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I'm pretty negative on Warne, but we have to look at what this is - 3 points away from home for a team that is not playing well.

There's a lot to improve on, but hopefully playing badly and winning is the first step to playing well and winning.

34 minutes ago, sage said:

Not everything we want given that isn't given is a mistake. The handball claim from the shot in the second half hit his shoulder. Someone on here has a still which proves he wasn't offside.

She is one of the better refs. 

 

 

Remember her having a good game last season.

Couple questionable ones both ways yesterday, but still about the best I've seen this season.

Will be fast tracked to the prem I reckon

On long balls, Portsmouth actually attempted slightly more than us 72 or which 33 were successful.

Derby attempted 68, and were successful just 13 times...

2 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

That's one thing I found strange from the fans forum. Warne said he will select an academy player if he can play the way he wants. But shouldn't the academy and first team play the same style? The club should have one style of play running right through it so that players and managers can easily be replaced without disrupting the whole team. 

That's another issue with having warne as manager, clubs higher up the league want to play football and want to sign players that they know can do that.

We want the academy to produce players that can play football in the right way and so are attractive to higher level clubs to pay big money for.

Warneball doesn't do this, there's no point in the academy producing good footballers if they are just going to be wasted by Warne.

Peterborough always had a knack for making strikers look great by playing attacking football, so they could sell them off the back of a high scoring season.

1 hour ago, Carnero said:

😂

Then what's the point of xG?! 

More for measuring chance creation, penalties can really skew the xG, it's just another way of looking at the game.

34 minutes ago, lrm14 said:

Hit the bar in the first half, Fozzy chance at the back post, Barkhuizen chance near the end and the penalty gets you fairly close to 1.75 xG.

Fair enough, I must admit to not remembering us hit the bar first half mind.

Can't see barkhuizen chance adding up to much.

Annoyingly,there used to be a guy on twitter that did really good xG timelines for games , but looks like he's given it up.

24 minutes ago, The_Sheriff said:

1.75 to 1.65 in our favour xg was on the site i used.

A draw was a fair result.

I'd love a breakdown of that 1.75, would have to check but site I used may not count penalty.

I don't remember us having 1.75  xG of chances.

So grim feeling like you stole a point at home, such awful football with no sign of improvement.

Checked xG and it's as I expected 0.62 -1.58, Pompey can feel very hard done by.

Not my line up, but what I expect he will go with

                   Wildsmith

          Nelson Bradley Cashin

NML Houriane Fornah Smith Forsyth

             Waghorn Washington

2 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

Maybe it's a poll to identify your favourite Graham.

Mine's Graham Cracker.

 

Graeme Shinnie

Its the worst football since Rowett, potentially even worse than that.

A lot is made of Rosenoir's away form, unfairly in my opinion (Deserved more against Charlton, Shrewsbury and Fleetwood).

But won 4 out of 5 at home, only losing to the eventual champions and beat a Championship side in the cup

Thought it was a mistake to get rid at the time, and yet to be convinced otherwise.

Surely Kieftenbeld is the worst 

On 28/08/2023 at 22:58, Ambitious said:

I’m not sure, personally, both are much of muchness. Not sure there’s much between them - both have been excellent for us in the grand scheme of things. 

It’s been a while since we’ve had a bad keeper, Carson went through a regression stage but at his best was the probably the best I’ve ever seen in a Derby shirt. Roos wasn’t commanding, but was an outstanding shot stopper. 

Suppose it deserves its own thread really, but wonder how people would rank our keepers for the last ~10 years?

Wildsmith
Roos
Allsop
Marshall
Hamer
Carson
Grant

Squad is looking a good size these days, maybe lacking in quality but feel that to bring anymore in will require others to go out.

Is there a loan window anymore?

1 hour ago, Foreveram said:

Lots of clubs operate a points system, so many for a season ticket and then points awarded for matches attended, away matches or cup matches.

Personally I am happy with the current system.

Only thing about the system that annoys me, is that cup matches don't count.

Guessing Cashin, Washington, NML and maybe Hourihane? 

On 17/08/2023 at 09:38, Premier ram said:

Bolton and Peterborough already looking strong, we need to sort ourselves out and fast

Thin Warne is verging on delusional if he thought we were close to winning any of the three home games.

