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Libertine said:
What to do?
I’d say just enjoy the league table.
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The table's too tight to be sitting back and admiring.

Coventry were in the relegation zone a couple of weeks ago, they're now two points behind with two games in hand on us.

We're not even 10 points above them lot with the tower, and they're second-bottom.
 
Exactly, things could suddenly turn pear shaped. If we lose to Rovers and QPR on our return we’ll start looking over our shoulders again.

Anyway, today has gone and if our cricketers can win the World Cup tomorrow, I’ll be happy again.
 
york white said:
Just seen the Lancs Live article with Lowe, a few pointed comments for the board there.
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Yeah, these I guess:

"They ... had a goal scorer in Flemming who they paid £1.7million for. He scored three goals and sometimes they are the fine margins.​
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"Gary has just told me about him and they got Voglsammer too. They paid money for them and that's that little bit of quality - Gary has just said that they've definitely helped them, for where they are. We aren't quite in that position, but if we can add a little bit of something different I'm sure we will be. They might've been found before the (work permit rules) but they are out there, of course. Gary said he's been after them for three years, so he has had to wait.​
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"But no, my lads have been great and we had chances to score goals. Just because you pay £1.7million for someone, it doesn't always turn out. The lad got his hat-trick today and we knew he was one of their danger players, but you have to give Millwall credit as well because they came here and did a job. I felt that we would've won had we got that goal in the second half."​

Lowe also confirms Evans was subbed because his hamstring was tight, saying "I thought he was well worthy of a hat-trick".

But the fact is, it was the guy who cost £1.7m who actually got the hat-trick, while the guy(s) who cost considerably less couldn't "get that goal in the second half". Playing the £1.7m guy may not always work, but it'd be nice to at least have the option if we intend sticking around the top 12.

www.lancs.live

Ryan Lowe's biggest disappointment in PNE's 2-4 loss to Millwall

Preston North End manager Ryan Lowe was left to rue 'criminal' defending for Millwall's goals as the Lions won 2-4 at Deepdale on Saturday.
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MattPNE17 said:
The table's too tight to be sitting back and admiring.

Coventry were in the relegation zone a couple of weeks ago, they're now two points behind with two games in hand on us.

We're not even 10 points above them lot with the tower, and they're second-bottom.
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Absolutely agree mate.

But we have a month off so I applaud what Ryan and the boys have done up to this point. January is massive!
 
NOBBY STILES said:
Problem with us at the moment is two words
Ryan Lowe. You just can't put the blame anywhere else his substitutions not only don't make any sense but fail to make any impact on the game... Unlike Rowetts...
Ironically we played some good stuff today esp first 10min of second half but still have the same problem of finishing
Evans was great today as was Brown & Brady but RL thought otherwise???
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‘Problem with us at the moment.’ We’ve just won three in a row and our joint sixth in the play offs.

The fact you are not blaming the owners or ridsdale for the lack of options on the bench is the reason we will continue to be treading water for the next five - ten years. Fans are too apologetic towards ridsdale and Hemmings and this is the reason why nothing will change.

Why weren’t you blaming Ryan Lowe after last Friday? Oh that’s right we won.

And by fans I mean some fans I know quite a lot aren’t idiots and realise they are the main reason why our squad is lacking in depth.
 
For us to back Lowe, I'd be genuinely okay with the Hemmings family giving us one years worth of funding that they use to keep the club going as a transfer budget and have a fire sale if we fail to go up than keep going as we are
 
llanroc said:
Possibly not Lib, but there were enough players on the bench with plenty of Championship experience to have made some difference, if told what was expected of them. They don’t always get sent on with a specific job in mind. RL sees a player do something he doesn’t like and immediately yanks him off, and the player replacing him is just purely a replacement.
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In terms of attacking players who?
DJ?
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I’m not counting maguire as a striker. He is turd.
 
For what it’s worth today I thought Lowe’s substitutions were an absolute fucking disgrace. Not many games I’d pin the blame on the manager but today is one of them, absolutely mind boggling, got to take that one on the chin for me the gaffer.
 
05simpsonm said:
For what it’s worth today I thought Lowe’s substitutions were an absolute fucking disgrace. Not many games I’d pin the blame on the manager but today is one of them, absolutely mind boggling, got to take that one on the chin for me the gaffer.
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I wouldn’t have put things quite as strongly, but I didn’t agree with them either. What would you have done instead?
 
Not taken off our 2, maybe 3 of our most likely players going forward and probably not put a bloke on who hasn’t scored in 2 or 3 years on the field for a start.
 
the12thman said:
I wouldn’t have put things quite as strongly, but I didn’t agree with them either. What would you have done instead?
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Fernandez for Potts and anyone for Ledson (I wonder if anyone still thinks we’d be better off without Pearson) would have been a start for me. Evans looked done when he went off and he clearly couldn’t carry on - I’m not as critical as many of Maguire but he was never going to be successful in The Land of the Giants today.

Hughes going off was very strange, especially as the game was lost bar an astonishing turn around and Lindsay was on a yellow and not at his best anyway.
 
Never been so shocked by subs as I was for Brady & Browne today. Yes, Browne slightly at fault for the third goal, but Christ he was the most effective central midfielder on the pitch for us by a country mile this afternoon. Brady likewise had done nothing wrong.

I've felt on a couple of occasions this season, particularly Rotherham at home when we were by far the better side for the majority of the game, Lowe's subs have killed any momentum we had. I believe that night he hooked Browne (again) and DJ, could be wrong, but we lost all rhythm as we did today and the game fizzled out to 0-0.

I wonder whether the ability to make 5 subs has actually hindered us more often than its helped. Lowe strikes me as a manager who is quite emotional and reactionary with his substitutions and the fact he can make more of them means he feels he needs to.
 
05simpsonm said:
Not taken off our 2, maybe 3 of our most likely players going forward and probably not put a bloke on who hasn’t scored in 2 or 3 years on the field for a start.
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I assume you were replying to my post (just click reply). To repeat, what would you have done? Not what wouldn’t you have done?

By the way, I think that we have the same opinions:
- I assume you wouldn’t have taken Browne and Brady off? Me neither - they were our two best players in my opinion
- alvaro probably could have come on for Potts, with Brady moving over to the right
 
mercer said:
Never been so shocked by subs as I was for Brady & Browne today. Yes, Browne slightly at fault for the third goal, but Christ he was the most effective central midfielder on the pitch for us by a country mile this afternoon. Brady likewise had done nothing wrong.

I've felt on a couple of occasions this season, particularly Rotherham at home when we were by far the better side for the majority of the game, Lowe's subs have killed any momentum we had. I believe that night he hooked Browne (again) and DJ, could be wrong, but we lost all rhythm as we did today and the game fizzled out to 0-0.

I wonder whether the ability to make 5 subs has actually hindered us more often than its helped. Lowe strikes me as a manager who is quite emotional and reactionary with his substitutions and the fact he can make more of them means he feels he needs to.
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Agreed….
 
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