regarding the goal, it was crossed from Clarke’s side and not O’Malley’s, so seeing it was scored in the middle of the goal it was more the central defence and not the full back not covering when it wasn’t the winger coming in from wing to score, it was a well taken goal.
Not at all Mick, when the ball is cross from one side, the full-back on the opposite side needs to be covering across because the centre backs have to move across too.
Robbed of a 1-1 draw which still would’ve flattered Colchester as Lofts header looked well over the line.
Certainly looked more over the line than Onarise’s at Harrogate!
One minor concern: whenever O’Malley plays, whilst he is a great crosser of the ball, we do seem to concede goals where he gets caught out at the back post. Last night was a great case in point. I can remember a few others from earlier in the season (Lincoln away springs to mind, possibly Crawley too) where he’s not marked the player who scores.
Battered Col U last night and just didn’t take our chances. Reading this thread, you do wonder if Scunthorpe United fans actually want to be happy. So many pessimistic posts about what was largely a positive performance.
In all honesty, I thought the knee protest had run its course because doing it for so long risks to dilute its impact. The sight of the England & West Indies players doing it before the first ball of the first test match of the summer was very powerful. Seeing it for the 100th Premier League game of the season has less of an impact. But the actions of this mob at Millwall show that I am wrong and we need to keep going.
Two goals in 7 league appearances is not a bad start for a striker coming up from non-league. Plenty of rough edges to smooth but certainly encouraging.
Not for now, it just means any EU citizen who isn’t resident in the UK by the year end will have to get a visa to work in the UK and the bar has been set pretty high. Non-international players are going to find it pretty difficult to get one.
I just thought it was relevant in light of the recent Iron Stats podcast about some of the foreign players we’ve had down the years and all they’ve contributed to the club & English football.
December 7, 2020 at 10:40 am
in reply to: January#198656
The weasel words of the minister who refused to condemn this booing were absolutely appalling. No wonder this country is in such a terrible state with such cowardly, gutless leaders.
It is similar to the PRIDE events and marches, I have no room for men marrying men or things like that, but have nothing against them doing their thing in either privacy, or as in Hull where they advertise their parades, so anyone like myself can just stay away and let them get on with their beleives, this way we are all happy and it is not being rammed down our throat by taking place in front of people that do not attend. Does anyone actually think that it has any effect what so ever, and if so, how??
What ARE you on about? If people should express their love in private, what does that make weddings?
How can somehing be rammed down the throats of people who do not attend?
I would be more happy with it if the heading was “ALL LIVES MATTER”
That is literally the point of BLM. They are saying “all lives matter, including black ones which currently don’t seem to count in the eyes of the law and wider society”. That’s the only point that’s being made: “we want equal treatment”. What’s wrong with that?
If football and politics should be kept separate, presumably we need to keep all the soldiers & other people in military uniform out of grounds every November.
Politics is part of life, it’s not just what happens in Westminster. Given how our game has been hijacked by people to make a quick buck, I think it’s a good thing that clubs are still doing something to help improve society.
Even if you doubled the number of stewards, which seems unlikely, it wouldn’t cut into matchday costs that much I would have thought. You might lose out on some food sales but then again you wouldn’t have to buy in so much stock. I can well imagine that clubs at our level will earn quite a bit less than in normal times but I’m not convinced they’d actually lose money. Of course, I could be wrong!
How many did they have in? I can’t believe that up to 2,000 would run at a loss. How many more people were they employing? It’s not like they normally get 20,000 at the Abbey!
I like the white away kit but we are a claret and blue club, one of only four out of the ninety two in the professional game, let’s keep our traditional kit for home games and be proud of our identity.
Got Saturday-Tuesday games for the next couple of weeks, might be necessary to change the team around a bit, can’t really see us picking an unchanged line-up match after match. I wouldn’t play Clarke in this game, for example.
Of course, the reverse of this argument is that if our players are harder to see, they will be harder for opposition players to pick up, so they should be unmarked.
