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JimmyRiddle

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  1. https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/recent-ian-evatt-comments-do-bolton-no-favours-in-derby-barnsley-peterborough-race/
  2. No, and especially not now I've seen the rest. Obviously would love 2nd now, but earlier in the season we could have kicked on and been champions playing champagne football. So even 2nd would be tinged with regret but realise that's being very greedy. I do not believe Pompey or Derby are 'better' than us, but they have an ability to get results against the grain, whereas we rarely do! Could you ever imagine IE making a triple substitution at h/T because our formation wasn't working! Obviously if we batter someone at Wembley and go up that way, then fantastic, all the above will be forgotten. My concern is unless we get another Plymouth performance, however well we play, unless we're out of sight, could anyone relax that we wouldn't find a way to fuck it up! Not sure my nerves can take it!
  3. I don't understand this presumption because folk don't post they are not happy we have won. I am one of them! If Evatt has got it right and we win a game comfortably then great couldn't be happier on we roll, I'm off for a pint. I feel less inclined to Post, it's their job! However when we fail to win games for the same reasons match after match, season after season it grinds my gears and I have to call it out. Evatt's comments, his rigidity, his pre planned substitutions, yadda Yadda yadda are all gonna get questioned when we have had the shit results we have had recently, and against the better teams. Of course I would like to eat humble pie and us win games in the manner we did against Oxford, it's brilliant to watch. But we don't, and we are not the Harlem fuckin Globetrotters, we are in competitive competition and the reason we lose more than we should is Evatt, he is the differentiator. I don't believe Portsmouth or Derby have a more talented squad than us; yet they are 1st and 2nd, and we are not!
  4. I wouldn't like Evatt in charge of me either, with a pocket full of receipts as we went over the top. No doubt we'd be all tactic'd up on our objectives but the Germans would just machine gun us dead. 'verdammte Idioten!!'
  5. So absolutely predictable
  6. Nervous, feel like a teenager again! COYWM!
  7. The sending off, wow!
  8. A couple of cracking goals, but how much are we pressing them too. When we play like this how do you explain the first half at Northampton or second half at Exeter, it's bonkers.
  9. Derby winning, penalty
  10. I struggle to understand folk who don't rate Bod, yes he has the odd poor game but he has more intelligence in his big toe than Dion and Big Vic put together. Neither of those would have worked the one two that lead to the opening goal. COYWM! A performance for a full 90mins plz
  11. I'm sure some would, but not anyone with any sense who can see what's put before them. Performances improved, slightly; potential of the squad met, nowhere near. Same issues as we have always had under Evatt: • High possession rarely translates into multiple chances in a game. Risk v reward just isn't there in the way we play. •Got a soft under belly and don't perform in big games. •Too fixated on 3-5-2 even though more and more teams seem to be able to nullify us with ease. •Flat track bullies, one trick ponies. •Rarely the same level of performance for 90 mins, games fluctuate wildly. I have completely focussed on the negatives on purpose, and I know Evatt has lots of positives too!. However all the above will be forgotten if we go up, and they won't if we don't, simple as. The pressure and criticism will magnify next season if we're still in Third division as continue making same mistakes in formation, tactics and individual errors as we have this season., despite being 3rd. I'm not sure IE has as thick a skin as he likes to profess. I think an opportunity missed was the new coach, I really think we needed an experienced coach who had worked at a higher level to help IE out.
  12. And it also meant Jones went to RWB and Toal to RCB and suddenly it clicked.
  13. Absolutely deserved that, they are so limited. Well done, Thomason was colossus that second half. As we're others!! COYWM!!
  14. Thomason had a cracking 2nd half given his 1st half,
  15. Barnsley are just basic, so frustrating
  16. Least he got short trip home tonight, bless
  17. I'm not disputing it was poor play by GT, but why do they feel they have to do that whether it's Sheehan, Thompson or Father Xmas, that's the real question
  18. A simple ball into a midfielder running towards his own goal and under pressure. Prey tell why that is a great tactic?? We're playing fuckin Barnsely in the 3rd division. Neither has it paid off at the other end by us creating chance after chance so what's the fucking point.
  19. He wouldn't if Coleman had just put his foot through it, our centre Half's spread so wide neither anywhere near their striker. Tippy tap shite played badly by third division footballers
  20. I'm not sure it's wise, but hopefully it's a bit of a masked rallying call. Support me or I may be off, regardless of whether he is or isn't Should certainly get the crowd onside in the short term, which is all that matters at the moment. But is he that canny, or just emotional??
  21. Take out stand alone damage insurance before you go. Saved me about £2.5k for £10 policy.
  22. The Portsmouth manager, had never heard of him before but not my job too, but massively overtaken Evatt in half the time. Someone like him please.
  23. This high possession v low chances is nothing new. It has always been thus with Evatt, which is why I have never understood why we play in such a high risk manner for such little benefit. It is neither edge of your seat entertaining or allows us to score loads of goals, so what is the point other than Evatt's ego. Personally I think he needs an experienced Asst Manager who has worked at the top level and can bring some new ideas. Does this poor run of results coincide with the new 1st team coach being appointed? Did anyone really expect that appointment to be external and possibly challenge the Evatt consensus on the best way to win football matches??
  24. Exactly, most opposition's seem to understand our formation and tactics every week, not hard it never changes!!
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