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Match Day - PNE v Cardiff City - Championship - 27/06/20 - KO:12:30 pm

Match Day - PNE v Cardiff City - Championship - 27/06/20 - KO:12:30 pm

Schemer said:
I'm struggling to see what difference Harrop could possibly have made.

We have a handful of decent players, like Pearson and Johnson, none who are awful, but we have far too many who are simply average - and that's why we won't make the play offs. Overall, we are simply not good enough.
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As much as I like DJ, he had a shocking game today. His passing & tempo were way off. The amount of times he was in good positions & wasted it, so frustrating. They were all poor though.
 
Simply Sage said:
Not Browne's best day. He wasn't exactly alone though. But - he's probably our most constantly decent performer and with the ability he has therefore - probably our most effective player over the season.

Problem is this manager prizes his versatility over his effectiveness in his best position. Barking. Browne is being used as a fill-in full back on occasion. You don't put your best players (unless they are specialist full backs) at full back. You sort your full back problem out. Thats what a good manager would do. The full backs both look very short on confidence.
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Neil would prefer to play 5 centre-halves across the back if he could get away with it.
 
ZeusHam said:
As much as I like DJ, he had a shocking game today. His passing & tempo were way off. The amount of times he was in good positions & wasted it, so frustrating. They were all poor though.
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It's odd, I gave him a 7 even though I agree with you. His propensity to just give the ball back to the opposition was really frustrating. He worked hard and he pressed and he scored. But he didn't do the job I want our creator to do, I suppose.
 
HunterLionheart said:
It's odd, I gave him a 7 even though I agree with you. His propensity to just give the ball back to the opposition was really frustrating. He worked hard and he pressed and he scored. But he didn't do the job I want our creator to do, I suppose.
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The amount of times he turns back to face his own goal with the ball is so frustrating. We look to be surging forward & he just shields it, he's a fantastic player but maybe it's the belief he has in the players around him? Or lack of belief...
 
What a terrible inept performance from all of the outfield players bar possibly Pearson, there's nobody to blame bar themselves. & our overrated manager, that's another season fucked up. We need to clear out the bystanders & get some players who want to wear the shirt, Hughes looks disinterested, I've been supporting PNE for 53 years so I'm not surprised at our fall this season, it's happened again and again, PNE are part of me & I'll always support them.
 
edgy said:
Course he did
And I’m not defending him but you can plan as much as you like to make a nice meal but when you’ve only got corned beef and potatoes in the cupboard your not going to get a haute cuisine meal
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But look at the Cardiff team (and Luton's), if that the case - and sticking with your analogy - corned beef and potatoes have been more than matched by just spam and chips.

At the level (broadly) every managers job is about developing players and getting the max out of what you have. Its not the Premiership where you simply buy your solutions.
 
Massive massive summer ahead.

Pearson will want to be off & we’ve no replacement. Ledson was probably signed with this is mind although he’s yet to prove he’s up to it.

Ben Davies will probably want the same although you could argue we have Hunts & Storey there although he would still be a big loss.

Gally is on his last legs & he’s been a big player for us. I think SG signed Harrop with this in mind but he’s also yet to prove he can step up & Neil doesn’t seem to rate him anyway.

We probably need another keeper & his signings in that department have been nothing short of woeful.

Add this all to a blindman could see we’re desperate for someone (anyone) who can put the back in the net regularly & we are at a crossroads.

At the end of the day he’s still massively overachieving with what he’s given to work with but again it’s so frustrating.
 
Simply Sage said:
But look at the Cardiff team (and Luton's), if that the case - and sticking with your analogy - corned beef and potatoes have been more than matched by just spam and chips.

At the level (broadly) every managers job is about developing players and getting the max out of what you have. Its not the Premiership where you simply buy your solutions.
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that is a good point
 
Here's the team that pretty much took us to the top of the Championship over the first 15 games of the season and is the team that played when we went top at Charlton.

Whats changed?

Rudd
Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty
Pearson
Browne
Maguire
Johnson Substituted forGallagher at 31'minutes
Barkhuizen
Stockley

Any ideas anyone?
 
Simply Sage said:
Here's the team that pretty much took us to the top of the Championship over the first 15 games of the season and is the team that played when we went top at Charlton.

Whats changed?

Rudd
Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty
Pearson
Browne
Maguire
Johnson Substituted forGallagher at 31'minutes
Barkhuizen
Stockley

Any ideas anyone?
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The lack of bollocks when it actually matters.
 
It’s shut or bust against Derby....

if we lose that one, then we are most likely down to mid table ...
 
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