kevinhectoring

Both teams were poor IMO. And we only won thanks to a bit of quality from Bird and NML after their defender played an awful pass out.
It’s the sort of game where a promotion team just grinds out the win though.
10 away wins so far is a great record.

Rammie for Hourihane would work 

Rammie for Hourihane would work 

Rammie for Hourihane would work 

Love the look of Adams. A different team to what we’ve seen last 2 games. But Bird making his fans sad with a few touches of class 

Hourihane needs bringing off. ( When anyone says that he usually scores )

Hourihane needs bringing off. ( When anyone says that he usually scores )

Love the look of Adams. A different team to what we’ve seen last 2 games. But Bird making his fans sad with a few touches of class 

Love the look of Adams. A different team to what we’ve seen last 2 games. But Bird making his fans sad with a few touches of class 

Love the look of Adams. A different team to what we’ve seen last 2 games. But Bird making his fans sad with a few touches of class 

I wish Collo would stop trying to kick the ball thru defenders 

Like Sibley in this position. It’s much easier for him to know where to put himself. He’s not good at that when he plays higher. 

I wish Collo would stop trying to kick the ball thru defenders 

Like Sibley in this position. It’s much easier for him to know where to put himself. He’s not good at that when he plays higher. 

NMl’s first touch then was superb

NMl’s first touch then was superb

Imo Everton will be fine 

But he’s a very fine character 

Holding midfielder isn’t a must. Would I like a midfielder? Yes. But just stop starting Hourihane and the difference would be drastic. This need for a “Eustace type” is archaic. Think it was @sagewho said that in another thread. Football isn’t like that these days, even in such a seemingly short space of time. 

Surprised there’s enough data on Vickers to provide a sensible comparison but certainly agree with the conclusion. 

Wildsmith would also lead the stats on these criteria
% of punches a seal would be proud of (W 0%, V 40%)
 
Mille-seconds taken to decide whether to attack a cross outside the 6yard box (W250, V850)
The list goes on … 
My concern is that there is some weird personal thing going on inside Warne’s bobble hat that leads to this nonsense. We see worse keepers than W in the PL every Saturday night. 

Think this is just a testament to how good Wildsmith has been. 
He is a great keeper, particularly for this level, perhaps the best signing we have made in a few years.

It's such a false dichotomy you're posing. You strip out the context and pose a pointless question which no one can really answer. If over time you play well more often than not you'll win more games than lose. If over time you play poorly you'll see your form drop off. What people are concerned about is a pattern of poor play which will see results drop off.
Personally, if we had played well over the past 6 weeks and we played well yesterday and lost I'd be less concerned than seeing consistent patterns of poor play as we saw yesterday and winning. Winning when playing poorly is acceptable and even the mark of a good team if it occurs occasionally. If it happens consistently it speaks to something much more concerning that has the potential to go badly wrong. A bit like our terrible start to the season which could have seen Warne given the chop.

We can only get away with playing poorly and winning for so long, the manager doesn’t appear to be addressing the issue .

Well we did at Oxford. It seems like we sometimes play like a team that deserves promotion. And other times we don't. A bit like all the other teams trying to get promoted.

I am worried because we only have one fit striker and too many of our “stars” have older legs. They don’t turn it on every week because they can’t. I am also worried that our manager is a bit inflexible on his starting midfield; but those things apart, results show that we are a team that are challenging for promotion .. where does your “deserve” come from ? For me they deserve to be where they are on the basis of the results they have achieved over the last 20 odd games.  
Ipswich last year and Peterborough this year are the only teams I have seen recently that played significantly better quality football all round than we do. This is league one, we are in it and in a strong 4th place. It is well deserved !