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Maybe Joe was a bit lucky to escape a yellow but I thought yet again he made 2 top class saves to preserve the point , the resulting free kick and the save from Saydee in the 2nd half , as for the 2nd Pompey goal , no blame attached to Joe for me 

Another top class save from Joe yesterday preserving the 3 pts , hope he signs that contract

Seeing as 50% of prem teams are struggling with ffp. Ditching their #2 or 3 keeper on £30-40k pw and hiring a competent replacement on a free offering £15k could be quite attractive?

You could make the exact same argument about the pro-Warne lot as well.  There are a group of people on here (not saying you are one of them) that will refuse to accept any criticism of Warne at all, will defend even the most dreadful decisions to the hilt, immediately start blaming everyone else when we lose etc.  
It would have been very easy for Barker to basically say that CBT has been unlucky with injuries, has struggled to get his fitness up and they're working on it and leave it there.  But he goes well beyond that, saying CBT has struggled with training intensity, found it a shock, "he's going to have to adapt to us, we can't adapt to him", "if he doesn't adapt he'll fall by the wayside" etc.  None of that is normal stuff.  When you spend money on someone for the first time in 4 years, to have the coaching staff using the phrase "charity minutes" about him playing only 2 months later, it's clear something has gone very, very wrong.  To be clear, I'm not necessarily saying Warne or the coaching staff are at fault, it could be the recruitment staff, the medical staff, whoever negotiated with CBT (it they made promises about starting games or whatever), we don't know from the outside looking in.  But I can't believe we intended spending £400k on the guy just to have him twiddling his thumbs on the bench while he built his fitness up.
I'm not sure many people are really doing that here.  I think more than anything, we're all confused as to why a player that was playing and contributing every week at another League One club, is suddenly barely fit enough to get on the pitch here.

I agree. It also makes it harder to 'enjoy' him being our manager, for some anyway. Whatever was thought of Roseniors football style I think you could be sure he wanted to be here and for the Club to achieve things with him.

So, you believe people have come to their opinions because we lost? I have come to mine after watching last season and this, all the home games and quite a few away. Also by listening to what a broad range of people have had to say about it. From my own assessment of our recruitment over 3 transfer windows which I think Warne is largely, if not completely responsible for. From seeing how he utilises the academy. From listening to him.  

I'm pretty confident that PW thought this was his Stella signing(waits for beer puns 😁) there was a reason he was let go even for a Luton side who rely on heading the ball back whence it came and the pace of forwards in the EPL would have sent Bradley crackers...he's a favourite of PWs and trying to shoehorne him in a place where EC was pretty dominant...If we fail to go up this season...Cashin will be sold and Bradley will be made captain and be a year slower...let that sink in for a while 😬  

I wasn't trying to excuse Wildsmith's stupidity - just pointing out that if Bradley had done his job properly, the situation wouldn't have occurred....

I still think there are strikers to be found with some hard graft and imagination. Gayle, he was released from his contract after the window closed because of the zero chance of him getting a game and he wants to find a club that will play him. He has taken that gamble and given up £7,000+ a week for an opportunity of match time. He has that hunger. Gregory still comes under this category of being no use to his club now. Many others whose contracts are up in the summer too, costing their club wages to see out the next six months for adding nothing. How hard did Liam Rosenior work to get Cardiff to release James Collins? He did not have a recruitment team to help him. Think outside the box, including Europe. Maybe phone up a few agents in the spare time they now have and ask them for inside info, if players could persuade their club to cancel their contract? Not every player is a greedy bar steward like Ikechi Anya.

But if it was Cashin, that Brighton bought him and loaned him back, would you change your tune? Cashin's attitude since the move fell through has been exemplary.

Can’t understand all the Hourihane criticism. 4 goals and 7 assists this season and played way out of position. He’s a number 8 or 10 and being asked to play as a No4. With Adams in the side, CH will show how good he is at this level.

