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  1. Otis

    Formation and team

    Alsop Phillips Willis Reda Haynes O'Brien Fleck Barton Swanson Nouble Jackson On paper I have to say, that looks a truly shocking line-up. We would get hammered playing that team. Midfield already looks like it's lacking strength and yet Liam would like to play Barton and Swanson?
  2. Otis

    Wanting a Retro shirt

    I'm wanting a retro team at the moment.
  3. Otis

    Player Ratings v PNE

    I just noticed the stats, BBC is saying we had 51% possession. Is that right? :confused: From what I recall the first 25 mins or so we hardly even touched the ball and in the 2nd half, as soon as they scored, they completely dominated and their fans were doing the Olé's and we were nowhere...
  4. Otis

    Player Ratings v PNE

    At the moment I think you'd have to say, if you shut down Haynes you shut down our entire attacking threat. Pretty much all our good stuff has come down the left hand side. Yesterday, you are right about Clarke. There were several times when he was completely free on the right and we didn't go...
  5. Otis

    How can SP say this squad is better????

    As someone said, when we go ahead the system works okay on the whole, but when we are behind and chasing games this system doesn't create enough goalscoring opportunities for us and we look rather powder puff then.
  6. Otis

    Player Ratings v PNE

    Yep, totally agree. 3-5-2 makes us a lot more solid, but we hardly offer any attacking threat and if we switch back to 4-4-2 i can see last year's defensive frailties coming back to haunt us once again. Then you have to add to that, that up front I just don't think we have the same goal power...
  7. Otis

    Player Ratings v PNE

    I'm not sure where a 7 for Fleck is coming from. As Stupot says, our midfield was totally dominated for pretty much the entire game.
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    Player Ratings v PNE

    Comes to something when you have to scratch you head and struggle to actually find a MOTM.
  9. Otis

    How can SP say this squad is better????

    This squad is 10 games in, FACT.
  10. Otis

    Player Ratings v PNE

    Well I think that's it in a nutshell. We all believe it was one of the worst ever performances in living memory and therefore I can't see how anyone deserved anything past a 6.
  11. Otis

    Reda....

    Thought at the time of his sending off during the Scunthorpe match that it could cost us past that game if we lost. Not trying to say he cost us all 3 games, but that madness of the that one game obviously cost us then, but there was a knock on effect following that game and he has been a big...
  12. Otis

    The Confessions Thread

    I remember a mate of mine telling me in complete confidence that one time he woke up one morning after quite a raucous party to find himself in bed with someone licking his balls. He said at first he was merely just enjoying it, but as he properly awoke, he couldn't remember much at all about...
  13. Otis

    Why our crowds are awful

    Well he certainly made me laugh.
  14. Otis

    Why we are struggling....

    It is a negative formation. Well, it is the way we deploy it. I am increasingly doubtful that we have the personnel to make this system work for us. I sincerely hope Pressley is having doubts too and doesn't just show stubborness in continuing with it come hell or high water. It needs a...
  15. Otis

    Player Ratings v PNE

    Yep, about right those marks I would say and certainly no-one deserved anything more than a 6. I'm sure Preston fans will be purring and now have eyes on the play-offs at least after yesterday, but I really think that will be the easiest game they will have all season long, as we were so...
  16. Otis

    Why we are struggling....

    For some strange reason SP seems to see something in Marcus Tudgay that the rest of us can't see. Allsop is another worry. We should have changed the system after about 25 mins, cos it clearly wasn't working. No idea why SP seemed to just cross his fingers and hope we'd make it through to half...
  17. Otis

    We must go back to 4-4-2

    Probably no footed from what we've seen I'd say.
  18. Otis

    Preston Match Thread

    Ah, if I had a penny for eveytime we've said that over the years I'd have several pounds by now.
  19. Otis

    Will Pressley dig his own grave?

    He worried me greatly today. Must put the jitters in the entire back 4 at times I reckon.
  20. Otis

    What do the club do if keep losing

    Pretty sure a lot of City fans were talking promotion on here after we beat Gillingham. Even automatic promotion from some. That's the trouble, some people get too carried away and for the same reason we are not going to be promoted on 3 wins back to back, we are not going to be relegated on...
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