strawhillram

Don't worry, he's nailed on to get onto a cross
 

What a p****.............erm I mean brick. 😉

P’boro 3-0 down 

Posh losing 0-2

Posh losing 0-2

CBT has been so dangerous on the left. It was criminal not starting him last week.

Cue Warne going to a flat back 9.

Carlisle 1-0 peterborough

More football played in the opening 10 mins by Derby than the entirety of the Northampton game. We look much better today. So far

Bradley is banned.
Can we stick in a frivolous appeal and get it extended?

A question at the fans forum was raised, asking Buxton and Hale if they think the U18/21 players ahold have been given more of an opportunity this season. The response being "they haven't done enough to convince Warne". They also stated Thomspon not being a top performer in the U21s, but stepping up seamlessly under Rooney.
None have played more than Robinson, who has only got 90 minutes vs a Wolves U21 side and hasn't played in any other game. The only player to feature in the League (Brown) has only got 13 minutes, I would be extremely surprised to see someone getting a chance this season.
Take that Wolves U21 game away, then you really see how willing Warne is to using them: Brown (30 mins), Radcliffe (11 mins) Weston (6 mins) and Fapetu (2 mins). It's pathetic.
They could have had a meaningful amount of minutes earlier in the season, even against the likes of Crewe or Bradford in Cup competitions, or when 2 goals up against Carlisle, Leyton Orient, and Bristol Rovers. If they were, we'd now have a better idea of whether they could step in for a couple of games. Even if they weren't ready, using them in more games would have helped keep our older players fresher, and potentially injury free.

Its because there are no foundations. Warne just takes every game as it comes and tries to ground out a result by any means. It is working most of the time, but I'm never truly that shocked whenever we lose a game to anyone. It feels like Warne picks one-off tactics for each opponent and hopes they work, but occasionally they don't or the opponent works them out in-game and we lose. There's no longevity or continuity to anything he's implementing.

NML has played too many minutes. There have been so many games where we could have taken him off but instead kept him on for 90 mins. And the way he’s played he’s so frequently isolated and having to do it all the work himself 
Fozzy was the same foolishness. Should have been at CB all season.
 
This is not just said with the benefit of hindsight 

Has Warne ran them into the ground again..it happened last season when they ran out of steam!

Relax. The last time we got promoted on shaky foundations the following season was a breeze...

I agree there is no reason to overreact, s##t happens. But I can’t help but feel you’re overlooking the manner of the defeat.

With the injury situation we are again underdogs so expect a cauldron of noise next week.
Expect them to absolutely tear Blackpool to shreds

At this stage of the season Warne should know how to get the best of the team. That doesn't rule out an off-day, but it should rule out off-days of this magnitude, and of this frequency. The biggest issue is that he got us reverting to hoofball, which hasn't worked whenever we've tried it, and strangely enough it didn't work this time, either. So we got him pre-match blathering on about the threat Northampton offered, and that we would have to defend with our lives, and clearly set up in fear of them, when with our comparative league positions and current form they should have been scares witless of us. Hourihane has told us that if they don't play the way Warne tells them then they get dropped. So today's tactics have to be on him. And when, as a bunch of players you know you can do better, and are being forced against what you know will work, is it any wonder that they looked, to be frank, hacked off at times?
And I brought the ref into it because he really was poor. If he had given the free kick for the blatant foul on Wilson, and the card that should have followed, Northampton wouldn't have broken away and scored, then our terrible defending would have mattered, or actually even taken place. So effectively he did cost us the game, but I would never make that claim, because it was our shocking defending that cost us the game. But the ref did nothing about the timewasting even before the goal, or Northampton stealing 5 - 10 yards and more for every throw and free kick, but was actually quite hot on Derby players for their throw-ins. And although Sibley deserved his yellow, maybe if the ref had given the free kick and yellow for the foul on Sibley immediately before he got his revenge, then that yellow card for Sibley wouldn't have happened. Or an offside on CBT after he had run through from the middle of a group of players before the ball was played.
But my main reason for pointing out the ref's abject performance, and why I didn't include the detail i have just given, was to highlight the fact that Derby County' performance was even worse.

My favourite Carole King album….

Patheticism 

I’d piss on him even if he wasn’t on fire 

Warneoutism

I know we are all feeling down but let’s wait to find out what our expected goals were before we all start panicking.