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So that means they won the 2nd half 3-2. Surprised they haven't tried to claim some points.

We've all felt like it, but to actually do it ? Not sure whether to laugh or applaud.

Great work ethic , but I get he gets the hook as he does a hell of a lot of work, he'll run himself into the ground for the team. Definitely building his stamina. His movement has been great, very intelligent , if our midfield starts to shine again, he will. TBF there were signs the other night.

TBF I really like TC, and his partnership with Wells has been very good. But I think we need to get AS going and Tommy could be better for a little rest.

I would not have wanted to split Tommy & Nahki, but Semenyo strikes me as one of those players that need games to get up to speed . I thought he was way off to start, but by the time Wells came on he started to make an impact. Conway works his nuts off but relies on service, AS can make his own chances. I think rotation makes sense, get him to the form he has shown, like around the Fulham game , and he can be un playable. Wells is the real experienced goal scorer, so I would rotate Conway & Semenyo, let one run himself out and add fresh legs when (hopefully) the chances happen. On the last 15 minutes V Millwall I'd start Wells & Antoine at Cov

That is really mean ? and would be incredibly funny

Nope, not weird. Absolutely normal to have doubts after all this time. However ... Believing that someone is pumping Millions and Millions into a Club with the sole purpose of not getting success ? That would be truly Weird.

I think you'll find a fair few of those you say are backing Pearson , agree with you on this point. But it's from where we move forward. We have no money to spend or pay Compensation, so we won't get a "Name" manager anywhere near the status of NP. We will not get a good up and coming Manager as we have no money to spend and are currently not an exciting prospect. We could get lucky with a Wild Card appointment, but we haven't got lucky except for Cotts in the last 10 or so ? There are many things I don't particularly like about his decisions and choices, but I think he has done an important job, which isn't finished. IMO , I think we get through to the summer and safety . Then I really think NP's position will be at least looked at and more likely moved out or up. Then we look for someone to take us forward. Potentially we could have a big turnover in the squad , the next man could get some reasonable money to set us up for next year. But lets not underplay how much the Club has changed under Pearson's guidance.

Moving RA central and Tanner to WB made us look stronger and much more balanced IMO. I hope he sticks with it.

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If you think back over your last 20 years how many of your decisions that turned out not to be great, did you know before hand would poor ones ? If you think SL has spent hundreds of millions of his own money, deliberately trying not to be successful, then I think you need to seek help.

Agree to a point , I would say we could have won many of those games and should have won some. Our recent run results are awful , but even games we haven't been brilliant we have been the better side, like yesterday. I've often said you finish where you deserve over a season, but break that down and it looks slightly different. Just looking at the Hull game, that was little short of robbery . Even with our letter of apology saying they shouldn't have had a Pen and we should have had 2 it still bugs me. I will say we need to start scoring to make sure we get what we deserve from games though, but I'm thinking more about performance. We have been in all those games so it's just a little change of luck or more killer instinct. Yesterday a couple of chances fell to the guy with 20 goals last year, you would expect him to hit the target at least.

We did pretty well against a confident, strong physical side. They created very little and the best effort was blocked by Atkinson (the one that hit the bar). The Vyner / Atkinson / Naismith tweak seemed to work well, I hope he sticks with it. Atkinson can be the no nonsense CB in the middle and the other 2 can play a bit, it worked. Pring was good and although Tanner obviously doesn't carry that threat going forward that any of the other might, I thought we seemed better balanced and more solid. Never once did we allow them to bully us and never really got caught on the ball, yet we did manage to carry and pass the ball a fair bit. We did have to go longer at times, and some was pretty aimless I must admit, there was a plan to hit the space behind the FB/WB position, the same as we did at Rotherham.

