eddie Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Was it in the first half? I must admit I missed the majority of the first half as I was still half asleep To tell the truth Bris, the quality of crossing from both sides was really poor today. My seat's on the back row behind the North Stand goal and whenever any full back was in an advanced position, I feared for my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete2 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 not a great game of football. i think we need approx 25-28pts (~1.2-1.3ppg) compared with the 1.80ppg we have had over the course of the season so far to secure a playoff spot if you look at previous seasons (neglecting last season) . im quietly confident that if we continue a reasonable run through january and february we will make it through to the playoffs. I think it would take something truly special to get us through into the top 2. still to play yeovil, bournemouth, barnsley, charlton at home and doncaster away. we should aim to pick up all 15pts available from there, then need 10/13 more pts from the rest of our games. It was a massive massive win because it could end up cementing our place in the playoffs by beating the 6th placed team; a real six pointer . We played poorly and we really have to improve lot from that performance to get automatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 "BeSE0dCCMAA2SMp" alt="BeSE0dCCMAA2SMp"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 A fantastic 3 points, right up there with the best wins of the season. Probably as important as the win at their place to set off out great away form. Totally different view of the whole top 6 picture now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 To tell the truth Bris, the quality of crossing from both sides was really poor today. My seat's on the back row behind the North Stand goal and whenever any full back was in an advanced position, I feared for my life. I did see a few wild punts, mainly from the Brighton lot actually.. In that second half they must have hit row K or above at least 4 times. Then again, Bamford nearly cleared the roof with that feekick. Was it windy today? It looked it, towards the end at one stage Brighton played a floating ball down the line and it seemed to gather pace when hitting the ground and rolled harmlessly out of play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 A dreadful game of football, nobody can complain tonight when the FLS only show about 5 mins worth of highlights. Ward was better today and Dawkins was crap, Bamford is quality. Keogh MOTM. Finally we beat a good team!! No prediction points for me though. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 We played poor today. Often the final ball was not there They didnt really get in our faces allowing our defends to push up more and have time on the ball. Keogh took advantage of them sitting off to make forward runs. We won because Brighton played a different game plan against us than Leicester and Wigan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC_17 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Makes a change. change to what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC_17 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 everyone is saying keogh was MOTM, but i thought grant was superb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 We battled. Sometimes it's not going to be pretty. Personally I don't give a flying fark whether it was or it wasn't because we have just come off a bad run and we needed a result, not a performance. Today the ONLY thing that counted was 3 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Grant made two tremendous saves. The header from the corner in the first half, and the deflected shot in the second. Could have been made to look stupid when he dropped that simple catch though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete2 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 A dreadful game of football, nobody can complain tonight when the FLS only show about 5 mins worth of highlights. Ward was better today and Dawkins was crap, Bamford is quality. Keogh MOTM. Finally we beat a good team!! No prediction points for me though. -_- Brighton are not a good team on the evidence of today. But I will take the 3 points all day long. Well done to Mac for being brave having Sammon , Bamford Ward and Martin on all at once . I would have taken a point but Mac went for 3 fair play to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 change to what? Your underwear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC_17 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Your underwear? but i didnt change my underwear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 but i didnt change my underwear? I nearly had to when Upson had that free header. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC_17 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I nearly had to when Upson had that free header. same i almost jizzed after grant's save Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Nice to have the ground back to ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North_Stand_Ram Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 The question is, has Forsyth ever completed a short pass? Keogh unreal. Holds the line and makes us look so much more secure from set pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIMBAUD Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 i noticed eustace was excellent at making us push out in the later stages of the game and not defend too deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needles Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 It was a hard battle, but how Brighton got themselves a reputation for being a footballing side I can't understand. Defensively sound, deserved a clean sheet. Granty really earned his corn with two superb saves. Ward and especially Dawkins were poor and waiting for something to happen rather than forcing the issue. Martin didn't get into it so much as we've come to expect and Hughesy was off it by his own high standards. I said 5 minutes before we scored that we needed a mistake or a moment of brilliance and we got it. Great finish from Bamford. Massive credit to the gaffer for early, positive substitutions too. Top stuff. I'd have no qualms about sticking Bamford, Hendrick and Russell in next week and taking Dawkins, Ward and Hughes out of the firing line for a week. Blackburn are a decent side and they'll be smarting after getting turned over twice in a week. Can't be carrying any one there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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