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...also Paterson looked off the pace, but early doors

Eccles had an absolute stinker. A string of badly weighted passes, crap free kick, missed opportunities to keep momentum going. It just got worse and worse. Should have been pulled for Allen a lot lot sooner

I said this on the match thread. The Preston front man gave our central pairing real problems in the second half and a better team may have scored more than once. It was a bit like Leeds and Ipswich but fortunately PNE were not as good

First half was the best performance of the season - much quicker transition from defence to attack which previously had been very laboured. This was mainly, but not exclusively, down to Grimes. Rudoni continues to look so good and Simms scared them witless for the first hour Three 'buts'...

When Rudoni hits those high looping corners, time seems to stand still. They are not the usual 'whipped in' corners but are absolutely murderous for a defence. Can he give Eccles some lessons in dead ball kicking?

...which is why, if he is unfit (which was the context of the comment) and Da Silva plays, it has to be 5 at the back. Four including Da Silva and an uncertain EMC would be suicidal imho

...much as I love EMC, he's not the world's most alert player or good at tracking back

Given that it is all about money, here is one way of looking at it London: (7) Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Spurs, West Ham Large Cities: (6) Aston Villa, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle Small Cities: (7) Bournemouth, Brighton...

Oh no, the dreaded manager 'vote of confidence'.....you know what comes next!

Beadle gifted it to us

If we had not scored two very late goals, one highly fortuitously, City would be 13th, and we would be saying that Lampard had done an ok job so far, but nothing to write home about #finemargins

Does 3-4-3 + Saddlebrains intel look like this? It looks like a good compromise between the fantastically successful 5-3-2 and the wildly optimistic 4-3-3. Dovin Binks - Thomas - Kitching MVE - Allen - Grimes - Bidwell Rudi - Simms - EMC With Pato lined up as a sub for Rudi on 70 mins?

I am a down the line fan of back 5 particularly as long as our current defenders are such that we need more of them to compensate. It got us promoted from League 1 after it was in effect forced on a reluctant Robins. It did well for us in the run to the play offs and now on a run of 6 league...

No but you have to have a decent core; It is high risk to try to buy the bulk of a new team over a summer break. Notts Forest very much the exception. Burnley seem to have the right approach. I see no point in being pummeled every week or even being Crystal Palace, where success is 16th and...

Both good goals, not just tap ins

Looks like there of us have said roughly the same thing

Do you really want to shit your way up? I don't. Prem quality: Dovin, Haji, Rudoni, Borderline: Sheaf (if fit!), MVE, EMC, Grimes (?? no Prem team took him from Swansea when he was younger), The rest, including as you can see, almost all our defence is nowhere near good enough. Maybe...

me too

The problem against Ipswich and Leeds was not the tactical formation 5-3-2 or whatever, it was the strategic idea of taking a high defensive line. It almost cost us against QPR as well if it had not been for Dovin. They just cut through it. We could have had 20 defenders

repeat: we are away from home