Southport Red

13 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

Well I’d completely agree, but on Twitter (not really on here oddly) I keep reading how much better the football is and how better coached the team looks.

First half yesterday, there were times we looked over coached. Max - CB - other CB regardless of what runs were being made further upfield. Second half, we didn’t look like we had been coached at all, lost all 50/50s kicked away possession every time. So, I guess that averages out at exactly the right amount of coaching

Thing is, what would you do if you were Lansdown?  Let’s say, for sake of argument, you are £200M ‘in’ to a ‘project’. The ONLY way you are going to get any of that back, is to get promoted to the Premier League, yet to achieve that may require you write another cheque for yet another £30M (which the rules mightn’t let you spend anyway?

not saying this isn’t their own doing, not thinking about the past at all. Just speculating on what they might do NOW. 

4 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

The real Gap between us and the Gas is huge, 23 years and counting. Good luck beating that slaggies.

Yeah imagine we stay where we are and, say,Bournemouth stayed in the Prem for the next 20 years. We wouldn’t like it, but the truth would be that they were MUCH bigger than us. That is how Rovers are right now. They may be in denial, but they would be embarrassed in the Championship. 

2 minutes ago, marmite said:

I keep hearing this but if the gap is so big, why do we recruit players (and coaches) from the lower leagues. Is this the reason we are struggling in the  Championship?

VERY good point. 

Just back from Deepdale. Standard stuff. First half neat organised, only very occasionally threatening, but Preston’s only threat came from our sloppiness. Second half, well, still waiting for us to start playing it. Williams tried, Dickie was steady, nice to see McCrorie at last. Everything else, well, best forgotten. Too many worried about getting injured for Tuesday I think, don’t remember a 50/50 we won second half. 

11 hours ago, Bow Legged Chicken said:

Preston rival our claim to Wallace and Grommet (statues outside market.) Anyone know how this is justified? Not on account of accent, Peter Sallis (born Twickenham) is usually credited with a West Yorkshire accent, not Lancs, and Aardman obvs Bristol. Perhaps one of our celebrated incognito street artists should get up here with some paint and put them in the correct colours (or alternatively, yarn bomb…)

Nick Park was born in Preston. Local TV up here, when talking about Aardman, always reference him as “Preston’s Nick Park’. He went to Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam Uni) and local TV there refer to him as Sheffield’s Nick Park. 
 

all of which proves the theory that “success has many fathers, whilst failure is a bastard”

1 hour ago, REDOXO said:

Tallin rely’s on the audio service as above.  
 

He is at the forefront of the utterly crap service it has become.
 

Gerry the SLO (who is always great when I have needed him)has put this to the club and I think has put advice in the SLO gorum.
 

But it seems despite supporters paying the club the responsibility is always passed to the half wits running the stream. Which is a complete cop out by the management of the football club  

 

Ask 

@leadman and @Southport Red as a couple who I think lost radio - audio. 

It was TV I lost, not audio. 

Swap for TGH?

6 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

We'll see. Decision doesn't seem to have been made yet.

I’ll be furious if we don’t sign TGH, but it would be typical City if we didn’t. 

6 minutes ago, IdliketoRogerMoore said:

Been sold out for a couple days, they ****** up though by not letting season ticket holders get first dibs so they’re trying to fit them in somewhere!

What, BOTH of them!

Just seen this on Twitter

 Georgie Best, Stylo Matchmakers. Bought second hand from a school friend. I was the envy of Portway school (for about a week). 

A ‘small tweak’ and yet he’ll be out for weeks?

was Ayman’s injury a mid-sized, or even large ‘tweak’ then?

surely ‘tweak’ is one week or even less out?

4 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

......and even have our name on their shirt sleeves.

Not as bad as Man City. 
‘Etihad’ is the Arabic word for “United”. 

Just now, The Journalist said:

 

If we want to be a “top-end team” (not my words) we’ll need to add a couple with genuine technical ability in the middle third IMO. 

That young lad who plays for Bournemouth would do. 

5 hours ago, Mad Cyril said:

Can't wait for McCrorie to be available. I know how frustrating it is to be laid low with a nasty bacterial infection. I just hope he didn't get his in a dodgy bar in Thailand like me.

Do you remember her name?

2 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

At least that's what it will feel like when Rob A and McCrorie are available. 

I think that they will give Manning to play a 3 - 5 - 2 with a more expansive right wing back and Dickie playing on his more natural right side. 

Whether there will be further additions is still to be seen, but the rumour mill is in full flow as usual.

If poor Ayman’s rotten luck ever improves, he would also feel like a new signing. 

21 hours ago, Curr Avon said:

W H Y?

Because he was MOTM and scored a worldie a couple of weeks ago and was dropped for the next game

6 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

His in game decisions, subs and last two starting 11’s make LJ look like Pep! 

Like when TGH was MOTM and scored a worldie and hasn’t started a game since?

2 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

. 

Oh and by they way, I’m certain other teams allow their most dangerous attacking player to play 90 minutes rather than dragging him off every single game.

Or in the case of TGH, don't even start him. Guy scores a worldie, is MOTM and hasn’t started a game since. WTAF????

7 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

Manning would’ve learned a great deal more about his squad from that game. I anticipate he would agree with many on this forum, who, long before his appointment recognized we are a mid-championship team at best, lacking the quality and depth needed to compete at the top end of the table. Despite the comments from JL, BT and GM when NP was sacked.

In particular, we are lacking creativity in midfield (as many said at the time Scott was sold) and it continues to be a concern as to where the goals are going to come from.

We are a hard-working, spirited and enthusiastic squad, but that is simply not enough to be a top end championship contender.

Manning isn’t  to blame for any of this but has been framed by those who recruited him as an upgrade who will play the City way.

 

 

 

All of which is true. Yet none of it explains why TGH scored a worldie and was MOTM and then has not started a game since. 

2 minutes ago, TheSpaniard said:

Pearson lucky to get a 3 year deal and did f all with it - glad he’s gone and someone else will get the pennies.

Palpably not true. 
 

6 minutes ago, TheSpaniard said:

They’re legs had gone.

BBC said Knight had two very near misses in two mins and was immediately withdrawn. 

Turns out Andi Weimann wasn’t injured earlier in the season, he was actually off filming the new Aquaman movie. 
 

27 minutes ago, Redland said:

Jon Lansdown got rid of Pearson because he said the squad wasn’t performing to its potential under his management. Should be top six etc. 

For me the most frustrating thing is that we will never know what would have been achieved if Pearson had been supported by the Lansdowns.

 

Indeed. We had managers who were very poor judges of players given lots of resources, then we get a manager who has a proven record in spotting a player and give him the square root of f’ all to spend and then fire him. Top 6 squad my **se.