More importantly for this match, no Wilson, Ward or Bird does put us in a bit of a bind.

I don't believe that 3 at the back is causing our problems, you can play that formation and be succesful many have.

So with that is mind I think our options are:

1. Persist with 3 atb and play NML out there

2. Go to a back 4 with Rooney at right back

I'd probably favour the latter as losing NML up front would remove our last shred of dynamism.

WIldsmith

Rooney Fozzy Cashin Elder

Smith Thompson

NML Hourihane Waggy

Collins

Willing to give Bradley a bit of a pass so far, not being helped by whats in front of him.

Too easy for strikers to receive the ball into feet with nothing in midfield to screen or for the striker to drop off into space.

Key thing is last seasons squad and team felt greater than the sum of its parts, currently it feels like the opposite is true.

5 minutes ago, Archied said:

I do wonder how much of his choice are the players we’ve brought in , our recruitment has certainly not gone along with what he said he wanted to bring in in terms of age and athleticism, is there a bit of him saying this what I want and being given this is the best we can get ? I don’t mean massively but there could be a bit of feeling he’s not getting the tools to do the job or the type of player he can mould to do the job,

I find the Bradley thing odd , if he was his marquee signing would he be subbing him the way he is or trusting him to settle given time on the pitch

I can't imagine Vickers and Washington were anyones signings other that Warnes

10 minutes ago, TomTom92 said:

Worth noting that despite the near catastrophe and world falling apart of last pre season, we finished 7th after 46 matches. Surely a calmer pre season with an established manager and a recruitment guru should show an improvement?

Especially when Ipswich and Weds have left the party and a points deducted Wigan and off field craziness Reading have joined it. 

I can't help but feel Warne's 'needs to be a good person' has held us back. Sure i agree with the plan on paper, but give me the Devil up front if he knows how to hit 20 a season. 

Very concerning that after a near catastrophe of last season, come the first few games of the season we looked a much more cohesive team than we do now.

18 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

We definitely could have targeted more younger players. Here's a list of players from our main promotion rivals meeting, who (a) didn't cost a transfer fee (ie. free or loan), (b) are under 30, and (c) have been used in the league already this season:

Barnsley - Liam Roberts (28, GK), Kacper Lopata (21, CB) Kyran Lofthouse (22, RB), Andy Dallas (24, CF)

Blackpool - Matthew Pennington (28, CB), Albie Morgan (23, CM)

Bolton - Nathan Baxter (24, GK), Joel Coleman (27, GK), Josh Dacres-Cogley (27, RB), Paris Maghoma (22, CM)

Charlton - Lloyd Jones (27, CB), Panutche Camara (26, CM)

Oxford - James Beadle (19, GK), Jordan Thorniley (26, CB), Fin Stevens (19, RB), Stanley Mills (19, RW), Rúben Rodrigues (27, CF), Mark Harris (24, CF)

Peterborough - Romoney Crichlow (24, CB), Peter Kioso (23, RB)

Portsmouth - Will Norris (29, GK), Conor Shaughnessy (27, CB), Regan Poole (25, CB), Jack Sparkes (22, LB), Ben Stevenson (26, CM), Alex Robertson (20, CM), Gavin Whyte (27, RW), Abu Kamara (20, CF)

Reading - Tyler Bindon (18, CB), Tivonge Rushesha (21, CM), Lewis Wing (28, CM), Harvey Knibbs (24, CF)

Wigan - Liam Morrison (20, CB), Kell Watts (23, CB), Sean Clare (26, RB), Matt Smith (22, CM), Jonny Smith (26, RW)

Wycombe - Kane Vincent-Young (27, RB), Harry Boyes (21, LB), Freddie Potts (20, CM), Kian Breckin (19, CM), Dale Taylor (19, CF)

 

Matt Pennington and Lloyd Jones would were my top 2 CB picks who didn't end up in the Championship, Jack Sparkes my top LWB pick. Harvey Knibbs in an AM role. Aaron Pressley and Tyler Walker (at sides lower in the table) were also my top 2 CF targets, etc..

Some really good players in there, not sure what would be more concerning - we were never in for them, or they had better offers from others in League 1.

Our back 3 needs 2 players to screen in front, if you want to push centre backs wide you need players to police the channels between them, we dont have 1 midfielder could enough to do that so do it with 2.