JP Hampton

Don’t know if it was just me but had a job to hear Gavin that clearly. Gavin would make a good politician. Vague and waffling.

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I’m not questioning his talent or the reason he’s not scoring, I’m simply saying as you’ve said, he’s not scoring or impressing, so he won’t be attracting the same teams that he would have done. I’ve actually been a big fan of Tommy and at one point thought he would be picked up quicker than Scott! I believe he’ll come good, but I don’t think there’s any guarantees, that the teams that he would have attracted when others were being looked at, would still be interested. We’ll see.

I think the difference is he was a definite contender for a good club to come in for him at that stage, which wouldn’t necessarily be the case now. So I don’t think it follows that his options are the same as they once were.

Agree. It does appear that for most it’s actually the performance over the result that matters. It makes sense though, because performance is what will get us up the table and encourages fans to “believe”, not playing poorly and just praying we snatch a lucky win.

You’re right will be a very good test.

Agree and I said the same, it was the effort across the 90 minutes yesterday which impressed and surprised me, they really did play with a freedom we’ve not seen and didn’t look like a team who had nothing to play for.

Yes that’s definitely been our weakness and definitely what we need to work on. If we can sort that out, then we should see real change.

I think if you want change which many of us did of LM and we then see change, it’s not reasonable to not recognise it or at least acknowledge it. You’d surely have to acknowledge that play has picked up recently? Or are you simply saying that having made up your mind about LM (presumably), there’s no changing it?

What would do that then?

Well that would mean that neither Fevs or LM are capable of change?

I think, having waited for the play to revert to type and it not happening, I feel more assured about what LM could achieve, but it would most definitely only be the case, if we play as we’ve played in the last 3/4 games, or that LM will be able to get the current and any new players, playing his brand of football, whilst retaining some of the more front foot stuff, we’ve seen recently. I know it has made a difference to me watching the last few games, to how I approach next season and I’ve just renewed with a more positive click of the renew tab.

Clearly that’s not what I’m talking about. Only an idiot would think you never need to keep possession at the back. I think most people will understand just what I meant.

Yes we played with more energy, less passing around at the back and an overall good performance, with consistently positive play. Even then though, there were still silly and avoidable mistakes at times, if we can work on those over the summer, we might actually be a hard team to beat. Really enjoyable game to watch and loved their persistence.

Yes, was really pleased to see City fighting till the end even if, as the commentator kept saying, we have nothing to play for. The difference has been that we’ve not been playing the tedious stuff we were witnessing. I’ve believed we’ve got some great players I just hope we can get the most out of them.