JimmyRiddle
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26 minutes ago, Stig said:
I'm not saying these things aren't factors, but it's too easy to bemoan these things: bad luck, bad referee, too many injuries, tired after a big game, timewasting etc.
Instead we should be looking at ourselves and things we should be correcting if we want to get promoted, and stop being so soft about external factors.
Get the mentality of our team right so we aren't so erratic and inconsistent and those other factors don't matter.
It's just easy to blame everything else
Spot on.
There are things we can control and don't seem to. Such as free kicks and corners, Derby are pretty much going to go up on their ability to score from set pieces.
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It's not all about marking players and runners though, some should be covering zones.
As I say, a player to hover around the penalty spot could have got to their player last night, or mopped up any second ball we headed clear.
It's so basic??
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Don't you just put you shittest header of a ball on the penalty spot to mop up anything that drops towards the edge of the box?
It really isn't difficult. And Baxter seems to have come back shite too.
I think Coleman would have had some criticism for all 3 goals this week if he'd been in goal, they all looked a bit soft.
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Has Evatt got enough nous to change this and get us a result? I have my doubts, prove me wrong.
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57 minutes ago, Stig said:
The Derby game was the killer. Put them in such a strong position
Definitely, a draw would have sufficed too, with hindsight. We could be going second tonight. If's, but's and maybe's!!
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17 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:
Noticed quite a few Pompey supping cans outside Tesco’s & on the path leading to the stadium.
Anyone else think we should have some sort of fanzone for the away fans?
We could make some decent money when there’s a large following and apart from the Beehive there’s not many places for them to go.
I’m thinking Food outlets & a few beer options and there’s plenty of room to rig something up behind the south stand
Our club could be having their money & not Tesco/Asda/Beehive.
I thought the same, only needs open for bigger teams, something like they have at Shrewsbury.
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Same shit different day, substitutions made on a. Thursday, Magohma and Collins our two best players bar Santos and took them off. Subs made us worse.
Evatt just comes up short against managers and teams with some technical nous, time and time again.
Win 4 in a row, why do we even entertain his bollocks??.
Proper manager would have won us that match. How the fuck have we not beaten those over two games, they are shit.
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33 minutes ago, desperado said:
Nah, there’s loads more dropped points to blame than that one.
Rescuing a point with 10 men, won’t be looked at, at where promotion was lost.
Maybe but that first half performance was dire
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1 hour ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:
That defeat at Pride Park has really done us but not beating Exeter or Stevenage recently have also done us
And Northampton
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15 minutes ago, gonzo said:
Correctamundo.
I'm really not sure how a manager can instill that into a group of players.
But is it their character or the way they are told to play??.
If we had changed shape yesterday and gone 4 5 1 for example, given our lack of strikers;, would that have given them a gee up to switch on a little and think about something other than the one and only way Evatt wants to win matches.
So is it their character, or do they just know deep down Evatt's way is limited in how many games we can win. It baffles me that a team woth so much attacking intent shit themselves when we go a goal behind, maybe it's because they know the stats and how hard it is for us to score against teams who sit deep??
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7 hours ago, bolty58 said:
Simple question. Before the season started, if offered, would you have settled for where we are with seven games to go?
I certainly would. Automatic promotion is still on.
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!
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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!
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4 minutes ago, W.cramp said:
Wouldn't like some of you lot in the trenches, jeezus.
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!!'
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So absolutely predictable
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Nervous, feel like a teenager again! COYWM!
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2 minutes ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:
Wasn’t luck the referee gifted them the game
The sending off, wow!
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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.
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Derby winning, penalty
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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
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1 hour ago, Whitestar said:
Would reaching the play off final be seen as progress?
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.
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1 minute ago, Underpants said:
I agree.
And it also meant Jones went to RWB and Toal to RCB and suddenly it clicked.
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Absolutely deserved that, they are so limited.
Well done, Thomason was colossus that second half. As we're others!! COYWM!!
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Thomason had a cracking 2nd half given his 1st half,
Posh
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Evatt has always been consistent in putting out strong teams in the cup, even int he early rounds, I don't think it's in his DNA to not want to win
I'm sure he won't risk any 50/50s but also sure we will have a strong team out.
If Derby 3 up at half time make those changes.