A way better performance than the last twi home games. Sadly Posh first goal knocked the stuffing out of us. If either wilsons shot or Fullers low driven cross had gone in then I think we could have won fairly comfortably. Givemn our recent results it was not surprising that the confidence dived when they scored against the run of play. Fortunate not to have gone 2 down just after the break when they hit the post. Thought Callums cross was awful and continued his poor form from 1st half, fortunately Jacko read it much better than me and the whole teams confidence grew and minutes later Haynes hit his almost winner .... why take off the shirt though when he knew it would be a booking, maybe Powell should safety pin the shirts to his pants!! Slight criticism at the end and that is bringing on DervItte when they were taking a corner. I have always been told never make changes when defending a corner and we almost conceded.
Relegation ... although we only picked up a point, I feel more confident about the rest of the season.
14th better than 16th. Midtable will do. 2 goals away is also a confidence booster.
Funnily enough, 2 goals at home would be even better, but I think this was a vital point, well done everybody. After Huddersfield we have Millwall, Bolton and Leeds at home, with Brighton away in between. 12 points available that will influence enormously where we finish in the League, it seems totally daft that we might expect to do better with 3 games away, and 1 at home. No predictions from me, just total support with a few prayers thrown in.
Having looked at the players scores on the other thread it appears everyone has scored Fuller very low. He was also poor against Burnley on Saturday. It has been disappointing to see a player that the Stoke fans adored not at least putting in a shift and working for the team. He has been in and out of the team through injury, but I would have thought a player of his quality should be imposing himself on a game more. Having said that the service to him hasn't been great over the last few weeks. Now he has had a run of a few games to get back into match play I would like to see him step up to the plate.
Good point in the end and its one more towards the target.
I know there is no money about at the moment but if we could only bring in 2 maybe 3 players to freshen things up think it would make a difference like last year when we got Cook and DNG to see us over the line.
Good to see some lifers in the pub for a few beers.
There's a lot of weirdness here... Happy with a draw to 2nd bottom?
In the context of the game it was a very good point and we were under a lot of pressure at the end of the game . Peterborough may be second bottom but on last nights performance ( and the one at The Valley) they are a good. Footballing side. They certainly play more football than we do.
Walked all the way through the town centre from the station to the ground and didnt pass a single newsagent, off license or open take away. Peterboroughs a shit hole.
Of course it is mildly disappointing that we took only one point after being ahead, but 10 reasons to be cheerful:
1. The lads showed real guts to come back from 1-0 down 2. Peterborough may be near the bottom but they are in pretty good form - a point there is a good point 3. We scored 2 goals, which is a great step up after recent matches 4. Haynes reaffirms his position as our number 1 striker (keep praying that his hammys hold up) 5. Harriott had a good 2nd half and will be a good player for us as he grows in confidence and finds his Championship feet 6. Button has done enough to show that we have 2 decent keepers, neither top notch but better than many 7, Jacko may lack the pace to operate wide left but he must by now have shown all the doubters that he can both be effective and score goals in this division. 8. Wiggy continues to play well despite being out so long - he will be back to his rampaging best soon. 9. Our away form remains good, and we can be optimistic about gaining points from our remaining away games 10. Surely we must get at least one or two more wins from our home fixtures? The tide must turn sometime.
Sure, a few squeaky bum moments to come this season, but we will stay up.
Well done CP and the lads, and well done you travelling addicks - respect!
Happy with a point at the end, yes we could've got a third but then so could they. How we survived an almighty goalmouth scramble at the death I'll never know.
One of the best atmosphere's at an away game in years. It was pandemonium when the two goals went in, lads toppling over etc and I saw one guy with a black eye- not sure if that was related to the celebrations though!
We did OK after a poor start, I knew Morro had to make that tackle for their first goal and once their guy was clear I knew he'd score. We stepped it up in the second half and deservedly went 2-1 up before a well hit, but saveable shot, managed to beat Button.
All in all a decent performance, looking forward to the trip to Huddersfield.
Think a point in the end was not a bad result as i think their not a bad side.Harrot had a decent second half and looked a real threat were a different side when we get the ball out wide instead of just hoofing it up there,why cant we do this at home. Thought the support was great and im sure it means a lot to the players,gutsy performance as it has been for nearly all the away games.
Hard to tell from where we were but I do think Hamer would have saved the second comfortably enough. That said Button is far more commanding when high balls are lumped into the box. And he made two good saves.
