Rich84

Knight is a tough one to call, he probably was our most saleable asset 18 months ago and we may have got between £1-2m for him.
But I don't think his inconspicuous performances this season have done us any favours, either on the pitch or for potential transfer, I doubt he'd command a fee in excess of £1m now, he hasn't cemented a position in the team, can't get in the central 2 ahead of Bird and Hourihane,  doesn't produce enough in the final 3rd to play further forwards and has been shoe-horned in to a wide position more often than not.
Strange thing is, of all the midfielders,  he's probably the one that fits the profile Warne wants due to his energy levels, I suspect we will keep him and risk the compensation route at the end of the season, not sure there will be a queue knocking on the door to start a bidding war.

Knight is a tough one to call, he probably was our most saleable asset 18 months ago and we may have got between £1-2m for him.
But I don't think his inconspicuous performances this season have done us any favours, either on the pitch or for potential transfer, I doubt he'd command a fee in excess of £1m now, he hasn't cemented a position in the team, can't get in the central 2 ahead of Bird and Hourihane,  doesn't produce enough in the final 3rd to play further forwards and has been shoe-horned in to a wide position more often than not.
Strange thing is, of all the midfielders,  he's probably the one that fits the profile Warne wants due to his energy levels, I suspect we will keep him and risk the compensation route at the end of the season, not sure there will be a queue knocking on the door to start a bidding war.

Definitely want them to go up. They're a bit like a Sunderland in this league, as are we. Might get stuck down here for a few years, but with the disparities in quality and budgets in this division, they'll get out of it at some point. I'd rather them get out when we know we can't, so they're not directly competing with us again.
We'll also get out of it at some point, I just hope it's sooner rather than later. If the biggest challengers for us next season are going to be Peterborough, Bolton, Barnsley, Reading, Wigan and Blackpool, then things could be much, much worse. There's nothing to really be fearful of there.

Yeah the decision to pass it back to the keeper was truly awful

Sick of hearing that it's the refs costing us, it isn't! It's the schoolboy mistakes, without that dreadful back pass the penalty etc doesn't happen 

Interesting view about Barkhauzen as I was going to say imo the problem with NML was he wasn't rested back end of Jan when he started fo look jaded, and Barks was in his best form, my thought at the time was it didn't make sense bringing Dobbin in for Barks when he'd been playing well yet NML was flagging. 
I think NMl is a 60 minute player, doesn't get taken off enough to preserve him.
An exciting player when on form, but realistically doesn't deliver anywhere near enough, not just goals either, some of his crossing is very poor, but that's why he's in league 1.
The chance on Saturday,  when McGoldrick passed to him I sat back down, doesn't look like he'll ever score again.

Interesting view about Barkhauzen as I was going to say imo the problem with NML was he wasn't rested back end of Jan when he started fo look jaded, and Barks was in his best form, my thought at the time was it didn't make sense bringing Dobbin in for Barks when he'd been playing well yet NML was flagging. 
I think NMl is a 60 minute player, doesn't get taken off enough to preserve him.
An exciting player when on form, but realistically doesn't deliver anywhere near enough, not just goals either, some of his crossing is very poor, but that's why he's in league 1.
The chance on Saturday,  when McGoldrick passed to him I sat back down, doesn't look like he'll ever score again.

No more madness than mixing fans that want to actually SIT in the seat they paid for and those that want to stand all the time in the seated area.....!

No more madness than mixing fans that want to actually SIT in the seat they paid for and those that want to stand all the time in the seated area.....!

No sorry.  Winding up doesn’t mean you commit assault.  I’m sure you learned that when you did your kong Foo.

Our fans are entering via the South stand side for the lower tier.

And McGoldrick shooting straight at the keeper after his solo attempt where he won the ball at the touchline, tricked his way into the box turning and twisting until all he had to do was beat the keeper..... arguably the easiest part of what he did.
Barkhauzen did what you expect in that situation and hit it to the far post, he was quite narrow.
Realistically one of those 2 attempts should have resulted in a goal, but currently that is our 1 single problem, scoring a higher ratio of attempts created, which includes our 1 player that does score regularly. 
Agree it is a confidence issue, same with NML, Dobbin and Collins, but agree Barkhauzen has looked like he has no conviction in front of goal for a while, just need 1 to go in.

