Given that they lost to Chippenham at the weekend, we’re on a hiding to nothing here.

1 hour ago, Masala said:

The joker - Liam Gallagher

Percy the Penguin … Stackridge

Really, really disappointed in Pearson’s post match comments singling out the defence for criticism for conceding a goal.  Surely the issue last night was not delivering at the other end of the pitch??

I think Tanner, Pring and (particularly) Vyner have been magnificent in the past two matches,

56 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

"Gotten?" ... too many U.S. shows on Netflix ... anyway, that aside, Hallelujah brother:

 

 

‘Gotten’ is common in Middle English, and is an example of the US using older forms of words than we do.  The Victorians tried to ‘modernise’ English to distinguish it from American usage and words like ‘gotten’ were replaced.

Several other examples of the same (e.g. ‘fall’ being older than ‘autumn’).

…and let’s not forget that the American’s still use the oldest colloquial name for Association Football - ‘soccer’ - coined in England in the 19th century!  

2 hours ago, Renaissance Williams said:

Satellite of Love - Lou Reed

Telstar … The Tornados

12 minutes ago, WessexPest said:

Arghghghgh! That was incredibly frustrating to watch; very sore to have lost that as they barely created anything all night. We hit post and bar and had other near misses as well. Pretty decent display despite losing. Lost our heads in stoppage time though.

Another stonewall pen turned down. What do we have to do to be awarded a spot-kick?

Hardly a stonewall penalty.  Looked 50:50 on Sky.

23 minutes ago, 22A said:

He' s 36 now and (I think) he last scored against us in 2007 for Scunny.

Aye, on his 21st birthday, as the Sky commentator must have mentioned a thousand times…

14 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

 

 

I'd have pulled him off at half time tbh. 
The others could just make do with a cup of tea. 
 

 

Blimey, that one goes back to Gazza joining Tottenham!

52 minutes ago, Bryans Left Peg said:

Would’ve been happy with a point pre-march but ultimately leaving stadium annoyed.

Thought we were the better team up until our goal, and then we just… stopped pressing or doing anything that was working well?

 

Subs were poor and when the inevitable equaliser came, they looked like the only team who could win it.

 

Frustrated today, I lay all the blame on Pearson for his tactics and substitutions today. Killed the game.

 

Frustrated after that.

Not sure why you got a laughing emoji for this mate, I think you’re spot on.  I accept that Semenyo was not having his best game, but the fact is that we were keeping their back line occupied and frequently pushing them back.  From the moment he took Semenyo and Wells off (Wells - why??) Swansea were able to come forward at will, and from the moment Swansea scored there was no way we were going to win that game.  Very frustrating, because we should have taken all three points.  What on earth were Martin and Bell going to offer in places of Semenyo and Wells?

I’ve seen Sam Bell on many occasions now and sadly I still can’t see a league player there.  Happy to be proved wrong, but he showed nothing today.

2 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Oh, It's A Lovely War!..Courtland & Jefferies

Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die … Country Joe and the Fish

16 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Love the spelling of Psychological in the bottom right, perhaps he ran out of room.

All he’s done is leave me out the h, for heaven’s sake.  An easy mistake to make.  Given that otherwise his spelling is correct, this doesn’t seem to be a big deal.  The sheet looks like a very decent action plan to me.

2 hours ago, Red Shadow said:

Supper's Ready - Genesis

It’s Only Make Believe … Conway Twitty

44 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Breakfast In America...Supertramp

 

How D’ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning … Dean Martin

For purely sentimental reasons:

Raintown … Deacon Blue

Bookends … Simon & Garfunkel

Blue … Joni Mitchell

Ogden’s Whole Nut Gone Flake …The Small Faces

One World One Voice … (various)

or alternatively:

La Boheme … Puccini

The Dream of Gerontius … Elgar

A Sea Symphony … Vaughan Williams

West Side Story … Leonard Bernstein

Symphony no 2  … Howard Hanson

53 minutes ago, weepywall said:

Star Trekking....The Firm

Where’s Captain Kirk … Spizzenergi

Official Site can't seem to make its mind up:

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19 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Towler's gone out to get games and help progress his career.

