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3-5-2 is a bit minging. The only positive to the line up is that even with our injuries our bench looks alright.
Id rather us have gone all guns blazing but hopefully we’ll have enough to win this.
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Disappointing that Barkhuizen isn’t mentioned. Guess his injury will be clarified Saturday evening.
Hopefully we have enough for Saturday then come Blackpool we’ll have a couple back. -
Saturday feels like such a banana skin. So I’m happy to hear that they have a couple of players missing and a clumsy left back.
Get the win, put the pressure on and give Barkz, Bird and Gayle another week to recover for Blackpool and Pompey. -
We've probably not seen value for money this season, but if you accept that in context he was seen as a good signing at the time and we were desperate, you can't really complain.
Like others have said, he's leaning in to the old head, using his experience and organising/cheerleading everyone on side of things and good for him. Doesn't appear to have an ego and he does score goals so if we do need one to take us up, i'd be bringing him on over a Fornah or a Thompson.
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Finding the constant moaning about Pearce quite tiresome to be honest.
Think people need to move on or at the very least adopt the ‘if you haven’t got anything nice to say don’t say it all’ approach.- Boycie, Comrade 86, Tamworthram and 15 others
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4 wins sees us on 90 points. The chasing pack would need to win 6/7 to jump above us, so statistically we should really be seeing the job through.
Bolton are gonners in my opinion. No way they win 6/7 with their fixtures.
Posh concern me the most as their fixtures are very favourable. But as some of you have pointed out they’ll need to dig deep to keep winning playing every 3 days. Here’s hoping they get a couple of injuries like the rest of us.
Barnsley’s run in is similar to ours but can’t see them overturning the deficit.Think the season can be split in to 3 groups now:
Northampton - we’re the only top 5 team playing. Win and we’ve cranked the pressure up big time. Draw/lose and the others will get a big boost without kicking a ball.
Easter and Wycombe - 3 teams that can hurt us. Hoping Wycombe will be gassed out from the their final, so hopefully we can steal a win there.The remaining 3 - Should really be getting 9 points. Leyton Orients season should be over by then. Cambridge have appointed a wally in Monk and Carlisle have been useless.
All in all plenty to be positive about. Just hope Barkz and Gayle aren’t out for too long. -
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Has anyone ever seen Dryhorce and Kate in the same room?
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Fair point.
But my main issue is that nobody this season is as good as Plymouth or Ipswich last season. Over a 1 match play off I’d say all 5 teams this season could’ve got a result against Wednesday but we’re all not better than they were.
Our aim is promotion so if 2 of the 3 slots are already taken then it’s harder to achieve our goals than this season when we’re one of the five better teams. With nothing really between us.I agree a promotion is a promotion and praise should be given accordingly. But also think it’s not ridiculous to acknowledge that this season is a good one to take advantage of.
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18 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:
OK just for you, it was handball.
But the reality is we created the better chances and didn't take them, and a lot of credit has to go to your goalie. Equally, the responsibility lies with our strikers who are simply not as ruthless as our usual starters, especially Dion Charles.
As I mentioned during the match when we were battering you but couldn't score in a brothel, it was obvious that you'd get a scabby goal to win it which you did, but that's football folks - you don't always get what you deserve, and we didn't deserve to lose that, not that you care.
The irony is that it was Kane Wilson who was credited with the goal - a player we'd agreed a fee with Brizzle to sign, but didn't in the end as his personal terms and wage demands were too high for us, so he came to you instead.
Anyhoo, onwards and sideways.....
If it was that much of a travesty that Waghorn scored with his hand then why did hardly any of your players appeal?
I didn’t watch yesterday and by all accounts it sounded like you were the more menacing in attack.
But ultimately you’ve played both ourselves and Barnsley in the last couple of weeks and taken a point. So only got yourselves to blame.
FYI I had your squad down as the best in the league and Evatt as the best manager before the start of the season. Could all change again but as things stand you’ve fumbled this big time. -
Just now, G STAR RAM said:
Do you actually have anything meaningful to back your last paragraph up.
You do realise that 75% of the teams are the same as last season?
So really you need to compare who went up and down last season, unless you have evidence that teams that were in the division last season have got worse?
Personally, I'd say some have got better and some worse, so the league is pretty much the same standard as last season.
I’d say it’s easier this year in the sense of we’ve had time to appoint a manager and recruit accordingly. Also easier in the sense than last years top 3 are better than anything in League 1 this season IMO. So easier to achieve our goal of promotion.
But this season is hard as we’re playing what’s in front of us which in this case is 4 others teams of equal strength. So if we go up then we definitely deserve it.
The above said, I do think this season is a good opportunity to go up as I think next years league 1 will be a pit of vipers.
But providing we do go up and with the restrictions off there’s nothing to suggest that next year should be all doom and gloom just because we aren’t as strong as Plymouth were last season. -
Didn’t watch the match and following on here/twitter was giving me anxiety. Sounds like Bolton was the better team.
But who cares a wins a win.
The only downer is Gayle getting injured but at least we have Waggy and maybe Collo back soon. -
2 hours ago, SECornerRAM said:
Sonny Bradley out today
Nothing too serious - I'm lead to believe it's concussion (hence the sickness etc)
If Fozzy can do 90 minutes then we’ve got away with this one. If not then we’re in the poo.
Neither Wilson or Ward look great at right back and especially in a game of this magnitude.
If it is a back 4 I’d be tempted to go Smith and hope Sibley plays a blinder on the left.- abertawe_ram and Caerphilly Ram
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Whenever I’ve seen them recently their football has been similar to Roseniors so I imagine they’ll just look to control the match.
We’ll probably start bright for the first 15 mins and maybe have a good final 15 depending on the score of course. Everything in between will be tightly contested. -
Me right now catching up on the thread.
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2 hours ago, FlyBritishMidland said:
It really is squeaky bum time. This is quite a big weekend. If we win it’s a great result, draw and it’s a good result. Portsmouth v Peterborough is interesting. Both on a good run but Portsmouth have had the easier games. I think the winner of that will then continue their run. Personally, I’d be happy with a Portsmouth win. Let’s open a gap between us and 3rd and ease the pressure.
Inclined to agree about wanting Pompey beating Posh. I've got very little interest in battling for the top spot, just want us up automatically.
Posh have a centre mid missing through suspension which gives Pompey a chance. If that wasn't the case I'd have had Posh for the win 100%.
That said, Pompey have the tougher fixtures on paper so if they did lose and we won, then it really would be a 5 horse race for the two spots.
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Derby 2-1 Bolton
Nelson
Plus an excruciating 8 minutes added on were we’re penned in our own half.
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Yes last night was disappointing. Stevenage should really have got something from the match.
Starting to think them having Bolton on the last day of the season isn’t that beneficial. Especially if Bolton can’t get autos.
It’ll be the second successive season were a hard match isn’t as hard as it should be because of circumstance.
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Stevenage have been the better team, should’ve had a penno. But are 1-0 down. Rats.
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12 minutes ago, Dryhorce said:
Mulligan isn't involved must be injured Beck as well looks like Cameron is playing as a 10 never saw that before might be interesting saw him play up front and at right wing
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Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)
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Haven’t we been playing 343 with Barkhuizen?
Just think CBT would’ve slotted in nicely to replace him. Instead he’s being held back.
Good if we’re still level come 70 minutes but a bit safe for my liking.