The Robins Nest Forum

Alf

That’s the sort of game that, pre DC, we would have taken the lead, lost the lead and gone on to lose the game. It wasn’t a classic performance from either side but we battled away and held on to a valuable point. Neither keeper had a lot to do which sums up the performance from both sides. We are u...

Alf

One of our best performances. To go behind twice and having the confidence to fight back and win is just excellent. We have a top man in charge now. Well done Darrell and the lads.

Alf

Great result lads. Could be the turning point for us.

Alf

We’ve reached the part of the game now where Cambridge players are dropping to the floor every time someone breathes on them, and the Ref buys into it!

Alf

At last, someone who can score goals, wonderful!

Alf

We seemed so frenetic yesterday. Wycombe saw out our good 15/20mins . They played a more measured football, although they had some desperate defending at time. Was a bit like Orient. Wellens knew we would bombard them and they sat tight . Then struck. We have to remember teams have now been watchin...

Alf

ctfc-fan wrote: ↑03 Feb 2024, 16:22
Alf wrote:At last. Somebody out there who can score goals. Why wasn’t he starting?
Because everyone on here said he was shite as he’s not been playing even in League 2….

Would Darrell take any notice of that?

Alf

At last. Somebody out there who can score goals. Why wasn’t he starting?
………..and whilst we’re ranting, that was never a penalty. Their player cut back and just dropped to the floor and the ref fell for it. Why didn’t the Lino see it?

Alf

This is bloody embarrassing! We’re just handing them the game.
We don’t have anyone who looks capable of putting away chances and half chances on a regular basis since Alfie May left. Let’s hope these new signings can put this to rights.

Alf

Davies...he's got to score there Terrible. My cat could have put that away. We HAVE to put simple chances like that in the net, it was a tap in. And then what happens. They get a corner and bundle it in. Our end to end football is as good as it’s been this season but our finishing and defending lea...

Alf

Although I don’t think the free kick given for their equaliser was justified, the way our defensive wall disintegrated as the ball was on its way to the goal didn’t help our cause.

Alf

From the comments on here it would seem that there are huge doubts about the decision and not for the first time this season! For those who haven't seen it, this is a screen grab from the moment Sercombe struck the free kick. https://i.ibb.co/cTNtLM2/Screenshot-2024-01-24-at-15-07-15.png From right...

Alf

Not for the first time recently, I'm ending a game by saying ROBBERY Finding this commentator on Radio Glos unnecessarily dramatic and pretty bloody irritating tbh! Sounds like Halliwell is equally unimpressed. He kept talking over M.H. :lol: Surely, especially when cancelling out goals is involved...

Alf

Broadway Brian wrote: ↑19 Jan 2024, 20:53 Darrell wanted this off

Given the option of risking injuries playing two vital games in four days or playing Bolton with a fully fit team on Tuesday, I wouldn’t blame him.

Alf

Brilliant result. Well done Darrell and the lads!
Great achievement keeping the League Leaders out for virtually the whole of the second half. Outstanding team performance.

Alf

Thought we were in with a decent chance of something until the penalty incident. In fact, thought it was a reasonably even first half although we are lacking a decent consistent striker.

Alf

For goodness sake, get rid of Freestone, he’s an absolute liability. Too many fatal errors.

Alf

Strange that hardly anyone has commented on the third rate defending that cost us two goals at the end of the first half. Did we think we were home and dry at 2-0?

Alf

What a difference thanks to the new Management. The fitness levels are far better than they were under the previous regime and it’s paying dividends. The players are far more confident and far more aggressive. We’re taking on the opposition now and giving them something to think about rather than tw...

Alf

Neither of those were yellows and the ref is as gullible as they come to fall for their player throwing himself down a minute after they got him booked. #$£!. You’re dead right. I have played both of those challenges over and over and I think it was a very dodgy red card.. The head incident doesn’t...

Alf

That first yellow seems very polarizing - Radio Glos, both commentators, with their view on the other side of the field called it ‘very very strong’ and thought it could have been red, the ifollow video (from the reverse angle) to me looks like he’s gone in hard for a 50-50 header and gotten there ...

Alf

What game are you guys watching?! He practically headbutted the guy then took the player out heading in to the corner flag as last man Where are you sat/stood? I'm right in front of the first and it was nothing like a headbutt. Second, the bloke ran at him, into him and threw himself down because h...

