There's no doubt that the tactics are good ones for getting results - get as many men behind the ball as possible and timewaste from the first minute and look to hit us on the break or if not take the 0-0. They worked to perfection in the Trophy game and for 80 minutes today, but...
I am so so pleased I don't have to watch that turgid shit every week and so pleased Gloucester got what they deserved today - nothing. At one point today they had a free kick inside our half and still left 5 men back to mark 2. As has been said it didn't have to be that way as the last 10 clearly shows they can play. It was comical watching players taking an age for free kick, throw-ins etc. and our players fetching the ball for them to the way they where running about in that final 10.
And Tigerroar mate how can you compare our performance at yours which you obviously saw to yours here which you didn't. Having seen both they where nothing like similar. At yours we actually had shots on target before and after going in front and had the better chances throughout the game, you didn't have a single shot on target all afternoon today.
Oh yeah and when we played at yours some on your board took the p*ss out of our away support a bit and said that you took 60-70 everywhere, where the f*ck where they today?
In the past we have taken that to places when we've managed to get a coach going, but this is our second season here, second season of "struggle" and with most people having done most of the grounds it's hard to get a minimum of 30 - 35 people to share the cost of putting on a coach. On a personal level my job has changed making it nigh on impossible to get to an away game further than the Midlands and that doesn't help because I'm one of the people who takes on responsibility for the coaches!
We clearly had a gameplan today, there's no denying that and I'd imagine it was the same as when we played in the Trophy when both teams might've got a bit of luck so we would've tried it again today.
And the reference to the game down here and time wasting was towards the end of the game where Boston tried every trick in the book, not that I blame them because it works.
And I'm glad that at least one of your supporters can see past the Boston point of view