Harrogate Replay Match Thread

[Mark Johnson]

4-2 Wright again. That seals it.

[Alley_Cat]

4-2 FT

[Big E]

Cracking cup tie, made hard work of it conceding 2 sloppy goals, not great quality from us at times but by heck, this lot don't know when they're beaten!!

[The Chief]

Mentality.

[Matt]

Match report from harrogate.
http://www.harrogatetownafc.com/news/25 ... ogate-town

[HenneysKnee]

Panayiatou on

He exists!

[saltcellar]

Mentality.

Mindset......

[saltcellar]

Panayiatou on

He exists!

Took a bit to get into the game but looked better as the game went on.

[blue nige]

Class told in the end., to be fair Harrogate battled for everything but we gave them 2 sloppy goals but after we equalised there was only going to be one winner.

The ref should have sent off their number 3 for a terrible challenge on beeley , how hannahs effort in extra time didn`t go in i`ll never know, terrible first 80 minutes but glad i went we look a lot fitter than recent seasons and this will help us later on in the season, this bunch of players don`t give up easily and how they all celebrated for the goals shows what a tremendous team spirit cox has created at this rate we will not lose many!

[Moribund]

Wasn't a great footballing spectacle with the conditions making it difficult to play any flowing football.
Bar a dodgy 5 mins in the second half, Wright was immense, mainly with his tackling - needs to start more games.
Heard a few grumbles about Erlandsson, with a few dropped catches and poor kicks, but I'm willing to put that down to the weather. No idea what he did for their second though.
Panayiatou must still be a bit rusty - his first three touches had him looking like Ali Dia. He did score though - the ball was a good foot over to make it 4-2, but linesman must've been staring into space.

Harrogate probably feel hard done by, but they offered almost nothing going forwards and got lucky on the couple of occasions our defence were sleeping. Should really have been more comfortable than a last minute equaliser.

[blue nige]

i think you mean the first goal he had no chance with the second

[John Very Little]

Panayiatou on

He exists!

Not only that his shot in extra time crossed the line but it wasn't given by the terrible ref or his assistant when it should've been.
I was at the Holker end and could see it easily crossed the line and Panayiatou was almost celebrating (along with the fans behind the goal) but the game carried on. A few dodgy touches initially but looked threatening as soon he got going.

Speaking of which why weren't the subs were made sooner than 85mins? It also seemed just so ironic the spine of the team were allegedly ill or rested or Jordan Williams must've had one helluva birthday party they attended last night?
We missed Yates massively in the middle where we struggled to compete at times an gave the ball away so many times but fair play to Wright for keeping it going. Hopefully there aren't any injuries as Harrogate were putting in some dodgy tackles and were lucky they all stayed on the field. Ref should've punished the keepers time-wasting but glad to see he got his come-uppance spilling the shot for us to get the 4th goal.
We should've beat these much easier than we did when at one point we looked like going out till we changed it round when the 2 late subs came on.

[Chris Benoit]

The original 90 wasn't great from either side; lots of misplaced passes and mistakes at the back. As the game wore on I thought we were worth the equaliser despite the timing being a bit lucky. Extra time just felt really comfortable and the 4-2 scoreline could have been more but for some poor finishing. Harry Panaya...Harry whatever looked poor when he came on, as others have said though hopefully it's just rystiness. There should have been no debate as to whether the ball crossed the line from his chance as it should have been nestled in the net. Not fair to judge on one performance (a mostly disjointed one from the whole team) so we will go again.

Byron Harrison is still on another level to the rest...

[Jonty]

There'll be a few aching limbs tomorrow. We just couldn't get control of the game at all but when Wright slotted it in at the end it was just about deserved as we never stopped searching for that one chance. Extra time a lot more comfortable and we really took it to them. Also thought Wright grew into the game alongside Harvey and Meikle.

[boyliegladbach]

Meikle must be wondering how he didn't start after watching Haworth.

Harry P will be a real asset to this team his chance was well over the line.