Nobody has mentioned the free header straight at their keeper from Solly's cross early on. Think it was Haynes. Or the scoop over the bar from about two yards (Morro I think) which saved a certain goal. How that didn't go in I don't know.
I don't agree with the Posh are a footballing side comments. They do have dangerous individuals like the big 44 who well skinned Solly early second half, but their main tactic did seem to be to get it high and long and that made for a tough night for Morro and Taylor. We don't look good in midfield when the ball is spending too much time in the sky. Pritch and Harriott were often outmuscled.Jacko and Wilson too at times.
Relegation? I don't think so. But the truth is that from 12th down all are still in the mix. On that basis we are longer than 6/1 but cannot be complacent.
Petrrbrough must be thanked for keeping a version of the old Covered End intact. It was great to stand on it and anyone who thinks all seated stadia are the DBs - you're wrong. Best atmosphere in a long time and no coincidence! Interesting to see that given the free choice only about a hundred or so chose to sit in the seats. But why no noise from the home fans when they had a Covered End too? Perhaps we just couldn't hear them. Could anyone in the seats confirm?
Of course it is mildly disappointing that we took only one point after being ahead, but 10 reasons to be cheerful:
1. The lads showed real guts to come back from 1-0 down 2. Peterborough may be near the bottom but they are in pretty good form - a point there is a good point 3. We scored 2 goals, which is a great step up after recent matches 4. Haynes reaffirms his position as our number 1 striker (keep praying that his hammys hold up) 5. Harriott had a good 2nd half and will be a good player for us as he grows in confidence and finds his Championship feet 6. Button has done enough to show that we have 2 decent keepers, neither top notch but better than many 7, Jacko may lack the pace to operate wide left but he must by now have shown all the doubters that he can both be effective and score goals in this division. 8. Wiggy continues to play well despite being out so long - he will be back to his rampaging best soon. 9. Our away form remains good, and we can be optimistic about gaining points from our remaining away games 10. Surely we must get at least one or two more wins from our home fixtures? The tide must turn sometime.
Sure, a few squeaky bum moments to come this season, but we will stay up.
Well done CP and the lads, and well done you travelling addicks - respect!
A draw to Peterborough at this stage of the season is not a Good point at all.
At the moment, any point is a good point. Peterborough have recently beaten Leicester, MIllwall and Blackburn. Ok we'd all obviously rather have taken the 3 points, but a draw is certainly not a disaster. And at half time i think after the first half performance, anyone there would've gladly taken a point.
Great atmosphere behind the goal, first time i have stood since Brentford last year, much prefer it.
The match, unlucky not to go ahead early on when wilson hit the woodwork with a fantastic effort, thought we were good early on. Then they, well just ran at us down the middle & for a while we just couldn't cope. They took the lead & for the rest of the half lucky to hang on to 0-1. Button made a couple of very very important stops.
Second half much better & when we scored the second had 2 great opportunities to finish it off. By the way thought the original header from (I think Morrison) looked well over the line before Haynes finished it off.
Posh got back in it after that & I would say Button should have done better with the goal, but as said before he kept us in it in the first half.
Overview, battled well, great atmosphere, worried about defence (Solly looked like he wasn't right to me), need kermorgant back, Button should get another chance, must always start Haynes if he is fit.
Having looked at the players scores on the other thread it appears everyone has scored Fuller very low. He was also poor against Burnley on Saturday. It has been disappointing to see a player that the Stoke fans adored not at least putting in a shift and working for the team. He has been in and out of the team through injury, but I would have thought a player of his quality should be imposing himself on a game more. Having said that the service to him hasn't been great over the last few weeks. Now he has had a run of a few games to get back into match play I would like to see him step up to the plate.
I think this is unfair on Fuller. I have seen every home game and 5 away games and yet to see a game where he does not put in a shift. However, in the prem he was quality amongst other quality players so teams could not afford to over mark him, whereas our team by our own admission has average talent. If you watch Fuller he is double or triple marked, gets battered and buffetted during the game and seems to get the rough end of many referee decisions. yet he still manages to get in crosses like the low drive early on yesterday which should have been turned in and the superb goal against Palace. He is not a box to box player, but he holds up the ball, knocks it on and has shown some brilliant touches and that is in a team which has no midfield to feed him.
Small addition to my post last night...Thought Obika looked a threat when he came on late in the game. Some good ball control in the area near the end. Maybe SCP will start him with Danno on Saturday and use Ric as an impact sub from the bench?
