Match Thread Preston North End FC - Coventry City Match Thread - Tuesday 9th Dec (75 Viewers)

[shmmeee]

I said if we get to Jan in top 2 I'd fancy our chances a while back. I think that's almost impossible not to be now isn't it?

Nah Millwall win tomorrow and third is 7 points off with 4 games until Jan

 

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[mmttww]

We weren't dog shit or poor at all

Exactly. Dasilva and Rudoni switch off, lazy running, complacency setting up for the free kick leaves Wright on their no. 9, goal. We didn't play badly.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

The Preston keeper had a blinder

 

[Major Tom]

A good away point against a team in the PO places, and at a ground we dont do well at, but ultimately only got themselves to blame for not getting all 3.

Piss poor decision making at crucial times...
And defensively switched off, again at a crucial time.

Fair play to Heckingbottom. Proactive switch to go 2 up top and it paid off for them.

Experience subs there. Nothing to lose, so put two up top to ease the pressure on defence a bit.
could have backfired thought.

 

[Saddlebrains]

January can't come fast enough, squad depth and busy fixture list catching up with us

Its almost as if literally everyone but Doug saw it

 

[SBT]

I said if we get to Jan in top 2 I'd fancy our chances a while back. I think that's almost impossible not to be now isn't it?

Draw on Saturday and we're guaranteed to be top at Christmas.

 

[covmark]

Do you even like football? Nothing you say about it even resembles the truth.

You used to be a helmet, you actually talk sense nowadays.

 

[Tommo1993]

I think given the genuine bedwetting going on here, if you want to be obviously satirical you're going to have to lay it on a bit thicker than that.

Really?! I’ve been echoing it all night!

 

[Nick]

What more did you want him to do? They had 10 men for a whole half, make our fan base look like complete twats when you start crying about the referee

He had no choice but to send him off. It was clear cut.

It doesn't change that he killed the game every time they wanted to. He gave imaginary free kicks against EMC and KKH, missed a clear booking on Eccles that forced him to go off.

Imagine that making somebody "good" at their job.

 

[TomRad85]

Oh well at least the Blunts fucked it to doomed Norwich, you'd think Wilder had turned them into prime Barca this last week all the shit I've been reading. Oh and we're just the 16 points ahead of the Chimney pot fuckers too.

 

[skyblueelephant76]

Nah Millwall win tomorrow and third is 7 points off with 4 games until Jan

Our goal difference is 31 better than Millwall, it's basically 8 points

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Its almost as if literally everyone but Doug saw it

Well they didn’t as half the forum thought we had signed enough

 

[Jamesimus]

Draw on Saturday and we're guaranteed to be top at Christmas.

Thanks Santa. We have all been good boys this year.

 

[hinckley cov]

I am absolutely seething, that was the game to finally end the Deepdale hoodoo. But, we didn't play too badly and equaliser apart, the second half was quite enjoyable.

Didn’t play to badly what against 10 men we looked half asleep at times in the second half.

 

[Major Tom]

He had no choice but to send him off. It was clear cut.

It doesn't change that he killed the game every time they wanted to. He gave imaginary free kicks against EMC and KKH, missed a clear booking on Eccles that forced him to go off.

Imagine that making somebody "good" at their job.

That EMC free kick was an odd one.

 

[David O'Day]

You used to be a helmet, you actually talk sense nowadays.

Yeah, I felt I was stepping one your toes too much

 

[shmmeee]

Our goal difference is 31 better than Millwall, it's basically 8 points

You can get 12 points from 4 games tho

 

[Macca]

2 home wins and we still hit 50 at half way. Then January and time for DK to decide whether the lure of promotion is worth a financial punt. Forget Southampton thats a sound bumming

 

[Ccfcisparks]

He had no choice but to send him off. It was clear cut.

It doesn't change that he killed the game every time they wanted to. He gave imaginary free kicks against EMC and KKH, missed a clear booking on Eccles that forced him to go off.

Imagine that making somebody "good" at their job.

