One of the worst performances of the season.
8,360 fans.
No excuses we were out played in every single area.
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I tire of hearing about an “off night” or “things just not going our way” (Fearnley on the webcast). Our flaws were the same as they’ve always been, and Panthers exploited them while totally neutralising our offence, who had no creative ideas beyond the usual set plays. Other teams will be paying attention to our performance tonight.
Defence has been our problem all year and if we win the league; it’ll be with the worst championship D in EIHL history. Liwing is simply not a good hockey player and every. single. team has had at least three gilt-edge chances, alone, in front of our net and we just haven’t addressed it.
It isn’t a coincidence that our two most embarrassing “off nights” at home have been our two biggest games of the year so far - losing 7-3 in front of a full house to Cardiff, after a successful month, then 1-5 against Panthers after another winning streak.
These aren’t grinding, defensive losses. When we don’t turn up to score, we still concede the same amount, and that makes it a rout.
And, in league action, our wins against Nottingham have either been in OT (having from two down) or a single goal. We’ve been getting away with it on the fumes of “character” for too long and will see more of these turnovers the longer we stake everything on being able to score six goals a game. Panthers are a good team but as we are, we aren’t difficult to work out at all. Crowd our star forwards out and do what you want going forward, you can win without much trouble.
A dreadful night that requires more than closing the book on. We got exposed and there’s blood in the water:
Defence has been our problem all year and if we win the league; it’ll be with the worst championship D in EIHL history. Liwing is simply not a good hockey player and every. single. team has had at least three gilt-edge chances, alone, in front of our net and we just haven’t addressed it.
It isn’t a coincidence that our two most embarrassing “off nights” at home have been our two biggest games of the year so far - losing 7-3 in front of a full house to Cardiff, after a successful month, then 1-5 against Panthers after another winning streak.
These aren’t grinding, defensive losses. When we don’t turn up to score, we still concede the same amount, and that makes it a rout.
And, in league action, our wins against Nottingham have either been in OT (having from two down) or a single goal. We’ve been getting away with it on the fumes of “character” for too long and will see more of these turnovers the longer we stake everything on being able to score six goals a game. Panthers are a good team but as we are, we aren’t difficult to work out at all. Crowd our star forwards out and do what you want going forward, you can win without much trouble.
A dreadful night that requires more than closing the book on. We got exposed and there’s blood in the water:
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paul johnston
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We weren't even second best from the first minute to the last minute. Where was the passion, anger, embarrassment, push back, nastiness. We just let them tickle our bellies. There was no fight or fire at all.
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mark
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Disappointing but keep it in perspective , we've not lost many and won some we shouldn't have considering the players that were out injured, it hurts but we learn what we need to and work on that , Cardiff also lost, we move on.
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