Looked good at times but the table doesnt lie. The top four are way ahead so fifth is best we can hope for. At 2-0 we should have finished them off but let them back in. As I said previously even if we are promoted whats the point - this team will be favourites for relegation from Championship.
Lol. Hello Morrissey. What's the point of being happy today I might be miserable again tomorrow
Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us.
They genuinely weren’t that bad?
They’ve lost 8 out of 11 away from home - that’s what I meant by a terrible team. The fact that we hung on for a 2-1 win tells you something about us, doesn’t it?
Not really to be honest.
We battered then in the first half. Then old habits and fragilities kicked in and we became nervous and played on the back foot.
We had our chances in the second half to make it more comfortable as well as cambridges opportunities.
We hung on relatively comfortably in the end.
not great but job done
Battered them? Can't remember their keeper having to make a save all game. Some may think my comments negative after a win and I accept that but at no point were we even close to battering them.
You must have a dodgy memory. We had better chances for 3-1 than they did 2-2 but for a couple of good saves from their bloke.
Surely the better chances would have been for 3-0 not 3-1 as he certainly didn't have a save to make second half, closest we came was a deflected Small shot that squirmed past the post.
Edit - Apologies, remember now a long range Docherty effort he had to save.
He made two good saves from Luke Berry as well that you’ve forgotten about, both came after the Cambridge goal. Docherty’s effort was before their goal and would’ve been 3-0.
They didn’t have another shot on target the rest of the game.
I can't remember either of the saves from Berry. I'm sure I was there too. Maybe I wasn't after all 🤔
They were in quick succession so easy to miss if you look the wrong way for a minute or two
Ramsay coming back will hopefully be a real boost in the same way that L. Jones was, so I think there's reason to be hopeful. Maybe the right additions in January too, though given our past record let's not count on that.
Getting into those play off positions and doing it with a semblance of style instead of Jonesball attrition crap could be important in their own right as it potentially opens the door to a higher quality of signing in the summer at least.
Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us.
They genuinely weren’t that bad?
They’ve lost 8 out of 11 away from home - that’s what I meant by a terrible team. The fact that we hung on for a 2-1 win tells you something about us, doesn’t it?
Not really to be honest.
We battered then in the first half. Then old habits and fragilities kicked in and we became nervous and played on the back foot.
We had our chances in the second half to make it more comfortable as well as cambridges opportunities.
We hung on relatively comfortably in the end.
not great but job done
Battered them? Can't remember their keeper having to make a save all game. Some may think my comments negative after a win and I accept that but at no point were we even close to battering them.
You must have a dodgy memory. We had better chances for 3-1 than they did 2-2 but for a couple of good saves from their bloke.
Surely the better chances would have been for 3-0 not 3-1 as he certainly didn't have a save to make second half, closest we came was a deflected Small shot that squirmed past the post.
Edit - Apologies, remember now a long range Docherty effort he had to save.
He made two good saves from Luke Berry as well that you’ve forgotten about, both came after the Cambridge goal. Docherty’s effort was before their goal and would’ve been 3-0.
They didn’t have another shot on target the rest of the game.
I can't remember either of the saves from Berry. I'm sure I was there too. Maybe I wasn't after all 🤔
Their keepers two saves mid-way through second half were outstanding. If one of those had gone in it would have looked a very different result.
Looked good at times but the table doesnt lie. The top four are way ahead so fifth is best we can hope for. At 2-0 we should have finished them off but let them back in. As I said previously even if we are promoted whats the point - this team will be favourites for relegation from Championship.
Lol. Hello Morrissey. What's the point of being happy today I might be miserable again tomorrow
Because there are brighter sides to life, and I should know, because I've seen them!*
A few miserable reviews on here today. Some of you still getting over the disappointment of your undercooked roast potatoes? We gave away a bit of a sloppy goal that gave them some impetus for 10 minutes or so in the second half, but other than that we were well in control and finished the game chasing a third rather than fending off an equaliser. We passed the ball through the thirds much more, and we got three points without having to overexert ourselves in the first match of the Christmas/New Year fixture pile up. Overall, it was job done in a solid, if unspectacular, way and builds on the Northampton result.
