Match Day Thread Hull City v Accrington Stanley

Just stopped raining now
Been pissing it down all day

 

Same here. Just wondered as it is often different just those few miles away.

 

Still some hardly souls on the beach here! How about at your end...

 

Any photos?

It was packed at weekend. Normally half a dozen cars on sea front this time of year, every parking space full on Sunday. Apart from a few fish and chip shops nowhere open. That many on cliff tops wife didn't take dogs on usual walk and made a detour. Pandemic? What pandemic?

 

5:30 kick off remember

 

Tbf I don’t see the harm in having a drive and a walk. Good for people’s mental health
Unless they’re wessies then they really shouldn’t and should be shot

 

Most of them were Wessies. And at the fish and chip shop they were all queueing outside no PPE and no social distancing. You know they are visitors as locals don't use that one, it is only opening on Sunday to cater for them, as locals don't there being 2 award winning ones and another excellent one (which is my nearest and even better since a change of owner and fish supplier and, apart from that, worth frequenting because their e-mail address mentions Hull City).

 

It could do with wiping out people with this sort of attitude, apart from their stupidity for thinking anyone would be daft enough to fall for that.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/18/part...andemic-as-they-dont-watch-the-news-13922228/

And, whilst social media is closing accounts they could do with stopping the lie peddling they allow. Just listening to an Imam saying how they were trying to overcome people believing stories about vaccinations containing alcohol and pork. Similar stories about Hindus and .Buddhists, a lot who are vegetarian but many aren't, but the non veggies don't sat beef, being told vaccinations contain beef products which puts both sorts off.
Not to mention the crackpot theories of that group Piers Corbyn is a member of.
Then after all that SAGE say there is systemic racism putting black people off.

Hard to see an end to it.

 

My daughter and kids are on the beach at hornsea now, was it them, you’ll tell them apart from everyone else, my grandkids are loud....and I mean LOUD!!!

 

Watch these on sky a couple of weeks ago, they played very well and looked a very decent side, Now KLP is available from the start were do you put him in, both our wingers on Saturday played well, does he go down the middle but then you need a very good ball player to put him through on the ground. Is he strong enough for that position. It's the opposite with Mcginnis who will hold the ball up and is a lot stronger but didn't have had much pace. Not an easy decision. Most on here would like another forward and KLP might end up in that position but is he strong or ready enough yet?

 

I must admit I'm struggling to understand the mentality of some of these people of BAME origin(please don't confuse this as being racist as it isn't)? It wasn't so long back that some were given TV time to air their views about the disease being racist...Roll on several months and there seems to be a blanket refusal to take the vaccine despite assurances that the vaccines do not contain pork,alcohol etc.

O.K ,the vaccines won't go a miss on people desperate for a way out of this but if there are large numbers of un-vaccinated people throughout our towns and cities,the numbers will take longer to drive down and the hospitals will continue to be overloaded in critical care wards..

 

I watched a programme last night called 'My ****ing Tourettes Family'....Surely it can't be them?

 

I've probably missed this somewhere. What's the reasoning behind these very early 5.30pm kick-offs? Sure, these are strange times we are living in but 5.30pm seems odd.

 

No fans due to covid, so teams can be traveling earlier etc

 

It’ll be a tough game. Accrington are playing some good football, the sort of team that raises their game the tougher the opposition.

With defensive changes at CH optimistically gone for a draw.

It’s going to be a tough game, Coleman seems a good manager that gets his teams all playing for him.

 

Accrington Stanley's 'no superstars' ethos offers Championship chance
John Coleman’s canny squad blend of experience, misfits and loans have promotion out of League One in their own hands
Ben FisherFri 1 Jan 2021 08.00 GMT
Until last week, for a few days at least, those basking in Arsenal’s struggles frivolously floated the idea of the club sparring with Accrington Stanley in the Championship. Such a meeting may seem incomputable but part of the sentence could soon ring true. It is increasingly difficult to ignore Accrington’s promotion credentials and, with at least two games in hand on those above them, John Coleman’s side are primed to supersede some of League One’s most famous names.

On Saturday they were planning to upstage second-placed Portsmouth before that match was postponed. However, if they earn maximum points from three games in hand on the leaders, Lincoln – collected following Covid-19 outbreaks at rivals – eighth-placed Accrington could soar to the summit.

On the eve of the season Coleman gathered his squad to tell them he believed they could ruffle feathers – again. “Two years ago we won League Two, quite comfortably in the end, when everybody fancied us for relegation,” says Coleman, who claims the club operates with a “bottom two” wage bill. “The three teams who went up with us are all in the Championship now: Coventry, Wycombe and Luton. They haven’t overly spent on their teams, so why can’t it be us?”