I'd go for free-agent Conor Wickham on a six-month contract. He's 30, a target man, and would be playing for a contract extension. That can be done after we miss out on whoever we are chasing and being held ransom by Wednesday. Let them continue paying their wages, they will soon regret that. Waghorn must be weeks away from being involved and Washington not that far behind.

I'd go for free-agent Conor Wickham on a six-month contract. He's 30, a target man, and would be playing for a contract extension. That can be done after we miss out on whoever we are chasing and being held ransom by Wednesday. Let them continue paying their wages, they will soon regret that. Waghorn must be weeks away from being involved and Washington not that far behind.

I'd go for free-agent Conor Wickham on a six-month contract. He's 30, a target man, and would be playing for a contract extension. That can be done after we miss out on whoever we are chasing and being held ransom by Wednesday. Let them continue paying their wages, they will soon regret that. Waghorn must be weeks away from being involved and Washington not that far behind.

Completely the opposite IMO.
Warne came in after the majority of the hard work was done, he was handed what was already a top 8 (potentially top 6) squad and has since been allowed to bring in a good number of players, albeit limited on transfer fees, on wages higher than the majority of our competition can pay.
Added to that, his first full season in charge is one in which the quality of the opposition we face is below standard in an already low quality league, owing to 2 of the relegated teams having points deductions with Reading particularly in a mess.
I can't think of any manager in living memory other than perhaps Lampard with an easier brief. (Should have got us promoted with the standard of loan player we had, but he was also up against teams with even greater spending power)
That's not to say that it's dead simple, that there aren't still challenges we face, but he's not a rookie manager, getting out of League One is his speciality and he should fully be expected to achieve that with the resources he's been given.
Warne is supposed to be our trump card, but at times it's more like he's a joker in the pack 
 

Not so strange 
Morris might have said: I own the stadium (worth £81m) and I’ll sell it to the purchaser of the club for £40m. Instead, he sold it to DC for £23m. 
 
Maguire is making the point that Morris lost a large part of his fortune and - at the end of the day - facilitated the deal with DC. A point that’s lost on most fans 

Considering Collins persuaded two players to join us when holidaying with them, Waghorn fell in his lap, and Bradley Johnson suggested Ryan Nyambe, maybe no one lets Warne into any WhatsApp group? 

I wouldn't lose sleep if we sold Cashin, Bird or anyone...so long as the money we received enabled us to strengthen.
What I would be concerned with is giving Warne the Cashin money to strengthen. We may as well spend all the money on chopstix and sit there snapping them.

Considering Collins persuaded two players to join us when holidaying with them, Waghorn fell in his lap, and Bradley Johnson suggested Ryan Nyambe, maybe no one lets Warne into any WhatsApp group? 

We shall very soon find out, especially considering three of the four striker choices are sitting on the treatment table and the next best off playing non-league. Ladapo must be absolute pants. We missed out on Jordan Rhodes and Freddie Ladapo, both Warne-type strikers, and Michael Smith is too expensive, if MackworthRammIsGod's prophecy comes true, then we might as well hand over the recruitment reigns to Peartree Intant's School and save a few bob.

Considering Collins persuaded two players to join us when holidaying with them, Waghorn fell in his lap, and Bradley Johnson suggested Ryan Nyambe, maybe no one lets Warne into any WhatsApp group? 

This age thing and lower league football. It would be similar to when Liverpool went and signed John Aldridge from Oxford United in the Third Division (under Jim Smith), who had earlier signed him from Fourth Division Newport. I think he was around 28 at that time. He went on to score 50 goals in 81 appearances for Liverpool, and after a spell with Real Sociedad, he ended up at Tranmere aged 32 and managed, amazingly, another 243 games and 138 goals over seven seasons.
 

He became a crap manager just about to get sacked again, impossible to understand with his accent, a thug for attacking the DJ in a Southport pub, and gave us his cousin, Bobby Duncan, the least said about him, the better. He got an MBE for that.

Great points apart from suggesting he is quick as he has half the pace of Collins but much better in the air.