Are we too harsh?

Kyle Seasider

Kyle Seasider

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On Tuesday I was very happy with the 3 points but wasn't happy at all with the performance. I thought we were the second best team and lucky to win.

However I have just listened to a MK Don's podcast and they were full of praise for us. Thought that we were excellent off the ball, played as a team and had the perfect game plan for them.

Are we too harsh on our own team? When the opposition fans are praising us, yet we critises our team.
 
It's a difficult question to answer, would you rather being playing teams off the park, like we did early season with Plymouth, and lose or would you rather see three points on the board without playing anything like sparkling football?

I guess most people would like to be somewhere in between, we all long to see slick attacking football, absolutely battering teams into submission with goals galore but reality is far more fickle, play poorly and win, play brilliantly and lose or draw? I'm relatively happy at the moment that we keep climbing the table.
We've had significant injuries in a far from normal season and yet we are still within touching distance of the top six, even with the poor start we had. I'm not convinced we will make the play offs but who knows? Stranger things have happened.
 
Yarmouth Seasider said:
It's a difficult question to answer, would you rather being playing teams off the park, like we did early season with Plymouth, and lose or would you rather see three points on the board without playing anything like sparkling football?

I guess most people would like to be somewhere in between, we all long to see slick attacking football, absolutely battering teams into submission with goals galore but reality is far more fickle, play poorly and win, play brilliantly and lose or draw? I'm relatively happy at the moment that we keep climbing the table.
We've had significant injuries in a far from normal season and yet we are still within touching distance of the top six, even with the poor start we had. I'm not convinced we will make the play offs but who knows? Stranger things have happened.
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I will take 3 points however they come after the start we had.

I agree it's it's about what's more important to us. It's just them describing us as excellent and yet I've not seen any of our own fans get close to that.

Personally I dont even think we played well. Maybe I'm expecting too much and need to lower my expectations.
 
It's League One football, often played on shocking pitches against teams like MK Dons who will drag us down to their level. We haven't been playing particularly well but right now, taking all factors in to account, I couldn't give a damn.

I honestly don't know what some people expect; a win away from home is a win away from home - there can't be many teams on the planet who would turn their noses up at that, regardless of performance.
When did we become football snobs where only some modern day equivalent of Total Football is now acceptable; is it too much familiarity with the Premier League and Champions League in the years we were all away?
 
BlackpoolsFinest said:
It's League One football, often played on shocking pitches against teams like MK Dons who will drag us down to their level. We haven't been playing particularly well but right now, taking all factors in to account, I couldn't give a damn.

I honestly don't know what some people expect; a win away from home is a win away from home - there can't be many teams on the planet who would turn their noses up at that, regardless of performance.
When did we become football snobs where only some modern day equivalent of Total Football is now acceptable; is it too much familiarity with the Premier League and Champions League in the years we were all away?
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I have to admit that sometime I can be guilt of this and I do need to remember the level that we are playing at.
 
I think this post from the MK Dons forum just about sums it up.....

Toby Carvery wrote:
"They're flying in the league, recently free from the clutches of the Oystons, won 0-1 in a game in which they executed perfectly a smart game-plan... and yet their glass is decidedly half empty. Hard bunch to please."
 
I don’t think we were lucky.
They had a good chance in first half but the Pool defenders were on him therefore had to hurry his shot. It was not a sitter as some say.
The chance from Gerome had a bit of fortune on our side when it hit the bar but in every game there are some key moments. Just like the Wimbledon game when if he had booted the 93 rd minute goal kick down the pitch rather than for a throw in then we would have won. It was a miskick that was deflected into the net yet nobody is saying how unlucky we were .
 
Noirpool_FC said:
I think this post from the MK Dons forum just about sums it up.....

Toby Carvery wrote:
"They're flying in the league, recently free from the clutches of the Oystons, won 0-1 in a game in which they executed perfectly a smart game-plan... and yet their glass is decidedly half empty. Hard bunch to please."
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A fair summary that....it's interesting sometimes to see ourselves as others see us.
There are a few on here that are hard to please for sure.
I'm more than happy to be on the glass half full side and watch how this season unfolds.
 
Personally I don't care if we win 'Ugly'. It's the 3 points which count at the end of the day.
O.K. It's nice to watch flowing football, but flowing football and losing, or even drawing, is no good to anyone, except a point away is OK.
 
As well as sometimes being over critical if we don't win there is also a tendency to assume that any team we beat must be rubbish.
It's probably worth pointing out that this season M K Dons have DRAWN with Doncaster (a), Ipswich (h), Peterborough (h), Oxford (h), Sunderland (h) and WON against Sunderland (a), Charlton (h), Fleetwood (h) and Hull (a).
Just shows how competitive this league is and that M K Dons are no pushover.
 
That first 20/25 minutes was a woeful spectacle.

The rest wasn't much better and football is an entertainment industry and if SS wants to sell out BR, we need to be entertained.

Defensively we looked sound, apart from the odd moment, which is what football is about.

Attacking, we weren't that great.

It's was a meh match.

If I was in the ground, I'd have been chanting with the best of them, we'd have a bit of crowd banter, a pantomime villain etc. I have none of that sitting in front of my telly (although this site adds a bit of flavour), so maybe the focus is exclusively on the game rather than the event and that's why it felt just a bit rubbish.

Still, we are heading in the right direction and I'm pleased about that.
 
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