George Rs

Just shows what intent, passion and smart recruitment can do. 

Not a team full of world beaters, no Summervilles or Dewsbury-Halls, but key traits in key positions that lets them play a certain style of football that matches their squad. And play it well. 

Will be interesting to see what happens if they go up, think Leif Davies will go and that won’t be an easy replacement. Wouldn’t be surprised if another club try’s to get Mckenna either. Think if they start losing a few it could all fall apart but that’s just a guess. 

Balon D’or worthy season from HK, sadly would be very surprised if he wins it. 

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

He adjusted cos his job was on the line and he was told to adjust. 

He came in here with an attitude of his way was the best way (despite it being the opposite of the given brief) he carried on with it. Bored us all to death. 

As a football fan I have every right to speak about our style of play yet you somehow have an issue with a football fan talking about football. Says it all. 

He sacrificed our season for his way when it was plainly clear the squad was not suited to his way. I'm annoyed by that. I of course said from day 1 about his style and our style not matching so it's not with the benefit of hindsight. 

Stop lying mate. It's hard to debate with someone that lies. I'm always active. I'm active now after we won the other day so that's your theory blown out of the water. 

It's the trolling that's intolerable. Its boring. Its tedious. If you don't like my opinions, put me on ignore or scroll past. Very very simple. 

Yes it's absolutely true that I did not think he is the right fit for us and that we are more likely to regress than progress under him. I still hold those views today. Drop the crap about it having anything to do with anything else. It's simply based on that.

Are you OK Ross? You seem to have an issue with me calling out people that have used personal insults against me? 

Regress? 

We’ve factually progressed under LM? We are going to finish 3-6 points better off than last year. Is that the amount of progress most wanted or expected? Probably not, personally feel it was achievable and fair to say we should do an extra 5 points better off. But given the fact it’s his first season at this level, which he came in part way through, any progress on last season is positive imo. 

I don’t see any point arguing whether someone else should’ve been brought in because they weren’t. And that won’t change. There are some external factors that have marred the start of LMs campaign, JLs comments to the quite toxic environment he entered in november but I don’t see anything incorrect in saying we’ve had a relatively promising season under him. 

Have there been mistakes/faults? Obviously. But I also think LM has learnt from his mistakes and ended our season very well. 

Leeds (H): Completely dominated across the park, looked like children v men

Southampton/Leicester (H): 6 points and 2 very good performances, although admittedly we rode our luck/max turnt into Lev Yashin for the Leicester game. 

17th Feb-2nd March: Lost to 3 teams below us consecutively. 

10th March-Now: 13/15 points against teams below us, mostly in quite a comprehensive fashion. 

Now in the end I might look like a numpty for having faith in LM, or you might for stating he will regress us. Either could happen, I just don’t understand the need to say it again and again when we are on a positive trend and our performances are getting better. 

4 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

 

  
 

Classic thread material! 
 

And this has to do with a pitch invader in a dress how?

That was his server at the Popeyes obviously, keep up. 

Scotty Murray doing gods work in Conways instagram comment section

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

If City can get that amount for Conway then fair play but at the same time whoever pays it are mugs in my view.

How many chances did he miss today? I can think of two that a proper striker would have buried. The penalty he won and then converted was because he’d messed up another one and one and the keeper brought him down. How many pens has got this season? - they add to his tally of course.

The best strikers miss the most chances because they get the most opportunities. 

For his age TC has very good positional awareness and run timing. And it’s improved since LM has come imo. Pens? Still gotta score them and he had every single time. 

I could quite easily see him go for above 5m tbh as he’s still only 21, he’s still got 5 years to work on his craft before reaching his “prime”. 

Bristol city

Middlesborough

Coventry

Preston

Cardiff

Swansea

Watford

Sunderland

Millwall

QPR

Stoke

Sheffield Wednesday (Unless all hell breaks loose) 

Sheffield United

Portsmouth 

Derby

15/24 confirmed for next season! If one of Leeds or Southampton don’t go up I think they’ll coast it next year but couldn’t tell you the rest of the top 6 for the life of me. 

