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Heartless performance

Heartless performance

MikeConroy'sForehead said:
From players and fans alike ... There was nothing about tonight's game that suggested we were up for causing an upset ... Embarrassing
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I disagree, we got off to slow start, we got into the game, sadly Frankie and his Subs disjointed us and the game was over. I felt the Fans did ok. There was lots of "PNE PNE", you only sing when your winning, etc. Not all the game, but they did sing. Certainly heard them on 5 live on the way home and on Sky. No one expected us to win and we didn't. The fans where not up for it, with whats going on, you can't blame them. But I think the Fans did ok tonight, tried to get behind the team.
 
Mancunian White said:
Sometimes I really doubt if these posters even bother to watch the match before commenting this shite.

Same with the Maguire thread. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would've seen he was arguably our best player after McCann tonight.
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Disagree on that. Thought Van Den Berg was our stand out player and Maguire was his usual non entity. McCann was ok but that's about it.
 
My opinion is, that we had the only clear cut chances in the first half. The defenders did well, with Sepp my MOTM. I think Rafferty, Lyndsay and Cunningham played well. Liverpool may have had more possession, but in the end it was down to the quality of finishing. We had the odd players that won't make the match day squad of are fringe players in league games. I forecast a 5 - 1 defeat. So I'm proud that we held a Liverpool team to 2 goals.
It was also brilliant to give super Tom a good send off.
 
Joanpne said:
I don’t think that’s fair either for the players or the fans. i thought the players in the first half gave a decent account of themselves. The second half we reverted to type more. As for the fans, they tried hard to get an atmosphere going but, we are singing the same old shite from the last century! The songs are stale. Perhaps the new fans group could get something going on improving and freshening things up it’s way over due.
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Actually a very good point regarding songs and something I'd not really thought about before. Would be good to get a few new ones going.
 
Vinylman said:
I have to say I was in the Finney which as usual was quiet but I think I heard the town end twice.
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I and many like me of a certain age (over 50ish) have migrated to the Finney/Invincibles for better seats, better view etc, having done the singing, chanting behind the goals for years bit!!
You get to a stage of life where, whilst we clap a lot its mildly embarrassing to be singing who are yer etc!!!
I have to say though, that from where we sit, half way line, Kelly side the Town End are no where near as vociferous as they like to think they are.
Don't know if the acoustics are better in the Shankly but opposition fans often sound louder than us and are further away.
 
I think for a lot of fans the result on Saturday hurt a lot. I think that had an impact on the atmosphere tonight. Saturday was the one for me and the Derby game before that. Although we did better tonight I cannot get over the disappointment and the performances served up in the league. That is the bread and butter.

I’d seriously look at Gareth Ainsworth. Doing well with Wycombe again, plays an attractive brand of football and has so much charisma which I think would give the club a serious uplift.

As many have mentioned, everything just seems stale.
 
MBcha said:
Actually a very good point regarding songs and something I'd not really thought about before. Would be good to get a few new ones going.
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Was saying this on Saturday. We have no chants anymore and the ones we do sing last about 15 seconds and then completely die out.

There’s a massive disconnect at the moment between the fans and squad, probably cos most of them are just a bit shit.
 
05simpsonm said:
plays an attractive brand of football
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Excuse me? We are talking about the same Ainsworth and Wycombe here? On what planet would you consider route 1 long ball football attractive?

I can understand a lot of the reasons and calls for Ainsworth, but saying he plays attractive football is not one of them
 
05simpsonm said:
I think for a lot of fans the result on Saturday hurt a lot. I think that had an impact on the atmosphere tonight. Saturday was the one for me and the Derby game before that. Although we did better tonight I cannot get over the disappointment and the performances served up in the league. That is the bread and butter.

I’d seriously look at Gareth Ainsworth. Doing well with Wycombe again, plays an attractive brand of football and has so much charisma which I think would give the club a serious uplift.

As many have mentioned, everything just seems stale.
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Gareth wouldn't be my own first choice... but a very reasonable post. You only needed to read this board - even the first page or two of the match day thread - to see that everyone is still low from those games - and not at all the usual excitement levels.
 
We are what we are. A bunch of ill fitting league one talented but misguided players. That played kids. Forget the name “Liverpool” it was kids. Good kids but kids. Our team from 2001-2004 would have destroyed that opposition . Too soft too backward passing. Boring. That’s the way it is. It will change one way or another and fans will stick with the team. But by equal measure fans can say we want more because what we have now is pretty rubbish
 
Cliff Richard said:
We are what we are. A bunch of ill fitting league one talented but misguided players. That played kids. Forget the name “Liverpool” it was kids. Good kids but kids. Our team from 2001-2004 would have destroyed that opposition . Too soft too backward passing. Boring. That’s the way it is. It will change one way or another and fans will stick with the team. But by equal measure fans can say we want more because what we have now is pretty rubbish
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There was 2 kids in that Liverpool starting squad. I’m all for criticism but let’s not just make things up.

Gomez and Matip established Premier League defenders, Tsimikas would be starting LB at most Premier League clubs, Origi, Minimino and Oxlade Chamberlain all established Premier League players, Curtis Jones plays week in week out. Reserve team yes, but not a team full of kids
 
Dick Dastardly said:
Rubbish. Great performance. We’ll done Franky and the boys
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As a TV viewer/fan I think PNE played their part in a good game of football. With some better finishing we should have been leading at half time and it would or could have been a totally different story. Finishing that is the key, territory and possession don’t win games on their own. I have to use a name but purely as illustration if Potts was playing regularly and confident I am sure he would have side footed under the keeper rather than trying the “dink to impress” from an improbable position, but in the first half his performance and that of the team deserved that goal.
 
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