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Post by barumgas on Oct 23, 2019 9:50:36 GMT
We played like we are the team at the bottom of the table.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Oct 23, 2019 9:53:28 GMT
Worse performance l have witnessed in 40 years. Enough said.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Oct 23, 2019 9:53:54 GMT
Highlight of the match was when one of the floodlights went out, and the Bolton fans started chanting “You forgot to pay the bills”. Bit rich don’t you think 🙈🙈 Yeah, had it been Bolton's floodlights they would have turned them off on purpose to conserve the physical and emotional well being of the bulbs. I chanted that back at them but they didn't really acknowledge it. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 9:54:31 GMT
Wonder if GC will rush Sercs and JCH back on Saturday? Recalls for Little and Leahy as well? I’ve been a big supporter of Nichols, he’s a talent but is clearly devoid of all confidence and needs to be taken out of the firing line permanently. Fixed that for you!! 3 League goals, one of those a penalty and one a passback in 84 appearances tell it all! I was a big supporter of TN, but no longer! That’s fair enough and hard to argue. The stats are poor but there is still a good footballer there - might even need a sports psychologist to get the best out of him. No objections to people having had enough of him but some of the nasty abusive stuff coming from the terraces, on here and probably worse on social media is out of order IMO. |
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Post by pirate on Oct 23, 2019 10:02:53 GMT
Wonder if GC will rush Sercs and JCH back on Saturday? Recalls for Little and Leahy as well? I’ve been a big supporter of Nichols, he’s a talent but is clearly devoid of all confidence and needs to be taken out of the firing line permanently. Fixed that for you!! 3 League goals, one of those a penalty and one a passback in 84 appearances tell it all! I was a big supporter of TN, but no longer! I told those stats to a friend who is not a Rovers fan and he thought I was taking the water. Truly horrific. |
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Post by Hudson1883 on Oct 23, 2019 10:02:59 GMT
Fixed that for you!! 3 League goals, one of those a penalty and one a passback in 84 appearances tell it all! I was a big supporter of TN, but no longer! That’s fair enough and hard to argue. The stats are poor but there is still a good footballer there - might even need a sports psychologist to get the best out of him. No objections to people having had enough of him but some of the nasty abusive stuff coming from the terraces, on here and probably worse on social media is out of order IMO. The chanting of Tyler Smith’s name was woeful from the Thatchers End. More so given he came on and also did nothing of note. I recall them doing similar for Dom Telford once upon a time. say what you like about Nichols record/performances but he always puts the effort in. I’m not sure it says a great deal about some sections of our support, the way they have treated Nichols at times. Laughably, five minutes later they were singing something about ‘faithful & true’.... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 10:08:01 GMT
Alex Rodman man of the match. That’s gotta be a water take right? Nichols getting the blame again. He was f**king sh** but most of the team were tonight. The only players for me to have any credit were Abu Ogogo who got substituted(??) and Victor Adeboyejo. Particular note for Ollie Clarke and Alex Rodman for a 1/10 performance. And Kyle Bennett who I was begging for and unfortunately didn’t disappoint at disappointing us. Ultimately the poorest performance tonight was Graham Coughlan for failing to get us rethinking our tactics of lumping the ball at Rodman every time we had it. Despite the ginormous Bolton defence confusing basketball for defensive football Fair play to Bolton and well done for getting their first win in a long time. At least they enjoyed it! Rodman won headers, was clever with the ball, won some tackles and crossed quite well. He was pretty effective throughout the game - unlike most of the rest. Nicholls getting the blame ? Quite rightly too. He was atrocious. Sure, he can play a bit sometimes, but how can we continue with a player who sometimes fails miserably too. Nicholls and Clarke failed the team last night.