A few miserable reviews on here today. Some of you still getting over the disappointment of your undercooked roast potatoes? We gave away a bit of a sloppy goal that gave them some impetus for 10 minutes or so in the second half, but other than that we were well in control and finished the game chasing a third rather than fending off an equaliser. We passed the ball through the thirds much more, and we got three points without having to overexert ourselves in the first match of the Christmas/New Year fixture pile up. Overall, it was job done in a solid, if unspectacular, way and builds on the Northampton result.
Best summary of the game so far for me. I genuinely think some people look for negatives first and have to be emphatically proved wrong to recognise any positive at all.
I genuinely feel for people who can’t see any positives in todays game
First half we picked up where we left off from Northampton, second half not so good... We looked to keep mixing it up with playing the ball along the floor but not against going long when needed. At the end of the day it's league one, going at games like that is fine and happy to continue with polishing the deck game more.
Cambridge were far from a Northampton and for large parts of the game we looked comfortable, their goal was too easy thanks to some switching off and poor attempts at winning the ball. Their boy Stokes looked good and once he went off their threat dulled.
Docherty and Mitchell not quite at the same level today as previous.
Great to see Leaburn and TC get another goal
Would like to have Taylor on the bench if/ when fit to keep the same options as the starters with Anderson (Coventry/ Docherty/ Berry) Anderson over A Campbell as he's ours and coming into a confident team will relieve any pressure and aid his needed development.
Back to back wins, can't argue or pick apart that much!
Thought we looked good first half and importantly played stuff on the floor.
What I did like is that most of the team looked 'up for it'.
Pretty entertaining game imo. Cambridge never gave up with a lot of pass-and-move pressing. They were unlucky that that shot hit the post.
Lost our way a bit second half but did enough, and kept angling for chances.
Gillesphey needs to be replaced, plus could really do with a quality keeper, midfielder and striker. January window will probably see a decent player or two out and more dross in but we can hope for the best.
No where near the game today as another family day with my fellow elder siblings, I know I have moaned about certain games, but hey ho another win and 🤞they can go into the next one with a bit more confidence, get past Wycombe unscathed and we might get the momentum going in the squad! Pleased for Miles and TC as they are beginning to click on the goalscoring front!
Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us.
They genuinely weren’t that bad?
They’ve lost 8 out of 11 away from home - that’s what I meant by a terrible team. The fact that we hung on for a 2-1 win tells you something about us, doesn’t it?
Not really to be honest.
We battered then in the first half. Then old habits and fragilities kicked in and we became nervous and played on the back foot.
We had our chances in the second half to make it more comfortable as well as cambridges opportunities.
We hung on relatively comfortably in the end.
not great but job done
Battered them? Can't remember their keeper having to make a save all game. Some may think my comments negative after a win and I accept that but at no point were we even close to battering them.
I think that saying we battered them in the first half is equally absurd as the comments that we were "hanging on" in the second. The two early goals by us were the only real moments of quality that either team managed in the whole game - their goal was not that special and really could and should have been cut off much earlier.
It was not a good game. There were two pretty mediocre sides out there but we looked much "less bad" at least. But winning without playing well is very important for form and confidence so ultimately today has to be a positive, just a qualified one.
What about their shot which hit the post after we gave the guy the freedom of our penalty area to get his angle? Quality effort, AMB nowhere, and if that had gone in….
Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us.
They genuinely weren’t that bad?
They’ve lost 8 out of 11 away from home - that’s what I meant by a terrible team. The fact that we hung on for a 2-1 win tells you something about us, doesn’t it?
Not really to be honest.
We battered then in the first half. Then old habits and fragilities kicked in and we became nervous and played on the back foot.
We had our chances in the second half to make it more comfortable as well as cambridges opportunities.
We hung on relatively comfortably in the end.
not great but job done
Battered them? Can't remember their keeper having to make a save all game. Some may think my comments negative after a win and I accept that but at no point were we even close to battering them.
You must have a dodgy memory. We had better chances for 3-1 than they did 2-2 but for a couple of good saves from their bloke.
Surely the better chances would have been for 3-0 not 3-1 as he certainly didn't have a save to make second half, closest we came was a deflected Small shot that squirmed past the post.
Edit - Apologies, remember now a long range Docherty effort he had to save.
He made two good saves from Luke Berry as well that you’ve forgotten about, both came after the Cambridge goal. Docherty’s effort was before their goal and would’ve been 3-0.
They didn’t have another shot on target the rest of the game.
