Peterborough United-(a)-League-16th April 2005

[Rob_Walsall_]

Predictions?

[Magic Man Fan]

Peterborough are awful and after last week the lads will be fired up to secure safety without it having to nervously drag on.

Narrow win to the Saddlers.

1-0 Fryatt.

[YGA Saddler]

stll dont think we will win a second game on the trot no matter how poor boro' are 1-1

[Saddler Jim]

Please,Please,Please,everyone predict they'l lose,as it's the only they win.

[Magic Man Fan]

0-5 defeat with Fry coming on for the last 20 minutes and showing Jorge how to finish and scoring a 5 minute hat trick.

Ok Jim?!

[KJC]

As being as I got the last prediction correct 8) I am going to go again for a 2-1 saddlers victory (we may even get a third).

UTS!

[Walsall Supporter]

1-0 win for the super saddlers....

[Guest]

we are going to thrash them like we did sheffield utd, 4-1 super saddlers, with joachim bagging 2 with wright and gerrad getting 1

[Saddler Jim]

MMF Now your talking I'll go with you,now its a banker away.

[Cheesebag]

What a difference a week makes, last Friday was doom and gloom, the concensus of opinion at the mo' is for a Saddlers win?!?!?

[Stu]

Little bit too positive for my liking, one result doesn't mean we're going to suddenly win everywhere.

Peterboro' have picked up two decent results, coming from 2 down to draw at Hartlepool and picking up an impressive win at Blackpool.

I go for a 1-1 draw or a 2-1 defeat.

[Neil Ravenscroft]

Preview now on line. I've gone for the draw as well.

[wton_saddler]

3-1 Saddlers - JJ Hat-Trick!!

[dingle@death]

julian joachimp hatrick in all the remaining games then he will go and play for a decent club or concentrate on his restarant mersons mate my arse!

[geoffwhiting]

2 - 2 draw. I hope we don't come back empty-handed, 'cos this is one of my rare away visits ! :(

[Fray Bentos is God!]

2-1 walsall with safety all but gained and the great fat thieving get fry being relegated

[Walsall Supporter]

1-0 to us Standing scored

[wton_saddler]

YES!!! 1-0

[Fray Bentos is God!]

get the bloody hell in!!!!!!!!!

my hoodoo remains!!!!!

GOOOAAAAARRRRRNNN THE SADDLERS

[Walsall Supporter]

2-0 WRack scored!!!

[wton_saddler]

COOL!!!!!!!!! 2-0

[Fray Bentos is God!]

get in!!!

[Walsall Supporter]

Well Done lads, radio says played hard and made plently of chances.

[Walsall Supporter]

Hull promoted, lets hope they are kind to us next week 8)

[dler]

And franchise going daaaaaaahn. Come on Torquay!

[Stu]

What a nice day out for a change, a 45min drive up the A1, a couple of pints, a great 2nd half (I'm ignoring the first, reasons to be explained) and a nice drive back.

Performance was literally a game of two halves, to use a cliche.

1st half - Boring, two very poor teams, no real attempts on goal. Our first 'effort' came in the 40th minute, with the fairly influential Osborn firing just wide. Willock hit the bar for them with a good effort before that as well. Neither team really looked like they wanted to win. You'd have thought both teams had safety assured.

2nd half - Pretty much one way traffic. No tactical changes, but a change in tempo. We seemed to step it up a gear, although I think this was partly down to them being slightly more adventurous and giving space. The main key was Standing and Surman. Both were quiet in the first half, but came to life in the 2nd half and ran the show in my view. Standing hit the bar from a free kick, there were a couple of scrambles around the goal.

First goal came from a 'Boro corner that hit the first man, Wrack, who hit it into space on the halfway. Joachim picked it up, turned and ran, going past a couple of blokes to the edge of the box, rolled it across to Standing who ran 2/3 of the pitch to support him, he stopped it and hit a stunning 20 yard rasper past Tyler. Great finish.

2nd goal was some nice play, a ball switched from right central position to Wright out on the left wing, yes, left wing. He kept it in play, played it to Perpetuini, he rolled a beautiful ball inside the full back for Surman to make a great run onto, his dinked cross took a little deflection to the back post where Wracky hammered in from 6 yards. Noticeable 60 yard run from Anthony Gerrard to join in the celebrations in front of the Walsall fans.

2nd half was very good football, very good indeed. First half we won't mention.

Oakes - Little to do, pushed Willocks shot onto the bar, sound.
Pead - My joint MOTM, looked very impressive at right back. I really like the look of him.
Perpetuini - Did his job, fairly safe and solid but not spectacular.
Roper - Won a lot of headers, defended like he does.
Gerrard - Quieter game as he didn't have a lot to do, what he did he did well.
Osborn - My MOTM personally, as he and Pead were the two that played for 90 minutes, rather than 45 minutse. He blossoms in this 4-5-1, as he has options all around him. Played some gorgeous balls inside the full back at times, always around for an option. Very good.
Wrack - Anonymous first half, okay 2nd half, still think he should greater responsibility on the ball.
Wright - Quiet first half, livelier 2nd half on the left wing. Made a fool of Kanu on more than 1 occasion.
Surman - Looked asleep in the first half, fantastic 2nd half.
Standing - Tried but didn't quite get going in the first 45, superb in the 2nd 45. The movement of he and Surman was superb.
Joachim - Worked hard for the cause, created the first goal with some determined running and hard work. Won a lot of headers, but was very isolated during the first half.

When was the last time we won two successive away matches, anybody know?

I'm not getting carried away as the first half was poor, but the 2nd half was superb. Ossie's role really gives a lot of freedom to Standing and Surman and they showed their confidence in the 2nd half.

Well done Merse, keep it going please.

[tinned]

2nd goal was some nice play, a ball switched from left central position to Wright out on the left wing, yes, left wing. He kept it in play, played it to Perpetuini, he rolled a beautiful ball inside the full back for Surman to make a great run onto, his dinked cross took a little deflection to the back post where Wracky hammered in from 6 yards. Noticeable 60 yard run from Anthony Gerrard to join in the celebrations in front of the Walsall fans.

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Bloody hell, Stu. Were his laces double tied or just singly tied ? I've never known anybody remember each details with such clarity :lol:

I'm usually going so mental when we score half the time I can't even remember who scored it :oops:

[Stu]

Triple tied I think, as he didn't fall over once... It was just very nice build up play.

[Stonnall_Saddler]

anyone who is interested i was sitting next to gerrards mom and dad and they were saying that he would like to stay on loan next season aswell, also his dad told me some storys about stevie g, great guy

[Hednesfordred]

Agree entirely with Stu. I thought we played extremely well 2nd half & could/should have had more than 2. I thought Osborne just shaded MOM from Joachim, who worked his socks off all afternoon. Standing & Surman were outstanding 2nd half. My only disagreement would be about Pead. Although i thought he defended well, he should be getting forward a lot more when we are on top.

Just heard Merson say he wished he was playing next Saturday!!!!! I think he night just be learning something ???

Up the Saddlers - Best day out ive had for a long while