Agree Rodman being criticised by some when he was probably our best player last night apart from our keeper. He has been pressed into service as a wing back and did his defensive duties very well winning a number of crucial headers in our box. He, when able to get forward was our only attacking threat. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 10:12:25 GMT
Highlight of the match was when one of the floodlights went out, and the Bolton fans started chanting “You forgot to pay the bills”. Bit rich don’t you think 🙈🙈 Yeah, had it been Bolton's floodlights they would have turned them off on purpose to conserve the physical and emotional well being of the bulbs. I chanted that back at them but they didn't really acknowledge it. I said at the time, why did we not just switch that tower off and cause the abandonment of the game! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 10:26:18 GMT
Nichols clearly needs to go, but its unfair to single him out when he wasn’t even the worst performer last night. That accolade goes to Michael Kelly or Ollie Clarke.
Yet, no matter how poor one of our own players is playing, if they are putting in the effort, I will never ironically cheer their substitution like a large number of our ‘faithful and true’ fans. Absolutely embarrassing.
Only in the cases such as Stefan Payne would I participate in such a thing.
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Post by Congas on Oct 23, 2019 10:29:51 GMT
Rodman won headers, was clever with the ball, won some tackles and crossed quite well. He was pretty effective throughout the game - unlike most of the rest. Nicholls getting the blame ? Quite rightly too. He was atrocious. Sure, he can play a bit sometimes, but how can we continue with a player who sometimes fails miserably too. Nicholls and Clarke failed the team last night.
Agree Rodman being criticised by some when he was probably our best player last night apart from our keeper. He has been pressed into service as a wing back and did his defensive duties very well winning a number of crucial headers in our box. He, when able to get forward was our only attacking threat. So it's the fan's fault he's crap? |
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Post by glengas on Oct 23, 2019 10:41:56 GMT
Nichols clearly needs to go, but its unfair to single him out when he wasn’t even the worst performer last night. That accolade goes to Michael Kelly or Ollie Clarke. Yet, no matter how poor one of our own players is playing, if they are putting in the effort, I will never ironically cheer their substitution like a large number of our ‘faithful and true’ fans. Absolutely embarrassing. Only in the cases such as Stefan Payne would I participate in such a thing. I didn’t hear the cheers when Nichols went off, it was virtual silence where I sat with a few clapping. I heard plenty of abuse aimed at Kelly. The lad has hardly played this season and GC admitted he was not playing in a system that suited him. There were far more experienced players last night who had worse games. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 10:45:32 GMT
Nichols clearly needs to go, but its unfair to single him out when he wasn’t even the worst performer last night. That accolade goes to Michael Kelly or Ollie Clarke. Yet, no matter how poor one of our own players is playing, if they are putting in the effort, I will never ironically cheer their substitution like a large number of our ‘faithful and true’ fans. Absolutely embarrassing. Only in the cases such as Stefan Payne would I participate in such a thing. I didn’t hear the cheers when Nichols went off, it was virtual silence where I sat with a few clapping. I heard plenty of abuse aimed at Kelly. The lad has hardly played this season and GC admitted he was not playing in a system that suited him. There were far more experienced players last night who had worse games. There were many cheers from a bunch of old belters throughout the south stand. |
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Post by Jomo on Oct 23, 2019 10:48:09 GMT
I didn’t hear the cheers when Nichols went off, it was virtual silence where I sat with a few clapping. I heard plenty of abuse aimed at Kelly. The lad has hardly played this season and GC admitted he was not playing in a system that suited him. There were far more experienced players last night who had worse games. There were many cheers from a bunch of old belters throughout the south stand. There were lots of ironic cheers at his substitution last night in the West Terrace. I thought it was very bad taste, no matter how poorly he played. I would never participate in such nasty behaviour, neither would I ever boo the team at the final whistle. The performance was horrendous, but booing doesn't help anyone. |
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Post by markczgas on Oct 23, 2019 11:00:02 GMT
Well after that ;
Leahy is much better than Kelly - so hope he's back Saturday.
We desperately missed Sercombe as well as JCH.
Sercs gives us more calmness in midfield and the ability to run at backtracking defences.
All the players apart from Vic (you could see he wanted to prove a point to GC) were below par. We were very shaky and not using our brains and some like Davies, Kilgour and Upson were over-complicating things with their distribution 2nd half.
