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Post by braintreeo on Jul 13, 2013 16:27:02 GMT
Cox.
About as bad a game of football as you could expect to see on an awful pitch.
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Post by jonw on Jul 13, 2013 23:40:47 GMT
BRAINTREE LINE UP: 1. Nik Hamann 2. Sam Griffiths 18. Sam Habergham (sub 3. Newman Carney) 4. Charlie Wassmer 5. Duran Reynolds 14. Pat O'Connor (sub. 12. Raphael Duyile) 7. Nicky Symons (capt) (sub. 6. Ryan Peters) 8. Ryan Ince 9. Jordan Cox 10. Mark Manger 11. Gregg Akelpele (SUB. 16. Matt Paine)
Att. 158 Most of the rest of the first team squad were at the game and trained before the match. Theonly one who didn't play but appeared stripped and ready if required was Nathan McDonald.
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Post by ozbrit on Jul 13, 2013 23:50:07 GMT
I think we should consider putting friendly games against lower league teams into two categories. Games involving clubs in our catchment area ie. Witham, Halstead, Sudbury should see us putting out a strong side to try impress the public of those districts, when we play lower teams but from further afield ie. Leiston then these are ideal games to field trialists. Obviously a fair bit of planning is involved to do this. I see the Leiston game is scheduled as our third last friendly, so I expect that Dev's will be wanting to put out a side closer to the one we'll kick off the season with. In my scheme of things we'd have played Leiston yesterday and Witham in a later friendly.
At the level we play at we need to attract paying spectators from surrounding towns, there's simply not enough people in Braintree alone to support a Connie premier side and friendlies are one way to showcase what a great side we have.
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Post by braintreeo on Jul 14, 2013 11:18:34 GMT
I think the club should have advised that this would be a Braintree Xl prior to the game and could have done so on here or the website. It must have been a plan to play the reserves and triallists but the first mention of a Braintree Xl is in the report on the website - I would not have bothered watching what was basically Braintree Reserves with a fair sprinkling of trialists and only one ot two first team regulars on for the last 10 minutes.
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Post by 4whatitsworth on Jul 14, 2013 11:41:16 GMT
Not sure what else you could have expected braintreeo when with only 2 or 3 squad places available how Devs can
judge triallists potential, unless you give them a run out against firstly lower league opposition before maybe a sterner
test against the likes of Portsmouth and Colchester etc.
If they don't perform at that level then chances are they won't be given another outing.
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Post by braintreeo on Jul 14, 2013 19:27:51 GMT
Not sure what else you could have expected braintreeo when with only 2 or 3 squad places available how Devs can judge triallists potential, unless you give them a run out against firstly lower league opposition before maybe a sterner test against the likes of Portsmouth and Colchester etc. If they don't perform at that level then chances are they won't be given another outing. Usually if you are not planning on playing the first team at any stage these games are billed as a a teams XI which indicates a team made up of mainly reserves and trialists. For example in Two weeks the O's take on an Arsenal XI - we expect to see their Reserves plus maybe one or two first teamers who may need a run out for fitness reasons but it's not billed as an Arsenal first team, Knowing that I suspect understanably quite a few Arsenal fans won't go. While I Agree that the club has to look at triallists there must have been an advanced plan to play a team of reserves and triallists for this game, however this wasn't communicated to supporters before the game although interestingly enoungh the team is reffered to as Braintree Xl in the match report. I wouldn't choose to go and watch Braintree Reserves and went yesterday in the expectation of seeing the first team at some stage of the proceedings,it would have taken two minutes for someone to post here or on the main site that this was going to be the case and at least give people an informed choice given such an incredibly weak Xl. |
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Post by coludave on Jul 14, 2013 20:25:50 GMT
colchester were due to play their first team there on wednesday? i think. the manager got there (having been assured the pitch would be better than the terrible effort last year) to find it worse. it was an unwatered dustbowl, and with whispy bits of wild grass coming through from the dying yellow grass. it was so bad, he decided he couldnt risk his first team on it and called for the under 21 side to get there asap. apparently witham were not best pleased.
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Post by stevet on Jul 14, 2013 20:30:07 GMT
Agree with you ref first team or XI, as this is the case most times with friendlies. Many things can alter the change in programme of hows its billed to the fans, as was this game,if the question was asked as i was as well as the management. All the first team turned
up and ready to play, but due to the poor condition of the pitch this was not ever going to happen, this decision was made at 1.45pm.
We had no reserve players in attendance,only first team and trialist, and why you feel the club has short changed you by having some hidden agenda (to have had advanced plan) beggars belief. Devs had all intentions of playing our first team as told to many supporters after the South End game, and up to the time in question the board. Of course the match report would say XI after, why not. And surely we would gain nothing financially as this was an away fixture. I Am sorry you feel you wasted your time, but many adapted to the unforeseen circumstance and made a good day of it, with drinking and more drinking and watching guys running around on that pitch, and heat. Never mind can't please everyone, we all have our opinions.
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Post by oranjeboom on Jul 14, 2013 22:34:19 GMT
I only ever seen league clubs use that X1 stuff for when they are playing with different squads at different places often ot the same time. Wasn't the whole squad at Witham and all could have played, if the manager felt appropriate like ColU a few days earlier.
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Post by braintreeo on Jul 15, 2013 6:53:20 GMT
Agree with you ref first team or XI, as this is the case most times with friendlies. Many things can alter the change in programme of hows its billed to the fans, as was this game,if the question was asked as i was as well as the management. All the first team turned up and ready to play, but due to the poor condition of the pitch this was not ever going to happen, this decision was made at 1.45pm. We had no reserve players in attendance,only first team and trialist, and why you feel the club has short changed you by having some hidden agenda (to have had advanced plan) beggars belief. Devs had all intentions of playing our first team as told to many supporters after the South End game, and up to the time in question the board. Of course the match report would say XI after, why not. And surely we would gain nothing financially as this was an away fixture. I Am sorry you feel you wasted your time, but many adapted to the unforeseen circumstance and made a good day of it, with drinking and more drinking and watching guys running around on that pitch, and heat. Never mind can't please everyone, we all have our opinions. If the reason to pull the first team out was that the pitch was dangerous and it was taken at 1.45 fair enough, no point risking injuries, bigger picture and all that. However if the club felt the pitch was that bad they shouldn't have played period. Looking at the pitch it didn't appear dangerous, just very very dry and bobbly. |
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