18 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Are we reading too much into some of the players gestures? What is the difference between waving at the last home game of the season and waving because you might be leaving?

Yes, seeing as he was waving to his family in the Lansdown stand. 

7 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I've been thinking a little.

I think this is a season where an observer can take whatever they want. 

It's possible to look at the same facts, and see either great hope, expectations, and positivity, or signs of concern, failure, and negativity. What you see will depend on your outlook, your biases, your personality etc.

There's been brights spots as you rightly highlight, but lows as well.

Take these ten games. Yes great results, but one can counter that and say it was an easy run of fixtures, we got 4 (I think?) penalties, and some games were dead rubbers. 

It's just one of those seasons that in the moment seems very volatile and interesting but I suspect in 3 years' time no one will really remember anything bar the manager change in October.

These musings may not be totally on topic, and I'm not trying to be negative, but it is just one of those seasons where there's a bit for everyone.

Last season we had a spell where we got 19 points from 10 games, Birmingham - Blackpool, W5, D4, L1.

Very good point to be fair, the season as a whole can quite rightly be taken both ways. 

But saying our last 10 have been easy fixture is a tad misleading, average position of the teams we’ve faced is 13th and we are a midtable side. 

Twine, Williams and Conway all making signature gestures. 

Interesting to say the least

Lovely free kick, no clue how he gets that amount of dip on the ball! 

Standard of crossing is incredibly poor especially when a decent majority are unchallenged. 

Replay shows GK touching tommys knee as he goes round him, more of a premier league penalty then a championship one if that makes sense. 

Just now, old_eastender said:

Not the best of halves despite being ahead, missing Knights forward thinking from central midfield, really don't like the James/Williams combo.

Also Pring reluctant to make any run with the ball, despite having had the chance several times and Twine again not that involved playing left.

James/Williams bring food structure and defensive solidity together, but yes in this kind of game does make us seem more passive, less forward thinking. 

However disagree about Twine, thought he was our best player that half to be honest. 

1 minute ago, MelksRed said:

Possibly started to believe his own hype.

Really liked the look of Twine so far, this is more of what I was expecting when he arrived. 

1 hour ago, petehinton said:

I think he is eligible, but don’t think he will be used 

If he was it would make the Mebude transfer even more strange. 

He would obviously replace one of the attacking options on the bench and it wouldn’t be nakhi/cornick etc the only person he could replace is Adire. 

Either way hopefully one, or more, of the youngens get some minutes tomorrow. 

5 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

They tried, Rotherham wouldn’t sell.  Rotherham wanted to stay in the champ, which they did, and were happy to forgo a fee in the summer for that opportunity.

Oh didn’t know that, fair enough then. Worked out well both of them as well (disregarding rotherham’s campaign this season )

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Just imagine though, if you’d used those limited funds in August rather than January!  That’s always been a big thing for me.  I will never be able to square that off in my head, coupled with “you want a CB, here’s Daniel Ayala”.  Hey ho!

Or as soon as semenyo left HPC “get Ogbenes number now!”

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

Even with that there was still a clear expectation of progress. 

At the very most we've stood still. I'd argue we've slightly regressed. The gap to the play offs has got wider. 

I've listed a number if games this season that we were more than capable of getting more points from than we did previously on here. Even with selling Scott we are more than good enough to have beaten QPR x2 for example. 

What I'm disappointed with is we have not got the best out of ourselves this season. We can argue all day about why we didn't but the fact remains we didn't. We have under achieved and no one will be able to convince me otherwise. 

If “no one can convince you otherwise” what’s the point in bringing it up? This forum is used for among many things debate, would be hard to do that if you can’t let opinions change at all. 

I would agree off plain numbers i’d expect us to finish 5 points better, top 10. That’s what i said pre-season before scott’s sale. 

