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That's pretty much the nub of it in an onfield sense. Recruitment, please weigh "a bit of gumption," and a "flash of brilliance" against "plan A" and work out the plus and minuses, instead of spreadsheeting the plusses and hoping it just works. I spoke to one BWFC bod about "character" recruitment ...

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As a fun aside, I did this weekend on a (re)fractured foot.

Pretty sure I still moved faster than Iredale did to take that corner.

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The problem with that was Maghoma likely struggling with injury didn’t fancy contact. He was clearly not comfortable to do it. And secondly the out was Ogbeta who might as well have been a bloke from the crowd he was that bad. I really don't want to shit on individuals. I'd have subbed Oggy off aft...

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Worthy4England wrote: ↑
Sun May 19, 2024 10:57 pm
What were Pompey's long term injuries? 10? 3 in Feb?

It needs different thinking. Some different personnel and a few ounces of nous.

Sure, but Pompey are an outlier in terms of injuries and results.

Mousinho did a great job. Evatt didn't.

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But what would we have to do differently? I ask because I was with a good youth coach yesterday who within ten minutes identified that we needed to switch to a back four which would have stretched out their midfield block and provided us easy outlet to fullbacks. I think tactically it looked pretty...

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Sorry, that we'd go up... Yup. I thought we would this season and believe that we *should* have and Evatt has to take responsibility. He had a great chance to get the autos and I can work somewhat with the injuries issue, but it was still there to take. The final is another issue entirely. The play...

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Worthy4England wrote: ↑
Sun May 19, 2024 10:38 pm
You said that last season. And in Jan.

No, I didn't.

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You're missing the story, Insano. The engine room is recruitment. It's not there fault if they reccomend botleless fckrs. It's the managers for not setting them up right. Who's said any of that? The players bottled it. The manager fecking it up put extra pressure on them and made them bottling it e...

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How are you proposing he set them up? Not to pass through a narrow 3 with a single pivot who is obviously going to be marked out of the game. Oxford were warming up with Harris marking and their back three doing heading drills over their heads. Their plan was always to shut down that short route ou...

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Stay if he's up for it. Go if he's not. Never liked him as a person, but rate him as a manager. Personality failings have been on show for a few months now. Needs to sort his head out and find the drive to scream into another season. Nothing less than that will do it. We have a better chance of prom...

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Even Kachunga had the bollocks to have a go at Wembley. No fear. Losing the pizza cup would've been a "meh" so maybe they played with a little more freedom however yesterday not one of them took a risk. It was a do not lose situation that we all know and love. Helps when the manager sets his side u...

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Well, that was shite. First things first, Evatt needs to make it very clear that he's 100% committed to the club for next season. If not, he should step down. Not having this "I'm not talking about that, we all need to do some soul searching" bollocks. Clubs are already signing players and building ...

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Well, this time tomorrow I'll be at Wembley; all things being equal. Dry cleaning is done and bags are packed. Kids have calmed down and are asleep. Snacks and entertainment purchased. Car cleaned and full of fuel. Up here on the moors everything is dead silent. According to my clock it's officially...

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Evatt has already said the league is much tougher next season and we have to do it this season for that reason. So that will be the excuse. This year is the chance. I think next season we’d be in a pack of 6 or 7. League is somewhat tougher, but we're better placed. There was a lot to do last summe...

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I suspect round here wouldn't be a great place, were we to lose out to an Evans/Clarke-Harris led Rotherham, next year... :mrgreen: If we go up it'll be interesting to see how people react to us losing a lot more games and whether there's the kind of patience there needs to be. If we stay down then...

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worse on defending and not yet on outcome :-)... Strong relationship between those two issues. We know the biggest issue this season was going to be balancing defending with our attempt to score more goals. We've not got it quite right and thus we're in the play-offs. If we had, even with our injur...

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Is he going to press from the front though? That was one of Stevenage's strengths this year. Yeah, I saw Gabe Sutton making the same point. Evans will adapt slightly. Doyle didn't play in a way that precisely suited Evatt, but he adapted his approach to accommodate a quality goal-scorer. Would be v...

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Johnson Clarke-Harris has joined Rotherham.

Hahahahaha....oh god, he's going to be an utter terror under Evans. Get us out of this division

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I think maybe the other way around. If it manages to really excite, then I say, "That was exciting" and if not I don't. The game is driving whether I'm excited by it, not the mindset. Your selling point seems to be "this is much better than where we've been recently." Agree, wholeheartedly. That in...

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I'm once again confused. When did I ever say this was my *best* experience supporting the football club?

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