The fans being on AMBs back if he doesn’t distribute within 0.05 milliseconds is frustrating, can see his confidence is low and this doesn’t help. He can sometimes be slow but people start moaning when there’s absolutely nothing on. He’s clearly a great keeper with zero confidence, hope we don’t ruin him
Whoever bought REG to play in midfield needs shooting - he’s a utility defender at best - utterly ridiculous - if I were Louis Watson, I’d walk out tonight and refuse to come back
We are a very poor team, lacking in ability and creativity. Anyone who thinks we’re not in massive trouble is deluded and Jones needs to work wonders and quickly.
Our survival could well rest on Aneke getting fit and staying fit.
100%. 16 games left. Very unlikely he will play all 16. Genuinely feel like even 2 or 3 games might be enough if he plays like he did at start of the season.
The fans being on AMBs back if he doesn’t distribute within 0.05 milliseconds is frustrating, can see his confidence is low and this doesn’t help. He can sometimes be slow but people start moaning when there’s absolutely nothing on. He’s clearly a great keeper with zero confidence, hope we don’t ruin him
Is it clear that he's a great goalkeeper? Good shot stopper maybe. But there's more to it than that.
The Goal came about because AMB cant or wont kick the ball downfield. Instead we flaff around the backline and it takes forever to get the ball into the opposition half. Is this tactical or an inability to kick the ball. It drives me mad!
There was nothing in the game till Gillisphreys howler, we then stopped competing till half time. Better in the second half but for all the time we had the ball we created only two chances, Lapados improvised header and Alfie May's shot. Derby were quite happy to let us have the ball and hit us on the break. The wing backs created nothing and with that being the case, the midfield three had to push on, not just sit flat, Coventry tried, Bakinson had his worse game thus far and REG shouldn't be in the midfield. We have two forwards who can score goals, but for so long we have relied on CBT to open up defences, that any playing without him will take time and good coaching. Are we in trouble ? Absolutely, we have played with three up front since Stockley and Washington left and it's rare to see a side totally change their formation in mid season, fine tweek it,yes, but not a wholesale change, this late. Add that to the catalogue of defensive howlers, that are now obligatory, then the new manager will have to have more than bounce, he will have to formulate a successful plan and quickly.
19th, 3 points clear of the drop but all of the teams below us have games in hand, including Port Vale with three games in hand and one point behind us.
Nothing to suggest, and one thing being forgotten, is the fact that none of those teams will suddenly turn into winning machines over the next couple of months either.
We're all down the bottom because we cant win games.
Was out celebrating a good friend’s 65th today so while you lot were choking on the latest installment I was munching happily on these (Blacksmith’s Arms - one of the island’s finest). As a result I only got home in time to see the last 20 mins. I think I got the best of it. What an awful looking game of football. Derby’s command of the dark arts the deciding factor. I’m afraid we have the stench of relegation about us. I’ve comforted myself with the thought that, bad as we are, there is sufficient real chuff below us for us to survive but the chuff is getting closer to our backside (I do apologise for that image). I hope Jones turns out to be the Messiah that the majority appear to think he might be but he has his work cut out with this lot I’m afraid. Massive game next week.
Finally just a note on our new signings, buy and large they are no better than what we had.
This.
On the Transfer thread there is an ins & outs comparison and I cant say any of the new 8 players are any better than the ones we got rid of.
The other day I rated the business as 5 out of 10. Having sat through 105 mins of uninspiring & uncreative bilge I would like to.change my score to 3 out of 10.
Even though I would never set foot in the ground if Lyle Taylor had signed for us he already has scored more goals than Ladapo has & probably more than Ladapo will score during the rest of the season.
The fans being on AMBs back if he doesn’t distribute within 0.05 milliseconds is frustrating, can see his confidence is low and this doesn’t help. He can sometimes be slow but people start moaning when there’s absolutely nothing on. He’s clearly a great keeper with zero confidence, hope we don’t ruin him
Is it clear that he's a great goalkeeper? Good shot stopper maybe. But there's more to it than that.
In my opinion yes, I didnt have an issue with his decision making until his confidence fell off a cliff. Countless teams we’ve played have praised him and he’s clearly doing enough in training to suggest he shouldn’t be dropped. It’s currently not translating to his in game performance and maybe he should be dropped as a result. I’m just fed up of sarcastic cheers when he catches the ball and groans when he doesn’t immediately release despite there being nothing on, why can’t we get behind him.
It screams Nick Pope 2.0 to me. Hopefully Ash can regain his confidence like Nick did
Was out celebrating a good friend’s 65th today so while you lot were choking on the latest installment I was munching happily on these (Blacksmith’s Arms - one of the island’s finest). As a result I only got home in time to see the last 20 mins. I think I got the best of it. What an awful looking game of football. Derby’s command of the dark arts the deciding factor. I’m afraid we have the stench of relegation about us. I’ve comforted myself with the thought that, bad as we are, there is sufficient real chuff below us for us to survive but the chuff is getting closer to our backside (I do apologise for that image). I hope Jones turns out to be the Messiah that the majority appear to think he might be but he has his work cut out with this lot I’m afraid. Massive game next week.
