3 home defeats on the bounce.
18 goals shipped.
Er, Houston, we have a problem.
Ok, so Sundays performance against Basingstoke wasn't as dire as Thursdays was, but there were still far too many basic errors being made, especially by players with enough experience to know better. Sure, TH rolled with 3ish lines, but the bulk of the icetime went to the 1st line, and it showed. Basigstoke knew how to limit our offence, and creamed our D. It was probably more luck than judgement that we lost as lightly as we did.
And I really don't know what to write. I could rant and rave about piss poor defense work, a powerplay that couldn't score in a brothel most of the time, or the seeming inability of TH to look beyond EC for scoring options, but what good would it do? Sure, it might make me feel a bit better, but I still have to go back to the rink on Sunday, and that is something I am not looking forward to at all. My only hope is that some lessons have finally been learnt, and the players can pull this shit out of the fire, before things get way too fucked.
Bad times, but at least we are still heading to the playoffs! Team or no team, the party starts with us!
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WARNING!!!!!!!!
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This blog can, and does contain language which many readers may find offensive. If you don't like swearing, it might be a good time to read a different blog...
Seriously. this is most certainly a blog written by an adult, containing adult language.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
EPL Cup Semi Final, 1st leg review...
Shit.
Complete and utter shit.
On a stick.
With a frosting of shitty shit on top.
The lack of performance and guts shown by most (not all) of the players on Thursday was inexcuseable.
Yes, some things went against us (the call on Payette that lead to their equaliser...shit, even their bench agreed it was a bullshit call), but that does not excuse the display. Truly fucking woeful.
And Jaakko has a 2 match ban thanks to the draconian and inflexible accidental high stick causing blood rule. You can get a lesser call for doing it deliberatley.
But, I will still be there on Sunday. It really can't get any worse.
C'mon the Phoenix!
Complete and utter shit.
On a stick.
With a frosting of shitty shit on top.
The lack of performance and guts shown by most (not all) of the players on Thursday was inexcuseable.
Yes, some things went against us (the call on Payette that lead to their equaliser...shit, even their bench agreed it was a bullshit call), but that does not excuse the display. Truly fucking woeful.
And Jaakko has a 2 match ban thanks to the draconian and inflexible accidental high stick causing blood rule. You can get a lesser call for doing it deliberatley.
But, I will still be there on Sunday. It really can't get any worse.
C'mon the Phoenix!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
OUCH! Not good...
So, after a couple of weeks general improvement (including a number of road wins), The form of January has returned, in the shape of a thouroughly demoralising loss at home to Guildford.
Fone shipped 6 goals, all 6 of which he will likely want back. He was, to put non to fine a point on it, shite on Sunday. He looked slow and quite off the mark, reverting to type and rebounding shots he should have killed dead. The D wer not far behind him, gifting the Guildford fowards with space aplenty in which to work, with the inevitable consequnces.
As for the forwards... well, we seemingly couldn't have scored in a brothel. Big Ed seemed to be back in the old rut, looking like he really didn't give a flying fuck about the game. Sure, he hustled for the puck a few times, but his back checking was non existant, often leaving us a man down facing a rush. Pure laziness on his part. The he mouthed of to the ref (more on him later), and got himslef a 10mins misconduct. Followed up not too much later with another (and a match penalty to boot) for his petulant and frankly embarrasing ranting from the box. Muppetus Maximus as the Romans would have put it.
And Tony reverted to his '2 lines FTW' tactics... which clealry now does not work. Everyone in the league has our number on that one. Last weeks 'makeshift' (ie, Ed-less) attacking was much better to watch, showing more variety and invention. Ah well.
And now to the main course... MR Wardell our, ahem, 'esteemed' refferee.
His performance on the night was absolute shite. Seriously, he was awful. At one point, one of the linos had to point out he had just not called a blindingly obvious trip, which he somewhat reluctantly then did call. He also missed many, many other obvious penalties (against both temas being fair), quite a few of which he was looking directly at.
He clearly upset the team as they mostly refused to handshake him after the game. Fact is he was not in control of the game at all, and it could have spiralled into chaos very quickly were it not for the fact that most of the player kept their cool (dis-hounorable mentions go to Ed, Payette, and Tony, all of whom picked up 10 minute misconducts). Shit, even Boothroyd had to be shepperded away from him at one point, and he is one of the calmer players.
