supergulls wrote:I thought more Torquay fans would have attended looking at the away end I can see 15
I think this is deceptive as there were many scattered around. The away end became the home end in the second half as Weymouth fans switched sides.
I tweeted along during the game, but will just add my thoughts on what was generally a pleasant evening spoiled slightly by a dull game of football.
Defensively - Weymouth were cutting through us pretty easily by passing along the ground and linking well. Downes caught out in the second half with a through ball, there was a clumsy collision and I'm not sure he'd have stayed on the pitch in a League game. Cruise and Tonge offering little. Seabright made a couple of decent saves but could do with being a bit more commanding.
Midfield - Cameron and Briscoe working well on the wings, many of our attacks coming through our right hand side and Briscoe not afraid to shoot. Cameron with a few half decent free kicks in the right area but nobody really busting a gut to get on the end of them. Harding and Richards unspectacular in the middle but first time they'll have played together so fair enough.
Attack - Benyon misused as a target man in first half and offered very little all game. Yeoman running hard onto through balls but didn't get a clear chance on goal I don't think.
Subs - Ajala looked lively when he came on, Thompson was thoroughly unconvincing as a RB. Most of the other subs made no impression whatsoever. Chappell in loads of space a few times but not found. Chaney with a couple of neat touches. Sullivan ran hard.
Let's not get carried away with a friendly defeat. Weymouth didn't look a bad side really and grew into the game. That said, we looked very casual particularly in the first half and didn't really have much conviction or creativity. Briscoe the main threat. We can take comfort in the fact that Bowman, Young, Pearce and Rice (essentially our 'spine') were not playing. But then again, if they were all out injured on this evidence we'd struggle.
In terms of the experience itself, I thought Weymouth was a lovely town in the evening sun and we'll have to get used to that standard of ground. Surprised at some of the language used by (mostly our) players towards the officials. Benyon in particular, although McPhee (one of three ex-Gulls also including Palmer and Sills) was berating the linesman with some strong words about 20 seconds into his Weymouth career as well. Amazing what you can hear with no singing.
Let's learn our lessons and go again at the weekend. We will have to play better than that.
Nice to meet Matt at half time.
[quote="supergulls"]I thought more Torquay fans would have attended looking at the away end I can see 15[/quote]
I think this is deceptive as there were many scattered around. The away end became the home end in the second half as Weymouth fans switched sides.
I tweeted along during the game, but will just add my thoughts on what was generally a pleasant evening spoiled slightly by a dull game of football.
Defensively - Weymouth were cutting through us pretty easily by passing along the ground and linking well. Downes caught out in the second half with a through ball, there was a clumsy collision and I'm not sure he'd have stayed on the pitch in a League game. Cruise and Tonge offering little. Seabright made a couple of decent saves but could do with being a bit more commanding.
Midfield - Cameron and Briscoe working well on the wings, many of our attacks coming through our right hand side and Briscoe not afraid to shoot. Cameron with a few half decent free kicks in the right area but nobody really busting a gut to get on the end of them. Harding and Richards unspectacular in the middle but first time they'll have played together so fair enough.
Attack - Benyon misused as a target man in first half and offered very little all game. Yeoman running hard onto through balls but didn't get a clear chance on goal I don't think.
Subs - Ajala looked lively when he came on, Thompson was thoroughly unconvincing as a RB. Most of the other subs made no impression whatsoever. Chappell in loads of space a few times but not found. Chaney with a couple of neat touches. Sullivan ran hard.
Let's not get carried away with a friendly defeat. Weymouth didn't look a bad side really and grew into the game. That said, we looked very casual particularly in the first half and didn't really have much conviction or creativity. Briscoe the main threat. We can take comfort in the fact that Bowman, Young, Pearce and Rice (essentially our 'spine') were not playing. But then again, if they were all out injured on this evidence we'd struggle.
In terms of the experience itself, I thought Weymouth was a lovely town in the evening sun and we'll have to get used to that standard of ground. Surprised at some of the language used by (mostly our) players towards the officials. Benyon in particular, although McPhee (one of three ex-Gulls also including Palmer and Sills) was berating the linesman with some strong words about 20 seconds into his Weymouth career as well. Amazing what you can hear with no singing.
Let's learn our lessons and go again at the weekend. We will have to play better than that.
Nice to meet Matt at half time.
