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  1. SouthS22

    Mbude.

    He wasnt ready and it was a terrible decision to play him. Very poor call from Manning, among many others today. Just hope he recovers from the experience because he was miles off championship standard today.
  2. Nanana by Peggy Gou i can’t explain I got a felling that I just I can’t erase just a feeling that I won’t, won’t leave behind Because it’s something that is on, its on my mind i guess it goes like Jason Knight Nananana Knight Nananana Knight Nananana Knight…
  3. Embarrassing. What were we doing? Either press or drop into a block. So easy for Leeds, they must have thought it was Christmas again. Fair enough we were worried about their pace, but having the front 3 press with no one following behind is inept. Proper horror show, haven’t seen us that outtplayed since Holden. I get that the squad is thin and we played too many games, but we were still our own worst enemies tonight. IPlay offs? Not even close.
  4. I enjoyed the game today. It was tight, but we took the game to Watford and looked to me like the better side. Twine looks quality - he’s clearly got a lot more getting used to teammates to do but he can receive the ball in tight areas and make things happen even if they didn’t all come off today. I”m not sure what happened to the passing out of the back, but the midfield competed well and it was them more than us playing onthe break. We are finally looking like a side with a bit of strength in depth now that the injuries are easing. Gardner Hickman made a progressive difference, Bell was a bit indifferent, and I was delighted that we didn’t have to put up with the usual pointless cameo from Cornick, but carried a threat right to the final whistle. Just a massive shame that we couldn’t get that winner - not sure how that ball stayed out of their net at times, though Max made a brilliant stop at our end to keep it all square to be fair. Work to do, but I’m looking forward pretty optimistically to see what we can do.
  5. How did we manage to lose that game? I thought we actually played pretty well and were the better team for large parts of it. I don’t mind the passing it about; we built up slowly, moved them around and carved out some good opportunities. Only one team looked like winning it in the last 20 mins and it wasn’t Norwich. James, Knight and Gardner Hickman mostly bossed the midfield, Tommy looked a threat but didn’t have his shooting boots on again, even Weimann had a half decent first half. However, Tanner is not a wing back, Sykes wasn’t on it today, and we really lack options off the bench to affect the game - Mehmeti, Cornick and Bell all well off the pace. Even with them on the pitch, and with Williams not able to find a teammate from 5 yards, we were still the team pushing for the winner at the end. Gutted that the ghost of Vyner past came back to haunt us.
  6. Isn't the Board Jon Lansdown and Gavin Marshall? I'm not sure Jon is capable of making a decision beyond which crayon to colour in with, so no I don't trust them collectively to make good decisions. I'm not sure on Steve as owner - he doesn't have a great track record on managerial decisions, but at the same time he has put us in a position structurally to step up and looking around at the position of some other clubs, it could be a lot worse.
  7. All of you who are saying you are not going to renew your season ticket or going to hand it back if Pearson doesn’t get a new contract, stroll on. Go take your cult like worshipfulness elsewhere. No manager is bigger than the club and if Pearson has become your primary focus you need to have a little think about where your support is at. The fact is that he hasn’t earned a contract extension as yet. He needs to stop throwing his toys out of the pram and get on with the job he’s contracted to do and very well paid for. Let’s see improvement and more consistent quality before he’s trusted to spend any more of the clubs money. If we’re in the hunt at Christmas, playing with more assurance at home and demonstrating some capacity to break rubbish teams down when they sit in, perhaps there is scope for a conversation. Until then, wind your neck in Pearson and get on with sorting the football out. Not bothered? My arse. Cosy culture of acceptance of mediocrity - yep, now where did I hear that before?
  8. It was Tommy what won it, outstanding 15 mins from him
  9. Observation from being at 7 games out of 9 and watching the other two on tv, but I’m happy to bow to actual stats if you have them. For me, he’s done a job, poorly at times, okay at others and and occasionally pretty well. Some very good touches, energy, and closing down but I was hoping g for proper competition and back up for Nakhi, Tommy, Sam and Andi, and yet he’s still the 6th choice. Great goal on Tuesday, and hopefully that performance and the vocal support he got will give him a lot more confidence and he can push the others harder. Time will tell I guess, and if a good song helps, then he’s got that in his favour.
  10. No goals, no assists, no goal involvements, no successful crosses, today the only shot so far this season. I’m not sure where the happening is there. it was a good touch today to set up the chance, but the touch doesn’t matter unless the chance is taken. It wasn’t, and from where I was sitting it was a miss, though the goalkeeper also did well. I was hoping after a pre-season that Cornick would kick on this year. Only fleeting glimpses of any progression so far, though I can’t criticise his work rate. Good contrast can be made with Yeboah. Exciting prospect, fast, strong, unpredictable, and excellent work rate.
  11. Very very poor Reading side, and we still couldn’t beat them. The pitch didn’t help, and neither did the injuries, but his has been a pretty terrible run since the Man City game. A solitary win against Blackpool aside, we look back to the same clueless bunch of numpties we did before Christmas. Reading even gave us the ball a number of times today, including in their own penalty area and we didn’t have a clue how to put it the net. Not many positives to take from today, but good to get TC back and welcome return for James.
  12. Just back from the game. We were abysmal, total embarrassment. There are only a few players to come out of that with any credit, and principal among them is Omar T C. Battled and scrapped for everything. The other was Sykes who put another shift in. Scott was marked out of the game, and without his influence we were clueless. We couldn’t get anywhere near the ball for large parts of the game, and once they had gone ahead (such a soft goal), there was no way we were ever going to get back in it. Cornick as a starter, come on NP have a word with yourself. I’m not writing him off totally yet, but this season he looks about as much threat as a cold rice pudding. Worrying., Zak seems to be regressing, King cannot play more than one decent game a fortnight, Sam still looks really lightweight and got bullied by their defenders today, and Max had a shocker - couldn’t see the second too clearly but it looked stoppable, was right behind the first and I that seemed to go past him in slow motion. Thought Tanner did ok, totally baffled by his substitution, effectively nullifying Sykes. That was the quietest away end I’ve been in for some time, thought we’d get it going at some point, but the team gave us nothing. I can’t be bothered with international breaks normally, but thank god we have one now, we desperately need it.
  13. Incredibly disappointing, even though probably inevitable. I don’t really understand the dynamics of the transfer market, and what is and isn’t possible as regards holding on to players, but I did hope that we could hold out until the summer. He’s a massive loss and even though we could get a few million more than we may have done later, we’ll be worse off overall if we’re relegated. He might be inconsistent but he makes things happen and that will be sorely missed. We need to hope that we can pull something out of the bag on a replacement over the next week or so, or unless Weimann has a rediscovery of the form of last year, I can’t see us creating enough to keep us out of a relegation dogfight. Good luck to him, I think he could develop to be a top player.
  14. Good summary of the game. I would just add to the positives that Semenyo looked a real threat all game, held the ball up well, make some great runs and got our goal. Without him our attack was toothless. Nakhi must have put his boots on the wrong way round because his link up play was poor, and unfortunately Sykes looked out of his depth today. Everything good up front went through Semenyo, best player on the pitch for me today, closely followed by Zak. Midfield 3 did a decent job of controlling the game after they had scored, and Atkinson had another solid game at the back.
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