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- Simon Head: Welcome to Jill's 365 voice notes. Please leave your message after the tone. It's about 10 past six. Very, very early Saturday morning on my way down to get on the supporters coach for the very long trip away to York City. New stadium for me, new stadium for most Jill's fans I'd imagine, which probably explains why it's a sent out crowd. It's going be a fantastic atmosphere I think today. Really looking forward to it. Both sides in decent form. We're obviously unbeaten since our opening day reverse against Walsall. One free on the spin now haven't we? And with two clean sheets. So I think today there is definite calls for optimism. City have got fantastic home record though. But I think we've come away with a point. and I'm going for a one all draw. Just gone six o'clock, still dark, feels like a proper away day. Looking forward to this one. Self and Ava in the car, just driving over the seat and ball to get on the coach. Big test of weights, probably our biggest test of the season. And we've said that for three weekends in a row now. We passed the first two with flying colours. yeah, new ground for everybody today. The LNER community stadium will be the destination of the take on York. But yeah. fairly confident that if we play to the same levels that we have been over the last few weeks then we will come away with something. With Gilles heading up to York City today it's gonna be an interesting one. Having seen the team sheet it's again it's a lineup which is going to be competitive but this is going to be a real test for us away from home. We've not had the best record in York the last time we won there was in 1997 but they haven't been around you know for a while to... for us to challenge that record so you can't really be looking at stuff like that. However, they've started well. They're sitting on seventh at the moment. We're sitting fourth. It doesn't really matter at the moment, as far as where you're on the table. But I do feel this is a game that if we're really seriously unchallenging getting top half or even pushing further, we have to get insane from this game. And it's going to be a challenge, think, today. A full set-up stadium as well. So it'll be rocking. It's going to be a... A very intense game with the crowd. going to be hard. It's going to be hard for the players out on that pitch. But I do think we can get something. I don't think we're going to win today. You know what? I'm going to be really uninspiring. I think it's going to be nil nil. Safely arrived at LNER Community Stadium here at York. ⁓ Fantastic facility this. It really should be the benchmark for any new out of town football stadium. Team News is in. One change in the start of the 11th that sees Goodwin come in for Silla. Not sure whether Silla is injured, ill or on international duty. A bit of change on the bench. We have a new goalkeeper, which is hardly surprising, having seen Hultons display in the EFL Trophy on Tuesday night. Gotta be honest, he's not good enough. And I think the club have realised that. Nice to see Dak and Antwi and Alv this return. I think we can get a draw and I'm going for one-all. 25 minutes to kick off inside the LNER Community Stadium. Yeah, really, really excited for this one. Said it on the preview the other day, two good sides in form. They both turn up and play to their capacity. This should be an absolute belter. One change for the Gilles, no Levin-Siller at all. means Will Goodwin comes back into the starting eleven, but we look stronger on the bench. There is a new man. Rohan Luthrup is our new substitute goalkeeper. That got announced before kick-off, so it'll be interesting to see the thinking behind that one. But yeah, like I say, 25 minutes kick-off. Cannot wait for this one to get going. Checking back, but he's going to keep it in play and Yorker. They started this game brightly as it goes into the box, there could be a chance for them, there's shot towards goal and it's gone to the back of the net and York have taken the lead. Early it was Gray that scuffed the shot into the ground and it bounced up and went in the back of the net. Newby using the come into the box but you can't get a shot himself, he's lining up to do so, ⁓ and he's whacked it against the post. Felix has managed to keep Goodalba on the right hand side, looking to recycle the play into the box and ⁓ I thought that was in the back of the net from Newby and again I don't know how Jelligham haven't conceded so many goals. ⁓ there's a massive gap there over on this left hand side and Hunt's got the whole space of the stadium to take a shot towards goal. How on earth have they not scored? My goodness me, York City. There's no other way of putting it. We've been absolutely Sunday league. It's halftime here and it's not good news. We're one-neil down, but in fact there is good news. It should be a lot more. And I had York. gone off the park, 3-0 up, there would have been no complaints here. Youl started really, really well, cautious cold, scored early, not great defending at all. They broke down the right in a lot of space, cross comes over, in fact the guy makes a complete mess of the finish, it trickles in, but from then on in it's been defensively really shaky from us. They've hit the woodwork a couple of times. They've missed an absolute sit-up. The keeper's made a decent save and has saved. Had it been a 3-0 scoreline at half-time, absolutely no complaints. Injury curse again has struck us. A good win off, perhaps a recurrence of a rock-stone injury. King