OldNick

So we have for 2 seasons had to put up with the pain of constantly conceding in the hope he will improve. Of course once we've had to put up with all the crap for a few seasons he could nicely honed for another club who will get the positives. I truly hope Baz proves us wrong and starts to prove his worth, but I have pointed out for a long time he is not up to it (yet)and he cost us in tight games.

Note to the recruitment team, Don't buy a keeper from Man City as pep seems to know a good one

Hey Saint Cark, I have to apologise that I scoffed when you mentioned Josh Sargent being a decent forward. I have been proved wrong on this occasion. Good from you.

wasnt it KWP who let the player have the freedom of St Marys?

First in with the news MB, I know you are well informed. No doubt the COT put this up somewhere in one of their quatrains

this will never get off the ground as Turkish has not made it up. I thought here must be some new merchandise out there somewhere, as I heard some lads saying COT mugs this and COT mugs that, but it turns out it was just an observation!

during the cup game, not when we went back to our better starting line up

I used cup games as an example where changes show how we lose our rhythm

Its a forum and we all think we know more than the manager. As soon as the BC team was announced it was obvious to me we'd struggle. How many times have we weakened the team with changes for a cup game and we've then been dire? We had 2 injuries and so that was enough, to add 2 more changes just made us disjointed. We have won plenty of games, but have also been not clinical/professional to keep conceding a late equaliser. That is costing us. Iam not gagging to get back to the PL , what does it give us? A ego trip to say we are in the league that basically the media are only interested in 5 teams, where we are the whipping boys time and again. Where we find some gems who then are taken away to feed the top 5 or 6. I have been watching for many decades andso have become disillusioned with it all. No VAR is also a plus, I accept we will lose a lot of our best players (nothing new there, most are loans anyway) and we will be left with the dross on big contracts we cant get rid of.

Play offs I think are going to be fine, getting through to Wembley is a different story. I believe the keeper has cost us too many last 5 minute goals to lose us the win, and also the mistake against Millwall put us in a bad position. Its not only him, but last season he was left in the firing line after mistake after mistake. He is young and will progress, we will take the mistakes, he will learn and then other clubs will gain from his experiences with us when he as become more polished. i still cant get my head around that the keeper has to be good with his feet but paper over they rarely makes a save. I truly hope Bazunu does make it to the big time but it is to a cost to us. He is still very young of course.

I doubt that will change. There will be the return of Corp HO no doubt lol

I think he could have deserved it lol

Fair play to Pompey they held their nerve and will get promoted. Eisner is playing the long game and heard some good things he does around their city.

You could say that if we hadn't a keeper who has a terrible lack of concentration problem, we may be top 2 now. Add to that a manager who imo thinks he's very smart and tinkers with the team constantly. Leeds and Ipswich dont change winning teams. The other thing that I dont see mentioned. We seem to average 70+ % possession a game and score 2-3 goals the opposition have 30% and also score 2-3 goals. What would happen if they had 70% !!!!!

He was shot, I was recalling our FA cup semi final performance against Leicester just yesterday, no masterplan there but he was frightened to take a risk.