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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 27, 2010 19:41:26 GMT
Half-time 0-0, Mike Power has rattled the cross bar!
With my thanks to Kim Cowell
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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 27, 2010 20:35:57 GMT
Ended 0-0.
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Post by 4whatitsworth on Jul 27, 2010 21:06:15 GMT
Look forward to a report on the side we played, and how we performed overall. For the match on Saturday against the Daggers I think its time to field what Rod considers our strongest team against what should arguably be our stiffest test so far in the friendlies.
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Post by ozbrit on Jul 28, 2010 1:35:59 GMT
Yes I look forward to a report as well. At first sight, this looks like a poor workout. We've read about how Rod's Aveley side of last season has been cut to shreds, we ourselves have taken key players, I know it's a pre-season friendly, yet we couldn't even find the net once. So that's 3 friendlies where we've failed to score, I thought (maybe it's only me) friendlies were generally goalfests when compared to the real thing.
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Post by jonw on Jul 29, 2010 7:50:29 GMT
Can anyone who was at the Aveley game post a line-up on here, so that I can keep the club records up straight?
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Post by braintreeo on Jul 29, 2010 13:39:53 GMT
Yes I look forward to a report as well. At first sight, this looks like a poor workout. We've read about how Rod's Aveley side of last season has been cut to shreds, we ourselves have taken key players, I know it's a pre-season friendly, yet we couldn't even find the net once. So that's 3 friendlies where we've failed to score, I thought (maybe it's only me) friendlies were generally goalfests when compared to the real thing.
In all honesty the result does not matter does it, unless you are playing very very poor opposition no-one really hammers anybody these days and if they did you would have to ask what sort of work out it was.
Benefits are that the players have had another 45,60,90 minutes in preperation to full fitness, the team has taken another step forward in understanding how the manager wants them to play and the positive is that Braintree have conceeded very few goals in pre season, nothing really matters other than how we do in our opening league game.
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Post by ozbrit on Jul 29, 2010 20:26:33 GMT
If not conceding goals is seen as a positive, then many others - like myself would see failing to score as being equally to the negative.
0-0 is a quite unusual scoreline for a friendly, trust me.
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Post by braintreeo on Jul 30, 2010 8:19:42 GMT
You are reading far too much into a pre season friendly that is more about fitness and understanding systems than winning.
The manager is building a new team and that starts from the back, a solid foundation from defence and through the middle of the team, and that is why IMHO clean sheets at this stage are more important than hatfuls of goals, the goals will come but results at the moment are completely meaningless theres a bigger picture than Aveley away on a warm Tuesday in July.........trust me ;-).
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Post by stevea on Jul 30, 2010 8:41:06 GMT
while you are quite right that getting the defence in order is a priority, against lower sides in a friendly you should be a bit more cavalier in attack to score a few goals & give your strikers some confidence. As always with football, it is about getting the balance right between defence & attack. Perhaps in this case Rod did not want to embarrass his former side.
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