I can't remember either of the saves from Berry. I'm sure I was there too. Maybe I wasn't after all 🤔
I think it's best you don't go anymore then. Plain as day that their keeper made a good save from Berry & held onto a couple of long range efforts from Doc & Berry (?). Then again I had a good view on the sofa about 10ft away from my 49 inch tv.
The 2 missed challenges was unacceptable for the goal. Though in fairness, I thought Cambridge weren't a bad side.
About us, we looked okay and played some decent stuff at times. Agree Lloyd Jones makes a difference. Bin Gillesphey off aswell and try find another Jones!
Keep it going. I'd take a draw against Wycombe to not lose too much momentum!
When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.
We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
Anyone who has watched us over the last few seasons (all of us) has pretty low standards. What we all want is out of this league. Winning by the odd goal is enough to get promotion, if you do it often enough. It worked for SCP. Some of his games were drab to be fair, but we had a solid defence and knew that our defence gave us a fighting chance of a win. Jones is getting that right more often than the previous managers. If the strikers can do their bit, we will climb the table. We also need the midfield to click and THEN we might be closer to a promotion than we think.
I've watched 19 games this season so unless Jones is David Blaine in disguise, I'm under no illusion. We are still way off a comfortable play-off spot.
The owners are saying it's all long-term, which whilst reassuring as to their commitment, I'd prefer it to be, "We also want it now and will therefore put in place the necessary resources and people on and off the pitch to achieve that!"
In the meantime, perhaps the top heavy management team could manage to provide enough working toilets for a very modest crowd that (female) supporters aren’t queuing into the second half (AC Stand) and the commercial manager could get off his arse and arrange to replace large house adverts left over from last season?
Although hard to say at the time there was “improvement” in the terrible Mansfield game, that being we actually passed the ball in midfield. It happened again with great effect at Northampton and was there again the first half today.
This team is desperate for creativity in midfield, if that can be fixed in the next weeks, then I hope/believe playoffs can happen.
NJ has effectively had one window & pre-season plus 21 games to build a squad effect changes, two summer windows don’t seem too unreasonable considering the frigging mess we were in!
When you recall what Powell done, it was nothing short of a fecking miracle😊
3 points to keep the momentum going can’t be moaned at although being 2 goals up so early it shouldn’t have been the nail biter it was. Gillesphey is just useless I cannot believe the plaudits he gets from Steve Brown on comms. The bloke is a liability
When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.
We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
Anyone who has watched us over the last few seasons (all of us) has pretty low standards. What we all want is out of this league. Winning by the odd goal is enough to get promotion, if you do it often enough. It worked for SCP. Some of his games were drab to be fair, but we had a solid defence and knew that our defence gave us a fighting chance of a win. Jones is getting that right more often than the previous managers. If the strikers can do their bit, we will climb the table. We also need the midfield to click and THEN we might be closer to a promotion than we think.
I've watched 19 games this season so unless Jones is David Blaine in disguise, I'm under no illusion. We are still way off a comfortable play-off spot.
The owners are saying it's all long-term, which whilst reassuring as to their commitment, I'd prefer it to be, "We also want it now and will therefore put in place the necessary resources and people on and off the pitch to achieve that!"
In the meantime, perhaps the top heavy management team could manage to provide enough working toilets for a very modest crowd that (female) supporters aren’t queuing into the second half (AC Stand) and the commercial manager could get off his arse and arrange to replace large house adverts left over from last season?
Not the rousing home win I'd hoped for, something I think we all need to see to restore some belief, but it’s a job done. A nice little run of results we're on now, and the next three league games offer a chance to keep it going.
This forum never changes. You dare to suggest that a performance wasn’t great and is just a load of ‘some people are never happy, I feel sorry for you’.
I thought Cambridge looked better than their league position but if you let goals in like the first, through the keeper’s legs, it’s probably a sign of why. Second goal, I would have thought the keeper should have done something rather than flap at the ball. So we were 2-0 up in 20 minutes gone and 70 to go. I think sometimes that can be a bit of a dilemma, do you go for a third or stick with what you have? I thought we were capable of defending that lead but it got a lost in the second half. Not the best of games but certainly not the worse and an improvement on a few weeks ago. Back to back wins and it’s Christmas.
We will have to improve against a solid consistent Wycombe team who scored 3 at Stevenage to remain in the Promotion sandwich between Wrexham and Birmingham.
Agreed but … apart from 4 games where they have been free scoring … their results are not that special.
