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Pretty solid opinion
Storey
Pretty solid opinion
Don't sugarcoat it, just be straight with what you think about them.
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Never liked the Stone Roses much and only liked the first two Oasis albums. Hated the whole naff 'Madchester' rubbish. Those baggy jeans...those floppy fringes...and especially those people you see on TV now and then who laughably claim that the Spike Island gig was somehow life-changing and 'defined a generation.' What codswallop.
but each to their own and all that.
but each to their own and all that.
MrHodgeheg123;n3358978 said:
Their early stuff was great, saw them in a pub in Wigan (The Cricketers) for 3 quid in 1993, but they regularly toured and played The Den in Wigan for a few years before that. I also slept on a couch right outside their practice room in Oakland for a week in 2003 and hung out with Jason White who sessioned for them and joined the band for big tours. Oh, and drank all their beer dry while I was there. Good times.
Looks very polished already. I agree with Ron burgundy him and Ben Davies are the future centre back pairing, just need 2 good ens by their side, midfield is looking youthful also.
spender;n3395108 said:
We have a lot of young players of great promise - Storey, Davies, Earl, Pearson, Johnson, Harrop, Browne, Maguire, Robinson are perhaps the ones who come to mind most obviously, maybe Barkhuizen as well if he recovers his form and consistency and if he gets up to pace Ledson. Providing we can pull ourselves out of the situation we have got ourselves into at the moment - and the signs are that we are starting to do so - then another season of experience and the toughening effect of getting through this rough patch could give us the basis of a squad of real quality.
ernest;n3395342 said:
Not wanting to be pessimistic here Ernest, but the only issue is how long we can keep these promising players/squad together. It has been said many times that there is a finite window of opportunity when you are using the business model that PNE are using. We can only hope that everything works out for the best.
Tino;n3395907 said:
Thought he did ok at best. Those fans who think he is a ball playing centre half (basically a right footed Ben Davies) will figure out soon that he's not. His distribution was poor today and had Hunts or Clarke put in that performance and given away a penalty, they'd have been deemed to have had a poor performance.
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kingpne;n3395925 said:
Disagree
Thought he got his head up and put 2/3 nice balls into the channels for our forwards to get on the end of.
In fairness he had to cover for a lot of Ledson’s shit, his first half block was brilliant posiitionally and pace wise
Tino;n3396159 said:
Huntington and Earl in for me.
Last season we looked solid with Maxi, Fisher, Hunts, Davies & Earl. Have we actually played that back five once yet this season?
With Hughes, AN seems keen on his 'experience', which is largely irrelevant if you aren't very good.
Granted, Hughes is 7 years older than Josh Earl, but at the end of the day JE has still played more championship games, all in which he has performed to a very decent standard.
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kingpne;n3396234 said:
I'll be honest, I'm not able to get to most of the games so not seen Earl play in the flesh too many times. However, from what I've seen in highlight reels, he does look vulnerable defensively which I think can be forgiven given his inexperience. I remember the Leeds game especially where they profited from wide open spaces on our left flank. The player further forward of him (I'm guessing it was Barker in that game but not sure) obviously bears some responsibility for not covering but I still think Josh's positional sense is probably in its nascent stage. Not really too sure whether slotting him into a back line that is already frail is such a good idea at this point. All that being said, he remains a fabulous prospect.
kingpne;n3396234 said:
Doesn’t that contradict your wish for Huntington to return to the team though ?
He would only be in off the back of last season’s performances, or his experience, because he’s been awful when in the team so far this season.
I’d just stick with Storey for the time being. We’ll get the odd mistake from him but we were getting that from the likes of Huntington (experienced) anyway, and at least Storey has the pace to defend the space behind him, which Huntington and Clarke certainly do not as we were continually hit on the counter earlier on in the season.
Earl or Hughes for me both have their good points and bad points.
The defences first job is to keep it out of the net though so for all the attacking qualities of Earl if he is prone to being caught out of position then maybe he shouldn't be in the team ahead of Hughes.
Both are ok players but Earl is clearly going to develop more, it makes you realise how good Cunningham actually was.
The defences first job is to keep it out of the net though so for all the attacking qualities of Earl if he is prone to being caught out of position then maybe he shouldn't be in the team ahead of Hughes.
Both are ok players but Earl is clearly going to develop more, it makes you realise how good Cunningham actually was.
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Mickypne;n3359163 said:
I've heard you do
sedgwick__7;n3396261 said:
No.
As Hughes hasn't played well at Championship level in any point of his life, as he hasn't played in this league.
Hunts has shown the past three seasons that he is not only good enough for the league, but good enough to play 4000 minutes in a side who finished 7th.
Hunts' performances get blown hugely out of proportion; I think he's been ok this season performance wise. He was obviously at fault for Villa's second goal, which was poor to say the least, but he's been alright other than that.