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Well done PNE thoroughly deserved win. However I would advise caution on your part as it was primarily down to the failings of our squad players and not a rip roaring PNE performance as some have suggested.

I can cut Keane some slack as he's working with McCarthy's prats until January but he's not stupid and he has to realise already that Nosworthy, Leadbitter, Collins, Clarke, Lawrence and Murphy should never play again, they may all just be filling in for injured players but that can't be an excuse- to do anything in this league you need your reserves to be at least competent. Fortunately I think the worst sunderland performance for a long time may have sealed their fate.

Still, it's all about staying in touch until the big spend in january for us and I cant see that being too much of a problem with the run of games we've got coming up; provided yesterday was indeed a one-off freak performance.

I was impressed with the guy in midfield for your lot with the big hair and Danny Dichio (despite being the worst striker I ever saw play for us) caused us problems and seems to enjoy your direct style of play, despite his failings on the pitch for us he was always a top bloke and I'm glad he's doing well.

Good luck for the rest of the season- we had a good day out yesterday despite the match and Ill be coming back next season when we hopefully both get promoted.

With any luck it'll be a different game at our place if Kavanagh, Cunningham, Wright, Miller, Elliot etc. are fit!!!
 
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Thanks for the comments, but must point out that for the past 2 or 3 seasons virtually every team weve ever played and beaten have all had poor days, according to fans and managers!
 
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Personally, I don't think we really spent much time actually trying too hard to win - it was a 2nd/3rd gear performance at best .

We also benefitted from a good deal of luck, in the almost-saved penalty, the own goal, the deflection for Whaley's strike, and indeed the miracle of DD notching after 42 games.

Add to that the amount of times Nash flapped at the ball, only to recover, 4-1 did flatter us a tad.

Not to say we didn't deserve to win; Sunderland were gash, save for Lawrence.
 
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RedAndWhiteArmy said:
I can cut Keane some slack as he's working with McCarthy's prats until January but he's not stupid
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We are the big club managers graveyard.. Big Chief Derek keeps their scalps hanging in a glass case in the boardroom. (Well we haven't got many other trophies)

It goes something like this..

Manager.. Preston weren't that good, too many key players injured, we just had another bad day. Next week it will be different.

Big Club Chairman.. but if you can't beat a small team like PNE we're clearly not going to get promoted and your not up to the job. Your sacked.

Sorry mate wasn't impressed by Keano at all, he hardly left his dugout and his staff looked frightened to stand up and bark instructions in front of him.

Remember "Eats, shoots and leaves" Simmo and his band of warriors are coming to STOL looking for scalps in the not too distant future.
 
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WarrenJoyce9 said:
Personally, I don't think we really spent much time actually trying too hard to win - it was a 2nd/3rd gear performance at best .

We also benefitted from a good deal of luck, in the almost-saved penalty, the own goal, the deflection for Whaley's strike, and indeed the miracle of DD notching after 42 games.
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I tend to agree here, mate - although I have to admit that I listened very little of yesterday's match bacause I watched tennis instead. (Sorry 'bout that, fellow fans. 😱 )

There's no doubt that we were the better team yestarday and we tryly deserved the win. But I feel there were a bit of fluke elements on our side yestarday, too.

I checked the stats from 1st half very quickly (after which I continued to watch tennis), and I'm pretty sure the stats were that we had only 1 shot in the first half! (Which must have been Dichio's goal, then Alexander's penalty was not counted for some reason, and 3-0 was an own goal.)

So we were quite lucky, too, yesterday, but on the other hand, we made a lot of that luck ourselves: Whaley was fouled for penalty and Nugent contributed a lot, I undestand, to the 3-0 own goal.
 
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So Sunderland had injuries - er Nowland, Mawene, Mellor? If these big clubs keep having off days and we keep treating games like cup finals (to quote Dave Jones after we beat Cardiff and would've done by a lot more but for their keeper) we'll be the the worst side ever to be promoted by default - shame really!!
When you look at the clubs around us, every one we've played we've beaten so there'll be some right crap going up won't there - can't afford too many off days in the premiership fellas!
 
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A major plus for us this season compared with, say, the Moyes play-off season is that we are beating the teams immediately around and above us (though, of course, there are only two of the latter at the moment and if we beat you-know-who in a little under a couple of weeks there might be even less). The indications are that we can get results in 'big' games, though in reality every game deserves that description, and so it becomes very important that we can do the same in games that might appear less of a challenge. I don't think Tuesday's game will be quite in that category even though our opponents got tonked yesterday. But we really have to be ruthless and decisive next Saturday. I think I would be happy with four points out of the next six, maybe even with five out of the next nine. Seven would be superb.
 