Their results are not all that special 🤔 Wycombe are second in the table and 17 points above Charlton. This must be a wind up as I keep hearing it's a results business.The Chairboys are over achieving.
P21 W14 D5 L2 F46 A22 +24 GD
Richard Kone will probably be sold in the January window if someone finds just over a million for the player who was playing for Athletic Newham until January 2024 and has a dozen goals and plenty of assists this season.
Really pleased we got 3 points today but we are far off being contenders.
Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us.
They genuinely weren’t that bad?
They’ve lost 8 out of 11 away from home - that’s what I meant by a terrible team. The fact that we hung on for a 2-1 win tells you something about us, doesn’t it?
Not really to be honest.
We battered then in the first half. Then old habits and fragilities kicked in and we became nervous and played on the back foot.
We had our chances in the second half to make it more comfortable as well as cambridges opportunities.
We hung on relatively comfortably in the end.
not great but job done
Battered them? Can't remember their keeper having to make a save all game. Some may think my comments negative after a win and I accept that but at no point were we even close to battering them.
You must have a dodgy memory. We had better chances for 3-1 than they did 2-2 but for a couple of good saves from their bloke.
Just pointing out they hit the post. So they had a better chance than we did for 2-2 rather than than 3-1. Overall a lower quality game, few chances. Minor credit to winners - 3 points is more important.
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What's the point of being happy today
I might be miserable again tomorrow
Getting into those play off positions and doing it with a semblance of style instead of Jonesball attrition crap could be important in their own right as it potentially opens the door to a higher quality of signing in the summer at least.
Not sure what switch they made at half time but they were drawing us on and beating the press several times to find lots of vacant space in midfield.
They were better than I expected and I'm not really sure what our plan is, but this is definitely the type of game we often lose so I'm pleased!
*but not very often...
I genuinely think some people look for negatives first and have to be emphatically proved wrong to recognise any positive at all.
Cambridge were far from a Northampton and for large parts of the game we looked comfortable, their goal was too easy thanks to some switching off and poor attempts at winning the ball. Their boy Stokes looked good and once he went off their threat dulled.
Docherty and Mitchell not quite at the same level today as previous.
Great to see Leaburn and TC get another goal
Would like to have Taylor on the bench if/ when fit to keep the same options as the starters with Anderson (Coventry/ Docherty/ Berry) Anderson over A Campbell as he's ours and coming into a confident team will relieve any pressure and aid his needed development.
Back to back wins, can't argue or pick apart that much!
What I did like is that most of the team looked 'up for it'.
Pretty entertaining game imo. Cambridge never gave up with a lot of pass-and-move pressing. They were unlucky that that shot hit the post.
Lost our way a bit second half but did enough, and kept angling for chances.
Gillesphey needs to be replaced, plus could really do with a quality keeper, midfielder and striker. January window will probably see a decent player or two out and more dross in but we can hope for the best.
Still dunno what to make of Jones.
I'm also happy we're currently looking at the teams above us in the table rather than over our shoulder, still a lot of points to play for.
We won
The negatives
I promised my 4 grandkids they could have a tenner each if we won.
So I'm now 40 quid worse off.
Worth every penny tbh
Let's keep this run going and break into the top 6.
Onwards and upwards.
Though in fairness, I thought Cambridge weren't a bad side.
About us, we looked okay and played some decent stuff at times. Agree Lloyd Jones makes a difference. Bin Gillesphey off aswell and try find another Jones!
Keep it going. I'd take a draw against Wycombe to not lose too much momentum!
NJ has effectively had one window & pre-season plus 21 games to build a squad effect changes, two summer windows don’t seem too
unreasonable considering the frigging mess we were in!
When you recall what Powell done, it was nothing short of a fecking miracle😊
My suggestion to those is get a new hobby!
Back to back wins and it’s Christmas.
Their results are not all that special 🤔
Wycombe are second in the table and 17 points above Charlton.
This must be a wind up as I keep hearing it's a results business.The Chairboys are over achieving.
P21 W14 D5 L2 F46 A22 +24 GD
Richard Kone will probably be sold in the January window if someone finds just over a million for the player who was playing for Athletic Newham until January 2024 and has a dozen goals and plenty of assists this season.
Really pleased we got 3 points today but we are far off being contenders.
Overall a lower quality game, few chances. Minor credit to winners - 3 points is more important.