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FT: Torquay Utd 1 - 1 Cardiff City. Pre season friendly
Just realised I can make this now - and it's just an hour's drive for me :tbg:
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First team I remember City playing against.
We beat them 2-0, Deon Burton with a brace.
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Me and 50 odd others on the fun bus from canton Cross.
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barrybloo
Me and 50 odd others on the fun bus from canton Cross.
Martin asleep yet John?
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The Bob Banker Spanker
First team I remember City playing against.
We beat them 2-0, Deon Burton with a brace.
Is that you, Yoda? :-)
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barrybloo
Me and 50 odd others on the fun bus from canton Cross.
:yikes:
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Taunton Blue Genie
Is that you, Yoda? :-)
Not as green but I'm the same height, got as much hair and have the same skin condition as him.
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The Bob Banker Spanker
Not as green but I'm the same height, got as much hair and have the same skin condition as him.
We are all God"s children :-)
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Tonight’s team
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Looks like a potential candidate for our first team and subs at the start of the season
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Wouldn’t read too much into team selection.
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Looks a good side:thumbup:
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Penarth Blues
Looks like a potential candidate for our first team and subs at the start of the season
Replace Manga with Bamba and replace Paterson with a new CM then I don't think you're far wrong.
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Cleve van Leef
Wouldn’t read too much into team selection.
I'm not, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that team walk out to play Bournemouth on August 11th
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The Bob Banker Spanker
Replace Manga with Bamba and replace Paterson with a new CM then I don't think you're far wrong.
That's the most likely I guess but seems Bamba is nursing a slight knock and if the new CM doesn't arrive soon then I think NW will go for a more settled team initially, rather than disrupt the squad togetherness too much
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Penarth Blues
That's the most likely I guess but seems Bamba is nursing a slight knock and if the new CM doesn't arrive soon then I think NW will go for a more settled team initially, rather than disrupt the squad togetherness too much
I spoke to someone en route to the ground who said that Bamba just drove past ten in his own car rather than travel with the team. No idea if that means anything.
One thing here trumps CCS: the availability of good quality real ale and at £3.50 a pint.
Excellent playing surface too.
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There's a crew down there a already charging around in the donkeys ,doing the Ayoltah
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Torquay Utd v Cardiff City. Pre season friendly
Bluebirds 1 - 0 up thanks to a Josh Murphy goal on 21 mins
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1 - 1 at the mo
Torquay scored on 57
Into last 10 mins now
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It's going to be a long hard season. Torquay are bad - really bad - and we played a strong team.
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Vindec
It's going to be a long hard season. Torquay are bad - really bad - and we played a strong team.
Good point. We're doomed!
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Vindec
It's going to be a long hard season. Torquay are bad - really bad - and we played a strong team.
Agreed. Awful, we may as well start again in the Championship.
Give Swansea their place back!!
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The score is pretty irrelevant.
The performances, individually and collectively, might give cause for concern but hopefully these can be worked on.
Personally, I don't read too much into friendly matches.
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Vindec
It's going to be a long hard season. Torquay are bad - really bad - and we played a strong team.
Oh why did i renew my st:shrug:
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We won't be scoring many goals in the Premier League.
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We lost to Shrewsbury last year in a friendly , yet still managed to get promoted. Wouldn’t read anything into pre season.
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Fine Lines
We lost to Shrewsbury last year in a friendly , yet still managed to get promoted. Wouldn’t read anything into pre season.
We didn't have to play the likes of Man City, Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea last season.
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Taunton Blue Genie
We didn't have to play the likes of Man City, Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea last season.
The season we made the FA cup final (and would have been in the playoffs hadn't we had a poor opening 3 months to the season) we lost to non-league Stockport 6-4 in a friendly.
I remember Newcastle being trounced by some lower division nonentity in a friendly once before winning the Championship.
Anyone reading anything into the results of pre-season friendlies are idiots.
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Warnock has also stated they had a full training session this morning too.
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Taunton Blue Genie
We didn't have to play the likes of Man City, Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea last season.
Then it's a good job that we can still play the likes of Huddersfield, Brighton, West Ham, Newcastle, Burnley, Fulham, Wolves, Leicester, Everton, Southampton, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Watford to have a chance at staying up, isn't it?
