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Hourihane has done no worse than anyone else

Let’s be honest though this has been absolute s**** from both teams and to think they charge to watch this lol

Again though too many long balls and not helped by players trying to run in behind so encouraging a long ball …I’d say at least 50 per cent of our long balls have gone to Northampton. The usual Hourihane haters moaning about Hourihane but he’s been no worse than anyone else and is at least trying to calm people down when they get on the ball take Bradley and Sibley off for Korey Smith and CBT

We need to move it quicker and let’s try and play a ball that passed with real intent …fizz it into players feet …a lot of our passes have more bobbles than one of Warnes hats!! poor first half and can only get better!!!! surely!!!

To think that this is a professional game of football lol it’s so poor it’s like a park game ….

This is how I’d line up too …we have 3 in the mid who can control the game …with Ward and Sibley wide and Nathan and Waggy switching about up top …I think this is a good side with what we have available

Hourihane is still a good player and has scored some vital goals for us.......In a two man midfield with Bird it doesn't work as both are slow tempo players , we haven't missed Bird as much as some would like to believe , we also didn't sign Hourihane for his mobility and has never really been that mobile anyway, but he's still an important part of the squad ...for sure also think he gets an unnecessary amount of criticism as does Korey Smith , both will be vital in the run in as will Ebooooou who is immense and best signing of the season for me

Glad we signed CBT lol

If CBT isn’t ready for big games like this why did we buy him??

I meant now not at HT change something now

This is where we need a change of shape or something different will it happen though ?

We’re not winning this if it continues like this

Barks has done well recently and I’d have kept him on and what about CBT is he going to play any part ?

In Warne we trust!! lol 😂

I’d like to see Gayle stay and play with Browne next season …he will learn a lot off of Gayle

Have noticed we have played a few balls more directly to Gayle than we did with Collo Gayle has given us this option like for the through ball where he was brought down , if you look you see Gayle point before arcing his run in between two centre backs and was eventually brought down Also the through ball or long ball from Ebou where he wins a penalty is no fluke because he's literally telling who ever has the ball , I'm going to make that run and it gives defenders a question to answer , do they go with him or let him go hoping he may have mistimed his run I really like Collo but I think without Gayle we don't score those 2 goals on Tuesday because he has given us something very different Also has a really good spring for balls in the air, if me I'd be looking to sign him up for next season already whatever division we are in

Gayle will be one of the main reasons we go up …wouldn’t surprise me if he got 8-10 goals before end of season ….quality striker his movement is brilliant

This game is very important , lose it and it puts a lot more pressure onto Saturdays game , win it and go for it keeping momentum and carry that into Saturday and then if we beat Bolton a potential cushion is created with then only 7 games to go was great to hear Barks saying that we went for it against Rovers and I think that mentality is exactly how we should be going into every game now until the seasons end .....then second or even first place is a real possibility

Great run from Gayle created space

If we beat Bolton at Home we might be in charge of our own destiny but would need Barnsley to drop points It does worry me though how Warne will approach the big games against Bolton and Pompey as I'd like to see us proper go for it not try and nick it .....Saturday is massive now and we need 3 points against a tricky opponent, every game is like a cup final now

I personally will never forgive the ineptitude and lack of fight in that season , embarrassing is a mild term to describe it and hate it when we get mentioned in the media for it....lame useless gutless and probably never to be beaten

Brilliant match day thread @Rampant Loads of interesting info and a bit of humour to boot ..well done great effort 👏

I like him a lot already looks a class above in this division shows great touches and has surprised me with his link up play and has great movement he will definitely score goals if he gets the right service and I think he could be a massive signing for the final run in was he insinuating playing padel with his goal celebration at the corner flag ….if so I love it 😂👍🏻

If the line up has confused us.....it will probably confuse PV my guess is 343 .....PV are poo so should win this ....surely!!

Sometimes football is not pure black and white …some don’t seem over bothered with Warne and how we play and others are saying they won’t attend next season with Warne in charge yet we are currently second which enpowers some arguments/ views but others see it differently regardless of league position I often find myself thinking …wow this is poor and it’s mainly due to lack of control in the games we seem to want to play percentage football I remember the Graham Taylor days at Watford where they went from Div4 to Div1 where Taylor employed someone who worked it out the percentages of which ball was likely to end up in a goal and it was quite industrial route one stuff but I guess it was deemed successful as Watford went through the leagues but to me it was awful to watch managers who have been seen as succesful yet parted company with there teams include Pulis at Stoke and Big Sam at a couple of clubs …why ? Mainly because it was crap to watch and the fans complained but some didn’t mind as long as results were ok my problem is and it’s no way having a go at others who differ in there opinion but I genuinely find our matches very hard to watch a lot of the time The first 20 against Charlton I really enjoyed but those passages are few and far between we seem to want to get involved in a chaotic non controlling type of game where we must get it forward sometimes when it’s not really on we don’t seem to ever play patient controlled football and wait for the right openings …and we have some very good players who would thrive at it in this division especially L1 is poor , if all 24 teams were of a poor ish standard someone would still be top of that league and that’s where we’re at I really don’t see anyone as a good side and don’t think any of the top 6 would worry Ipswich or Plymouth from last season The big problem I see is next season with possibly QPR Reading or Sheff Weds Rotherham ( L1 specialists !! ) Wrexham Mansfield ( who I think will surprise some ) Charlton and maybe Peterborough I think the league looks more difficult if we make the play offs I can see us playing like we did under Rowett in the play offs …and that was the last time I felt like I do now….where I look forward and get nervous and excited before every game …..then during the game think …this is crap …and sometimes we’re winning when I think that … I will shout and support my team until the end of this season but I’m not enjoying it ….2nd or not! But fair play if you are enjoying it