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| 101. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:14 Berkey, Sat 4 Oct 20:39 Based on when he actually applies himself he has success. COYP Reply |
| 102. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:15 Exactly Wee Eck. Patience means giving it more than just the first quarter. It`s hard going, but there are unfortunate things happening to us that need taking into account. I`m still behind Lennon and the team. Let`s see if we do better in the second quarter. And get some luck! A few lucky deflections, ref decisions or a miraculous recovery by Zak from injury would do. Post Edited (Sat 04 Oct 21:17) Reply |
| 103. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:17 Answer, I think you missed the point of my post. I was suggesting it was naive to imply we could replace these players (and I have never referred to them as `dead wood") with ones who would bring instant success. I don`t think that`s the owners` game plan. Reply |
| 104. Author: Muppet Par Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:22 I think this fan base has been extremely patient. 13 years of utter dross. New owners, new manager, same old pars.  Reply |
| 105. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:39 Andrew Tod just isn’t at a consistent Championship level yet. Think he is off it physically and skill wise. He will hopefully get there in time though. He also isn’t a striker, he’s an attacking midfielder being put up top because we have nobody else. Reply |
| 106. Author: answer Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:39 wee eck, Sat 4 Oct 21:17 I didn’t miss the point of your post. Reply |
| 107. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:40 Muppet, I donno how you figure our current owners and manager could have affected our previous years of underachievement. Lennon and Brunskill are contracted till summer 2027. I`m for giving them that to get us into or knocking on the door of the premiership, and that would be quite an achievement from where they started. Reply |
| 108. Author: usurpar Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:41 There are lots of opinions on this post, which is fine, everyone is entitled to their own. I would prefer to point out some facts, which I’m more than happy to have criticised or disagreed with. 1. This league is, as always, a very close competition with every team capable of beating the others 2. We have some very talented footballers in the squad, a lot of whom are young and will need time to develop. I don’t believe that any of them are ‘not good enough’ for this level, though they may not always be consistent. 3. It takes time for a team to gel, even when all players are available. We have a LOT of new faces in the squad and to lose the captain, our best creative player and our main goal threat exacerbates that problem dramatically. 4. International call-ups, while great for the individuals concerned, only disrupt the team, and the fixture list. If you take all these points into consideration, it seems very harsh to me to criticise the players and the manager too much. Reply |
| 109. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:46 usurpar, Sat 4 Oct 21:41 Losers mentality. Why we have under achieved for so long. Reply |
| 110. Author: CrossPar Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 21:51 usurpar, Sat 4 Oct 21:41 Can`t argue with any of these points. We have way better players than we had previously but are still lacking a goal threat. Not the doom and gloom some on here would suggest though. Reply |
| 111. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 22:04 Usurpar, I agree wi` you. You`re showing some understanding of the club`s current position. Dave 1885, on the other hand, seems to be happy to appear a thicko with his one line put-down. Post Edited (Sat 04 Oct 22:04) Reply |
| 112. Author: coventrypar Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 22:46 Everything else to one side. Our players are technically streets ahead of last years team. Some of our close skills and passing is wonderful. Everything else to one side. "If you have no kind words to say you should say nothing more at all" Reply |
| 113. Author: TAFKA_Super_Petrie Date: Sat 4th Oct 2025. 23:48 Of those playing today, Amade and Gilmour are a big upgrade in their respective positons (not that the bar was set particularly high) compared to what we had. I'd say the jury is still out on the rest. ---------------------------------------------------------------  [b]"People always talk about Ronaldinho and magic, but I didn't see him today. I saw Henrik Larsson; that's where the magic was."[/b] Post Edited (Sat 04 Oct 23:50) Reply |
| 114. Author: Bertie Paton Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 00:20 For a team with about 10 coaches we look so poorly coached. I think the young lads have talent but zero direction. Lennon has serious question marks above his head right now. 3 home games. 1 point and zero goals after all the money thrown about. Unacceptable I`m afraid. Post Edited (Sun 05 Oct 00:32) Reply |
| 115. Author: PARrot Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 03:07 Muppet Par, Sat 4 Oct 21:22 Same Muppets talking pish Reply |
| 116. Author: DNCH Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 04:57 I despair reading fans questioning Lennon here. Painful to read. We’re going to improve with Lennon. Reply |
| 117. Author: Indiapar1 Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 09:20 Ultimately NL has been clear that the team is work in progress. They lack experience but the only way to get it is game time. I agree with the lack of decision-making up front. We tended to snatch at it a bit when in good positions. A bit of focus and composure will make a difference. I agree in the main that we have held our own against PT and StJ. Some bad luck along the way with Rudden, and hitting the woodwork, and lack of discipline with the sending offs. We need to be consistently scoring goals which is a challenge for most clubs. A half fit Chris Kane won`t help us. That means we need two Chris Kanes for 90 minutes. We are better with him for sure but 45 minutes isn`t enough and there is the dilemma do you play the first or last 45. G Wardrope Reply |
