HorsforthRam

I think the best football we played was someone at home in the funny trophy thing.

What was the attendance tonight?

As others have said… performances have caught up with us. I think PW has tried to get the second goal by putting on more attacking players. However, that seems to be the full sum of how we tactically attack. By just having more attacking players on 🤷🏽‍♂️

Their equaliser was a good strike though I thought the initial control by the player was poor. The ball was running away from him but none of our lads closed him down. Should have been a 50/50 ball after his lack of control

Warne post match interview was pretty honest. He explains what he saw and where we were poor and how the players gave their all etc. I’d just like to get his view on why we struggle to put more than 3/4 passes together and why we lose possession so quickly.

Abroad so was only able to watch the second half with no sound on. The game looked frantic with frequent turnovers of possession and some awful passing straight out of play. We looked to get into a few good positions but the final delivery was lacking (Wilson never picked a player out as far as I can remember and generally took an age to get a cross in). Last 10 mins we seemed to have more possession. Could have been that Barnsley stopped pressing and decided to defend their lead. However, what was disappointing was that we still kept on trying to play the same way. Long diagonals, or out to the wing as quick as possible to cross it. I would have liked us to try and go through the middle more and hope to slip a pass into Gayle. But unfortunately, we remained v predictable, an accusation that has been levelled for most of the season. Other results went our way so I just hope the players manage to put this one behind them.

Second game this season that I wasn’t at or watched on RamsTV. In Tasmania, checked the score at 3:30am (I think). Match seemed to have nearly finished scoreless. Woke up to a win. Excellent.

It’s obvious (as you know) that the poster was disagreeing that Exeter created the square root of nothing. But easy laughs I guess 🙄

Agree that a manager isn’t always to blame for a poor performance but even Warne admitted himself that he’s got it wrong first half in his opinion. I assume he thinks we would have played better if he had got it right… I enjoy our wins but I would still come on here to say if I thought we were poor if I felt we were.

The point isn’t about Shrewsbury playing to a professional level and trying to get a point or “god forbid even beat us”. It’s our feeble game from tactics to an utter shambles trying to pass and move consistently. Of course other teams are expected to compete. Don’t use that as defence for our rubbish performance

Another game ticked off

Unfortunately, we’re not even doing that with any quality or consistency

NML losing possession easily again that led to their thrown in and to the goal. He’s done that a few times. Can’t shield the ball

End of the day, we’re second and looking to put a performance in. We didn’t. We scored from a set piece and other than the header at the end, Shrewsbury looked more dangerous. We either let them on to us or just weren’t capable of putting them under pressure and getting the second.

We should have been doing this at 1-0!!

Awful game management. Not for the first time

Come on boys, let’s create another chance at least

This is where we need composure and to keep the ball. Turnover is too quick

Awful game so far

I felt there was definitely a sense of desperation on clearing the ball at times or flicking it on etc when the player had time to bring the ball down and look up.

No expectation of teams giving us promotion at all. I’m asking if they just put more effort in or did they change tactically that gave us problems. That’s all. No agenda, just curious why we really struggled to keep any sort of possession for 20 mins. If it was “just their spell”, that’s fine

That’s a view. Not sure what we did differently that’s all. Maybe they went for it in that spell and “gassed out” 🤷🏽‍♂️

Any views on how we were so overrun for that 20 min spell after halftime? (They really should have equalised with one chance in particular but otherwise the defence stood up but we couldn’t keep possession). How could we sort that?

Also thought Nelson was a rock today. Some proper blocks on the edge of the area. A big cheer when we actually worked the ball from left to right through the midfield. Think it was Hourihane who passed to Bird and then MOVED for the return and on to Thompson.. Great day out and you could see the passion and determination from the lads from behind the goal. No surprise that Warne was so pleased 💪

Also, how refreshing to see the ball in play for so long!