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Would endorse those comments the female referee was excellent never got one decision wrong was calm but with authority, top marks. Yes bit of a bugger no game for two weeks would have been nice to keep the momentum going. But on the plus side some breathing space for Conno to work with the squad and 'bed in' the new players. On an aside nice to see Tom Hartley at the ground yesterday still recovering after a nasty accident but hoping to be back soon.
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The referee, who happened to be female (!), was indeed good, authoritative and kept up with play. She madde a couple of mistakes i.e. penalising and booking Tony Davies from a distance after showing no card for a bad Airbus tackle as we were threatening their area, but on the whole she was excellent.

As for the game itself, it only really merits the plaudits given if our expectations are lowered to second-half Gresford level (Cofis put 6 past them yesterday). Shaky first 5 minutes, then the two well-taken goals in quick succession did a world of visible good for confidence and there followed 15 minutes of excellent football. Then we lost our way completely and were very poor last 20 minutes of first half.We showed however that we CAN do it.

Airbus were good going forward (as shown by their excellent second-half goal when they pased their way through the entire Rhyl midfield and defence to score without our touching the ball). But they were terrible defensively as hsown by all the goals conceded this season. Their keeper told us that they got "battered" every week. All our chances should be seen in this context. Ironically we were much better second half and carved out half a dozen chances. But for the 80 minutes between the first two goals and Titch's extra time goal, all our finishing was woeful. It seems no-one noticed the wind behind us and practically every shot flew high over the bar - prompting one anxious shout "Mind my car" as one shot flew over into the Grange Rd car park !

To put it into perspective, Titch was head and shoulders above all the new additions to the squad as a footballer. What the 3 or 4 newcomers have done however is to add steel to the team and have given footballers like Titch more confidence - and that is a massive boost at this level. Well done Conno.

The team have certainly boosted everyone's spirits. The problem will be how to keep it going. From where will the motivation come ? We are out of the running for the league. Not onle would we have to sin every game (18 consecutive) to the end of the season, but Caernarfon would also have to lose another 4 matches on top of that). Out of the proper Cup and the mini-Welsh Cup.

It would just show how far we've sunk if we get excited about beating a "top-of-the-table" Airbus who had a defence as bad as that, or got exciting about beating Junction to progress in the Pointless Cup. Let's be realistic. It will have been a bitterly disappointing season (and was so before Conno took over). We are fighting now for respect and the hope of a top-3 finish by going on a big winning run which will set us up for next season.

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After reading All that I don't know wether to slash me wrists or Not slash me wrists... There was more about that performance yesterday that just merited you mentioning Tich, !@#$ me Do you wear blinkers at the game, Yes Airbus put us under pressure for spells of the game But apart from their Goal we dealt with everything they could offe, the lad lad up front called "Farah Fawcet Majors" or something like that, scores every week for them but couldn't muster a shot at goal yesterday... Are you a grave digger or wha !

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A performance that defied belief yesterday. Some very good individual performances summed up in a nice piece here... (Shameless plug I know)

http://clwbpeldroed.org/2017/10/28/five-things-learnt-rhyl-beat-airbus/
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I think Ioio is a bit harsh here. It was three one, we missed a pen, and should have scored several more. Airbus have apparently a budget in excess of 3 grand a week.

We played very well for most of the game, and we defended well at times we needed to. As for the dutch striker hes been causing other teams nightmares. He rarely troubled us. I overheard their supporters lauding Rhyl as the best side theyd played, and that we should be top of the league.

Have to agree with them based on that performance alone.

Lets get of all this negativity, get behind the lads.

Weve a game in hand on Caernarfon, that if we win puts us within 9 points and we play them again away. Caernarfon also need to play Holyhead, and Porthmadog who have beaten them this season and also Airbus twice.

Its going to be very tough, but we have a very small outside chance.

The blogdroed article mentions our defence. In fact we have the 4th best record in the league, and the problem hasnt been in open play its been giving penalties away.

Its scoring that has been our major problem, only having the 7th best stat in this respect, with Caernarfon scoring double what we have.


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I realise everyone wants something to celebrate after all we've been thro, but pls get this into perspective or otherwise we're just heaping a burden of totally unrealistic expectations on the team -
1) If say we won 16, drew 2 and lost none of our remaining 18 games, we would finish with a total of 64 points (only 68 if we won EVERY game). Even allowing for their being one less team in the league this season, no club has won the CA with a points total like that. Let's get real and count finishing top 3 as restoring pride.
2) The fact that Airbus were temporarily top of the league shows how weak the league is.They have a terrible defence and their GD is no better than that of Porthmadog in seventh place. Their defence is much worse than last year, and we beat them 4 times last year when we couldnt beat practically anyone else.Just really got to me the "Journal" headline that we'd caused a "massive upset" by beating Airbus at home - just shows how our expectations have fallen. We're better than that.
Others call it negativity ; I call it realism and setting realistic targets which will not overburden a new team

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No one is saying were going to win the league, but you are being negative.
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All we can do is go out and try win every game.

Ffred, you are more positive when we lose!!!

It was a very good performance and yes we could have scored more but 3 was enough to win the 3 points. Got to be happy with that.
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Ioio, do you have an optimistic bone in your body mate,feel suicidal after reading your post
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quote:

jonthehammer wrote:


Ffred, you are more positive when we lose!!!




Exactly. When everyone is down, I try to lift spirits. When everyone goes OTT, I call for realism in expectations.

I call it consistency. Others call it just rying to be different to everyone else emoticon



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