Also, haven't read all the posts or the match thread but was there any news about Stephens last night ? Presume he's still injured.
Small addition to my post last night...Thought Obika looked a threat when he came on late in the game. Some good ball control in the area near the end. Maybe SCP will start him with Danno on Saturday and use Ric as an impact sub from the bench?
Also, haven't read all the posts or the match thread but was there any news about Stephens last night ? Presume he's still injured.
Sorry Fan , i sold him last night on Football Manager 2013 for 3.8 million.
Good point for me last night, the support was superb and there is a genuine togetherness at away games that just does not exist at the Valley (Cardiff aside), misplaced passes away are greeted with a minority of grumbles but the encouragment continues from the majority of travelling support.
Last night when on a poor run, losing away midweek at a side 2nd bottom with 43 mins gone and the away end was still singing, they even sang at half time. Jacko's reaction to his goal said a lot about how the team feels.
Support aside, we do have an unidentifyable (to me) problem in midfield, we are a little light up front, we are being punished by individual errors at the back, we do seem to being coming up against sides that are "scrapping for their lives" or "on a good run of form at the moment"...I think thats football and I know that every other message board outside of the top 6/7 clubs in the Championship are having exactly the same discussions on a daily basis.
We are not safe in what is a very unpredictable league, we are not in a relegation battle either, I seem to recall last year when hovering around 90 points people looking at the fixtures and saying "I cant see where our next points are coming from", none of us do but most of us do know they will come from somewhere, lest hope its on Saturday and even better three more on the 16th despite 108 years of mainly negative results against our angry little neighbours.
We are a mid table Championship side at the moment, I for one would have snatched at that at any stage in the last 5 years.
PS - to the lad I gave a freebie ticket to o/s last night due to one of ours no-showing at the station, your on a "beer for life" deal, theres no such thing as a free lunch!
Thought we played OK and a draw was a fair result. Both goals that we conceded were relatively soft but then again it seems as though all goals that are conceded in this league are deemed 'soft' unless they come from outside the box.
They put in a shift and did very well to turn things around in such a short space of time in the 2nd half.
We didn't get Fuller on the ball anywhere near as much as we should have done. A lot of balls in the air which their enormous defenders dealt with time after time. Looking forward to having Yann back for Millwall.
Great atmosphere behind the goal. No moaning when the ball was given away or when we were looking dodgy. Infact, the support just got louder and louder.
Decent game to be fair, we were the better team until they scored and then in the second half we came out and looked half decent. Button was at fault for the goal, but he made a brilliant stop in the first half so not all bad. JJ and Pritch were all over the pitch, JJ made some terrific blocks too.
Not to forget their keeper made some decent saves and there was one cross that seemed destined to go to Haynes (?) for an easy goal and I have no idea how their number 5 got to it, injured himself in the process and had to go off after a few minutes.
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Relegation ... although we only picked up a point, I feel more confident about the rest of the season.
14th better than 16th. Midtable will do. 2 goals away is also a confidence booster.
Funnily enough, 2 goals at home would be even better, but I think this was a vital point, well done everybody. After Huddersfield we have Millwall, Bolton and Leeds at home, with Brighton away in between. 12 points available that will influence enormously where we finish in the League, it seems totally daft that we might expect to do better with 3 games away, and 1 at home. No predictions from me, just total support with a few prayers thrown in.
I don't know what you are on, but would you mind passing it round !
I know there is no money about at the moment but if we could only bring in 2 maybe 3 players to freshen things up think it would make a difference like last year when we got Cook and DNG to see us over the line.
Good to see some lifers in the pub for a few beers.
1. The lads showed real guts to come back from 1-0 down
2. Peterborough may be near the bottom but they are in pretty good form - a point there is a good point
3. We scored 2 goals, which is a great step up after recent matches
4. Haynes reaffirms his position as our number 1 striker (keep praying that his hammys hold up)
5. Harriott had a good 2nd half and will be a good player for us as he grows in confidence and finds his Championship feet
6. Button has done enough to show that we have 2 decent keepers, neither top notch but better than many
7, Jacko may lack the pace to operate wide left but he must by now have shown all the doubters that he can both be effective and score goals in this division.
8. Wiggy continues to play well despite being out so long - he will be back to his rampaging best soon.
9. Our away form remains good, and we can be optimistic about gaining points from our remaining away games
10. Surely we must get at least one or two more wins from our home fixtures? The tide must turn sometime.
Sure, a few squeaky bum moments to come this season, but we will stay up.
