torquay-imp
Vital Youth Team
very tight game and they will have a lot of crowd pressure if they don't play well been a lot of tisdale out chanting at exeter lately
All to play for on Thursday...
I’ve just brought our bowser with 17,000 litres of water ready for today’s game. Sell out crowd puts a strain on the water supply.
Left it too long after our game went flat before bringing Palmer [and Pett] on.
Disagree completely with calling that drab. Turgid? We’re in the playoffs.... if Rhead’s header is a few inches lower then that’s a brilliant performance. I thought we were very good second half.100% agree. Bostwick, Woodyard and Anderson looked shattered at 70 mins. Making subs with 7-8 mins to go is not long enough to make an impact.
Overall thoughts.
Turgid. One dimensional, lack of ideas. No flow and quite a moment when Wilson gave Anderson a talking to on the touchline in the first half. Some of the players didn't look up for it.
Exeter looked very bright in the first half...but we had the penetration of a foam drill bit on granite for the whole game.
We were too easy to read and will someone please take a blooming shot from outside the box.
Allsop played well and made some good saves. MOTM, a difficult one to call. I thought Wharton was solid and Eardley ensured our left was not too over exposed.
Of course, we have injuries, which affects selection. Yet, it's a sorry state of affairs when we have gazillions of wingers and can only play one of them. The lack of width was alarming.
Thursday, though, is a different game. A one off so to speak. On the balance of probabilities it looks like Exeter will nick it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it goes to ET and pens. Today really summed up our season at home.
We didn't take our chances. We didn't score when we were on top. Another 0-0 drab draw.
To be honest, it will need such a Herculean effort to beat Exeter, will it be possible? Who knows. I'm not putting a bet on Lincoln to do it, but I am most certainly not betting against them.