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Heisenberg
Then it's a good job that we can still play the likes of Huddersfield, Brighton, West Ham, Newcastle, Burnley, Fulham, Wolves, Leicester, Everton, Southampton, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Watford to have a chance at staying up, isn't it?
Absolutely. And I have no doubt that we'll pick up points off the top 6 at some points during the season.
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NW is not an idiot - no matter what he says publicly he'll be making a note of what is working and what isn't. He won't knowingly carry too many passengers either, no matter what their name is.
This tour is about getting players used to each other so that the understanding between each player comes instinctively as quickly as possible. It sounds as if we had a lot of opportunities but failed to put them away, which does beg the question of 'do we have a natural goalscorer we can bring on'? I can't think of one other than Healey - who is seen as too inexperienced I'd guess judging by him only playing U-23's this week.
With Danny Ward going off with a knock, it wouldn't surprise me to see Healey given a few minutes in one of the upcoming matches just to check if he can perhaps bring his ability to find the back of the net to tougher tests. For NW that would be one hell of a gamble, but he's found one striker already under his nose and might be prepared to back another if Healey continues his form.
I'm going to be a bit contentious here and state that I think Ken's slowness to anticipate might cause us more problems in the Prem in some matches than the advantages he can bring - and I think a quick, nimble alternative like Healey may be what we need with such a mobile attack as we seem to have. I think NW sees Ward as that player but he seems a little fragile and will need a backup.
Be interesting to see how the matches against Rotherham and Burton go - and who plays. I think NW was hoping the team he put out tonight would have buried Torquay - despite the raft of changes at half time. That it didn't will have given him pause for thought even if it is just pre-season...
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Heisenberg
Then it's a good job that we can still play the likes of Huddersfield, Brighton, West Ham, Newcastle, Burnley, Fulham, Wolves, Leicester, Everton, Southampton, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Watford to have a chance at staying up, isn't it?
We need a decent striker, old fruit.
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Taunton Blue Genie
We need a decent striker, old fruit.
Well we missed out on £50 Richarlison :facepalm:
Fact is we are going to have to battle as a team again and hope that one or two step up to the plate and I don't see our model being much different to last year's.
Goals were pretty evenly shared out and set plays key.
We have seen just recently in the WC that if a team sets up properly they can be very difficult to break down, even with 'quality strikers. Sounds like Torquay played a blinder.
I see the experts and doom mongers are already sharpening their fingers for the big kick off in three weeks :facepalm:
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Can we just enjoy the coming season instead of worrying.
We are going to take some battering, we are going to have some bad run of results, we will lose to some teams we need to beat and we will win some matches nobody thought we could.
Let's just enjoy being in the top flight in blue. Considering the job NW has done to date I'm sure he knows better than anyone what we lack.
Last night was a training session, we could win 10 nil and nobody think we will finish outside the bottom 3 so what does it matter? Are Torquay now suddenly going to storm their league next year?
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Trigger
Can we just enjoy the coming season instead of worrying.
We are going to take some battering, we are going to have some bad run of results, we will lose to some teams we need to beat and we will win some matches nobody thought we could.
Let's just enjoy being in the top flight in blue. Considering the job NW has done to date I'm sure he knows better than anyone what we lack.
Last night was a training session, we could win 10 nil and nobody think we will finish outside the bottom 3 so what does it matter? Are Torquay now suddenly going to storm their league next year?
:thumbup:
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Taunton Blue Genie
We need a decent striker, old fruit.
That's a completely separate point, young vegetable.
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MacAdder
The score is pretty irrelevant.
The performances, individually and collectively, might give cause for concern but hopefully these can be worked on.
Personally, I don't read too much into friendly matches.
Is the correct answer. Every summer we see people over reacting to fitness exercises. Torquay players would have been trying to prove a point against players who earn more in a week than they do in a year. Cardiff players would have been given specific instructions on what to do to improve on fitness levels etc.
People stupidly spend good money on watching these events, and usually come away thinking it was a proper football match that indicates how the team will be performing for the next 10 months. These games should be behind closed doors (like the old days).
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Went to the Plymouth friendly last summer. Can’t even remember if it was 1-0 or 1-1... can remember that Plymouth were the better side for most of it.
Didn’t do us any harm.
There were a few causes for concern in the game, but ther could be any number of reasons for that.