Meal looks good,but next time wash it down with a pint of Yachtsman . Can recommend The Seaview Hotel.
If the 2 players we’ve just signed to play wing back are no good and if chucks doesn’t come back and stay fit, I think we are in serious danger of going down - Coventry is the only signing Scott has made to date that is any good - Scott has been an absolute disaster
The cameo Ramsay had looked good, he didn't have too much time, but had enough to suggest he will come to be fine, the other guy, Small, we will have to see, but we need Chuks to be able to get 30 minutes a game minimum to change things up if needed, otherwise you are right, we are in deep shite big time...
Did he look good? He tackled himself trying to cross it
I get that misery is addictive and all but the doom and gloom might be getting a little deep on here. We've got 16 games left and a new manager coming in (unless something goes hilariously wrong) who has a brilliant history at Football League level. He's taken a team in a much worse position than us to safety in a higher league and it can be a fresh start. We can linger on this defeat with a caretaker who isn't an actual manager and extrapolate loads from it or we can look at the fact we've got a positive change on the horizon. I know which one we'll choose, but still, we don't have to ruin our entire Saturday eh.
The Goal came about because AMB cant or wont kick the ball downfield. Instead we flaff around the backline and it takes forever to get the ball into the opposition half. Is this tactical or an inability to kick the ball. It drives me mad!
Most teams these days want to play out from the back, it make the opposition push up on them which creates gaps. AMB could kick but is being told to play out from the back as much as possible.One change today though, he actually came for crosses, sadly the one he made, he dropped, but that's what he needs to do.
Whoever interviewed Curtis at the end of that game for Charlton, said " we know we've got a lot of quality in our squad... " As a club we are so deluded in thinking we are better than we are, we're 19th in league 1 for a reason. Cause we're shit. Our players have little to no quality whatsoever. Whose to blame for this? I don't know.
Not the head coach. But sack him anyway because that’s the traditional thing to do.
The problem is the players and the person signing them.
Was out celebrating a good friend’s 65th today so while you lot were choking on the latest installment I was munching happily on these (Blacksmith’s Arms - one of the island’s finest). As a result I only got home in time to see the last 20 mins. I think I got the best of it. What an awful looking game of football. Derby’s command of the dark arts the deciding factor. I’m afraid we have the stench of relegation about us. I’ve comforted myself with the thought that, bad as we are, there is sufficient real chuff below us for us to survive but the chuff is getting closer to our backside (I do apologise for that image). I hope Jones turns out to be the Messiah that the majority appear to think he might be but he has his work cut out with this lot I’m afraid. Massive game next week.
Meal looks good,but next time wash it down with a pint of Yachtsman . Can recommend The Seaview Hotel.
The glass to the left of the steak plate was indeed a pint of Yachtsman. And it was jolly good.
The Goal came about because AMB cant or wont kick the ball downfield. Instead we flaff around the backline and it takes forever to get the ball into the opposition half. Is this tactical or an inability to kick the ball. It drives me mad!
Lumping it up works if you’ve got Aneke up there. Booting it up to Ladapo and May just results in the opposition turning over possession
A game lacking in chances at both ends, with each goalie idle for long periods. The only difference between the teams was that they defended very competently and we gift-wrapped them the only goal of the game. No change there then.
I was pretty unimpressed with Derby and their time wasting tactics, including their players’ penchant for throwing themselves to the ground at the slightest of contact (often clutching limbs nowhere near any point of contact). Their goalie took the biscuit, deciding to sit down in the 88th minute to further exploit an erratic and gullible ref. Paul Warne, who I quite like, is nothing if not a pragmatist. The fact that they are second after two-thirds of the season reflects the lower quality of the division this season and is a sorry indictment on us, as we perch nervously in 19th, above Reading (thanks to their points deduction) and the mighty Port Vale (who have three games in hand).
I thought we played some decent football at times, with Coventry pulling the strings very effectively, but we lacked the necessary penetration and flair to breach a resolute Derby defence. We were not helped by Ladapo turning in another hopeless performance - his 4th in succession - and Bakinson, whose control was nearly as bad, contributing very little.
Defensively, I thought that Ness and Thomas both did well and we looked ok for the most part, save for AMB’s nervous punch whilst under no pressure whatsoever and Gillesphey’s catastrophic error for the only goal of the game.
We looked disjointed at times, which is hardly surprising, given that we’re throwing several new players in and looking desperately for the best combination, particularly when some of them are not really match fit. That said, it was a better performance than most of the others recently and we have to hope that Nathan Jones can generate some cohesion and confidence for the relegation battle which we face in the final 16 games. We are certainly going to need it, starting on Saturday at Reading, in what is undoubtedly a “must not lose” 6-pointer.
BIG BIG BIG game next Saturday at Reading. Lose that & most likely we'll be in the bottom 4. Port Vale have 3 games in hand on us so I expect at some point they will go above us.
The only saving grace is that there might be just 1 relegation spot to fight for. If either Carlisle or Fleetwood go above us then we will go down. It could be between & Reading for 4th bottom. Imagine getting relegated to team who've had points deducted.