Coleman has an intriguing cocktail of players. They have three loanees from Chelsea – the goalkeeper Nathan Baxter and the midfielders Jon Russell and Tariq Uwakwe – two from Newcastle and one from Watford. Coleman speaks to Anthony Barry, the former Accrington midfielder who joined Frank Lampard’s staff in August, a couple of times a week and Chelsea’s first-team coach helped to smooth those arrivals. Until last month Baxter was backup to Toby Savin, a promising 19-year-old goalkeeper who progressed through Accrington’s academy after spells at Everton and Crewe.

Meanwhile another midfielder, Joe Pritchard, who spent 14 years at Tottenham, has thrived since landing in Lancashire in May 2019 and Matt Butcher has impressed in the anchor role following his release by Bournemouth. The front two of Colby Bishop, a former PE teacher, and Dion Charles earned their stripes in non-league. The experienced trio of the captain, the 32-year-old Seamus Conneely, Mark Hughes (34) and Sean McConville (31) vet the dressing room.

Pritchard captained Tottenham’s under-23s, playing alongside Harry Winks and Kyle Walker-Peters, but his career stagnated and the death of Ugo Ehiogu, a former coach, left him “crushed” and “broken for quite a while”. At Accrington the facilities are modest and the players are not pampered but the club have reignited his love for the game.

“No food [after training] and we wash our own kit, but I’d do that for the rest of my career if it meant I could play in a first team,” says Pritchard. “When you’re a young player and you’re caught up in the atmosphere of a big club, you can easily be blindsided by how grand it all is: ‘Look at this training ground, I work here every day.’

“When I was at Tottenham I was told by Wayne Burnett, the under-23s manager, that until you’re playing regularly in a first team you can’t call yourself a player of that club; it was one of the best pieces of information, which I needed to hear. I’d never stepped foot on a first-team pitch for Tottenham and I never played for Tottenham; I’d call myself a Tottenham youth player but that’s as far as it goes. And that stuck with me when I went to Bolton. I wouldn’t even have called myself much of a Bolton player. I only had five appearances and two starts. I didn’t establish myself, but I’ve just touched 50 appearances at Accrington and I actually feel like an Accrington player.”

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John Coleman’s Accrington start 2021 eighth in League One but with games in hand on all the sides above them. Photograph: Kevin Warburton/A Moment in Sport/ProSports/Shutterstock
They work hard but have fun. In pre-season Coleman challenges signings to a relay race against his staff – “the lads get one of their quickest to run 400m and we generally get about six to run about 65m each” – and on away trips the manager and his longstanding assistant and best friend, Jimmy Bell, moonlight as quizmasters. “We’ve developed a game, a cross between the Krypton Factor and The Cube,” Coleman says. “We even had a message off Gordon Burns telling us how well we were taking his ideas forward.”

Coleman’s jovial character was encapsulated in a video of him channelling Elton Johnbefore Christmas. He can, Savin says, often be heard singing at training at 9am and his players feed off such energy. “If you have a positive spirit around the place, I think people work better,” the manager says. “But it’s not a holiday camp – far from it, because you have to have discipline and you have to work hard. No one gets treated any better or worse than anybody else – everyone is valued. There are no superstars and the blend is good. But people who just think we get by on hard work and gung-ho are missing the point. The players are very well coached by a solid staff, which might not be big in numbers, but are very good people and leave no stone unturned.

“I think they think a lot of it is based on team spirit – but they couldn’t be further from the truth. A lot of it is based on analysis of opposition, hard work on the training ground, shape, patterns of play – that’s what we’ve always based our philosophies on. That can get lost because we like a singsong and we do like the lads to enjoy the experience, but I’d like to think most people who come and spend time at Accrington leave as better players and better people.”

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Uwakwe scored a debut hat-trick in September and a peach against Peterborough four days later. “Since Frank Lampard has come in [as Chelsea manager] everyone is seeing that, if you’re good enough and playing well, the opportunity is there,” says Uwakwe, who stays in touch with Tore André Flo, one of Chelsea’s loan coaches.

For now, the focus is on propelling Accrington, who have lost two of their past 12 matches in all competitions, up the table. League Onewas supposed to be Stanley’s ceiling but Accrington, a prudently run team rooted in non-league until promotion under Coleman in 2006, have form for surprising people. “I think we are on our way to making people believe that we are not really ‘little old Accrington’ any more and we’re pushing for the Championship,” says Savin.

 

You would think that they would be keen to avoid catching it then. Maybe the community leaders who have much to say about other things could have a word. Also quotes low levels of education. That could land them in bother.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-shows-72-black-Britons-unlikely-vaccine.html

 

Read similar articles about them previously and have been impressed with the work he is doing and the way the club is run.
Think it will be a good test for us tonight and hopefully an entertaining one.