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I'm highly p issed about yesterday, not so much losing but the manner in which we lost no hard work or balls from the players and very little attempt by the manager to sort it out and half time (when everyone could see things had gone tits up). Having said that ADKINS OUT do behave. He's got until the end of the season at least, if he fails to get us promoted then I'm sure NC will act accordingly.

taken from Nigels piece in the match programme The phrase 'hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard' is etched in the players mind kind of sums up yesterday for me one side worked hard the other didn't, no amount of money resources or talent is going to help us if the players don't give it their all during the games.

Hardly we lost that game becuase the whole team were timid, unbothered and pedestrain, not a back bone among them yesterday. The first goal was a howler from KD agreed but the second was the fault of three defenders who between them couldn't keep out one striker. We never even looked remotely like winning yesterday for a whole load of reasons trying to blame KD for the whole thing is a Joke.

He played well at the start of the season gave Kevin Davis a run for his money, yet now he can't get in ahead of Jaidi or Seaborne who were comical yesterday.

LOL well spotted

Thats a good point, people are saying Nigel had no options on the bench but really could any of the subs (sorry impact players) done any worse? I doubt it. Maybe the likes of Doble and Martin might have least put some youthfully effort and desire in to the performance sadly lacking in both.

just edited that for you.

LOL that was quite funny, maybe he figured that the saints fan deserved to see one tackle upon a Brentford player in the match and as our players didn't want to, he do it for them.

I'd settle for one player in the team that could do all that HTBH

really? the number of players who just gave up on chasing balls down, the almost complete lack of tackling the strolling around the pitch like it was trainning game the lack of movement at throw ins all looked like a bunch of players not working hard enough to me. Compare the way the Brentford players closed down and hustled us that was working hard.

Swindon at home was bad but not as bad as today, Tranmere was the one we lost to peno that all the highlights proved was never a peno and Wycombe away was a draw so hardly as bad as losing at 2-0 at SMS today. There where bad results under Pardew but I never felt like the players weren't trying one dimensional and lacking in immagination prehaps but always trying. To day the players looked like they really didn't care and that p isses me off.

Pardews players who last season ended up as the inform side at the end of the season with second higest goal difference behind the league champions? The same team that lost eleven games all of last season (we've lost nine already this season)? The same team that actually had a point more than this time last season in argubly in a much strong league than this season.? They didn't get to the play offs becuase they had ten points less than everyone else. Mentally last year they came from behind in several games and never showed a lack of bottle (although immagination to unlock teams was lacking at times).

only if you can tell me the order in which the players shirts came out in the half time game?

Funnily enough I was sat at SMS wtching the match and I thought of your post on the match thread.

taken from Nigels piece in the match programme The phrase 'hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard' is etched in the players mind I'm the only one who finds that slightly ironic given the performance the players turned in today?

Really? Saga (no longer playing for a contract), Matt Patterson, Wotton, Lloyd James, of what pardew inherited Lallana, Morgan, bart and Kelvin where about the only ones worth much. Maybe Lambert doing so well last years was becuase Pardew could get something out of him Nigel can't? Lamberts form hasn't been a secret but nothing seems to have been done to deal with it.

Ummm I think he did according to the post match thread.

Depends on your point of view. Our last season in the championship we achieved pretty much what I expected given the circumstances. I don't think we under achieved last season at all, given our starting point in August . This season we were in the strongest postion of any team in league one to be this far into the season and not even in the play offs is a massive under achievement.

yes we did play badly against Rochdale, but Kelvin has had plenty of good matches in between, today he was bad though but so was the whole team.

I remember watching the football league show after that match spent several minutes pointing how bad the posh were basically implied anyone could have scored past that shambles of a defence on that day. Missed that game though so I couldn't say.

No not out. I'd rather he stayed and sorted it out he took a job where he new expectations were high now he has to live upto those expectations.I imagine even Nigel would admit that today was frankly crap from the manager and players.

I think Nick G has produced numerous threads/stats that prove we are in form.........

To be fair I thought Hammond had improved in recent weeks (which I put down to the apperance of Chaplow giving him a kick up the arse) but today he was dire, still better than Morgan's abject performance though.

Well I suppose Paula stopping to take a slash on the halfway line mid game might have beem more fun than the football serverd up today.

Plan B? I think that was to move Oxo to loan striker for 20mins at 2-0 down and then bring on Conolloy for 10 minutes. Luckily Nigels teams like to get the ball down on the ground and place fast passing football as was seen at todays match.......