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Pennyhome

Pennyhome

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Just two wins from the last ten league games (0ne of those was against Ipswich, and the other the woeful travellers Wigan) very early days but I am concerned, massive game against a poor stoke team coming up, not sure what’s going wrong away from home, not won since boro mid March , but it’s looking like Deepdale form is going to be vital in keeping us away from the bottom three , round pegs in round holes would help but the loss of players through injury once again hampers us, coupled with the poor transfer window. Long tough season ahead .
 
Pennyhome said:
Just two wins from the last ten league games (0ne of those was against Ipswich, and the other the woeful travellers Wigan) very early days but I am concerned, massive game against a poor stoke team coming up, not sure what’s going wrong away from home, not won since boro mid March , but it’s looking like Deepdale form is going to be vital in keeping us away from the bottom three , round pegs in round holes would help but the loss of players through injury once again hampers us, coupled with the poor transfer window. Long tough season ahead .
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We just need to hope that we don't get any more long - term injuries and keep above the bottom 3 until January, when, as usual, money will be found for the reinforcements we should have had 5 months earlier.
 
Kenmare_White said:
Not sure what value there is in linking this season to the end of last season.

We were decimated by injuries, players knew the season was dead, Alex Neil/WBA fiasco etc.
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Personally I think there often is a link.
The way Clubs finish a Season often corresponds to how they start one.
Hopefully when we find our feet the middle bit will be ok!!
With a Club of our size there will always be factors that are difficult to control re injuries, suspensions, etc.
Our best scenario would be to keep our core Players on the pitch for the majority of the Season.
If so we can compete with the best if not, who knows!!
UTW
Fear the worst hope for the best!!
 
Pennyhome said:
Just two wins from the last ten league games (0ne of those was against Ipswich, and the other the woeful travellers Wigan) very early days but I am concerned, massive game against a poor stoke team coming up, not sure what’s going wrong away from home, not won since boro mid March , but it’s looking like Deepdale form is going to be vital in keeping us away from the bottom three , round pegs in round holes would help but the loss of players through injury once again hampers us, coupled with the poor transfer window. Long tough season ahead .
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Always cautious about labelling teams as poor especially this early in the season. By all accounts Stoke played well yesterday. Hope we do make them look poor on Wednesday.
With regard to the poor finish last season this has been the case in 3 out of the last 4 seasons and brings about a massive anti climax. Very unwelcome.
Being put on a tight budget by the owner means we have to fight for everything we get at this level.
 
I'm not that concerned just yet. We played very well for 85% of the game yesterday, and only conceded 4 chances in the whole game. They never even got into any decent positions other than their goals.

Clinical finishing is what happens when you have a striker who cost £15.5M and earns £45,000 p/w.
 
edgy said:
It’s a marathon not a sprint
Strap in
Enjoy the ride
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Depends what people want. Guess they yearning is always for top 6 (especially when you haven't played top level football for 50 + years now!) but really the lack of transfer activity says it all.

Squad as it is will finish mid table. Horrendous start last season pretty much killed off any play off bid as it was only 5 points up to start of October, then play off form up to the win over Millwall in mid December then Pearson being an idiot at Sheff Weds cost the team over xmas period, then another good run from Mid Jan (1-4 at QPR) up to Reading at the start of April.

Believe it or not but there are some good players at this club, plenty in central defence and cental midfield, wide forwards are streaky but very bemused by lack of desire to get decent forward player and upgrade on fullbacks.

Anyway the oddest thing to me is why Alex Neil didn't just go to West Brom? Certainly the assumption from him signing his new deal from out of nowhere to the reality now isn't adding up to me, I doubt he was convinced to stay by being promised David Nugent as the star striker signing.
 
FredElseFlyer said:
He probably wasn't offered the West Brom job.
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Well it was being reported in multiple press (I live in Midlands and the local one was saying the appointment was imminent) so either the source they were getting info from was way off the mark or he had last minute change of heart which does happen in football, remember Gerrard all those years ago when he was about to sign for Chelsea and then pretty much overnight signed new deal at Liverpool after getting some threats.

I doubt when WBA sacked Darren Moore their plan was just to give Jimmy Shan the play offs.
 
Pennyhome said:
Just two wins from the last ten league games (0ne of those was against Ipswich, and the other the woeful travellers Wigan) very early days but I am concerned, massive game against a poor stoke team coming up, not sure what’s going wrong away from home, not won since boro mid March , but it’s looking like Deepdale form is going to be vital in keeping us away from the bottom three , round pegs in round holes would help but the loss of players through injury once again hampers us, coupled with the poor transfer window. Long tough season ahead .
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Why do people count last season? It's a mushypea brain thing to do. Let's judge AN on the last 563 pne games instead. It's a new season you twerp
 
truenorthender said:
Why do people count last season? It's a mushypea brain thing to do. Let's judge AN on the last 563 pne games instead. It's a new season you twerp
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Because it’s a worrying run of form, you think 2 wins from 10 is ok do you ? What’s the last 563 games got to do with AN? Now that would be silly you twerp
 
Pennyhome said:
Because it’s a worrying run of form, you think 2 wins from 10 is ok do you ? What’s the last 563 games got to do with AN? Now that would be silly you twerp
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We've got to give the bugger a clean slate each season. It's dead tight judging him on results from another season. Buggers are riled up and even hungrier for a result so they play better at the end of the season. That's why we can't judge our alex
 
Pennyhome said:
Because it’s a worrying run of form, you think 2 wins from 10 is ok do you ? What’s the last 563 games got to do with AN? Now that would be silly you twerp
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So if we'd lost the first 3 but won that last 7 of last season that'd be OK because it's a run of form of 7 wins from 10? You can't count games 3 months apart with a different squad as part of the same run of form.
 
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Delaney said:
So if we'd lost the first 3 but won that last 7 of last season that'd be OK because it's a run of form of 7 wins from 10? You can't count games 3 months apart with a different squad as part of the same run of form.
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We’d be in he prem if that’d happened 🙂
 
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