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Rasmus has gone beyond using the power of The Force. He weilds the power of The Farce!

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No. But there's the SR motto "If you're small enough, you're good enough." 🙂

Not to be beaten, SR pull out a left field Parrot coup... ... or cue.

I was looking for information about our left back, and didn't have safe mode on... your honour. 🙂

Shunned not only for being mutants, but for their political views...

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Abandoned

VA were in it, up until the first goal, simply because no one had scored. After the first 15 minutes, they really offered nothing. It's not as though the second half was some massive drop in performance from the first. VA were just as poor for most of the first half too. The quotes try to gloss over that a bit. Likewise for the bad luck goal. You make your luck. The home team were the only ones looking likely to threaten at that point. If you don't shoot, you won't have a chance. 2 games in and the new signings have a bit to do, or they're going to fall into the standard of the rest. Passi was poor last week, and still off the pace this; Abi made a real difference last week, but nothing this and Airhiavbere gave away a clumsy penalty. Not to single them out, as everyone else was just as poor and certainly when trying to work as a team. Hopefully Moulin also learns that just bringing on attacking players, doesn't do anything to control the game or shape any supply to those positions. If he thinks that first half was okay, he needs to rewatch it.

Another commemorative shirt on the way? 🙂

Le Puy En Velay came out the much brighter of the two in the second half. There were a few little warnings. Then on 55 they had acres of space on their right. Adelaide got ahead of his marker to put in a nice curled cross. The home side would have a few more good deliveries from that side in the half, only for pace or lack or a finisher preventing more goals. They strengthened control of the midfield too, with some efforts coming centrally too. VA blocking one effort led to a clear penalty on 85, for the third. It has to be said that VA offered practically nothing in that game. Apart from that early run in on goal, it was the 88th minute when a long range effort went a yard wide. It wasn't a physical game. But when there were contests VA lost the vast majority. The lack of linked up play between familiar players was very evident. VA didn't put anything together from 10 minutes on. Our Rento came on early, around 66. I don't remember him touching the ball. He replaced Abi, who didn't do or receive much, but at least offered a focal point. Not that anyone reached him, as the VA passing was poor. Courtet was back to covering 6 positions in the absence of any other support. I did see Diomande look frustrated at a move breaking down with him, so that was a tiny something. Pretty abject, robbing the little light from the last win.

Nope. Just playing like a group of strangers, compared to the other teams.

Looks cold, with a heavy, bobbly pitch. The home side are 1 up, just going into added time in the first half. A corner passed to outside the box, a shot affected by the bobbly pitch loops right across the box and goes in, off the post. Not much else happened. Le Puy En Velay had a nice series of 1-2s in midfield on 24. They had a couple of early shots that went over. On 30 a shot went well over from outside the box, again from the home side. A couple of mins later Louchet saved in front of an attacker's feet. For VA, a couple of attacks were passed outside the box, when the player was better off going alone. Courtet beat the offside on 41. His decent ball went right across the box, with no one on the end of it. Their best effort was early on with a run onto the keeper, who stopped them. The home side have been the ones to put any kind of passing moves together. VA had moments, right before the goal, or looking a bit better. But they are going to have to be a lot more cohesive to give themselves a chance to get back into this. They've underwhelmed so far.

Speaking of people with webbed feet, will you be watching us play Portsmouth at the weekend? 🙂

Thanks. It's great to know that there are people looking out for me, when I'm lost during such a crisis.