Interesting review from one of theirs. A poor performance that we did well to come away with a point. We started OK with a variation on the long ball from the keeper. Instead it went short to Murray who hit it long but it came to nothing. They were out of the blocks early and some early possession in their left wing corner which came to nothing. I kept thinking that it wouldn’t take us long to get into our stride but they had other ideas. They pressed us very hard all over the pitch and we had neither time or space to make any impact. Meanwhile they were strolling around like Barcelona and the harder we tried to get a foothold in the game the harder they stopped our threat. If they got into a spot of bother the ref came to their rescue for a powder puff challenge and a free kick. The only good fortune we had is that despite a lot of possession there was not a lot of threat. Their 11 was running around like a man possessed and Hutch had trouble containing him. It took 20 minutes for us to have a decent effort and that came from Murray who strode forward to the edge of their box and hit it over with his right foot. They continued to press and late in the half we did get a free kick thirty yards out which Flem hit firmly over the bar. We were all willing the ref to blow for half time so GR could put us on the straight and narrow in the second half. When we ran out for the second forty five I thought we would put on a better display. To be Frank it couldn’t have been much worse! After ten GR realised that most of us had sussed for the last 55. Burey was having a mare and was duly replaced by Styles. He added a whole new dimension in our play and the crowd got very vocal and supportive. They still had other ideas and we all shuddered when Nakhi Wells came off the bench. They had a decent move and low cross from the right which Long gathered well. They still looked a threat whereas we did not apart from a decent strike from Vogi which deflected off the bar from a defender’s knee. Another regulation stop from Long made us exhale but we could get little going upfront. With 12 to go Benik, Shack and Honeyman replaced Sav, Bradshaw and Vogi. We pressed harder but so did they and it took some fortune for Long to save from Semedo after a mix up between Hutch and Cooper. At the death Murray hit a shot just over the bar from a corner and the game ended goalless. Long kept us in it a couple of times so hats off to him. Danny was solid but lacked composure going forward. Hutch and Cooper both had decent games but did not have a moments peace from their attacking players. Murray needs to practice shooting with his right foot but he was our best attacker. Billy had a busy game and a couple of blips. Sav was solid but did not pose much of a threat. Vogi had some moments and so did Flem but Burey was an utter waste of space. One decent run past the full back was the sum total of his threat. Bradshaw was busy but little threat. Styles had his moments and had more touches in ten minutes than Burey had in 55. Benik, Honeyman and Shack had busy cameos but little threat. A point from a game where we could have got none was a bonus but it was frustrating and uninspiring and we are now eighth. At least Charlton lost!!

I think they took none of the chances in defence that have cost us goals this season. We did play a bit at times & tried to bring the ball out, but when pressed and closed we hit space , or tried to. We did it at Rotherham, it worked.

Riley still doing ok.

That's a new one ... ? tHrEe TwO AnD yUo FuKKed iT uP ?

Defensively sound, covered well and broke lines brilliantly a couple of times. Yes he hit some poor long passes, they all did and it meant they didn't get caught on the ball, but I thought he did well. Some of those passes were close to getting Weimann and Conway away, just got cut out. There was space in behind the FB/WBs, Naismith hit some horrendous ones first half, but it was obviously a plan.

He should have booked the lad that went through Semenyo. Can't complain about the Penalty shout as every angle they showed missed AS's run until he was 'span'/'spun' Hate to say it as I've still not forgiven him for Hull, but he wasn't complete shite.

Given our 2 Weimann misses and the block from the keeper on Semenyo, I have us just ahead. He obviously lacks a bit of the others ability to go past players, but he adds balance . I thought we looked a lot better tonight as a team. Weimann more involved and defence looked better. Just needed that goal. Looking forward to getting Wilson in.

Totally agree. Tonight + 2 Stoke + 3 Watford +2 Sheff +2 Swansea + 2 With luck we could have won any of those games, not realistic to say we could have won them all of course but we could easily be sitting on 6 more points if things had gone gone our way. Things could be looking a lot healthier.

That must have been some header, Outside the box ??? **********************

Take a draw I guess, but another game in this run I felt we could/should have won.

Don't exaggerate , not a million games until next game.