Hasn't Idehen's gone out as punishment for giving it the big I am? Sounds like he's sulking, and unlikely to be doing himself any favours when it comes to extending his professional career.

I don’t know whether the loan was ‘punishment’, but I know that Pearson was very unhappy with his attitude pre-season, and he was subbed in a pre-season friendly because of lack of effort.  At that point Pearson pretty much wrote him off in terms of the first team squad this season, though I don’t know whether he already had it in his mind to send him on loan.

Time wasting is always fine if you’re winning…

8 minutes ago, Magger1 said:

Well all the happy clappers you must be joking to put up with watching that shit every week is depressing, players who if they couldn’t get a game with us would be lucky to turn out for Yeovil , what a depressing bunch of miserable players we have , non seem to enjoy the game so if their not enjoying it how the **** do they expect us to when we have to pay BIG CHANGES NEEDED 

‘General Chat’???

1 minute ago, JoeAman08 said:

I can see the logic in Naismith in dm position. It is asking him to do another position change late in his career though. I also think if it were to happen it would make sense to just go with a 4 at back formation like 433 or 4231. Think that may complicate things as we have been in this 523 formation for well over a year now. Other teams have done it but risky 

Asking a squad of players to change playing formation radically half way through a season is certainly risky.  Better teams than us have looked dreadful because of that.  Did you see Liverpool trying to play 4-4-2 today??

4 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

That’s your opinion.  Don’t give an opinion as a fact, it makes you look silly.  Look at the players we are able to select and ask yourself are they better or worse than recent performances.  When we are bad we are terrible. The squad is better than that.  

Absolutely.  The squad doesn’t explain the inconsistency.  We beat West Brom comfortably on Tuesday, doing a real job on them.  So how do you explain today?  They should hardly need motivating, but if they do then whose job is that?

All I ask is that our players give maximum effort in every match they play, and I don’t see that being the case.  The fact is that Pearson seems sadly unable to get the best out of them week in week out, which is I’m afraid a damning indictment of him as a manager.

4 minutes ago, Bs4Red said:

Any manager at any other club. He’s gone. It’s time to go.

Not getting the best out of this squad and it’s actually embarrassing how bad we are at defending set pieces. 

 

But he was a ‘top top manager’ on Wednesday …

18 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Albequerque...Prefab Sprout

Bungalow Bill … The Beatles 

1 hour ago, DT The Optimist said:

top top manager well respected by majority of fan base..And blessed by owners who do not panic & respond to a poor run.  When we win not overboard, same when we lose.

Held in high esteem by many in the game, not least fans Leicester City.  As alluded when he can put out his best players in defence we are not that bad, a few errors have led to a loss of quite a few points, cut those out....

With respect, is this the same top top manager who has been sacked from multiple managerial posts over the past fifteen years, often after major fallings out with his club?  He may be held in high esteem by Leicester fans, but not sure who else of the clubs he has managed.  He has made some dreadful mistakes for us, and I wonder how many City fans were thinking he was a top top manager after our abject defeat on Saturday.  Ah, but it was ever the case: if we lose it’s the players fault; if we win it’s because of the brilliance of our top top manager.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see him succeed at City, but it’s been a frustrating journey of ups and downs so far, and I don’t think he’s yet earned top top manager status, nor even earned top manager status at the moment.   Fingers crossed though.

23 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

I do a bit of coaching, and I absolutely encourage my keeper to come whenever practical, but also tell them to be mindful of the game around them. What the issue here was not that Max came for the ball, but that he came for it when he could clearly see defenders had the situation under control.

I’d haul my under 11s keeper out for that decision. For a championship keeper it’s unforgivable.

You’d haul out an under-11 keeper?  Really?  Under-11 football isn’t even competitive!