Whose to say that the game would have played out the way it did if the goal hadn’t stood. I wouldn’t have complained if it had been disallowed but I thought Carlton got a touch on the ball a fraction before the collision with the goalie.
I think the goal affected us more than it did them. I do believe it was a foul though but not malicious
Did you like the way we played for the remaining 88 minutes? Is that the football that you want to see BFC play? Forget everything else - the points we've got etc which we all know is more important than anything else - did you think that team performance was anything other than awful? Would you be happy watching that each week?
No, no and no. But as the saying goes goal change games and I suspect Rotherham had to change their whole game plan because of it. To be fair to them they played very well and made us look very ordinary
Some will look a bit deeper than that, for eg, knowing our young team have been feeling the nerves recently. We all know it was a poor performance same as we all know we haven’t played anything like that for the vast majority of the season. So we don’t associate that game with how BFC play. I think it’s you who needs to do the forgetting and start doing more remembering and take the season as a whole instead of blips.
We were shiite but we won. What do you want people to say? We are 1 point off of 3rd with 2 to play. Enjoy it. Don't enjoy it. Up to you, but what are you wantoing to hear from everyone else that will make you feel vindicated in your opinion? Up the Reds.
I always want us to win and am not too fussed how we do it. But when we have won I like to think that i have the grace to reflect upon whether it was deserved or not, amongst other things. We should have shown more of an ability to play it around today. Instead Rotherham showed how easy it is to play us at our own game. They are like we used to be up front though - toothless.
I wouldn’t want it to be like that every week but I don’t think I’d want it to never be like that either. There’s something quite fun about clinging on when everything and the kitchen sink has been chucked at you. It’d be boring to win easily every week and I’d take winning scrappily a few times to break that up rather than breaking it up by losing.
Based on the amount of luck we had today your Orlando top is now compulsory for the remaining five fixtures.
Yeah, they seemed to coast after the stoppage. Probably because the first goal has been so hard to get recently they thought job done.
You shouldn't be "clinging on" for the rest of the game. 88 mins of it. You should be able to do something to stop the other team being in charge of the game. Especially at home. Like playing football on the floor, at least for a certain part of the game. Like having a meaningful attack against the big uns they had at the back. We never did much at all to trouble them. We won today because their finishing was terrible. In other words we relied upon them to miss. I'm talking about this game only. But relying on them to miss means you're in a bad place.
Look at successful sides over the years and the one thing they tend to have in common is that somehow they still win even when they play badly. Call it luck if you like, but I’m happy to find us with that winners’ luck for once.