FarehamSaintJames Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Now that we approach the final few games, it’s time to decide on a few winners and losers for the season. Player Of The Season: Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Best Signing Of The Season: Worst Signing Of The Season: Best Match: Worst Match: Season Rating: Russ Rating: Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: (More reasons the better, might be a tad early but I’m sure they’ll be a few early entries the way our season is petering out). Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarehamSaintJames Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 (edited) Player Of The Season: Adam Armstrong - it doesn’t matter if a lot of them are taps ins, if it goes in it goes in. Cracking set of assists from him too. Underwhelming Achievement Award: Gavin Bazunu - havjng the lowest save percentage two seasons in a row in different leagues is some achievement. Notable mentions for Kamaldeen Sulemana and Sekou Mara. Best Signing Of The Season: Flynn Downes - the fact we only win when he plays says it all. Worst Signing Of The Season: Ross Stewart - £8M for an injured striker, the one position we needed desperately is bad business and is on the club. Not the manager. That said if he comes on in the Play-Offs and sends us up with a last minute goal he’ll be SOTS. Best Match: 4-0 vs Blackburn - just because I was there, ant the time they were touching distance of the Play-Offs and it was an absolutely dominant performance from start to finish. Worst Match: 5-0 vs Leicester - I didn’t attend but I heavily backed Leicester pre-match and switched off at 1-0 knowing how predictable defeat would be. Made £30 though. Season Rating: 8/10 - absolutely loved the EFL. The high highs when you win heavily, and the odd draw or defeat that marks the unpredictability. Haven’t watched any Premier League this season and it’s been joyous. Russ Rating: 7/10 - really liked the way we play. The style clearly works in some aspects, however I think you need more physical players to reinforce this way of playing. It’s not a case of conceding less but out scoring the opposition, something we’ve had opportunity to do in every game this season and we just haven’t. He’s clearly brought the club and fans together but there needs to be a minor reset in the summer and he needs to learn what a Plan B is. Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Maybe promotion? I think just no more humiliation. Another year in the EFL I wouldn’t be against but effectively you need to be challenging for the title rather than just generic promotion. Edited April 27 by FarehamSaintJames 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErwinK1961 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Player Of The Season: Flynn Downes (more ‘most important’ player I guess) Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana (what a let down he’s been) Best Signing Of The Season: Flynn Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Ross Stewart (not his fault) Best Match: Leeds at home Worst Match: Either Leicester game Season Rating: 7.5 (will go to a 9 if we go up) Russ Rating: 7 (will go to an 8 if he gets us up) Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: A win at Wembley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 (edited) Player Of The Season: Adam Armstrong. He's turned up this year, not just with goals but general attacking involvement. KWP isn't far behind but he was somewhat expected to be good, but Adam Armstrong stepped up from a real low bar in my opinion. Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana. It was seen as a bit of a surprise that we'd kept him and we were all pretty excited, but he has been utterly, utterly woeful. He hasn't even scored a goal in this league. Need to get shot of him in the summer, we'll lose 50% on his value without doubt - but that's on our scouts for their stupidity. Best Signing Of The Season: Flynn Downes. Kind of an easy one really, I think he's a Xavi type player at this level - knits everything together, box to box, full of running. THB a close run second, but Flynn edges it for me. Worst Signing Of The Season: Stewart. It can only really be him, not his fault - but the club gambled on an injured striker and low and behold he's been injured all year. We could have waited a year, let him be injured at Sunderland and got him for free this summer. Best Match: Swansea 1 - 3 Southampton. The first 30 mins of that game were as good as we've been for years, so dominant. It wouldn't have been surprising to have seen us hit 6 in those first 30 mins, we were so good. Worst Match: Sunderland 5 - 0 Southampton. Sunderland weren't as good this year, but we allowed them to totally destroy us. It was a bit of a humbling really, only just into the season, playing against a normal Championship side and we were destroyed. A lesson of what was to come defensively it has to be said. Season Rating: 6/10 as it stands. I will always feel a bit underwhelmed by it all, our automatic promotion push was pathetic to say the least - just on the periphery all season. Playoffs always looked guaranteed but I think we could have made more of a fist of it at the top end, we've ended up the worst of the chasers. Russ Rating: 6/10. Seems a nice guy, we have won lots of games under him - but I somewhat feel they have been a little in spite of Russ given the players we have compared to the lesser teams we play. As soon as we come up against anyone half decent we get taken apart. His wedded faith to a pass the ball philosophy is dumb and will cost him a top level managerial career in my opinion. Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Goes without saying this season, get up via the playoffs. It will be tough though given that we have struggled against the top 6 sides all year. If we fail my hope for next season is that we can remain competitive at the top end of this level. Edited April 27 by S-Clarke 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Player Of The Season: Downes Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Mara Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Stewart Best Match: Huddersfield H Worst Match: Blackburn A Season Rating: 7/10 Russ Rating: 6/10 Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Win this year's playoff or go up next year automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Player Of The Season: Adam Armstrong - top scorer, simple as that Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Bazunu - pure shite Best Signing Of The Season: - Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: - Stewart - my god, why Best Match: - WBA away Worst Match: - Ipswich home Season Rating: - 6/10 Russ Rating: - 5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Player Of The Season: AArmstrong, easy Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana, thought he'd tear up the league. Best Signing Of The Season: Downes/THB tied Worst Signing Of The Season: Charles/Stewart tied for differing reasons Best Match: Huddersfield Worst Match: Sunderland Season Rating: 8 if we go up, 6 if not. Russ Rating: 6. Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Play-off win. Not happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Bravest player = Stephens 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SambaMaverick Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Player Of The Season: Armstrong, we'd be nowhere without his goals Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Bazunu Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Charles (in the context that 50% of our budget was spunked on a League 1 player), Manning also up there Best Match: Leeds home Worst Match: Sunderland away Season Rating: 6 - I've enjoyed it on the whole, wouldn't mind staying down again next season as I'm utterly fed up with the Prem Russ Rating: 5 Sports Republic Rating: 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyNumber7 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 9 hours ago, FarehamSaintJames said: Player Of The Season: Adam Armstrong, KWP a close second. Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Charles. Hoping Stewart will come good next season. Best Match: 5-3 v Huddersfield Worst Match: Sunderland away Season Rating: 7 Russ Rating: 7 Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Win the playoffs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 I think we can all agree on the worst match of the season. At least Leicester are actually good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixedkebab Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Player Of The Season: Adam Armstrong Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Most difficult choice but for me it’s Bazunu, followed by Brooks and Sulemana Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Charles Best Match: Birmingham away Worst Match: Cardiff away Season Rating: 6/10 or 8/10 if we win play offs! Russ Rating: 5/10 or 7/10 if we win play offs Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: A team who give it some fucking beans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarehamSaintJames Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 Underwhelming player could easily be any of Mara, Sulemana, Bazunu; and I’m sure they’ll be a few that throw Manning, Charles and Smallbone in there just out of spite. 😂 It’ll be interesting to see if the “Russ rating” drops over the coming weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarehamSaintJames Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 On 27/04/2024 at 17:52, Jack said: Bravest player = Stephens Did alright yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 On 27/04/2024 at 10:01, SambaMaverick said: Sports Republic Rating: 2 That's rather generous. If Stewart scores a hat trick in the play off final some here may have to reconsider your Worst Signing of the Season choice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toussaint Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) Player Of The Season: Downes Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana, Mara - tied Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Charles, not terrible, but we had our pants pulled down, yet again ! Best Match: can we have half matches? Ipswich away Worst Match: several for different reasons. Season Rating: 6 with potential to rise to 10 Russ Rating: 6 , his decisions / lack off and stubbornnesses have cost us dearly. Still has time to redeem himself and become a very good manager SR - 3 , need Rasmus out the picture Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: this . Wembley win, next autos or Wembley win if we don’t do it this season Edited May 6 by Toussaint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Player Of The Season: Flynn Downes, the heartbeat of the side. Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana. Best Signing Of The Season: Downes. Worst Signing Of The Season: Ross Stewart. Not his fault. Stupid club trying to be too clever for it's own good by signing an already injured player. Best Match: West Brom away. A controlled and assertive performance against one of the leagues tougher sides without our best player. Worst Match: Both Leicester games. Season Rating: 6/10. See below. Russ Rating: 6/10. Stubborn sod. When he adapts, we are good, sometimes very good. When he sticks stubbornly to his mantra we are predictable and frustrating as hell to watch. I cannot get past the feeling that his block headedness has cost us automatic promotion. Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 On 27/04/2024 at 08:48, FarehamSaintJames said: Now that we approach the final few games, it’s time to decide on a few winners and losers for the season. Player Of The Season: ArmA Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Manning Best Signing Of The Season: Downes Worst Signing Of The Season: Stewart Best Match: 1st game - I remember really enjoying the 1st match, Sheff Wed away. Otherwise the 4-0 v Blackburn Worst Match: Leicester home Season Rating: 7 Russ Rating: 6 Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season: Promotion by getting into a 2-0 lead in the final v Norwich and actually changing tactics to comfortably manage the rest of the game into a boring 2-0 win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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