| 118. Author: RhinoPars Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 09:32 Part 1: While disappointed with yesterday`s performance - especially second half (when were weren`t playing with enough urgency or a high enough tempo for my liking) I side with usurpar, onandupthe pars and coventry par and others in being very pleased with how our squad has improved. There were some positives yesterday – I really like Terrell who was my man of the match yesterday. He comes out quickly to clear danger, had a great punch, is brave, has a big kick and reasonably accurate, is comfortable with the ball at his feet (and he uses both feet) and with this throws or kicks he is looking to get us counter-attacking quickly. Abdulai also had a very solid debut. Some on here don`t seem to understand that goals are rare events in football and pretty much follow a Poisson distribution. As a result, luck can play a bigger part in results in football than many other sports. For example - how many times have we hit the bar and post recently, or the ref hasn`t given that red card or penalty that may have changed games? With a bit more luck we could have picked up quite a few more points in the last few games. Maybe we will get a bit more luck in our next few and go on a run of a few wins? I think the skill level of most of our new signings and local youngsters coming through like the Tods is very much higher. Cooper is another skilful and unpredictable player with some goals in him, and I think we have really missed him. Losing Caceres is obviously a big blow. Chalmers gave us his best and never hid - always looking for the ball but he was slow and often not looking to get the ball forward enough. Surely people can recognise that Amade and Gilmour have improved our midfield and are a big step up on what we had last season? If you can`t enjoy watching skilful players like Caceres and think we are no different to previous seasons, then I despair. If you go back to Sir Alex`s ideas on football - he wanted his teams to attack with “Speed, Power, Penetration and Unpredictability”. Our scoring issues stem from slow build-up play (letting defences get packed and organised) and predictable attacks, largely resorting to getting the ball wide and putting in crosses into crowded defences, especially with Tidser and McPake`s tactics. It hasn`t helped that our deliveries have often been either under or over-hit most of the time or just floated in gently rather than with a flatter trajectory and more pace. We also haven’t had enough players with sufficient striker’s anticipation to be in the right place to attack the ball when it does come in. We have not had enough unpredictability in recent seasons and that includes a lack of direct penetration through the middle into space for players to run onto at pace. Post Edited (Sun 05 Oct 09:53) Reply |
| 119. Author: RhinoPars Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 09:34 Part 2: For me, players like Cooper and Andy Tod give us that bit of unpredictability and in addition to being able to see and thread passes, they sometimes show some wonderful skill. They also have the footballing intelligence to make direct runs into space, to draw defenders away to make space for others or to receive the ball and shoot (with a much higher accuracy rate than say Matty Tood or Lewis McCann). We have really lacked players with a bit more skill and flair in recent seasons. I reckon we would have had had a much better season last year if our managers had played Tod and Cooper more. Andy Tod may not be an out-and-out striker, but he still has got 4 goals in four league games with 1 assist in 8 matches, and I think another three goals in other games. Pretty good in my book. Too many on dotnet just seem to look at the results and not how we have played. As Ian Graham makes clear (and anyone who has played the game knows), sometimes in football you can be the better team but lose. I didn’t watch the games yesterday, but I see both Leeds and Liverpool’s expected goals were very much higher than their opponents who won. For me, yesterday’s performance was the most disappointing so far this season (especially the second half). However, overall, we are still so much better than the last few seasons and have a much more technically skilful squad. As others have pointed out the reality is that the Championship is a very tough division with almost every team capable of winning on their day. As Raymie has mentioned we are currently short on experience. Ian Graham’s new book “How to win the premier league- the inside story of footballs’ data revolution” sets out that Liverpool thinks that on average a player reaches their peak at 27. As the club has explained – it is not for lack of trying that we haven’t been able to get some more experienced players in – it was just that our targets were overpriced. Our new owners are investing much more but we still don’t have an unlimited budget. We have a young squad, and they should get better and more consistent as they get older and more game time. Let’s be a bit more patient. Some on here seem to have a sense of entitlement that we are the mighty Pars and just should batter every team we play against. I think with the current owners and management we will get there, and we will get back to the Premier League (although most probably not this season – although I would hope we can make the play-offs). It’s going to take time. With a young squad we will have to be patient. With a few wins on the trot we can be right back in the play-off mix. We may have only got one point out of the last 12, but it is not that we haven’t had chances or been completely outplayed. Alex Ferguson didn’t build a great Manchester United team overnight. We may be work in progress but we are so much more entertaining to watch this season. Post Edited (Sun 05 Oct 09:45) Reply |
| 120. Author: CrossPar Date: Sun 5th Oct 2025. 09:41 Excellent post Rhinopars. Reply |
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