Aug 26
I am about as least worried by exiting the League Cup than I have been for many seasons. The phrase we need to concentrate on the league is just.
I didn’t listen or pay any real attention but it did not sound good.
Please click for moreCambridge United will be our opposition in the Carabao Cup 2nd Round, drawn tonight.
We faced the U’s in pre-season and in each of the last four L1 seasons.
Please click for moreWell, that was exactly what it said on the tin. Very scrappy game on a bobbly pitch with the ball spending most of the time in the air.
It was an ugly game but we stood tall, stayed organized, scored at a good time and scrapped ourselves to an important three points.
Please click for moreNot always fluent, but once again it was easier on the eye and good to back up the big win at Northampton.
I thought under Gary Monk (and Jason Euell) Cambridge played some nice stuff and after our quick fire start we had to battle hard to keep the 3 points.
Please click for moreWe ain’t spending a £1 million on anyone. You pay for potential, you pay for value, you pay for possibilities.
The whole cost of transfer of football players is so flawed these days and fees are made up of a myriad of things, but we ain’t paying a £1 million.
Please click for moreAnother draw and more defensive ineptitudes in a game that summed up our season.
We should have scored more and despite a lot of balls into our box Isted was properly called into action once and failed to deal with a simple shot.
Please click for moreI’ll lay that one at the door of Michael Appleton.
To start with it was an odd line-up where he persisted with Fraser, isolated our biggest threat in May and started Rylah, only just 18, when he clearly wasn’t ready.
Please click for moreAnother signing in the door tonight. 27 year old 6ft 3 central defender Lloyd Jones has signed a 2-year deal after his current contract with Cambridge United expired today.
That really should be it from a central defence point of view with Hector, Ness, Thomas, Jones, Mitchell and Elerewe all competing for a first team place. It is expected that Sam Lavelle will move on.
please click for moreWe played some really nice stuff in the first half. 4-4-3 again and we played with a bright confidence on the front foot collecting a lot of second balls.
Second half was a different story as Cambridge remembered they are fighting for their lives, but we held on for what I thought was an enjoyable win.
Please click for moreMidfielder Conor McGrandles has joined Cambridge United on loan until the end of the season.
The 27-year old moved to The Valley in the summer and has started just 2 league games due to a couple of freakish injuries and then when he has had the opportunity, he hasn’t in all honesty impressed.
Please click for moreA frustrating watch, but a fair result yesterday.
Lots of possession, but little to show for it, and we just weren’t able to overload attacking areas like we did at will on Tuesday.
Please click for moreIt didn’t mean a lot, and I paid the game cursory attention from Barbados where I was watching my daughter at a swim meet, which had far more importance to me, but you never sniff at a win and a win it was.
Please click for moreThere’s a fair number of North American West Coast Addicks, and I got to feel their pain today when the alarm woke me early in San Francisco to sit down to watch the game. The other inconvenience is that after a very satisfactory win it’s possibly a little too early to crack the beers open!
Actually that win was more than satisfying, it was a big win against a side that made it very difficult for us, carved out chances and drew us into an ugly booking-fest match.
Please click for moreAnd the final episode of my pre-season look at the league competition.
Using the bookies as my guide, Part I was the considered promotion favourites, Part II was play-off hopefuls, Part III those in mid-table with ambitions and this final Part V are the teams expected to have a relegation battle on their hands.
Please click for moreA big final day all around us in League One and in The Championship. Unsure to why we get Sunday all to ourselves.
Sheffield Wednesday were relegated a year after they really should have been as Wayne Rooney’s Derby County survived by the skin of their teeth thanks to a heartbreaking late goal for Cardiff that meant that Rotherham also dropped despite leading in Wales for so much of the game.
I had Soccer Saturday on and Paul Merson spent the whole of the first half complaining. I don’t know what sort of game he was expecting at Pride Park, but he was a little bit more present in the 2nd half, after a word from the director I guess.
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