Living in the U.S., I don't follow PNE as closely as some here probably do so I was hoping to get some insight from you guys about where the team is in the table. A month ago, PNE was in 2nd place and pushing for automatic promotion. Now they can't find a win anywhere and have dropped out of the playoff spots. Title of the thread says it all. What happened?
What happened?
Harder fixtures and injuries.
Goals have dried up which is frustrating and also hints at maybe the people at the top should've losened the pursestrings and given AN a chance to sign a proper proven number 9 striker for this level.
When you look back at league 1 a strikeforce of Garner, Davies, Beckford and Robinson was fantastic quality and depth for that level and also cost quite a bit in wages you'd imagine so simply don't understand why the club can't go out and get one on loan at least.
Ultimately top strikers get you out of this division. They're not called David Nugent btw.
Said before but QPR had 40m fine from FFP, their home crowd isn't that much higher than what PNE play and they've signed loads of lower league players in last two seasons yet even they can field a front two of Hugill and Wells (warming the bench at Burnley).
I'll still reserve judgement until the new year though. Home games v Luton, Reading and Boro in next 3 weeks so have to simply win at least two of those to get back on track for play offs.
Goals have dried up which is frustrating and also hints at maybe the people at the top should've losened the pursestrings and given AN a chance to sign a proper proven number 9 striker for this level.
When you look back at league 1 a strikeforce of Garner, Davies, Beckford and Robinson was fantastic quality and depth for that level and also cost quite a bit in wages you'd imagine so simply don't understand why the club can't go out and get one on loan at least.
Ultimately top strikers get you out of this division. They're not called David Nugent btw.
Said before but QPR had 40m fine from FFP, their home crowd isn't that much higher than what PNE play and they've signed loads of lower league players in last two seasons yet even they can field a front two of Hugill and Wells (warming the bench at Burnley).
I'll still reserve judgement until the new year though. Home games v Luton, Reading and Boro in next 3 weeks so have to simply win at least two of those to get back on track for play offs.
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November
Bauer
Davies
Gally
DJ
All key players and automatic picks.
All injured.
Take 4 key players like that out of any team and they will struggle
Davies
Gally
DJ
All key players and automatic picks.
All injured.
Take 4 key players like that out of any team and they will struggle
I agree the set up with Shockley is simply wrong. We did well with a flexible mobile front 3. With a poor target man we are too predictable and too easy to defend against.
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Injuries and lack of squad depth hurts. Reversion to the mean- we have been bad at creating chances all season, and eventually we were gonna stop winning penalties to make up for it.
The team desperately missed DJ and Gally today.
There was no creativity at all and just seemed to give up in my opinion.
Nugent and Bodin did okay when they came on but didn't change the game in anyway
There was no creativity at all and just seemed to give up in my opinion.
Nugent and Bodin did okay when they came on but didn't change the game in anyway
Lack of sufficient investment in the playing squad (or more accurately lack of reinvestment of incoming transfer fees).
If the owner was serious about a crack at promotion, the club wouldn't be giving the likes of David Nugent a two year contract. It's Shambolic IMHO.
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Lots of injuries, don’t know why. Need to get someone in to review training and try work out why.
Harder fixtures!? On this run we've failed to score against 12th, 14th and 16th, and had no points. Today we played a team who had no clean sheets all season.
We've also only had 1 point against 15th, 18th and 19th away from home. You don't get promoted with that record.
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We are the only team to have injuries? And all the other clubs in the championship have world beaters on the bench. From a PNE perspective it would be interesting to know that when we do hit a bad patch how many more injured players do we get?
Injuries happen at all clubs, the quality of the replacement shows the depth of the squad in truth.
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A couple of weeks ago Alex was on the box saying we could do a Shef Utd (who secured automatic promotion to the Prem) didn’t caveat what could be achieved, through not having supposed strength in depth. So who is kidding whom?
That is true of course, however we have had a rediclous amount of injuries in similar positions for the past three seasons.
Simular times of the season too.
We had a injury audit in the summer.
It is starting to get beyond a joke now a something they need to address with some proper action, it cant all just be bad luck.
Appearances this season:
Rip out half of the players whoo are first on the team sheet and toady just happens
Rip out half of the players whoo are first on the team sheet and toady just happens
| PLAYER | LEAGUE |
| Declan Rudd (G) | 20 |
| Patrick Bauer (D) | 18 |
| Ben Pearson (M) | 18 |
| Sean Maguire (F) | 17 |
| Daniel Johnson (M) | 17 |
| Tom Barkhuizen (F) | 16 |
| Joe Rafferty (D) | 16 |
| Ben Davies (D) | 16 |
| Alan Browne (M) | 13 |
| Darnell Fisher (D) | 13 |
| Paul Gallagher (M) | 12 |
| Billy Bodin (F) | 7 |
| Jayden Stockley (F) | 6 |
| Andrew Hughes (D) | 6 |
| Brad Potts (M) | 5 |
| Josh Harrop (M) | 5 |
| Dave Nugent (F) | 3 |
| Jordan Storey (D) | 3 |
| Ryan Ledson (M) | 3 |
| Tom Clarke (D) | 2 |
| Paul Huntington (D) | 2 |
| Louis Moult (F) | 2 |