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aloisijohnnyaloisi
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This is incorrect. Just watched the replay back, Hyam was marking the lad and got sucked towards the ball for some reason. If you insist on singling players out at least get it right.
I find this thread really strange given that we’ve just gone away to a side that fancy themselves for promotion and played them off the park for long spells. Give the lads a break would ya.
fatso
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Total bollocks!
Londonccfcfan
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Pretty sure Ostigard has the quality to play the odd game if required in centre defensive role. But I was surprised today Shipley did ok.
Kilclines curly mullet
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Disagree. Central defenders are always likely to get dragged further into the centre of the goal. Whether their lad was Shipleys to mark is debatable, what isn’t debatable is that Shipley was static.
Robins will also single him out, the difference is that he will do it behind closed doors.
The championship is brutal and if we are going to stay up, we have to do better in situations like this, if it was O’Hare, Allen, Godden I would say exactly the same.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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You could argue the defence not being switched on at the first whistle cost us the game. You could argue Godden not putting a chance away cost us the game.
covcity4life
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I have been critical of Shipley in past but also praised him. His fans are cultish
Thought he was good today though playing a role he is not naturally suited too. No complaints from me today
Thought he was good today though playing a role he is not naturally suited too. No complaints from me today
aloisijohnnyaloisi
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Yep agree that it was very sloppy and we’ll continue to get punished at this level if we don’t tighten up.
Just don’t understand why you’re pinning all on Shipley when it was clearly Hyam’s man that scored. Maybe Shippers was flat footed and didn’t react, but you’re saying it was all his fault, which it wasn’t.
mr_monkey
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JulianDarbyFTW
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He played well until Allen went off imo. The change is shape exposed him a little, alongside the fact that the rest of the team was tiring.
covcity4life
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Peak also easily pushed at that corner
Lessons to learn for all thats all
Lessons to learn for all thats all
mr_monkey
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Welcome to sbt
fernandopartridge
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If Sheaf was fitter he could have replaced Kelly and Shipley replaced Allen later on. I only saw the game from about 60 minutes and he was poor to anonymous in that spell but think he's got plenty to offer further forward.
fernandopartridge
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Not really, the reality is that Bristol played competitively 6 weeks ago compared to our 6 months.
fatso
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That’s a fair point, but the hastily arranged friendly against Solihull speaks volumes, it as if MR realised we weren’t ready for the kick off, I can’t help feeling we are 2 weeks behind where we should be, and we were found out.
But fitness aside, there’s much to be positive about.
fernandopartridge
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Yeah I think he thought the players would be in better shape coming back off furlough, they'll soon get there though.
stupot07
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He didn't lose his man, we're doing zonal marking at corners. The ifollow I was watching was part of Bristol city's coverage, they had a player doing punditry and was saying we zonal mark and as a player he much prefers man marking.
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Kilclines curly mullet
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As stated, it wouldn’t matter who the player was that made the mistake, I’d still single him out
mr_monkey
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If I’m being honest I’ve never been convinced by Shipley. He doesn’t influence the match enough for a central midfielder.You just singled out the wrong man that's all
However to his credit he continues to improve and seems like a good lad to have around the changing room.
He doeshave an eye for goal and I think he needs to focus on becoming a goal scoring box to box midfielder who runs beyond the strikers .... if he does he may just surprise me as well as others
Kilclines curly mullet
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Shipley to his credit has improved over the last 2-3 seasons. He needs to continue to work on his tackling (he doesn’t get stuck in) and his fitness.
We, the supporters need to understand that just because he is “one of our own” that he is not above criticism when deserved.
We, the supporters need to understand that just because he is “one of our own” that he is not above criticism when deserved.
SkyBlueCoco88
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1 fucking game 
Mucca Mad Boys
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You see Hyam pinch in to deal with the perceived threat of the play in the middle, only for the ball to sail over and hit Kalas, who Shipley was left to deal with. Shipley wasn’t in a position to deal with the threat at all.
It’s a team failure - solely blaming Shipley isn’t fair.
SkyBlueCoco88
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Why no players on the post? A defender on the post and no zonal marking and that doesn’t go in. But everyone will forget the 3/4 chances we had to wrap the game up before then and jump on one players back - I’ve missed football
Mucca Mad Boys
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Why no players on the post? A defender on the post and no zonal marking and that doesn’t go in. But everyone will forget the 3/4 chances we had to wrap the game up before then and jump on one players back - I’ve missed football
They may have to change zonal marking if it becomes a problem, but our set piece defending wasn’t an issue last season.
There’s a reason zonal marking is popular - we just didn’t execute on that set play.
cc84cov
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Not for me pick a man to mark that’s your job
christonabike
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Please put a taxi for Shipley thread up! Ffs 1 game in and we were very unlucky and matched them without Kelly Dabo and Rose in a much higher league when a team pays millions for players and the usual pick a player haters come out of the woodwork. Ffs you couldn’t make it up!1 fucking game
Legia Sky Blue
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Although the 2nd goal was a bummer, the 1st goal was worse because every member of our defensive set up were in some way culpable. The ease with which they broke through us unopposed was ridiculous. If just one of them had been alert to the danger, we could have prevented the goal.