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Post by popuppirate on Feb 24, 2024 20:24:46 GMT
Quality from Brown, two great assists and should have been three if Sinclair finishes that sitter. If you feed Martin he will score, it's a top quality run and finish. Conteh my MotM.
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 18, 2024 12:42:08 GMT
Grant and Gordon in the same team means we started off with a double handicap. Has anyone ever seen Gordon pass FORWARD?? I thought it was his cross which led to our goal? Not really sure Gordon has done a lot wrong over the last couple of games, I can't recall any of the 5 goals we've conceded being down to him, plus he was denied a stone wall penalty today. It was Brown who crossed it, a fantastic ball, but Gordon fed Brown with a good turn and through ball
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 18, 2024 11:02:48 GMT
It was good to see the poster get called out by lots on here, in no uncertain terms, and maybe that's the best response to discriminatory comments like that. A ban is fair enough too though. That poster had been vocal in wanting JCH here, so maybe not a complete racist just perhaps ignorant of what's acceptable here and in real life. Prejudice and discrimination is a tricky subject, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have ingrained prejudices and need to be aware of why I do and not to act on them. For the record, I thought Gordon was ok yesterday and gets more stick than he deserves. Jevani Brown too. Brown was rated a 7.3 by FotMob, our 2nd highest behind Martin on 7.4. It was a low bar admittedly but did match what I watched yesterday.
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 17, 2024 22:46:43 GMT
We weren’t as bad today as some on here are making out. We were a long way from being great, or even as good as we were for an hour on Tuesday. We missed Evans and Conteh a lot. Apologies if it has been mentioned above, but did anyone notice how often Crama slipped over in the first half? Four or five or more? Can’t remember anyone else doing it more than once. Really not sure he is any better than Connolly. Vale played well I thought. A few did OK? Martin, Hunt, Gordon and Thomas. Brown wasn’t too bad, don’t think he gave the ball away. Vaughan looked lively and Baggott looked ok as an emergency forward! I’ve only seen three games in the flesh this season. The first was at Charlton and I see that only four players who started that night started today, Crama, Gordon, Thomas and Sinclair. The inability for whatever reason to field anything like a settled side has been a huge problem this season. I hope Ward does enough in the rest of the season to nail down his starting role next season. Crama has balance issues, always stumbling around. It's weird as he can look so comfortable and assured on occasion, don't know whether he's not fully fit or can't remember how to run. I rate him but can't get my head round his inconsistencies but expect he'd do well in a settled side, which is something I don't remember having
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 15, 2024 10:07:44 GMT
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 15, 2024 10:03:35 GMT
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 14, 2024 21:07:45 GMT
Matchday Moments/Close Quarters: That Evans goal😍😍😍 All 3 top quality goals there. The third a goal of the season contender, out from the back and Conteh bursting through, Thomas to Brown with a touch back to Thomas, to Evans with a beauty. Good players those, all 4
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 14, 2024 0:35:21 GMT
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 13, 2024 22:21:17 GMT
Won without Taylor, Finley and Ward. Didn't see that happening tonight. Agree we looked better with 442, Taylor won the match with that change. Early days for Baggott but we looked more organised when he came off. It was bizarre listening to the Stevenage commentary moaning about our tactics at the end, I have to say I was delighted by it and the game management was excellent.
Thomas is important for us, he so often wins balls he has no right to and took the goal superbly. Credit to Evans for still battling and being able to not receive the second yellow.
Conteh will be missed but we saw tonight he's capable of being a very good footballer not just a carrier.
I'll feel a lot better after two or three more wins, but Taylor saved our bacon there as without the sudden change we'd have lost by 4 or 5, easily.
Let's get behind them as they showed us what we needed tonight
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 13, 2024 21:11:13 GMT
Come on !!!!!!!
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 13, 2024 20:45:28 GMT
Evans probably one more foul away from a 2nd yellow. Not sure what options we have to replace him though thought he has already been booked? A 2nd yellow
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 13, 2024 20:42:22 GMT
Evans probably one more foul away from a 2nd yellow. Not sure what options we have to replace him though
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 13, 2024 11:59:15 GMT
Should he have said that in 3 years our ambitious goal was to be stagnating in League 1 ? I'm pleased they've got ambitions, and didn't expect everything to be spelled out in a single open letter. Many people on here have hoped for a sustainable future, so whether the owners have buckets of cash or not, the sensible solution is to attempt to increase the capacity and build gradually within our means. People wanted communication and some vision, the more optimistic amongst us will believe the championship in 3 years is achievable. It's almost like some people aren't happy unless they're unhappy about something The trouble is, we have heard it all before. Barton was supposed to take us up either this season or next. I just don't buy it anymore. Would have been better to have left that line out of the letter or not put a time line on it Yeah I totally get that, we just need to remember we've new owners and a new manager now who've got to share some ambitions. Had the championship target been left out, it would have been the first thing picked up on here with claims they have no ambition and that they're happy for us to stagnate. It's just a letter that's meant to be reassuring of their support and vision, come the summer and beyond we'll see what they do to back that up
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 13, 2024 10:22:27 GMT