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You're having a laugh - at 3-0 we switched to save energy mode - excuses I just love them - and yes Sunderland were awful but have been all season. The result was just as per the form book nothing more and nothing less.
 
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Funny but everytime a BIG team get beaten by PNE they are always having an off day- in fact the manager or fans always say it's the worse they've seen them play - could it be that PNE don't allow them to play and are tactically more aware?
 
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guy near us put it in a nutshell yesterday "its half time we are three up and I dont think we've even broke into a sweat yet"
 
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Looks like keano is more in touch with reality than the fans ......

He said and I quote ......

`I reckon this is one of the hardest tests we wil face this season and this game showed us where we'll have to be if we want to get back into the premiership`

He then added `There's no doubt in my mind that Preston will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season`
 
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Well done PNE thoroughly deserved win. However I would advise caution on your part as it was primarily down to the failings of our squad players and not a rip roaring PNE performance as some have suggested.
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Probably the best time to play you then. I don't recall any Cardiff fans or West Brom fans coming to exuse their own teams failings tho' after we beat them. This is football fella, from time to time our clubs are hindered by injuries, new managers bedding in etc. Save your excuses and get on with life.
 
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`I reckon this is one of the hardest tests we wil face this season and this game showed us where we'll have to be if we want to get back into the premiership`

He then added `There's no doubt in my mind that Preston will be there or thereabouts at the end of the
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I read this in the news of the world and was happy with his comments, then turned to look at the team of the day with Alexander and Whaley making the frist 11 to be dismayed that they had Leeds shirts on instead of PNE!
 
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Couple of issues here:-

"However I would advise caution on your part as it was primarily down to the failings of our squad players and not a rip roaring PNE performance as some have suggested."

We put on excellent performances to beat Cardiff & W Brom. We didn't need to put on a "rip roaring" performance to beat Sunderland. They were the worst side to visit Deepdale so far this season.

I was impressed with the guy in midfield for your lot with the big hair and Danny Dichio (despite being the worst striker I ever saw play for us) caused us problems and seems to enjoy your direct style of play, despite his failings on the pitch for us he was always a top bloke and I'm glad he's doing well.

"We don't have a "direct style of play", Dichio's goal came from a run & cross from the right wing."
 
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I didn't notice they had Leeds shirts on howdareyou 😱

His comments were obviously nice to read though, weren't they 😀 and
based on reality unlike biased fans who are sore losers.

All these so called big clubs seem to be liking life below us in the league don't they ? I'm so distraught for healy et al at Leeds predicament 😱

Once and for all........

The league doesn't lie, you get there on merit alone. Bring on the next `big` club and we'll show em exactly where they'll have to be to get promoted 😉
 
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i don't think it was a top class performance by preston. it was very good but it shows that against a side like sunderland who did knock the ball around a bit, if we can win 4-1 without needing to hit 1st gear, imagine what we would do to teams when we do.
i enjoyed the game thoroughly yesterday and if we play like that against burnley and leeds (and ipswich and hull of course) then wins shouldn't be a problem.

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Probably the best time to play you then. I don't recall any Cardiff fans or West Brom fans coming to exuse their own teams failings tho' after we beat them. This is football fella, from time to time our clubs are hindered by injuries, new managers bedding in etc. Save your excuses and get on with life.
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no. just the managers gave excuses as to why their teams failed. dave jones and bryan robson gave half hearted excuses cos they didn't like the fact they were beaten by a "smaller" club".
 
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Congrats on a fine and well deserved win on Saturday. Apart from the first 15 minutes we (Sunderland) offered nothing at all to the rest of the game and once PNE scored their first goal (from a usually very poor and non prolific goalscoring plank of a centre forward with a heart the size of a pea) we were never gonna get back in the game.
Like the last time we met at Deepdale, PNE took the game by the scruff of the neck and raced into an insurmountable lead. I can make excuses about our injuries but that would be taking credit away from PNE, and who's to say that the same scoreline would'nt have been achieved even if we had our best 11 playing on Saturday. You were up for the game and we certainly did'nt seem to be.
PNE without playing brilliantly, coasted to an easy win, which was painful & humiliating for me to watch. Maybe too much hype about Keane/Quinn at the helm of our club inspires our opposition to try that little bit harder to "put us in our place" and if that's the case, we need to perform so much better than we did on Saturday in order to give us long suffering fans the promotion and glory we crave.
I would hopefully see us in a higher position than "North End" at the end of the season, given the supposed funds we have at our disposal and after watching that pitiful and gutless performance in front of a very let down 6,000 strong away support, there will surely be changes made to our team a.s.a.p and when we next play you in December we'll hopefully reverse Saturdays result.
Fair play to PNE, you won well on Saturday, but hopefully we'll win the bigger prize of promotion in May.
 
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