Well done CP and the lads, and well done you travelling addicks - respect!
One of the best atmosphere's at an away game in years. It was pandemonium when the two goals went in, lads toppling over etc and I saw one guy with a black eye- not sure if that was related to the celebrations though!
We did OK after a poor start, I knew Morro had to make that tackle for their first goal and once their guy was clear I knew he'd score. We stepped it up in the second half and deservedly went 2-1 up before a well hit, but saveable shot, managed to beat Button.
All in all a decent performance, looking forward to the trip to Huddersfield.
Nobody has mentioned the free header straight at their keeper from Solly's cross early on. Think it was Haynes. Or the scoop over the bar from about two yards (Morro I think) which saved a certain goal. How that didn't go in I don't know.
I don't agree with the Posh are a footballing side comments. They do have dangerous individuals like the big 44 who well skinned Solly early second half, but their main tactic did seem to be to get it high and long and that made for a tough night for Morro and Taylor. We don't look good in midfield when the ball is spending too much time in the sky. Pritch and Harriott were often outmuscled.Jacko and Wilson too at times.
Relegation? I don't think so. But the truth is that from 12th down all are still in the mix. On that basis we are longer than 6/1 but cannot be complacent.
Petrrbrough must be thanked for keeping a version of the old Covered End intact. It was great to stand on it and anyone who thinks all seated stadia are the DBs - you're wrong. Best atmosphere in a long time and no coincidence! Interesting to see that given the free choice only about a hundred or so chose to sit in the seats. But why no noise from the home fans when they had a Covered End too? Perhaps we just couldn't hear them. Could anyone in the seats confirm?
Great post!
At the moment, any point is a good point. Peterborough have recently beaten Leicester, MIllwall and Blackburn. Ok we'd all obviously rather have taken the 3 points, but a draw is certainly not a disaster. And at half time i think after the first half performance, anyone there would've gladly taken a point.
Great atmosphere behind the goal, first time i have stood since Brentford last year, much prefer it.
The match, unlucky not to go ahead early on when wilson hit the woodwork with a fantastic effort, thought we were good early on. Then they, well just ran at us down the middle & for a while we just couldn't cope. They took the lead & for the rest of the half lucky to hang on to 0-1. Button made a couple of very very important stops.
Second half much better & when we scored the second had 2 great opportunities to finish it off. By the way thought the original header from (I think Morrison) looked well over the line before Haynes finished it off.
Posh got back in it after that & I would say Button should have done better with the goal, but as said before he kept us in it in the first half.
Overview, battled well, great atmosphere, worried about defence (Solly looked like he wasn't right to me), need kermorgant back, Button should get another chance, must always start Haynes if he is fit.
Also, haven't read all the posts or the match thread but was there any news about Stephens last night ? Presume he's still injured.
Last night when on a poor run, losing away midweek at a side 2nd bottom with 43 mins gone and the away end was still singing, they even sang at half time. Jacko's reaction to his goal said a lot about how the team feels.
Support aside, we do have an unidentifyable (to me) problem in midfield, we are a little light up front, we are being punished by individual errors at the back, we do seem to being coming up against sides that are "scrapping for their lives" or "on a good run of form at the moment"...I think thats football and I know that every other message board outside of the top 6/7 clubs in the Championship are having exactly the same discussions on a daily basis.
We are not safe in what is a very unpredictable league, we are not in a relegation battle either, I seem to recall last year when hovering around 90 points people looking at the fixtures and saying "I cant see where our next points are coming from", none of us do but most of us do know they will come from somewhere, lest hope its on Saturday and even better three more on the 16th despite 108 years of mainly negative results against our angry little neighbours.
We are a mid table Championship side at the moment, I for one would have snatched at that at any stage in the last 5 years.
PS - to the lad I gave a freebie ticket to o/s last night due to one of ours no-showing at the station, your on a "beer for life" deal, theres no such thing as a free lunch!
They put in a shift and did very well to turn things around in such a short space of time in the 2nd half.
We didn't get Fuller on the ball anywhere near as much as we should have done. A lot of balls in the air which their enormous defenders dealt with time after time. Looking forward to having Yann back for Millwall.
Great atmosphere behind the goal. No moaning when the ball was given away or when we were looking dodgy. Infact, the support just got louder and louder.
I blame the 2nd goal on the toilet roll.
Johnnie....Oh Johnnie Jackson..........and repeat....
Jonathan Greening warming the Notts Bench at the moment?