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Staffordwhite;n3399865 said:
6 unbeaten yes played shit teams and got draws he as to take some of the blame he picks the team ,he keeps chopping and changing which is no good ,we need a lot of new faces in jan
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6 unbeaten yes played shit teams and got draws he as to take some of the blame he picks the team ,he keeps chopping and changing which is no good ,we need a lot of new faces in jan
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Pne king 69;n3399891 said:
We needed them new faces in summer 🙂 that's the point
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I'm glad I wasn't in the trenches with some of our fans 100 years ago otherwise they would have raised the white flag early on and we would now be speaking German.
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Pne king 69;n3399891 said:
I guess you are referring to both Rotherham and Ipswich whom we couldn't beat although we played 20+ plus minutes with Gally in goal and down to ten men. But then again Swansea, Middlesborough, Norwich, etc who are all near the top and at the top haven't been able to beat either or both of these teams so far this season in their games either. Are all their managers to blame as well?
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norfolk white;n3399907 said:
No they wouldn't. They'd have been shot for desertion or cowardice and Haig would have sent several other hundreds of thousands of young lads to their imminent deaths. Oh, wait a minute, he did.
I'm not even going to compare the horrors of one hundred years ago to football. Cheap, crass and insensitive.
I think it took us the first half to realise that they were getting in our faces and not letting us play through the thirds.
Second half we pushed their defence a bit deeper by turning them and started to play in their half a bit more.
Second half we pushed their defence a bit deeper by turning them and started to play in their half a bit more.
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simo;n3399881 said:
Yes and I was proved right in the summer about lack of investment & lack of Experience been brought in the summer I even said we were this years Barnsley & I suppose You were one of the majority Saying we don't need to sign experience as we are signing the best young talent in the lower divisions. Ha Ha What do you think now about last summer?
I like Alex Neil a lot but we are in a bloody mess on the field & he doesn't seem in control of the situation.
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kingpne;n3399926 said:
Our only choice really is to play through the thirds because we don't really have a proper target man. The defenders (apart from Earl) were much better defensively today, but on the ball left a lot to be desired. Maxwell's kicking was terrible as well. Hard to get going when the defence aren't distributing the ball properly.
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Madferret;n3399922 said:
He's not the only one.
6 unbeaten.
Grow some.
That was poor today and, for what its worth, I think the manager`s position may well be under review soon
Half the championship are within 6 points of a relagation place. That means that 12 teams have crap managers who have lost the plot, their players and don't know what they are doing .... Doesn't it?
or
could it be that this year in particular, the league is well matched and anyone who puts four wins together is going to be a challenger and anyone who does not win in four is playing for survival?
we started terribly, have improved a bit, will likely have setbacks again but we will progress. This ain't over and a whole lot of football has to be played and I for one can't wait.
#exciting times
or
could it be that this year in particular, the league is well matched and anyone who puts four wins together is going to be a challenger and anyone who does not win in four is playing for survival?
we started terribly, have improved a bit, will likely have setbacks again but we will progress. This ain't over and a whole lot of football has to be played and I for one can't wait.
#exciting times
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Ohnotagain;n3399925 said:
Sorry for any offence given, it was not meant to offend or upset.
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We should have won more games and probably should have had around 5 more points but the players keep having subliminal moments. No major backing in the summer. Neil is probably peed off with his job. Does that constitute a sacking? Could be mutual consent.
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budgierustler;n3399964 said:
First off - I think it's clear that you really mean that you would be in agreement if the manager's position came under review (or you would have / should have made it clear if you think different).
FWIW, I think the bigger root of your frustration is decade after decade of PNE not quite fulfilling your hopes and the club's potential...and you're firing that frustration at Alex Neil.
Poor today or not... After a poor start to the season. After the well-documented lack of support to the manager. We now face a tough run of fixtures and I'm very disappointed in you.
We had an awful start to the season, and you have been around long enough to surely realise that almost no team languishing at the bottom of the league suddenly goes on a run of win after win, with flowing superb football every week.
We're turning the oil-tanker around about as effectively as anyone can reasonably hope. Six games unbeaten. Seventh in the form-league over that time. NOW IS EXACTLY THE TIME TO BE GETTING BEHIND THE TEAM.... NOT UNDERMINING IT because we could potentially turn this into a season-defining good run.