In the grd lower tier right behind the incident in South stand, not one of my mates or myself thought it was a pen, laughing at the decision,  would have been fuming to have it awarded against is.
But on the highlights with the camera from that angle and not slowing it down, I can see why it was given.
Just glad it was as we never really looked like we'd have scored otherwise 

Their lad got a toe on the ball

The amount of comments I've seen that say Sibley taken off before half time with Hourihane does make me wonder how much people pay attention,  he was incorrectly subbed at ht instead of Collins imo.
It was Springett that was off with Hourihane on 42, should have made changes after 20 though, and Davies should have been 1 of them off ASAP, we had Hourihane,  Bird and Sibley in the midfield and the defence barely looked to play a pass to them throughout, along woth the lack of energy from most, that was the single biggest factor for such an abject 1st half

The amount of comments I've seen that say Sibley taken off before half time with Hourihane does make me wonder how much people pay attention,  he was incorrectly subbed at ht instead of Collins imo.
It was Springett that was off with Hourihane on 42, should have made changes after 20 though, and Davies should have been 1 of them off ASAP, we had Hourihane,  Bird and Sibley in the midfield and the defence barely looked to play a pass to them throughout, along woth the lack of energy from most, that was the single biggest factor for such an abject 1st half

It’s not so much about being representative of recent performances, but as the culmination of a downward trend.  I think we’ve been getting slowly worse, pretty much since the Cheltenham away game.  We’ve stopped keeping clean sheets and started conceding sloppy goals. We’ve stopped playing through midfield and started hitting aimless long balls all game. We’ve started giving the ball away cheaply.  We’ve stopped pressing as aggressively and so on and so on. That hasn’t always translated into poor results, in part because we have good players that can bail us out (Dobbin away at Port Vale, for example).  But we can’t keep playing below par and winning, and it’s starting to catch up to us IMO.

Not that I hold much faith in these websites, but according to that data Plymouth have the 2nd and 3rd highest paid players in the division at £18k with Bannan at Wednesday on £21k.
It also shows Ipswich the same as us and Plymouth £2mil behind.
As I said, plucking numbers, it's all guessing, but the one that did jump out is at other end of the scale with it saying young Rooney on £760/wk!

Peterborough ticket just arrived. Now waiting for FGR ?

Which is Warnes preferred system if we had the players....

What gender do they identify as? 
(Asking for a friend who thinks only females do this.) 

Be a nice change to win the ones that matter, save it up for the end of season lottery and beat the 2 teams just the once in the season and the rest doesn't matter....

Be a nice change to win the ones that matter, save it up for the end of season lottery and beat the 2 teams just the once in the season and the rest doesn't matter....

Be a nice change to win the ones that matter, save it up for the end of season lottery and beat the 2 teams just the once in the season and the rest doesn't matter....

Another ridiculous rose tinted comment, not much contact gair enough but he clearly did catch his foot, enough to go down, I doubt it, but when I  motion you have your leg knocked it upsets uour balance so it is plausible he would have gone over without the exaggerated dive.
We also need to remember, the referees view was from jn Lane with their player and White beyond him, so it would have looked like more contact in any case. 
I feel the ref got caught up in the atmosphere and reacted too quickly, then with hindsight maybe thought it was soft, hence the comment to Smith, but without VAR or help from the linesman he would find it difficult to change the decision, if he'd waited yo process what happened, rather than blown straight away, or waited aftrr blowing the whistle before pointing to the spot, he may have decided it was not enough for a pen and therefore simulation. 
In real time with the TV angle, I reacted with an expletive and then the ref blew, so my gut reaction was it was a dodgy challenge, but we have to remember the TV angle in this case was better than the refs as we saw it with the players side by side, not 1 behind the other so depth perception is potentially compromised. 
And if angles don't make a difference to perception, tell me you have never jumped up to celebrate a goal when it has hit the side netting.....
We need to move on, we just weren't good enough, frustrating as it is, but we are doing better than we really had a right to expect at the end of June last year.