And I still don't think anyone knows what exactly Ed did initialy to get his misconduct. Wardell stopped the play, seemingly to call a penalty on Ed, who turned round and mouthed off, and Wardell slapped the misconduct on him. Any ideas?
And we've apparently got him on Thursday. Oh joy.
*takes deep breath*
And relax.
Fone shipped 6 goals, all 6 of which he will likely want back. He was, to put non to fine a point on it, shite on Sunday. He looked slow and quite off the mark, reverting to type and rebounding shots he should have killed dead. The D wer not far behind him, gifting the Guildford fowards with space aplenty in which to work, with the inevitable consequnces.
As for the forwards... well, we seemingly couldn't have scored in a brothel. Big Ed seemed to be back in the old rut, looking like he really didn't give a flying fuck about the game. Sure, he hustled for the puck a few times, but his back checking was non existant, often leaving us a man down facing a rush. Pure laziness on his part. The he mouthed of to the ref (more on him later), and got himslef a 10mins misconduct. Followed up not too much later with another (and a match penalty to boot) for his petulant and frankly embarrasing ranting from the box. Muppetus Maximus as the Romans would have put it.
And Tony reverted to his '2 lines FTW' tactics... which clealry now does not work. Everyone in the league has our number on that one. Last weeks 'makeshift' (ie, Ed-less) attacking was much better to watch, showing more variety and invention. Ah well.
And now to the main course... MR Wardell our, ahem, 'esteemed' refferee.
His performance on the night was absolute shite. Seriously, he was awful. At one point, one of the linos had to point out he had just not called a blindingly obvious trip, which he somewhat reluctantly then did call. He also missed many, many other obvious penalties (against both temas being fair), quite a few of which he was looking directly at.
He clearly upset the team as they mostly refused to handshake him after the game. Fact is he was not in control of the game at all, and it could have spiralled into chaos very quickly were it not for the fact that most of the player kept their cool (dis-hounorable mentions go to Ed, Payette, and Tony, all of whom picked up 10 minute misconducts). Shit, even Boothroyd had to be shepperded away from him at one point, and he is one of the calmer players.
And I still don't think anyone knows what exactly Ed did initialy to get his misconduct. Wardell stopped the play, seemingly to call a penalty on Ed, who turned round and mouthed off, and Wardell slapped the misconduct on him. Any ideas?
And we've apparently got him on Thursday. Oh joy.
*takes deep breath*
And relax.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
That was almost embarassing to watch...
Ok, lets get it out of the way.
12-3.
Not since the back to back visit by Edinburgh a couple of seasons back (when their imports had all pissed off) have I felt so sorry for a visiting team and its supporters.
It's not that Romford didn't try... far from it, most of their players were clearly trying to play with us, but we looked so far ahead of them it was almost unreal. And what made it even more bizarre is the fact that they have beaten us twice in their own barn this season!
We never even got out of 2nd gear. Hell, even Payette grabbed 4 goals! Summerfield was sent out in place of Fone after just 9mins!
And we looked a shit-load better going forward without Big Ed. Shit, we looked like we had some ideas other than 'bang the puck to Ed and hope'.
Attendance was good, arounf the 850ish mark, for my guess.
And its nice to have Boothroyd confirmed for next season too. Might shut a few of the doubters up (although I doubt it).
12-3.
Not since the back to back visit by Edinburgh a couple of seasons back (when their imports had all pissed off) have I felt so sorry for a visiting team and its supporters.
It's not that Romford didn't try... far from it, most of their players were clearly trying to play with us, but we looked so far ahead of them it was almost unreal. And what made it even more bizarre is the fact that they have beaten us twice in their own barn this season!
We never even got out of 2nd gear. Hell, even Payette grabbed 4 goals! Summerfield was sent out in place of Fone after just 9mins!
And we looked a shit-load better going forward without Big Ed. Shit, we looked like we had some ideas other than 'bang the puck to Ed and hope'.
Attendance was good, arounf the 850ish mark, for my guess.
And its nice to have Boothroyd confirmed for next season too. Might shut a few of the doubters up (although I doubt it).
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