The way you talk about the ref helping opposition teams just takes any credibility you have away

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I didn’t think we’d miss BTA quite this much, the energy he brings is so important.

 

[Martw]

Its almost as if literally everyone but Doug saw it

I think he knew in September and certainly knows now

 

[theferret]

Easy to let frustration cloud judgement. It was one of those. Was bound to happen at some point, so take the point and move on. They celebrated like it was a win. We've been much the better side before the sending off and dominated after it. Final ball lacking and switched off for the goal. It happens. Nothing I saw tonight worries me really.

 

[shepardo01]

It wasn't that bad/as bad as most are making out.
Their keeper was man of the match and kept them in it.
A very difficult surface in tricky conditions.
Still at no point did I really think we'd lose, but obviously given the circumstances it is very disappointing to not win that.

 

[Jamesimus]

Do you even like football?

I don’t think I do anymore. I know you weren’t asking me, but I don’t think I can like football until we are allowed to win at Deepdale.

 

[Nick]

The way you talk about the ref helping opposition teams just takes any credibility you have away

Where? I said he killed the game every time they wanted it killed. Every time they hit the deck, he stopped the game.

 

[bigfatronssba]

Its 2 games without a loss, its 6 games now playing poor. We've been poor since Blackburn but thankfully results have gone for us.

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Lets just bring this back to reality here.

Last 6 games you're saying we've played poor?

That has covered 2 home games, and 4 away games.

Average position of those 4 away opponents: 4th

Points returned from those away games: 1.75

If we maintain 1.75 points for the rest of the season we go up automatically.

 

[Domo]

Can everyone come back to this thread once they've had a good nights rest? calm down, its a draw, take the point, learn, and move on

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

He had no choice but to send him off. It was clear cut.

It doesn't change that he killed the game every time they wanted to. He gave imaginary free kicks against EMC and KKH, missed a clear booking on Eccles that forced him to go off.

Imagine that making somebody "good" at their job.

stop blaming the referees for a game we should have won, why you bottling accepting my mate calling out your bullshit posts too? Come on Eric cartman, stop crying and being a big baby

 

[biggymania]

Feels to me like one of those games. Preston last ditch defending for most of the game and it paid off. Trying to remember the last team that pulled this off against us - but it can happen and you have to give them credit - they worked extremely hard for it.

On another night, Wright walks away with 2-3 goals. Taking him off when we could have had 2 up top seems a bit strange in retrospect, but I know he's coming back from injury.

Feels a bit like our luck has caught up with us a bit the last 2 games, where the scoreline has felt a touch unfair.

 

[Jamesimus]

Easy to let frustration cloud judgement. It was one of those. Was bound to happen at some point, so take the point and move on. They celebrated like it was a win. We've been much the better side before the sending off and dominated after it. Final ball lacking and switched off for the goal. It happens. Nothing I saw tonight worries me really.

I’d have celebrated a defensive performance with 10 men like that tbf.

 

[Mcbean]

Pitch was crap - Rudoni screwed a pass for no reason

 

[mmttww]

1 point from 3 games

has Nick fired up the bots tonight?

 

[Shannerz]

He is still adjusting to this level. But often looks like a League One player. Yes he has pace when he can chase a ball into space. But from a standing start with the ball at his feet he has none. No trick to beat the fullback. Too one footed has to come insde all the time whether it is the right option or not.

He doesn’t get some of the fouls he deserves, because his feet seem to get stuck under himself and his upper body gets ahead of him. He looks off balance and looks like he is going down before there is any contact.

Not convinced he is Championship quality let alone potential Premier League quality.

I think he's a Championship player, just not a top end one.

 

[Boicey]

We needed a professional calmness to see that game out. Led by Grimes.
Instead we got the usual defensive disorganisation and cock up.
Stop crosses and FFS get our strikers out the way in the 6 yard box and let defenders deal with it.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

has Nick fired up the bots tonight?

Anything to get some extra income, like he did when he randomly dropped 7000 adverts every day