Pinball wizard machine performance

[jonjonpne]

Thought I'd add a little creative fun after that performance🎮🎰🎲🎢🎠🎪

If you had to describe our football as a game machine yesterday it would be..... Pinball wizard for me.

Let me explain.
Lots of long/direct balls to nobody.
Balls quickly coming back due to loss of possession
Lots of one pass fast flicks going nowhere
Panic as the ball keeps coming back, often leading to frantic defensive kick aways.
Before someone says, the game speed would be in slow motion too. 🤣⚽😩

For me the midfield needs to work harder, run with the ball more and link better with Wing backs if this formation is to work.

On a more positive note I thought newbies did well enough. Spaniard promising and keeper solid. Defense, although league 1 level, worked very hard and put in a shift. Great away support from the yellows! Nice big crowd next week to roar the lads on. Spirit in the squad is our biggest advantage.

Need to work a lot harder in training RL

Come on you whites

 

[Waddie]

Mmmm, I think more Tipping Point, where the contestant keeps putting the disc in at completely the wrong time and wondering why they keep getting riders, but occasionally get one right and achieve a big score!

 

[baysidepne]

For me it was like a boxing match that never got going.

Odd spark of excitement and then just as you think we were going to land a knockout blow just before half time, the two boxers ended up in a hold and that was it, the end of the round.

North End were on top on points for the first half but second half saw more rounds for Wigan including a 10-8 when Ched was sent off.

We ended up putting up a decent defence and came out the fight with a draw on all three scorecards, and left to ask what could have been if we hadn't taken a knee the canvas in the 11th round.

Just never got going and as a main event we'd waited three months for, left us hoping for better performances in upcoming battles now the ring rust has hopefully come off.

 

[Rothwellwhite]

Pinball Wizard? More sorry seems to be the hardest word, too many passengers not willing to make a sacrifice for the team.

 

[john2321]

Cluedo for me, but rebranded as Noclue.

 

[Kathryn]

Definitely pinball. There was even a Tilt involved in Ched’s red.

 

[Gordon Bennett]

Nought crosses

 

[jgriff2296]

A one arm bandit for me. Occasionally gets you excited but rarely pays out.

 

[jumping mouse]

If we were talking about the Wigan team's histrionics after every challenge, I'd go for a Simulator.

For North End it would have to be one of those claw machines.

• You can always predict exactly where it's going before it starts.
• It makes you think you're going to win the big prize.
• But it always misses at the last moment.
• And (ref) it's rigged against you.
  
  
  

 

[jonjonpne]

If we were talking about the Wigan team's histrionics after every challenge, I'd go for a Simulator.

For North End it would have to be one of those claw machines.

• You can always predict exactly where it's going before it starts.
• It makes you think you're going to win the big prize.
• But it always misses at the last moment.
• And (ref) it's rigged against you.
  
  
  

Very funny😂😂😂

 

[Tugg Speedman]

Coconut Shyster

 

[JJ_PNE]

The whack-a-mole machines - you may hit 2 in 5…

 

[Muzza]

Operation - painful.

 

[Regardless]

One of those fairground cars that, when you’re about 4, you think you’re helping steer. But the reality is that it’s actually the ride’s owner who is in control - and unbeknownst to you, you’re just going round and round in circles, exactly as the owner planned.

 

[jonjonpne]

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One of those fairground cars that, when you’re about 4, you think you’re helping steer. But the reality is that it’s actually the ride’s owner who is in control - and unbeknownst to you, you’re just going round and round in circles, exactly as the owner planned.

Scarily true😮