I'm afraid I don't see what others saw in Harry Forster for that game. I was watching from home though so had a different viewpoint. I saw a Harry Forster that drove forward with the ball and worried the defenders which I praise him for but that final ball was still lacking, his crosses didn't find anyone and perhaps he held on to the ball too long... but still an improvement from recent times just think it was an ok performance rather than a really good one.
What really frustrated me though and this can only come from the coaches is:
1. I saw Cheek playing on the defenders back line and pointing for the ball just in front of him so he could beat the offiside and be through on goal but time and time again he just wasn't found, the ball was either passed out wide and then passed back again across the box and again and again and again. This negates cheek's run and he ends up being a passenger unless he drops deep and demands the ball. It wasn't until late in the game that corey found him with a fantastic low cross and then Louis with a great pass that should've been a hattrick. Michael Cheek scores most of his goals in and around the 6yrd box, this is near on impossible if there is 10 men behind the ball with no space in behind. Overplaying the passing takes Cheek out of the game, I wouldn't begrudge anyway losing the ball by trying to play that forward pass through the line, much prefer that to overplaying it with no end product.
2. SHORT CORNERS!!! What is the obsession with it. You have a free cross into the box with all our defeneders in there looking to get on the end of it and you play short. Sowunmi comes on and we get a corner and again it was played short. But even we play it short don't then cross we do what I said in the first point and over play it infront of the box until we lose possession.
Louis and Whitely are starting to really hit some form so now if Cheek's runs can be found more often I see Bromley outscoring most of the teams going forward, but that's if the likes of Vennings, Arthurs, Bingham, Forster can replicate the passing.
The term ‘flat-footed’ turns up twice in quick succession in this article (you just can’t get a good editor these days). It’s about to turn up a third time because flat-footed is an apt description of Bromley’s movement during attacking set pieces.
Our free kicks and corners (don’t get me started on the short corners) both fell victim to the Greek statue approach to attacking. Sure, there were a few last-second jolts for space, but the lack of players running from deep or wide spaces made our set pieces all too easy to defend.
Remember how Rob Swaine and Jack Holland used to bag goals at the back post? They weren’t exactly standing still. Didn’t we used to have a set piece expert on the staff?
And, in answer to Machel’s question about the likely lads behind the goal, I dwell in the shadows of the carpark end (Curva Parcheggio if you want to be romantic about it) so I feel qualified to throw my tuppence in.
In my two decades haunting that crumbling corner of the ground, the ebb and flow of youngsters sporting safety-barrier-bravado has been like the tides of the sea. But the tide is certainly edging a little too close to the seafront at the moment.
Is it just a matter of time until someone gets swept away? Well, over the years, I’ve watched “young twats” like these mature into smart, responsible Bromley fans; some of whom even work for the club now. I sense the current crop, often on loan from bigger London clubs, will follow suit in the long run.
Then again, last year, after a group of intoxicated young “fans” had spent the game fighting amongst themselves, I witnessed one of the group openly threatening to knife one of his peers on the club’s driveway. That was a first.
I was in the Barnet end back in October near the young 'twats' and they certainly do have big balls due to the safety fence in the way. Have to say the stewards nor the local constabulary seem to be interested in having much of a word, especially when one let off a firework and we were convincingly searched upon entry.
Hopefully they go the way of maturing eventually, it's noticeable at most clubs you go to, even below the National League, maybe the time for a few loans to be recalled......
I'm afraid I don't see what others saw in Harry Forster for that game. I was watching from home though so had a different viewpoint. I saw a Harry Forster that drove forward with the ball and worried the defenders which I praise him for but that final ball was still lacking, his crosses didn't find anyone and perhaps he held on to the ball too long... but still an improvement from recent times just think it was an ok performance rather than a really good one.
What really frustrated me though and this can only come from the coaches is:
1. I saw Cheek playing on the defenders back line and pointing for the ball just in front of him so he could beat the offiside and be through on goal but time and time again he just wasn't found, the ball was either passed out wide and then passed back again across the box and again and again and again. This negates cheek's run and he ends up being a passenger unless he drops deep and demands the ball. It wasn't until late in the game that corey found him with a fantastic low cross and then Louis with a great pass that should've been a hattrick. Michael Cheek scores most of his goals in and around the 6yrd box, this is near on impossible if there is 10 men behind the ball with no space in behind. Overplaying the passing takes Cheek out of the game, I wouldn't begrudge anyway losing the ball by trying to play that forward pass through the line, much prefer that to overplaying it with no end product.
2. SHORT CORNERS!!! What is the obsession with it. You have a free cross into the box with all our defeneders in there looking to get on the end of it and you play short. Sowunmi comes on and we get a corner and again it was played short. But even we play it short don't then cross we do what I said in the first point and over play it infront of the box until we lose possession.
Louis and Whitely are starting to really hit some form so now if Cheek's runs can be found more often I see Bromley outscoring most of the teams going forward, but that's if the likes of Vennings, Arthurs, Bingham, Forster can replicate the passing.
Editor’s Footnote (ICYMI)
The term ‘flat-footed’ turns up twice in quick succession in this article (you just can’t get a good editor these days). It’s about to turn up a third time because flat-footed is an apt description of Bromley’s movement during attacking set pieces.
Our free kicks and corners (don’t get me started on the short corners) both fell victim to the Greek statue approach to attacking. Sure, there were a few last-second jolts for space, but the lack of players running from deep or wide spaces made our set pieces all too easy to defend.
Remember how Rob Swaine and Jack Holland used to bag goals at the back post? They weren’t exactly standing still. Didn’t we used to have a set piece expert on the staff?
And, in answer to Machel’s question about the likely lads behind the goal, I dwell in the shadows of the carpark end (Curva Parcheggio if you want to be romantic about it) so I feel qualified to throw my tuppence in.
In my two decades haunting that crumbling corner of the ground, the ebb and flow of youngsters sporting safety-barrier-bravado has been like the tides of the sea. But the tide is certainly edging a little too close to the seafront at the moment.
Is it just a matter of time until someone gets swept away? Well, over the years, I’ve watched “young twats” like these mature into smart, responsible Bromley fans; some of whom even work for the club now. I sense the current crop, often on loan from bigger London clubs, will follow suit in the long run.
Then again, last year, after a group of intoxicated young “fans” had spent the game fighting amongst themselves, I witnessed one of the group openly threatening to knife one of his peers on the club’s driveway. That was a first.
Ebb and flow?
I was in the Barnet end back in October near the young 'twats' and they certainly do have big balls due to the safety fence in the way. Have to say the stewards nor the local constabulary seem to be interested in having much of a word, especially when one let off a firework and we were convincingly searched upon entry.
Hopefully they go the way of maturing eventually, it's noticeable at most clubs you go to, even below the National League, maybe the time for a few loans to be recalled......