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4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

It's something that's worked for years in football, teams have used players like Sheringham or Crouch or Dublin as a focal point. Mixing and matching different talents into different formations is fundamental to coaching and Management. I don't see that as limiting at all.

I agree, bit that's not the game anymore. Hardly any teams play 442 or 2 up top. Strikers now tend to play on their own, with 2 wingers either side. Strikers need to be all rounders, able to hold the ball up, run the channels, pop up in the 6 yard box. Chris wins the flick on, then it takes an age for him to get in the box. Balls over the top aren't for him, we rarely stretch defences, we are limited to playing balls to his head chest or feet, back to goal...

1 hour ago, RUSSEL85 said:

His hold up play is also fantastic, bit like Adebola, won’t score a tonne of goals but really helps create them. 

I do rate Martin this season, but in his advancing years, he will always need another striker alongside him to provide pace.

That limits us in terms of formations, 

8 hours ago, Sitrom said:

They look so young.  I know they're young but they look like kids.  Cheers for that tho.

Literally thought this, it's like under 15s!

Just shows what a prospect Scott in particular is

Junior Bent - 9 years old, I met him on Staple Hill High Street and I got him to sign the back of a receipt from kwik save...

Loved him and Wayne, just after super Bob, that's my era!

Great line up there. Am I now officially old?? 

6 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

Brilliant- thanks, I'll be recounting that story for years and as I read it on OTIB - it must be true.

Jet taught me never ever to get attached to a player again and I never have. They come- they go but few are as enigmatic as Jet.

Yep, JET, Albert, even Scotty have broken my heart over the years. I stil never learn.

A draw at home against the bottom side who also had 10 men... whoopidy doo dah.

those first goalscorer goalcast odds and names are mental...

7 minutes ago, Offside said:

And Neil Kilkenny pointing us to defeat. 

When things get tough, just remember...

I dunno, we had Albert 

14 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said:

 

 

 

Doesn't calm me down tbh, the first 10 seconds - isn't that his job??? 

5 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Conway looked pretty tidy in his 5 min cameo? 

He's the next right wing back

1 minute ago, robin for life said:

No, players who are not regressing. There will be teams promoted this year and they will release players who wont make it in the prem, these are the players to go for, solid Championship players.

Every year there are loads of good free agents and the same clubs snap them up, yet we pick up injury prone players all the time. Gary O'Neill imo done well for us.

Warnock at every club hes gone to signs sensible free agents, so has Wilder,  We seem to be late to the party and get the dregs of the barrell and then pay them massive wages and cause a bigger problem.

30 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

And you have seen all the other teams below us every week to know if they are better or worse?

There's only so much crap football I can watch...

On and off the pitch it's been a shocking season and I genuinely fear for next season. 

It's just the manner of the defeats, the organisation, the defending... its literally school boy.

We have zero creativity and zero pace in midfield. We have a team of misfits and cobbled together mish mash every week.

Been the same for years.

2 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

I’m not sure about how many positional changes were made, but Atkinson seemed to be playing on the left wing at one point during the second half. The only experiment NP hasn’t tried is putting Dasilva in goal, but there’s still time. 

That will almost top sam bell at rb

1 minute ago, Ivorguy said:

Nothing will fundamentally change until the owner goes

How many more decades of failure on the pitch and poor admin off it?

He has waaaaaayyyy more patience than I do...

(And money obvs)

1 minute ago, Daniro said:

I am absolutely disgusted with that performance.   12 months have passed and again we are subjected to clueless half witted error prone rubbish.    Shocking defending, absent midfield, poor finishing,  injury upon injury.    No progress whatsoever.   

Yep but we will have another air clearing, another random youngster thrown in the team as a round peg in a square hole, rub forehead, chuckle, lose, rinse and repeat... 

I'm giving him the transfer window and 5 games before I get the banners out.

Club is a joke. Getting bored of it now.

We lack quality and movement and everything in between. That was awful.

And what ####### me off, we have the likes of KP and O Dowda sitting there picking up a tidy wage for #### all. 

Tbf, we deserve to go down. This season has been shocking 

Just now, cidercity1987 said:

Deary this is shit, Barnsley are terrible, we've been worse

Are they? I thought they look OK. No excuses for us though, we are shocking 

How many more clear the air chats we gonna have? 

5 hours ago, phantom said:

I'm the first to bash the websites etc with errors, but I believe the problem is with an update worldpay were implementing. 

It's not just us affected. 

If you haven't sorted by next week, either liaise with @JerrySLO(he can help) or I can try and buy the tickets for you and you can transfer over the money ?? 

Gotta love this forum

2 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

Just copy and paste previous ones

Look away, sigh, rub eyebrows, know where we are at, sloppy start, some players took too long to get going etc etc, rub eyebrows, look agitated... chuckle. 

Only positive for me is Dasilva