Tamworth (Hive) The Pig's Ear Match Thread

[jamiefrbees]

Highlights already up and they do show the build-up to our 5th goal in detail (lovely touch by Glover to put Shelton through) as well as the build-ups to our 1st, 6th and 7th goals.
They missed our 2nd though.
https://youtu.be/GFLdREjxQPE?si=ImxNZE2-CLLkx_1k

Hopefully will be re-edited as a couple of replays were cut short as well as the missing goal...

What a terrible attempt at editing. Barnet's highlights are always a couple of minutes shorter than other teams, but to miss the second goal and not showing replays for some is shoddy work

it's because the live stream also missed the 2nd goal. It was down for a few minutes...

I was watching and in my mind we were going 2 nil up, not 3! I thought the scoreboard was wrong

[Jimbokav1971]

Tamworth aren't great and they might just be the perfect team for us to play next, (main attacking threat isn't quick and their defenders prefer to defend in the air rather than on the deck). They had a centre-half playing at right back when I watched them earlier this season and indeed JCL, (their starting centre-half), has played 4 out of 5 games at right back this season, (so I hope we play Kanu on the left).

Matt Curley is their right back from last season and although he returned to the starting line-up in their 4th game, he lasted less than an hour and then wasn't in the squad at all when they won on Monday. I'm pretty sure that the only other right back in the squad is a teenage loanee who I don't think has played yet. We HAVE to attack them down that side.

The only goal we scored that didn't come from us attacking down the left hand side was Brunts 3rd which came from a corner, and the corner actually came from RHJ cutting in from the right and his shot being tipped over. Even the pen came from us attacking down the left.

I'm ecstatic the way we played and that we focussed our attacking play so much down the left. JCL is a decent centre-half, but he's no way a right back and Andy Peaks should have played their loanee youngster there rather than him. It was so obvious what was going to happen. In hindsight what he probably shoujld have done is play a 5, but he just never changes.

I do feel a bit sorry for Tamworth, (especially having finally watched their post-match interview), but they've had 2 brilliant years before this and what goes around comes around. We were so dominant that it's hard to tell how good we were and how poor they were. We've probably been waiting to give someone a spanking like that for a couple of years now. Great to finally see us do it.

Next up is Gateshead and they're the only unbeaten side left in the league, (after they saw off Eastleigh at the weekend), and it would be good to see them off because they've been our bogey side for a while now. I honestly don't think they will do it again this weekend.