In your privileged position of having a column in the LEP... IMO, you have a responsibility, at the very least, to be objective - and preferably err towards being supportive. YOU jabbing away at the manager will do a lot lot lot more damage than almost any other poster on here. YOU seriously can choose to help, or choose to damage the club far more than most of us. YOUR writing will be read by our players.
I don't expect you to lie. But FFS, you're writing as though we've lost 4 or 5 out of the last 6. Stop panicking. Take the frustration out of it and analyse dispassionately. (Oh... and although you must feel like you want to be defensive when you read this... please be open minded.)
Both pessimists and optimists tend to get what they expect in this world. So let's make optimism the overriding emotion around our club. Please.
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AN has made mistakes this season, but I’m still fully behind him. Most of the stuff that’s caused our problems is out of his control.
IMHO the first thing that should be “under review” at PNE is recruitment, and whether the currently levels of (lack of) (re)investment into the squad will keep us competitive in the Championship in the long-run.
The starting XI in this game told its own story. All of those players were signed before AN joined. I know there’s been a few knocks to a few new players like Hughes missing today (downgrade on Cunningham) and Bodin is out but that statistic just shows how our recruitment is not really improving us. Nobody can seriously argue the first team is better than it was 18-24 months ago. Experienced players have been replaced by ones with no Chalpionship experience and for the manager it is very hard to keep us consistent and challenging when that continually happens.
The squad looks a little ‘tired’ to me. Like most football teams it needed some freshenining up, but our budget limited us to squad additions and prospects.
IMHO the team needs a few quality loan additions (preferably with Championship experience) just to give it a helping hand and an extra boost of experience and quality. We all know we probably won’t strengthen the positions we need to though.
IMHO the first thing that should be “under review” at PNE is recruitment, and whether the currently levels of (lack of) (re)investment into the squad will keep us competitive in the Championship in the long-run.
The starting XI in this game told its own story. All of those players were signed before AN joined. I know there’s been a few knocks to a few new players like Hughes missing today (downgrade on Cunningham) and Bodin is out but that statistic just shows how our recruitment is not really improving us. Nobody can seriously argue the first team is better than it was 18-24 months ago. Experienced players have been replaced by ones with no Chalpionship experience and for the manager it is very hard to keep us consistent and challenging when that continually happens.
The squad looks a little ‘tired’ to me. Like most football teams it needed some freshenining up, but our budget limited us to squad additions and prospects.
IMHO the team needs a few quality loan additions (preferably with Championship experience) just to give it a helping hand and an extra boost of experience and quality. We all know we probably won’t strengthen the positions we need to though.
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Pne king 69;n3399891 said:
Not placing any faith in the January transfer window, if we can’t bring in players when we are 7th in the league, there’s no chance when we are around the bottom of the league. All very sad!
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We got a point in the end yesterday thanks to an extremely rare Roy of the Rovers sequence of events.
but for me, yesterday confirmed for me that AN doesn't know what he is doing.
when you use your keeper as a sweeper you know that part of his instructions are to charge out and clear the ball, which as proved yesterday always has an element of risk. So if you know your keeper is already on a yellow card in a match, why then use up all your three outfield subs with still 20 mins to go? It's asking for trouble and for me showed a serious lack of thought and awareness. Surely you would have to keep a 3rd sub in hand as a safety net so that if the worst happens you bring on a sub keeper instead of playing an outfield player in goal?
yes, Gally saved us the match but had he still been playing outfield he might have even won us the match.
but for me, yesterday confirmed for me that AN doesn't know what he is doing.
when you use your keeper as a sweeper you know that part of his instructions are to charge out and clear the ball, which as proved yesterday always has an element of risk. So if you know your keeper is already on a yellow card in a match, why then use up all your three outfield subs with still 20 mins to go? It's asking for trouble and for me showed a serious lack of thought and awareness. Surely you would have to keep a 3rd sub in hand as a safety net so that if the worst happens you bring on a sub keeper instead of playing an outfield player in goal?
yes, Gally saved us the match but had he still been playing outfield he might have even won us the match.
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