Aldershot Town 2-0 AFC Fylde - Tuesday 1st April 2025 (Match Night Thread)

[Alex]

Job done tonight well done everyone involved ,thought Corbett did well tonight . Players rested tonight ,shame the fans rested to . Lowest home gate of the season ? Woeful .

Tough times mate!

I was there tonight as I have a season ticket but those who have to pay obviously see Saturday as more important?

[A.T.F.C 92]

Does steve Gibbs watch the same games us everyone else weird choice for Mom. Ellison for he won everything again hopefully we can sign him for next season

[redblueuptoyou]

The first of 3 home games on the spin at a time hard working people are having their pants pulled down. Those figures will become the norm as disposable income becomes less and less.

Just for comparison, I wonder if we saw similar drops when Truss trashed the economy and put up mortgage rates by hundreds of pounds a month etc?

I think a rearranged match on a Tuesday night five days before the big semi final had more of an impact then the awful April increases that are screwing us all.

[redblueuptoyou]

Dewhurst MOTM but Ellison not far behind. Corbett seems a little too desperate to impress. Interesting he listened to Henry for our first goal after trying to do it all himself five or so minutes before.

Anderson grew into the game (what a tackle and one mazy run were highlight) and not sure I realised quite how quick Mullins is.

Fylde will feel hard done by and do think 2-0 flattered us but job done. A clean sheet and no injuries - now on to Saturday.

Do we start with Kwame?

[Old Bob]

Interesting team selection. Hope it pays off

Dreadful team selection. We deserve to get beaten. Utterly brainless.

That travelled well OB

There is no hiding the fact that we got away with one there. The team selection was completely off the wall, verging on disrespectful to Fylde and the paying punters. I made it that Fylde had 7 good goal chances before we had one ... and scored via a deflection.
Easy to be wise after the event, but that was a game where we needed to win and should not have been gambling with bizarre team selection.
Note that Dewhurst was rightly chosen as man of the match. That's because we gifted Fylde multiple chances to test him.

[chimpster99]

I don't think we'll be seeing Fylde next season. They had a bit about them in the first half hour but otherwise they played a pretty basic brand of football, made lots and lots of unforced errors, couldn't shoot and didn't have enough fight in them to look like they can avoid the drop.

That isn't a knock on our own performance. You can only beat what's in front of you, and our ramshackle line-up (after spending a bit of time getting their act together) imposed themselves on the game pretty well.

Ellison was my MOTM with decent performances also from Dewhurst, Laing, Theo (yes indeed), Keane, Kwame and Maxi. What encouraged me most was the fight in us, I thought we dominated for most of the game and even bullied Fylde at times. They had a few decent chances, almost all when their midfield runners weren't picked up, but that problem seemed to get fixed at half time.

Not the prettiest game, but an enjoyable evening capped off with a lovely strike from Josh Barrett. We're now in the top half and are going into Saturday's game with some extra belief. Good times!

[Silasgoldeen]

Corbett is still not good enough. If he could channel his talents into playing simply and making good decisions I'd be more positive but I just don't see it. At least he affected the game tonight which is rare. But still a lot of nothing, invisibility, losing the ball, taking too long, etc. Maybe he will build on this but I think there's a reason Tommy has hardly used him.

[Old Bob]

Interesting team selection. Hope it pays off

Dreadful team selection. We deserve to get beaten. Utterly brainless.

I know we did this earlier in the week but it's not brainless is it? In his mind he's sacrificing a bit today to get a bit of an edge on Saturday. You might not agree but I think it's a perfectly reasonable approach. Now Hargreaves and Barrett and Jones are fresh and we got 3 pts anyway. Might not matter but it's a game of fine margins so you do what you can to out odds in your favour.

I disagree, Silas. You are being wise after the event. It’s dumb and arrogant to presume you are going to win games by deliberately "resting" key players. We got lucky when Fylde failed to capitalise on any one of a number of first-half chances.
You have only to look at the regularity with which this stupid ploy misfires when PL teams put out weakened sides in the FA Cup ...

[Silasgoldeen]

I don't think we'll be seeing Fylde next season. They had a bit about them in the first half hour but otherwise they played a pretty basic brand of football, made lots and lots of unforced errors, couldn't shoot and didn't have enough fight in them to look like they can avoid the drop.

That isn't a knock on our own performance. You can only beat what's in front of you, and our ramshackle line-up (after spending a bit of time getting their act together) imposed themselves on the game pretty well.

Ellison was my MOTM with decent performances also from Dewhurst, Laing, Theo (yes indeed), Keane, Kwame and Maxi. What encouraged me most was the fight in us, I thought we dominated for most of the game and even bullied Fylde at times. They had a few decent chances, almost all when their midfield runners weren't picked up, but that problem seemed to get fixed at half time.

Not the prettiest game, but an enjoyable evening capped off with a lovely strike from Josh Barrett. We're now in the top half and are going into Saturday's game with some extra belief. Good times!

Yeah great post. Saw it much the same.

[redblueuptoyou]

Corbett is still not good enough. If he could channel his talents into playing simply and making good decisions I'd be more positive but I just don't see it. At least he affected the game tonight which is rare. But still a lot of nothing, invisibility, losing the ball, taking too long, etc. Maybe he will build on this but I think there's a reason Tommy has hardly used him.

Wonder if a loan spell in NLS could have helped him? Think there is a player in there but maybe not sure of his best position like we saw with JBA?

[Silasgoldeen]

Dreadful team selection. We deserve to get beaten. Utterly brainless.

I know we did this earlier in the week but it's not brainless is it? In his mind he's sacrificing a bit today to get a bit of an edge on Saturday. You might not agree but I think it's a perfectly reasonable approach. Now Hargreaves and Barrett and Jones are fresh and we got 3 pts anyway. Might not matter but it's a game of fine margins so you do what you can to out odds in your favour.

I disagree, Silas. You are being wise after the event. It’s dumb and arrogant to presume you are going to win games by deliberately "resting" key players. We got lucky when Fylde failed to capitalise on any one of a number of first-half chances.
You have only to look at the regularity with which this stupid ploy misfires when PL teams put out weakened sides in the FA Cup ...

I'm not being wise after the event, I was literally talking about this before the event.

[redblueuptoyou]

Also, Theo played well tonight. Tried to overplay a couple of times but mainly kept it simple and quietly went about his work.

[Alf W]

I thought Tommy got it right not just with team selection but also driving a resolute performance from the whole team with 2 great bits of quality for the goals.Levi, Corbett, Ellison and Dewhurst were I thought outstanding but also thought Kwame ,Theo and Keane were good too. There’s little to choose in quality between teams in this league except consistency.Fylde played well, particularly first half but I thought we controlled things second half and had some decent chances

[Alex]

Also, Theo played well tonight. Tried to overplay a couple of times but mainly kept it simple and quietly went about his work.

I agree with what Adzy has said.

Typical Theo display. Some good but some bad.

Easy to look like a good passer of the ball when not under pressure to release it quickly.

Still too slow and at times reluctant to stick a foot in!

Was far too easy for Fylde to test Dewhurst from distance, IMO.

But hey ho! We won

[Alex]

Highlights -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMGGijjQ ... ZnlsZGU%3D