3 years to the championship sounds reasonable? For us? Does it? Over the next 3 years, sides will dropping out of the league above who are massive and wealthy compared to us. Look at the bottom half of the champ and I dont see many sides we'll be above in 3 years at all. Even a good 8 in our division will fancy their chances ahead of us. Proof will be in the pudding though, so let's hope for brighter years ahead🥮 Nail on head here. The teams that do come down from the champ to L1 are usually either the smaller ones, Rotherham for example, the tradition bounce clubs, Barnsley, P'boro, and a basket case club, like a Sheff W, Reading. There is only 1 team currently the same size as us in the champ and that is Rotherham and they are bottom by +15 points and with a better stadium than us, albeit similar in terms of capacity. Teams like Luton and Brentford stabalised, competed and got promoted from the championship because of their management structures within the club at board level, football operations level and then at pitch level. For HAS to come out and say "championship in 3 years" is fine, but he also needs to say how. What is he/the board going to do personally to make sure it happens? What does it mean if we dont make it? Will he walk away because he has run out of money? It's pretty clear to me that the attempt to hike ticket prices means he wants more revenue. The fact WC is only on a part time contract says to me that he hasnt got the ££ to invest in the footballing side this season or beyond. Should he have said that in 3 years our ambitious goal was to be stagnating in League 1 ? I'm pleased they've got ambitions, and didn't expect everything to be spelled out in a single open letter. Many people on here have hoped for a sustainable future, so whether the owners have buckets of cash or not, the sensible solution is to attempt to increase the capacity and build gradually within our means. People wanted communication and some vision, the more optimistic amongst us will believe the championship in 3 years is achievable. It's almost like some people aren't happy unless they're unhappy about something
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 12, 2024 23:12:19 GMT
When they talked about the Premier League I assumed they meant longer term, like one day. 3 years to Championship sounds reasonable and by then hopefully the ground will hold 16K. Realistically from there you're looking at least around 5 years to establish and build. It didn't really sound like they'd changed the projections to me, just more realistic aims. 3 years to the championship sounds reasonable? For us? Does it? Over the next 3 years, sides will dropping out of the league above who are massive and wealthy compared to us. Look at the bottom half of the champ and I dont see many sides we'll be above in 3 years at all. Even a good 8 in our division will fancy their chances ahead of us. Proof will be in the pudding though, so let's hope for brighter years ahead🥮 It sounds reasonable to me, yeah. I'd have thought most clubs of our standing would have that as an aspiration. They're talking about increasing the attendance further and backing the manager financially. All we can do is choose to believe them or not. I'm choosing to believe them now, but that is subject to change, we'll be nearer to knowing in the summer.
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 12, 2024 22:18:38 GMT
Was the song Singing the Blues ?
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 12, 2024 21:54:45 GMT
Can't see what the fuss is about. Everything in the letter had already been said in the previous interviews with RB and ITV. However the narrative has altered regarding the FM stadium and saying Championship in 3 years is just flannel as was saying the target was the Premier League previously. This summer will just be another cycle of new players not being together from the start of pre season and taking a couple of months to "gel" Also no one said previously the stadium would be 18k but 16-17k When they talked about the Premier League I assumed they meant longer term, like one day. 3 years to Championship sounds reasonable and by then hopefully the ground will hold 16K. Realistically from there you're looking at least around 5 years to establish and build. It didn't really sound like they'd changed the projections to me, just more realistic aims.
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 11, 2024 21:24:57 GMT
I think we have to stick with him and give him the summer, as 79 just said. They're completely different managers, Taylor and the last. Barton winged it constantly bringing in excellent players for the level but with injury histories, if key players got injured he'd throw everything in the air and hope it landed right. The players would go out with a bomb up their arse and ringing in their ears. Taylor won't like winging it and probably has to work a lot harder for respect from much of the squad, some of which got us promoted under the old regime. We need the players to back the manager here too, it looks like Finley is on board and has regained his form after it looked like he was done. We've seen good performances from the team under his management, and the ways he talks about our lack of strength is something we've all been saying needs addressing. I'm not sure what he could have said in that interview that was more truthful. “The owners have f**ked me and the fans over”. How’s about that. I'm not sure that is the case though. Some thought selling Collins was sensible business, and most agreed with the Conteh signing. Almost all thought offering Martin a new contract was positive. There was intention (apparently) to bring in a striker in January. I'll reserve my judgment on the owners until after the summer, hopefully by then they'll trust Taylor enough to spend some money
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 11, 2024 20:32:37 GMT
I think we have to stick with him and give him the summer, as 79 just said. They're completely different managers, Taylor and the last. Barton winged it constantly bringing in excellent players for the level but with injury histories, if key players got injured he'd throw everything in the air and hope it landed right. The players would go out with a bomb up their arse and ringing in their ears. Taylor won't like winging it and probably has to work a lot harder for respect from much of the squad, some of which got us promoted under the old regime.
We need the players to back the manager here too, it looks like Finley is on board and has regained his form after it looked like he was done. We've seen good performances from the team under his management, and the ways he talks about our lack of strength is something we've all been saying needs addressing. I'm not sure what he could have said in that interview that was more truthful.
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Post by popuppirate on Feb 10, 2024 19:11:27 GMT
We've had 3 managers in a short space of time, all 3 have managed some decent performances and some awful performances. The common factor is the players. It's the same issue again but without Collins to provide assists. Common factor? It's different players🤷♂️ We're an average side in an average division with a new manager. He is not motivating the players. It's OK to disagree. You blame the players, that's fine by me. I look at the manager because it's 8 or 9 of them below par which is a strong signal. Of course it's fine to disagree. Most of those players played for all 3 managers though, it's still mostly Barton players in the squad. They know the season is over too and many of them can't cope with physical opponents that are the bread and butter of this league.
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