Alf

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it………..but easy to say when you know the consequences.
I’m gutted!

Alf

Assistant Ref was much nearer than the Ref for the second incident and didn’t flag for it.

Alf

Just looked at the handball, how the hell is that deliberate, tell me we would get that decision - NO CHANCE. I feel like it was a pen but it was soft. One of those ones where if you're given it, you take it, but would certainly be annoyed if it was against you Yep, this is precisely the right take...

Alf

Football officialdom is going insane. Surely a penalty for hand ball should only be given when hands are deliberately used to prevent a scoring opportunity, not when a defender is skidding along on his arse with the obvious intention of blocking a pass with his leg and the ball is driven onto his ar...

Alf

If we’d sat back and let Oxford come at us and build their confidence it could have been a different outcome. You don’t get to second in the league by being a poor side. Our ‘attack and press’ tactics from the start put them in a situation that they struggled to cope with. It will hopefully now give...

Alf

Wonderful performance. The fitness levels have improved enormously under Darrell. The other thing is that there is none of this tip tapping the ball around until we lose it in our own half. We are taking the game to the opposition and our fitness levels are enabling us to press for 90+ minutes. Well...

Alf

This was a ‘free game’ in that we had nothing to gain or lose from the result but it was a perfect opportunity for DC to assess any players he may have been unsure about.

Alf

RS1978 wrote: ↑04 Nov 2023, 17:18 It's almost as if in that game vs. Man City Alfie encapsulated the drive, effort and fighting spirit needed in this league

Good point. We don’t half miss him!

Alf

What a shambles. I think we put in a better FA Cup performance against Man City!
It’s not as if Wimbledon are setting Lge 2 alight.

Alf

Just when we thought there was a ray of light in our league performances we throw in a useless performance like this. At least Darrell will have learned a lot more about some of his players today.

Alf

Two ‘a la Alfie May’ goals for us so far. In other words get in the box and take a chance rather than trying to walk it into the net…….and another one off the bar, could have been three.
Keep it going lads!

Alf

And there's the second c!#p decision, pulling us back, penalising us, for taking a quick free kick when he wasn't going to talk to the Vale player. And what do we do with the first two free kicks we have? Lob them straight up into the air and into the keepers hands when we should be whipping them a...

Alf

Two very poor goals given away but I’m not entirely convinced about the referees idea of a foul. Their players are dropping onto the floor like dead flies and getting free kicks.

The Robins Nest Forum

Search found 2157 matches

Re: Wigan Athletic v Cheltenham Town

Re: Cheltenham Town v Port Vale

Re: Cambridge United v Cheltenham Town

Re: Cambridge United v Cheltenham Town

Re: Cambridge United v Cheltenham Town

Re: Cheltenham Town v Wycombe Wanderers

Re: Cheltenham Town v Wycombe Wanderers

Re: Cheltenham Town v Wycombe Wanderers

Re: Cheltenham Town v Wycombe Wanderers

Re: Cheltenham Town v Wycombe Wanderers

Re: Derby County v Cheltenham Town

Re: Bolton Wanderers v Cheltenham Town

Re: Bolton Wanderers v Cheltenham Town

Re: Match off tomorrow

Re: Cheltenham Town v Portsmouth

Re: Northampton Town v Cheltenham Town

Re: Northampton Town v Cheltenham Town

Re: Cheltenham Town v Reading

Re: Cheltenham Town v Shrewsbury Town

Re: Cheltenham Town v Leyton Orient

Re: Cheltenham Town v Leyton Orient

Re: Cheltenham Town v Leyton Orient

Re: Cheltenham Town v Leyton Orient

Re: Cheltenham Town v Leyton Orient

Re: Charlton Athletic v Cheltenham Town

Re: Charlton Athletic v Cheltenham Town

Re: Cheltenham Town v Oxford United

Re: Cheltenham Town v Oxford United

Re: Cheltenham Town v West Ham United Under-21s

Re: Wimbledon match thread

Re: Wimbledon match thread

Re: Wimbledon match thread

Re: Port Vale v Cheltenham Town

Re: Port Vale v Cheltenham Town

Re: Blackpool v Cheltenham Town