OldNick

Can we recall Tall Paul for the playoffs? give us an outlet and probably be able to put the ball in the net lol

I thought the idea of the possession based stuff was to tire out the opposition and so we could score late in games? It seems to me that the reverse has happened!!! Kaleidoscope football, lots of very pretty patterns but nothing comes of it. Im not for RM to be gone but I think he needs to show that he is prepared to mix it up a bit and stop allowing the opposition to reset their defence due to our slow build up play

Iam surprised that we have not blooded some of the Acadamy players for a few minute cameos, just to make them feel that there is a future. Concerned they may move on if the pathway is not seen to be there

I have always been dubious of the possession that doesnt produce the reward compared to opponents less possession but similar goals against. I have kept my powder dry as to be fair we went on a recrd run and so it must work to some degree. I thought thogh the opponents are supposed to be tired and they let in the late goals!! I think we should hold fire until the season finishes before really spouting too much bile

Not sure about that, as big match experience may be important where we are now. He has experienced big game atmospheres and we have a few of those to come

I dont think so, youve done rather well as you have😇

Ive seen McCarthy make some match winning saves, so much so he was player of the season one time. I cant recall which game it was now as was a few seasons back but we were winning in a season where we were struggling against relegation when he made an incredible save a pushed the ball over the bar. I understand that he is poor with his feet but call me old fashioned but I like a keeper to save the ball. He IMO was harshly treated by the football academics on here, but I suggest most of his critics could not save anything in a Post Office account let alone on a football pitch. Time will tell but I feel Macca is an upgrade on saving the ball, obviously not at passing it out.

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.

Bristol City was the worst one, thought he was clever by adding 2 changes to the enforced 2due to injury. We were so disjointed. I doubt we will get to Wembley either as we will be shot after the run in and also deflated.

Yep but he is very partisan to Bournemouth and has a passion for them

He never really fights our corner, he is too nice when Ive seen him dissect our games on Sky.