Cheltenham Away. 10-08-24

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Here we go. Real trepidation right now. Really hope I'm wrong but I think we're two quality players light.

1-0 down. Colwill on loan from Cardiff for Cheltenham.

Oh dear.

2-0 down

Oh dear, oh dear

2-1 CBR penalty

Foul on Kamwa. Been our best player.

Very biased commentary

Not as bad as I feared. Not as good as I hoped .

2-2 Greaves

You really can take anything you like from that. But I think we edged that first half.

A better HT scoreline than I expected but our defence is worryingly fragile. Goal by Greaves encouraging.

Just showing technical issue on sky for second half

Lost 3-2 to a 96th minute goal

Had a couple of good chances to win it ourselves. Didn't deserve to lose

Agree buy naive.

. Far too fragile down our left side today. Other teams will take note. Pretty average Cheltenham team I thought, we may as well have had a flashing neon sign “ this way to the goal “. Did Kargbo dislocate his shoulder?

lowandhard wrote:. Far too fragile down our left side today. Other teams will take note. Pretty average Cheltenham team I thought, we may as well have had a flashing neon sign “ this way to the goal “. Did Kargbo dislocate his shoulder?

It looked very much that way, both with regards to our left flank and Kargbo's shoulder. Down to 10 men and we didn't park the bus, why?

Amberexile wrote:

lowandhard wrote:. Far too fragile down our left side today. Other teams will take note. Pretty average Cheltenham team I thought, we may as well have had a flashing neon sign “ this way to the goal “. Did Kargbo dislocate his shoulder?

It looked very much that way, both with regards to our left flank and Kargbo's shoulder. Down to 10 men and we didn't park the bus, why?

I’m not sure we can tbh. We look to be a bit light in the “ tough “ department to me. I also fear what will happen after a few injuries/suspensions? I just wish we could have hung on to Benno and Delaney, as it is, if we wish to have the “ comfortable “ season that Jardim is hoping for then I think HJ needs to bring a couple in. Hope I’m wrong of course. The fans’ much predicted struggle may come to fruition otherwise - again, just in my opinion.

Controversial I know. But in my view we need a better goalkeeper. I get Townsend makes wonderful saves but that's not what goalkeeping is about. You'll see unbelievable saves on any park any Sunday morning. Good 'keepers control their area which in my opinion Townsend fails to do and good 'keepers don't keep being beaten on their near post.
More than happy to hear alternative views, feel free to aim the flak, but that's my view.

We were marginally the better side, but like boxing you can be ahead on points and get knocked out in the final ten seconds.
One point about customer relations, as someone who through my own mistake booking a ticket online (or rather failing to o do so) it was very disappointing that Cheltenham, having announced that their optional extra seats for away fans (a block of perhaps 250) were going to go to home supporters, actually had a maximum of fifty home fans in that area.

excessbee wrote:We were marginally the better side, but like boxing you can be ahead on points and get knocked out in the final ten seconds.
One point about customer relations, as someone who through my own mistake booking a ticket online (or rather failing to o do so) it was very disappointing that Cheltenham, having announced that their optional extra seats for away fans (a block of perhaps 250) were going to go to home supporters, actually had a maximum of fifty home fans in that area.

Just glad they all made it home safely given the recent outbreaks of English patriotism.

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Cheltenham’s first two goals were so similar that when I watched the highlights I thought the second one was a replay.