a very big ugly team and we clung on to win the game god knows how. I remember us winning 2 headers upfield - the goal and 1 from Akpo - must have been 2 out of 30!
[cite]Posted By: wwaddickson[/cite]I've heard there was some sort of headbutt or attempted headbutt that had Lisbie sent off
Just checked out Parky's post match comments on the OS:
"It was a clash that turned feisty towards the end and former Addick Kevin Lisbie departed the action slightly earlier than planned after being shown a second yellow card by referee Mike Jones.
John White was also booked late on and was lucky to stay on the pitch too after a serious of fouls, one of which on substitute Scott Wagstaff saw Parkinson and Bothroyd square up on the touchline.
When the dust had settled, however, Parkinson stated: "When John White tackled Scott Wagstaff I was having a go at the referee. Aidy was disappointed I was out of my technical area but i was having a go at the referee. But we'll meet later and have a drink and it will be forgotten. I shook his hand in the tunnel.
"I didn't see the sending off but Nicky Bailey said that Lisbie put his head into his. If you do that, you're liable to be sent off.
He's an experienced player and he knows you can't do that and I'm sure Aidy will be disappointed he's lost a key player because of it.”
Good gutsy performance tonight. Only moment of genuine quality came from Sam to make the goal. Ball spent a lot of time in the air. Colchester are a horrible team to play against but I don't recall Randolph needing to make a save, although he made a howler at the death. Thought Akpo was a handful all game, no idea why Lisbie was snet off but thought no. 25 should have got 2nd yellow for the foul on Waggy.
Easily the most competitive I've seen us for ages, Colchester tried to overwhelm us early on and we withstood that and imposed ourselves on them....it really really helped that Lloyd Sam looked interested, I will say more later, but am I the only one intrigued by the Racon/Bailey switch in the second half which led to a 'moody' substitution after Racon was seeming to demonstrate he didn't like that position....intrigued because if he doesn't like it on the left he had to show that feeling in front of his bench as it were....hmmmn. Can anybody shed light on the touchline bust up?? I know Colchester were hissy fitting about the multiball stuff at one stage, but I think overall they tried to test our competitive nerve...and it failed.
Very good win, and a very good level of home support.
I really enjoyed tonight too. Exciting stuff. Who wants to kill off a game and not get to experience those last nervy 10 mins or so? It makes the final whistle all that sweeter.
The more I see of Fraser Richardson the more I am impressed by him.
A tale of two ball boys tonight - The first one, little ginger lad who got a mouthful off Borrowdale for giving the ball back too quickly to Col U and the other one who stood in for Chris Powell/Rob Elliot etc......
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End to end, plenty of needle, players getting stuck in and a real urgency about the play, from both teams. Very decent supportive atmosphere.
Thought it was a pretty solid team performance throughout, first real time Forster has really shined in my opinion. A solid acquisition and looked a good brave header for the goal after some superb work from Lloyd Sam.
Not really going to highlight anyone though. It was a tough, tight enjoyable game with a bucketload of committment from both sides. But i think we deserved to edge it.
Roll on Nervy Narridge !
strong performance. players stood up to be counted.
parky got the subs spot on.
shame we didn't get that second, and almost slipped up at the end.
all in all, good performance, great result. semedo mom.
Gutsy display against the bully boys.
Up the Addicks
I really really really believe tonight and not a drop of alcohol has passed my lips!
Looks like Leeds at home could be MASSIVE!
I thought he did a good team role, couple of efforts, was a bit of a handful up against a guy who looked huge.
Reckon some will slate though.
Main thing i thought was the atomosphere, thought it was one of the best this season, looking forward to saturday, another win keep this mini run (minus southampton result) going ...even if we miss out on 2nd, playoffs will be won by the team on form.
hmm. history would disagree.
ok, maybe, but id rather be going into the playoffs with 3 wins from last 3 games than 3 defeats
The 'Bailey Effect' strikes again .....?
Seriously, what happened?
Thought Dailly was quality.
Roll on Norwich (anyone else think we'll win this?)
strong performance. players stood up to be counted.
parky got the subs spot on.
shame we didn't get that second, and almost slipped up at the end.
all in all, good performance, great result. semedo mom.[/quote]
Disgree re: the subs. Didn't understand the Wagstaff subsitution.....you have a left winger sitting on the bench. Use him.
Was impressed how we stood up to what Colchester tried to dish out. What a truly horible team they are. Percentage football at its worst.
Anyone see what Lisbie did? I thought it must have been for mouthing off.
Thought Dailly was quality.
Roll on Norwich (anyone else think we'll win this?)[/quote]
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What was Randolph doing in injury time though, was he pushed or did he just completely miss it?
My only issue is Bailey and/or Racon still do not work on the left. We've known this for weeks/months yet Parky persists with one of them there. Whilst i agree we can't leave Bailey out, at home we need to open teams up and to do that we need natural width.
Assumed it was for something said after a col U pen appeal was turned down.
but he went straight off without much fuss.
Just checked out Parky's post match comments on the OS:
"It was a clash that turned feisty towards the end and former Addick Kevin Lisbie departed the action slightly earlier than planned after being shown a second yellow card by referee Mike Jones.
John White was also booked late on and was lucky to stay on the pitch too after a serious of fouls, one of which on substitute Scott Wagstaff saw Parkinson and Bothroyd square up on the touchline.
When the dust had settled, however, Parkinson stated: "When John White tackled Scott Wagstaff I was having a go at the referee. Aidy was disappointed I was out of my technical area but i was having a go at the referee. But we'll meet later and have a drink and it will be forgotten. I shook his hand in the tunnel.
"I didn't see the sending off but Nicky Bailey said that Lisbie put his head into his. If you do that, you're liable to be sent off.
He's an experienced player and he knows you can't do that and I'm sure Aidy will be disappointed he's lost a key player because of it.”
Very good win, and a very good level of home support.
The more I see of Fraser Richardson the more I am impressed by him.
A tale of two ball boys tonight - The first one, little ginger lad who got a mouthful off Borrowdale for giving the ball back too quickly to Col U and the other one who stood in for Chris Powell/Rob Elliot etc......