Since then, we’ve sold our best player, not reinvested it. Had a major injury crisis forcing us to name a defence with 1 player in the right position for at least 1 game. A change of manager. An extremely toxic club environment. Having to name the same centre back pairing for what 30 games straight. 

We haven’t exactly been the most fortunate? For the multitude of games we should’ve/could’ve won there’s probably a relatively close number of games we didn’t expect anything from that we won. 

Was it a sensational season? No. But it wasn’t bad either, and considering what’s gone on this campaign that’s not too bad imo. Don’t see a problem with people celebrating our recent upwards trend in results and performance. 

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

Bottom line for me is that if we come out of summer with Williams re-signed, Twine signed permanently & James gone in addition to the other known deals, then I don’t think we’ll have enough if it’s Tommy out and #9 + younger player in. Ideally I’d like to see us do better than Twine in that #10 and get a 9 to augment Tommy as opposed to replace.

Is a very interesting situation , I agree and most, including the club, probably do as well that a #10 and #9 are most important for the summer. 

Sadly wanting someone to augment tommy is just out of the clubs hands now, down to TC. And tbh I would be very disappointed if we bring in two if TC leaves, would harshly limit SPHs opportunity to prove himself at this level which I feel he’s deserved after this campaign. 

Another interesting situation with Twine as well, certainly hasn’t set the place on fire like some thought he would, but has he been given much of an opportunity to do so? As it is, we’ve yet to lose a game he’s started, and whilst his in game play can be a bit physically weak at times, I’d be tempted to sign him based off his set piece ability alone. Not worth £4m but if we could get him for £2-2.5m? I’d go for it personally. 

8 minutes ago, NcnsBcfc said:

I think there is some points to be made here from the club's communications today.

They are obviously priotising POTD for next season. Hence the "South Stand sold out". It won't be sold out, just sold out to anyone buying STs. There will probably be 500+ free seats for the first game of the season for POTD punters.

Secondly, they are only offering a "limited" number of STs for the open sale market.

I think as a club we will be looking to cap ST sales at around 14k or so (not sure about H/T STs around Christmas). This will once again force more people to get memberships or go POTD.

The club has probably recognised that the missing STs and a certain number of the STs that do come are unlikely to spend as much in the shop/concessions as people doing the POTD trip down the gate experience.

It's going to be interesting how this new approach works anyhow.

With them supposedly prioritising POTD, wouldn’t it be safe to assume they are very optimistic about next season? 

If they prioritised potd and next season we just stuck around 12th-18th the entire season the attendance/atmosphere would plummet off a cliff. 

Surely prioritising it this way suggests they have optimism about our actual performance in the league next year? (I could be just reading into this too much) 

Could suggest a multitude of things, their feelings on LM, prepared for the summer window? I don’t really know but is certainly an interesting shift. 

14 minutes ago, Street red said:

Yeah that makes sense but I think they are still down from this season ticket holders as people haven't renewed. 

True but if 12000 have already renewed then the “drop” that we end up with will probably be inconsequential to them. 

I can’t remember how many we had last year but guessing it was 14-15k total. 

I can’t see more the a 1-1.5k drop happening from this point. And there’s a lot of reasons not to get a season ticket atm other than unhappiness with the club. Financial reasons, waryness of the new tv schedule etc.

Assume losing 1000 season tickets would just be written off mostly due to those two things and the Lansdowns won’t worry themselves. 

Haven’t ever watched this podcast before but it’s just come up on my twitter. Their guest for this week will be Nige!

Pretty sure it’ll be his first interview since leaving in the autumn (correct me if i’m wrong).Will be very interesting to hear what he has to say! 

Edit: Didn’t see the other topic on this already my bad, mods please delete

Will be very sad to see James go as he’s been the backbone of our side the past couple of years, but If i had to pick between the two I would go with Williams as well. 

Looking like the player we thought we signed, if not better as of late.