great 1st half.
we had fight, determination, won the 1st and 2nd balls, lots of energy about us, attacked and attacked, good pass and movement, looked comfortable at the back, dominated possession and going forward - we looked very much up for it. went in at half time fully deserving the 2 nil lead. only complaint was it should have been 4 or 5 nil but for ex gas keeper poke who made some great saves to keep it down to 2 nil. i thought their player who got a red card should of been sent off instead of his 1st yellow on hammer which resulted in hammer having to go off injured. justice was done though when he picked up his 2nd yellow soon after.
poor start to the 2nd half.
we never really turned up for the 2nd half. looked like we sat back thinking the game was won instead of taking the game to torquay to really finish them off and make a statement to the rest of the league. typical that both howe and downes (both ex gas players) both scored past us. in this spell we looked like we were the team with 10 men as we just dropped our heads and i thought we were going to give the 3 points away.
wayne brown coming on was the turning point.
he was the spark that we needed to get back into the game that we were about to lose. the performance levels from the 1st half began to show in the 2nd and we were then back to dominating the game and created several chances and thankfully got the crucial goal. we wasted several good chances and like the 1st half we could of got another 2 or 3 goals in the later stages of the 2nd half. i was really impressed with norburn, clarkson and eaves today. eaves should of got his hattrick.
overall i had us to lose this game as torquay are a good side so 3 points is a great result and apart from the 1st 20 mins of the 2nd half, the teams performance was top notch something i havent seen at the mem for a good few seasons.
next 2 games are away to wimbledon on tuesday and accrington on saturday and we should be at least getting 4 points from these games which should put us in a good place with a game in hand. things beginning to look bright
we had fight, determination, won the 1st and 2nd balls, lots of energy about us, attacked and attacked, good pass and movement, looked comfortable at the back, dominated possession and going forward - we looked very much up for it. went in at half time fully deserving the 2 nil lead. only complaint was it should have been 4 or 5 nil but for ex gas keeper poke who made some great saves to keep it down to 2 nil. i thought their player who got a red card should of been sent off instead of his 1st yellow on hammer which resulted in hammer having to go off injured. justice was done though when he picked up his 2nd yellow soon after.
poor start to the 2nd half.
we never really turned up for the 2nd half. looked like we sat back thinking the game was won instead of taking the game to torquay to really finish them off and make a statement to the rest of the league. typical that both howe and downes (both ex gas players) both scored past us. in this spell we looked like we were the team with 10 men as we just dropped our heads and i thought we were going to give the 3 points away.
wayne brown coming on was the turning point.
he was the spark that we needed to get back into the game that we were about to lose. the performance levels from the 1st half began to show in the 2nd and we were then back to dominating the game and created several chances and thankfully got the crucial goal. we wasted several good chances and like the 1st half we could of got another 2 or 3 goals in the later stages of the 2nd half. i was really impressed with norburn, clarkson and eaves today. eaves should of got his hattrick.
overall i had us to lose this game as torquay are a good side so 3 points is a great result and apart from the 1st 20 mins of the 2nd half, the teams performance was top notch something i havent seen at the mem for a good few seasons.
next 2 games are away to wimbledon on tuesday and accrington on saturday and we should be at least getting 4 points from these games which should put us in a good place with a game in hand. things beginning to look bright
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In all I'm a happy Gashead. McG has got us moving at last. Taking me ages to type this cos I had a few after the game..... as usual
