kevinhectoring

Yes. With athletic young men. Footballers are overrated 

Couldn’t help thinking - watching England Brazil - that despite being in a different league MacGuire displays a few of the same failings that Bradley does 

Hi Rams, I commented on the reverse fixture when you battered us earlier in the season so thought I would do the same just to give some context from the other side.
A very different game to the one at Pride Park earlier in the season. The San Sixfields pitch is much smaller which definitely helps us, particularly against the big boys in the division. We have taken a pasting of pretty much all of the teams at the top of the table away from home this season, whilst at home managed mostly narrow defeats instead.
No doubt that you should have scored at least one of the two chances in the first half, or at the very least worked the keeper, one of them goes in and you dont lose the game without a shadow of a doubt. The game earlier in the season you were picking holes in between our midfield and defense with ease, also NML pace was a constant threat. However in this game were clearly more compact and outside of those opportunities it didn't feel like you created a huge amount of clear cut chances. It was noticeable that you were much more direct this game for whatever reason, which I am far more confident of us deadling with. I know you have a number of bodies out, but we have 10 out (mostly in defence) so the injury list was similar on both sides.
I thought the goal was a really well taken finish, definite foul in the build up but the defending after that would be pretty poor. Your full back (Wilson I think) also definitely handled it in the second half with no one around him. 
I sit in the end where Bradley got his red, he definitely put his head in. Don't get me wrong i dont think Monthe is going to require a trip to the hospital but unfortunately you have to go down to almost bring it to attention. Thought it was poor from a guy who is that experienced and was seemingly always looking for physicality in the game. Yes we tried to slow down the game, no doubt about it. If i was an away fan I would be furious and hope the ref would stop it. But to add some context our season has been petering out to a degree with mid table safety and clearly our manager has given them a rocket pointing out there are still points to play for, there was not a lack of effort on our point despite little to play for seemingly. To be honest we are doing about as well as a club our size could be expected to do, as we were on of the favorites for the drop.
I hope you go up, clearly a huge club that should not be at this level (plus dont want Peterborough to go up). I am guessing there is a big split in the fanbase over the manager, that was evident by the booing of one of the substitutions which you don't expect from a team that are fighting for the title. As a completely neutral observer Warne to me sits in the Gareth Ainsworth esque category of managers. Likeable character and personable, but with limitations at a higher level and in developing a more free flowing style, it dosnt seem like the best fit. Playing Pompey and Peterborough recently (both away so different challenges I guess) but they seemed much more composed in their style of play and just seemed to have more ways to hurt us.
Hopefully your injury woes ease up a little and all the best for the rest of the season.

Before they scored there were a few fouls awarded and all of them seemed to go the wrong way. It was complete chance who was going to suffer most from the bad decisions. It was the poor defending that cost us the goal tho,  plus they were fortunate to finish it so well given what a difficult chance it was (and given how good Wildsmith is )

I’m not saying we’ve been bad. His approach is clearly working to a large extent. My point was there’s not distinct style or continuity to how we play which creates unpredictability to our performances. I think the teams we’ve battered have mostly been teams who try and play a distinct way or passing way every game, who don’t try and counter us e.g. Bristol Rovers. Warnes style is reactionary to the opposition. 
 
i really don’t think it’s right to put the reason we lost yesterday all down to luck. Even Warne acknowledged we didn’t play well.
i also think you’re undervaluing the quality of our players. I don’t think any Northampton player would get in our squad except maybe Hoskins.
our difficulty signing players doesn’t affect how the manager sets the team up or his playing philosophy.

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 

Our budget will be absolute peanuts compared to the 6-7 clubs on parachute payments and the others that are more stable than us. Clowes is a hero, but he's not got top end Championship cash and that's the harsh reality of our situation. I'm not having a dig, it's just the way it is.

Couldn’t help thinking - watching England Brazil - that despite being in a different league MacGuire displays a few of the same failings that Bradley does 

So am over yesterday's travesty. We've had major injury issues and things just didn't go for us. Four wins out of five is OK. Next game is massive though, and we need a win to go into the Portsmouth game. 

Yeah let’s blame the pitch for the fact we were absolute s**** lol 

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 

I think the (narrow) pitch was quite cleverly prepared to play into their hands. It was bobbly and seemed very slow, so it was difficult for us to find weight of pass. That led us to resort to route A and that’s a leveller despite that we had more quality on the pitch

Every cloud….
You might have heard -  NML has tweaked his hammie. So maybe he’ll lay off your spanking new missus for a while yet 

I think the (narrow) pitch was quite cleverly prepared to play into their hands. It was bobbly and seemed very slow, so it was difficult for us to find weight of pass. That led us to resort to route A and that’s a leveller despite that we had more quality on the pitch

I think the (narrow) pitch was quite cleverly prepared to play into their hands. It was bobbly and seemed very slow, so it was difficult for us to find weight of pass. That led us to resort to route A and that’s a leveller despite that we had more quality on the pitch

I think the (narrow) pitch was quite cleverly prepared to play into their hands. It was bobbly and seemed very slow, so it was difficult for us to find weight of pass. That led us to resort to route A and that’s a leveller despite that we had more quality on the pitch

I think the (narrow) pitch was quite cleverly prepared to play into their hands. It was bobbly and seemed very slow, so it was difficult for us to find weight of pass. That led us to resort to route A and that’s a leveller despite that we had more quality on the pitch

Depending on how busy he is in life, one forum member who may have felt a tiny guilty hint of relief we lost is @Rampant
Thanks for your wonderful opening of match threads over the last few weeks - hope you enjoyed doing them as much as we enjoyed reading them 🐏🐏

Thought the same with Gayle last week.  He was being asked to press the goalie and was running 30 yards at pace to do so every time he had the ball at feet.  I said he'll pull up here soon. Hey presto 5 minutes later.

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 

No saying you can’t bring him on in the last 10 minutes but he should not be starting the midfield gets over run in the midfield. 

How has the stick insect stayed on?

So with Bradley’s red card and Fozz possibly out for a few games, back to a formation that doesn’t suit us

Not to mention Fozzie 

Not to mention Fozzie