And Its Smith

Just now, Iron Acton Red said:

Why’s that? Weymouth were 1 nil up too

Medical emergency. Helicopter was on pitch. It’s now gone but game abandoned

Weymouth v Yeovil abandoned despite tannoy saying it wouldn’t be! 

Can someone produce an ‘on sky v not on sky’ spreadsheet please?!

1 minute ago, View from the Dolman said:

Air ambulance required but your approach is to let the game go on? 

Play on…..

1 minute ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Game could be abandoned according to RB.

Don’t think it will be. They’ve just announced it will finish 

2 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

This really gets on my tits , never used to happen !

Should just play round the air ambulance 

Just now, old_eastender said:

20 mins gone, Twine & Conway hardly seen anything of the ball

15 touches combined and 11 of them are Twine’s

Just now, ZumerZetSmithy said:

was 72 28 at 10 mins  now 64 36  at19 mins

Not on my app!

Max leaves a corner that’s four yards from his goal. Bizarre

People slag off our camera angle but it’s better than this one! 

6 minutes ago, ProfitInMyPocket said:

Barely touched the ball and they've had 5 corners in the first 10.

Possession is 55/45 but yeah feels worse! 

56 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Yea 5 at the back vs Plymouth, absolutely fantastic that we are scared of Plymouth.

Don’t remember you criticising Pearson for playing 5 at the back against every single team 

“April the first, the only day when people will critically analyse what they read online before commenting or sharing it. If only this could be pushed out to the rest of the year”

6 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

I'd say disallowed goals when valid more unlucky than penalty decisions. The latter can always be missed/saved. Manning thought we rode our luck at times, as well as making our own luck. Vardy off day a very big factor for me though.

We did ride our luck at times and got very unlucky at times.  Every fan will have biases either way. It’s human nature. People who want Manning out with naturally think we got lucky. Those who want him in will see it differently. Thankfully it’s only football! 

1 minute ago, The Original OTIB said:

Do you think we rode our luck at times?

We were lucky and unlucky. Probably evened itself out.  

VAR will sort all mistakes though. 

1 minute ago, And Its Smith said:

What is their new log in? You are Detective Dave 

Ah ignore this. It’s @Jo90

6 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Is there anything we can do to stop new accounts?

this Lez, Chris, Dog, etc thing is becoming a joke.

can we restrict posts to say 1 per day for 10 days, or something like that?

What is their new log in? You are Detective Dave 

I would like to see him moved on this summer but likelihood is he will still be here next season. Never really impacts anything and not even a good finisher.  Need a better second striker than him if we want to get to the play offs 

Good pod. The only thing I massively disagree with is the need for VAR.  watch the penalty decision in the Newcastle v West Ham game. VAR has been proven to be useless time and time again so why anyone would want it is beyond me 

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

They aren’t a bunch of lg1 players though.

Chaplin, Morsy, Luongo to name three have all had solid Champ careers.  Travis, Ball, Tuanzebe, Moore.  Together with youngsters like Davis (Leeds), Clarke (Stoke, Arsenal), etc, etc.

They are outperforming their individual levels and I’m sure McKenna is a huge part of that.

I was being flippant.  People say this squad isn’t good enough but then said Ipswich wouldn’t do anything this season with a bunch of league one players.  My point is, a good coach can get players looking better than another coach.  Pearson and Manning have produced mid table finishes with this squad but maybe more can be done with them. 

23 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Forget McKenna for the mo’ (he’s very good).

What Ipswich do is play brave football.  Dare I say front foot, fast-paced, attacking, “we’ll score more than you” football.  They play the same patterns, they don’t give a shit, they trust the receiving player will do what they plan.

Even at 1-0 up yesterday they didn’t just try to defend, but they didn’t execute their patterns and had chances on the break.

A good example for us at how intent can make a big difference.

+++++

When are opponents gonna realise Davis crosses square / back 99% of the time?

McKenna is the reason a bunch of league one players are the top of the league so it’s hard to forget him!

3 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Dickie wasn’t a penalty, got his arm around Choudhury, tugging him.

Conway was an easy pen to give.

Disagree but there you go 

5 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Imagine, if they had been adequately replaced, though. Perhaps a fair bit higher than 14th.

Absolutely.  Although the coach has a huge level of importance as well.  Look at Ipswich. Man for man are they any better than us?  Probably not.  Certainly at the start of this season their players were labelled not good enough. But they are top of the league.  Is this squad good enough for top six? Maybe, under the right manager. Neither Pearson nor Manning good enough to achieve what I appreciate is a very difficult job 

Just now, Simon bristol said:

Agreed, there was clearly a need for a creative midfielder all along, and a lack of goals from the forwards. 14th place after selling scott and semenyo who were still here when we finished 14th last season shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Absolutely. I think people have already forgotten how important Scott and Semenyo were