Andy Scott & the rest of the footballing Board have serious questions to answer. To get to February and have THAT squad is indefensible.
I doubt they give a shit, of course they want us to be successful but if we're not I doubt it's a big deal to them, it's just a money making exercise. Methven finds investors, sells them a business opportunity & luckily he has a team of people experienced in the football world (his mates) been involved in promotions & worked in the Premier league blah blah blah & we can run the club for you & I promise you I will get this club out of this division. Looking good for that.
Big task for Jones, but I’m confident that we’ve got a decent manager and he should be able to do enough with what that squad to keep us up.
I’m hoping that when he takes his first training session he’ll have the experience to lift the players, and we can get the results against the Exeter’s, Cheltenham’s and Carlisle’s etc.
It’s not going to be easy, but the likes of Ladapo don’t automatically become toilet upon joining (they may do after having been in here a while, but we’re not there yet.
I thought Coventry looked more industrious for us today than he has done in any game so far. Ladapo should get up to speed and Dobson will hopefully benefit from working alongside him.
the defence is still a worry, and for me, Thomas has looked the best of a bad bunch. I know Gillesphey cocked up today, but I’m hoping that’s a one off.
A win against Reading as unlikely as it seems at the moment given our run, could massively lift the whole club and then it will be about the rebuild. I don’t even want to think about the alternative if we’re in League 2 next season
Was out celebrating a good friend’s 65th today so while you lot were choking on the latest installment I was munching happily on these (Blacksmith’s Arms - one of the island’s finest). As a result I only got home in time to see the last 20 mins. I think I got the best of it. What an awful looking game of football. Derby’s command of the dark arts the deciding factor. I’m afraid we have the stench of relegation about us. I’ve comforted myself with the thought that, bad as we are, there is sufficient real chuff below us for us to survive but the chuff is getting closer to our backside (I do apologise for that image). I hope Jones turns out to be the Messiah that the majority appear to think he might be but he has his work cut out with this lot I’m afraid. Massive game next week.
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PV & Reading only need win once & they go above us (in Readings case they need to score a few goals too). We REALLY are in the shit.
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On the Transfer thread there is an ins & outs comparison and I cant say any of the new 8 players are any better than the ones we got rid of.
The other day I rated the business as 5 out of 10. Having sat through 105 mins of uninspiring & uncreative bilge I would like to.change my score to 3 out of 10.
Even though I would never set foot in the ground if Lyle Taylor had signed for us he already has scored more goals than Ladapo has & probably more than Ladapo will score during the rest of the season.
The problem is the players and the person signing them.
A game lacking in chances at both ends, with each goalie idle for long periods. The only difference between the teams was that they defended very competently and we gift-wrapped them the only goal of the game. No change there then.
I was pretty unimpressed with Derby and their time wasting tactics, including their players’ penchant for throwing themselves to the ground at the slightest of contact (often clutching limbs nowhere near any point of contact). Their goalie took the biscuit, deciding to sit down in the 88th minute to further exploit an erratic and gullible ref. Paul Warne, who I quite like, is nothing if not a pragmatist. The fact that they are second after two-thirds of the season reflects the lower quality of the division this season and is a sorry indictment on us, as we perch nervously in 19th, above Reading (thanks to their points deduction) and the mighty Port Vale (who have three games in hand).
I thought we played some decent football at times, with Coventry pulling the strings very effectively, but we lacked the necessary penetration and flair to breach a resolute Derby defence. We were not helped by Ladapo turning in another hopeless performance - his 4th in succession - and Bakinson, whose control was nearly as bad, contributing very little.
Defensively, I thought that Ness and Thomas both did well and we looked ok for the most part, save for AMB’s nervous punch whilst under no pressure whatsoever and Gillesphey’s catastrophic error for the only goal of the game.
We looked disjointed at times, which is hardly surprising, given that we’re throwing several new players in and looking desperately for the best combination, particularly when some of them are not really match fit. That said, it was a better performance than most of the others recently and we have to hope that Nathan Jones can generate some cohesion and confidence for the relegation battle which we face in the final 16 games. We are certainly going to need it, starting on Saturday at Reading, in what is undoubtedly a “must not lose” 6-pointer.
I’m hoping that when he takes his first training session he’ll have the experience to lift the players, and we can get the results against the Exeter’s, Cheltenham’s and Carlisle’s etc.
It’s not going to be easy, but the likes of Ladapo don’t automatically become toilet upon joining (they may do after having been in here a while, but we’re not there yet.
I thought Coventry looked more industrious for us today than he has done in any game so far. Ladapo should get up to speed and Dobson will hopefully benefit from working alongside him.
the defence is still a worry, and for me, Thomas has looked the best of a bad bunch. I know Gillesphey cocked up today, but I’m hoping that’s a one off.
A win against Reading as unlikely as it seems at the moment given our run, could massively lift the whole club and then it will be about the rebuild. I don’t even want to think about the alternative if we’re in League 2 next season
think the team will be set up very differently next week, L Watson will play, AMB will get dropped, and we’ll aim to kill the game at Reading,
as for being harsh on AMB, that stupid punch in the first half when he could have caught it and took pressure off summed up all the issues