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Matchday Thread Gentry Day - Watford v PNE - 6/04/24 - KO:3PM

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Matchday Thread Gentry Day - Watford v PNE - 6/04/24 - KO:3PM

wld said:
Why’s it pointless asking why your most, arguably only, creative player stayed on the bench for more than 80 minutes?
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Why when he brought on our most creative passer of the ball,who can create goal scoring opportunities,did he take of our quickest and most agile forwards, who could possibly get that winning goal.☹️😵‍💫🤔
 
KeithLard said:
Same can be said of most teams in this league. Very inconsistent but its such a tight league outside of the immediate parachute teams (and Ipswich) p
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No arguments here. That’s why we’re as high as we are. We’ve not been a good team this year, I reckon there’s a good 5 or 6 fanbases that will say we’re the worst they’ve faced. But everyone else has been poor as well. Even teams that have no excuse to be underperforming like Bristol and Swansea
 
Back from the match. No tardis today..Driven 200 miles home trying to think what to say. The starting line up was odd. Was that by design or necessity? That said we never seemed in much bother at any stage and were good enough to have won it? I must question wether we had any desire to win? Certainly there was a lack if urgency towards the end to try and eek the three points. Thought there were some good performances and in my book McCann was very good. Have we settled for a top half ,rather than top six finish.? Tuesday may confirm that one way of another.
 
Sorry I couldn’t make gentry day in person today, but I did watch the game.
Even with our depleted team I have to say I was somewhat surprised at today’s selection and even more so later in the day with our substitutions.
In my opinion we are currently in a position where we have absolutely nothing to lose, can’t get relegated, so why not go all out, attack and try to win football matches rather than be shit scared of losing? Especially against a team who we were capable of beating even with our depleted squad.
Does it really matter if we finish 7th, 8th, 9th or 15th? Or does it matter if we go out and try to entertain our supporters who have travelled a 400 mile round trip trying to win a game of football? I know which I’d prefer…
Personally I don’t like our manager, I never have but I’ve always been prepared to support, my time for this is now at an end. I just hope we attack Huddersfield on Tuesday from minute one to minute ninety (whatever) because I believe we have nothing to lose in doing so!
 
Good point in isolation, but we evidently didn’t do enough to win the game and didn’t try to.

The away end was good, too. Apart from the two-away-games-a-season groups who were adamant to be in their allocated seats when they turn up at 3pm on the dot. Oh well.

Put frankly, I think our squad falls just short of managing to reach the top 6. But with this manager, we will never get there.
 
Doyler said:
Good point in isolation, but we evidently didn’t do enough to win the game and didn’t try to.

The away end was good, too. Apart from the two-away-games-a-season groups who were adamant to be in their allocated seats when they turn up at 3pm on the dot. Oh well.

Put frankly, I think our squad falls just short of managing to reach the top 6. But with this manager, we will never get there.
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Shock horror, people wanting to sit in their allocated seats. And how dare they turn up on time for kick off! Outrageous!
(no, it wasn't me)
 
djwoody said:
Shock horror, people wanting to sit in their allocated seats. And how dare they turn up on time for kick off! Outrageous!
(no, it wasn't me)
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Knew there’d be some arse like this.

And yeah, I know it wasn’t you, because the likelihood is if you did go to away games, you’d know that most people just stand where there is space.

Funnily enough I didn’t get moved out my seats at Swansea, Plymouth, or Cardiff.
 
On paper, a point away at Watford with a depleted squad isnt too bad.

But they were on the beach, Dennis and Asprilla played as though they didnt want to get injured, and the back 3 looked incredibly suspect. To only manage one shot on target, and an xG of 0.56, when in desperate need of a win is just a little sad.

Obviously RL is going nowhere, but Grayson, Neil nor Frankie have received the backing he has and it is hard to see us making the leap into being a genuine promotion contender under his leadership.

Hopefully see Huddersfield off on Tuesday and keep something alive for Norwich
 
Flaxby White said:
Back from the match. No tardis today..Driven 200 miles home trying to think what to say. The starting line up was odd. Was that by design or necessity? That said we never seemed in much bother at any stage and were good enough to have won it? I must question wether we had any desire to win? Certainly there was a lack if urgency towards the end to try and eek the three points. Thought there were some good performances and in my book McCann was very good. Have we settled for a top half ,rather than top six finish.? Tuesday may confirm that one way of another.
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If that is the case. And I really hope not I’d be fkin apoplectic.

Rather watch fkin Longridge on Saturdays in future.
 
Naughton's moustache said:
Nope.
Got to disagree with that.
About time a journo asked Lowe a pressing question, rather than the usual run of the mill crap
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And that is your opinion, fair enough. I don't totally disagree, journalists and "run of the mill crap" questions is par for the course. I very rarely listen to the sound bites after games, I find the whole charade tedious.

On this occasion the question for me is pretty pointless. No issues with people seeing it differently, that is life.

What is Lowe suppose to reply? Go against the fans and say they are wrong? Or stand there and say the fans are right and he was wrong. It's a no win for Lowe but a win for the 'journo' asking the 'hard hitting questions' 🙄 I'd be a bit fucked off too if I was Lowe. 0-0 away from home, big players missing and mindful that losing a second game running would cause massive uproar.

No good comes from questions like this other than the 'journo' raises his profile. We still have important games left, mathematically the season isn't over so no need to start creating a divide between fans and manager for absolutely no reason.

To be perfectly honest Mads can be hit and miss. One week magnificent and the other non existent. Birmingham the previous game absolutely anonymous, plus he's hardly a work horse so maybe that played a part in Lowe's thinking. 🤔
 
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