has also gone off. Looks like some sort of knee injury there. He twisted, so maybe... opened up some ligaments there. I say, defensively we looked really shaky. With Goodwin going off, there's been no real physical out in the upfront. Balls coming back all the time and the injuries have really shaken off fluency. All to play for second half. I think the other thing that was very noticeable first half was a quite shocking performance by the referee. ⁓ I don't like to call out referees, it's an incredibly difficult job to do. But have to say, a referee who doesn't really favour the away side, I'll leave it at that, but some quite baffling decisions and non-decisions. It certainly doesn't excuse how we played and it doesn't mean that we're losing because of the referee, but we've got to be very careful. like this because they can always come up with surprises and you know when you're one kneel down you kind of surprise to go further behind. Another good chance here for York they're coming through this with a shot from distance and it's in the back of the net and they have got the three points that is a top finish as well I have to say out of all the chances York City have had this game that's the one that's got in the back of the net from Malcolm is a really tidy finish. Barca are going to whip it into the box has gone near post and Gilles do manage to get it clear. but it's going to be a shot again from Boyes who takes a shot towards goal, it's in the back of the net and it's been, yeah, has it deflected through a sea of players and it takes a nick when it's going through, it's always going to have an opportunity to back of the net. That's game over now, second goal conceded, down to Tom Mane. It's all about now to slightly professional and keeping the score down. Deeply disappointing performance and just one of those days, more injuries as well. Just about to get back onto the supporters coach having witnessed a 3-0 away defeat. Well, what can you say? ⁓ Scoreline doesn't lie. ⁓ York City were the better side. They deserved the win. We didn't play well. ⁓ One bad performance doesn't define our season. We played better than that. I know we will. In fact, what York did to us today, we did to Bristol Rovers last week. I think perspectives should be shown today. As I say, for me, just one bad performance against a very good side with a fantastic home record. We move on to the next game. I think the other important thing today, strap lines of the whole day is what could have gone wrong, did go wrong. Further injuries, two injuries, I don't know how severe they are, and a red card, which I think was perhaps slightly harsh. think certainly the second yellow looked a bit harsh. As I say, just one of those days and I think fans hopefully tonight will reflect upon that and react accordingly but who knows? mean, hopefully there's no social media overreaction. had to get on my own. That's after the office where everything could have gone wrong. Starting off with the early goal conceded, then we switched off offensively. Then two more injuries first half, fingers crossed. and nothing serious that either Wilcox or Keith Ike came. We never really had any control of the football much at any point. They post twice in first half. I'll be right, made a big save and also they missed a sit-up. So it's fair to say, let's go in at the break, we're nothing to just be one behind. In the end, three nil scoreline still flattered us. They were much better in every department we were going. Referee didn't help us at all, but the team certainly wasn't the reason we lost. Yep, one defeat. seven off eight games three points off second I think we'd have taken that at start of the season. I think we have to look at that and say we're allowed to have a bad day at the office every now and again and this is just one of them all over the park from start to finish. We just weren't in it and York really should have been away from us very late, very much the first half. They should have had three, maybe four goals and only caught up in the second half after the red card which in the video I put out I said like yeah probably just a yellow card but actually on reflection there is a found the build up and I think it is actually quite soft and I Alvarez is bit unlucky to get his second yellow but I just think the game was done already done already then and it's just York were always gonna find that second and third and even though we always had a chance just to one-nil down I it always felt to me that York had an extra play on the pitch the whole game and eventually they did but it just felt that for some reason and just got beaten by a better team on the day and yeah it's a bit gutting however ⁓ If you said at the start of the season after this many games we'd lose 2 and we're in the position we are now, I would have taken it, you know? The most important thing is we need to bounce back like we did after losing to Walsall 3-0, particularly with this October curse patch that we seem to always have coming up. If we can respond next week against Newport in the same way that we did after losing to Walsall, then we should be OK. But actually, the next few games are vital in terms of getting over this weird thing that we have in October, when the wheels potentially do come off. But yes, not a great day at the office and I just hope these injuries are precautionary and we get players coming back because at the moment it just seems to be also what we were always talking about. Anyway, I'll try and have a good weekend. yeah, just one of those days, unfortunately.