Hopefully, back to basics review will get us in a good mindset for Pompey.
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Post by baggins on Oct 23, 2019 11:11:14 GMT
Well after that ; Leahy is much better than Kelly - so hope he's back Saturday. We desperately missed Sercombe as well as JCH. Sercs gives us more calmness in midfield and the ability to run at backtracking defences. All the players apart from Vic (you could see he wanted to prove a point to GC) were below par. We were very shaky and not using our brains and some like Davies, Kilgour and Upson were over-complicating things with their distribution 2nd half. Hopefully, back to basics review will get us in a good mindset for Pompey. The only point I'd add to that, is that the keeper stopped it from being 4 or 5 nil. |
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Post by baggins on Oct 23, 2019 11:13:41 GMT
Well after that ; Leahy is much better than Kelly - so hope he's back Saturday. We desperately missed Sercombe as well as JCH. Sercs gives us more calmness in midfield and the ability to run at backtracking defences. All the players apart from Vic (you could see he wanted to prove a point to GC) were below par. We were very shaky and not using our brains and some like Davies, Kilgour and Upson were over-complicating things with their distribution 2nd half. Hopefully, back to basics review will get us in a good mindset for Pompey. Plus, and I'm scrabbling around for positives, we hit the woodwork. Twice? |
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 23, 2019 11:20:40 GMT
Well after that ; Leahy is much better than Kelly - so hope he's back Saturday. We desperately missed Sercombe as well as JCH. Sercs gives us more calmness in midfield and the ability to run at backtracking defences. All the players apart from Vic (you could see he wanted to prove a point to GC) were below par. We were very shaky and not using our brains and some like Davies, Kilgour and Upson were over-complicating things with their distribution 2nd half. Hopefully, back to basics review will get us in a good mindset for Pompey. The only point I'd add to that, is that the keeper stopped it from being 4 or 5 nil. Isn't that is job though, it's not like he brought off 4 or 5 worldys in a match like Bonham use to do regularly last season. We seem to have a nightmare performance once a season, in the past it's been v Newport, Wimbledon, Donny last season, let's just hope it's a one off. Although for the second game running you do wonder if TN had taken his chance when it was 0-0 if the outcome would have been different, probably not last night though! |
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Post by baggins on Oct 23, 2019 11:22:35 GMT
The only point I'd add to that, is that the keeper stopped it from being 4 or 5 nil. Isn't that is job though, it's not like he brought off 4 or 5 worldys in a match like Bonham use to do regularly last season. We seem to have a nightmare performance once a season, in the past it's been v Newport, Wimbledon, Donny last season, let's just hope it's a one off. Although for the second game running you do wonder if TN had taken his chance when it was 0-0 if the outcome would have been different, probably not last night though! Yes, that is his job, but I was replying to a post regarding the rest of the team playing below par. He didn't. |
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Post by glengas on Oct 23, 2019 11:24:57 GMT
Well after that ; Leahy is much better than Kelly - so hope he's back Saturday. We desperately missed Sercombe as well as JCH. Sercs gives us more calmness in midfield and the ability to run at backtracking defences. All the players apart from Vic (you could see he wanted to prove a point to GC) were below par. We were very shaky and not using our brains and some like Davies, Kilgour and Upson were over-complicating things with their distribution 2nd half. Hopefully, back to basics review will get us in a good mindset for Pompey. Sercs is not going to be fit for Saturday and even if he was is GC going to drop OC to accommodate him? |
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Post by SleepyGas on Oct 23, 2019 11:34:47 GMT
We hit the bar from a freekick.. don't recall hitting the woodwork at any other time? (although Bolton certainly did early on.. in a good move not dissimilar to the one ending with a goal). I was still queuing outside when Victor Adeboyejo had a decent header saved and, of course, Tom Nichols missed an "open" goal...  I am somewhat curious as to why Leahy was dropped. Mike Kelly was a solid enough LB last year when we needed him - but not sure why he was playing wing back yesterday? |
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