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Boicey

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  • Today at 9:13 AM
  • #176
Boro and Ipswich are better teams than us. It's really about the playoffs now.
We need at least a point off Boro to make sure we keep the points ticking over so we don't drop out of the playoffs.
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 9:17 AM
  • #177
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Well let’s hope they can just flip a switch like that. At the moment we look terrified to play football.
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Onyeka would make a a big difference, I'm sure

It's not just a flick of switch either. Look how we fought and battled at Southampton. We were fabulous that day. Real passion and determination.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Today at 9:21 AM
  • #178
Boicey said:
Boro and Ipswich are better teams than us. It's really about the playoffs now.
We need at least a point off Boro to make sure we keep the points ticking over so we don't drop out of the playoffs.
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Oxford beat Ipswich, problem is our top players aren’t performing, rudoni, wright have been nowhere near where we need them to be and I’ve said as bad as the defence has been it’ll be goals that cost us, we’ve always defended like that we’ve stopped scoring, we’re missing that creative player, we Can’t break teams down like we used to, 3 shots on target says it all
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Today at 9:24 AM
  • #179
Perennial Lurker said:
He's a troll mate , and not a very good one . He's spends all his waking hours on an online forum trying to provoke reactions . Sad really
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What about my post is trolling?

It’s proving to have been more and more the right decision to sign him.

You came on this forum all nicey nicey “oh i’m just a lurker wasn’t brave enough to make my account” and clearly it is just someone’s alt
 

Marty

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  • Today at 9:26 AM
  • #180
Sick Boy said:
KKH was clearly a succession signing - they probably expected to sell MVE over the summer.
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Both MVE and Sargent were both due to sign for Wolfsburg weren't they? And they pulled the plug last minute for both. KKH like you say was an obvious succession signing, we should see a lot more of him next year as you would expect MVE to move on.
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Today at 9:30 AM
  • #181
Otis said:
Onyeka would make a a big difference, I'm sure

It's not just a flick of switch either. Look how we fought and battled at Southampton. We were fabulous that day. Real passion and determination.
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That was two months ago.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Today at 9:38 AM
  • #182
Otis said:
Onyeka would make a a big difference, I'm sure

It's not just a flick of switch either. Look how we fought and battled at Southampton. We were fabulous that day. Real passion and determination.
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We’ve been on a downward trajectory for months. We clearly can’t battle.
 
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SBT

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  • Today at 9:53 AM
  • #183
Marty said:
Both MVE and Sargent were both due to sign for Wolfsburg weren't they? And they pulled the plug last minute for both. KKH like you say was an obvious succession signing, we should see a lot more of him next year as you would expect MVE to move on.
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Whether or not KKH was a “succession signing”, the reality is that he’s been totally misused this season.
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 9:57 AM
  • #184
SeaSeeEffCee said:
That was two months ago.
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And?

What difference does that make? Just shows we can put a backs to the wall performance in when we need to.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Today at 10:00 AM
  • #185
Should have still had enough to beat Oxford but we need to be at our very best every game with our best players, we can’t afford to be without EMC and Asante, they’d of been the difference yesterday but it’s getting harder to find excuses now, we’re just not playing well and dont Look like changing,
 

Balli001

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  • Today at 10:01 AM
  • #186
Beat Boro and we got 4 points from 2 games. Do that til the end of the season and i highly fancy we go up.
 
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Lord_Nampil

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  • Today at 10:02 AM
  • #187
AFCCOVENTRY said:
We’ve been on a downward trajectory for months. We clearly can’t battle.
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Haven't we brought a midfielder in to do that ???
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 10:02 AM
  • #188
AFCCOVENTRY said:
We’ve been on a downward trajectory for months.
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Disagree.

We were excellent against Southampton. We beat Bristol City at home (both December), Swansea at home, Millwall at home and Leicester at home.

It has been a bit of a spiral, but let's not make out it's all been downward.

Last 6 home games...

4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. That's very decent form indeed.

It's the away form that's killed us
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 10:03 AM
  • #189
Lord_Nampil said:
Haven't we brought a midfielder in to do that ???
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Exactly.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Today at 10:04 AM
  • #190
Otis said:
Disagree.

We were excellent against Southampton. We beat Bristol City at home (both December), Swansea at home, Millwall at home and Leicester at home.

It has been a bit of a spiral, but let's not make out it's all been downward.

Last 6 home games...

4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. That's very decent form indeed.

It's the away form that's killed us
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Christ
 
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SBT

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  • Today at 10:05 AM
  • #191
clint van damme said:
But that still isn't a rationale not to sign a striker when his go yo man is,stinking the place out and he clearly doesn't fancy the back up option either.
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It’s not that I don’t rate Bamford (I suggested we should sign him when he was training here), it’s that I don’t trust Lampard to not just muddle through the same tactics anyway. That’s what he’s done with almost every other signing we’ve made this season.

We can sign as many new players as we like but unless we make the necessary changes in terms of tactics then it makes no difference (see: the results since we signed Esse etc) That’s why I don’t buy this argument that not signing Bamford (or anyone else) is the turning point - the turning point is up to Lampard.
 
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SBT

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  • Today at 10:06 AM
  • #192
Lord_Nampil said:
Haven't we brought a midfielder in to do that ???
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Apparently we didn’t need him yesterday after all though - could’ve fooled me.
 

CCFC96

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  • Today at 10:07 AM
  • #193
Otis said:
Disagree.

We were excellent against Southampton. We beat Bristol City at home (both December), Swansea at home, Millwall at home and Leicester at home.

It has been a bit of a spiral, but let's not make out it's all been downward.

Last 6 home games...

4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. That's very decent form indeed.

It's the away form that's killed us
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Agree with this - it's also a dreaded downward trajectory from 1st to 1st (aware the gap to 3rd has closed from 10-12 to 5 points).

People just need to keep their heads a bit here. I'm fine with moaning about Norwich/QPR because those are games that Lampard was tactically naive, but this style of meltdown because we just couldn't get the ball in the goal despite dominating 90 mins is ridiculous. Like many have said, if Boro don't win tomorrow and we beat them, it could be a 3/4 point gap to them with a much better goal difference.

Fine margins at this stage of the season.
 
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SIR ERNIE

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  • Today at 10:08 AM
  • #194
fernandopartridge said:
Oh give it a fucking rest man, it's the beginning of February there is everything to play for.

Imagine being in the trenches with a flannel like you
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Credit where due, that's a great post.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Today at 10:09 AM
  • #195
Otis said:
Disagree.

We were excellent against Southampton. We beat Bristol City at home (both December), Swansea at home, Millwall at home and Leicester at home.

It has been a bit of a spiral, but let's not make out it's all been downward.

Last 6 home games...

4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. That's very decent form indeed.

It's the away form that's killed us
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Away form has killed us for sure. That’s why we’re so reliant on home form now. We dropped 2 points at home yesterday. There’s no hiding that. We really needed maximum points yesterday.
 

Marty

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  • Today at 10:09 AM
  • #196
SBT said:
Whether or not KKH was a “succession signing”, the reality is that he’s been totally misused this season.
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Under unused as opposed to misused but I agree.
 
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skyblue025

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  • Today at 10:20 AM
  • #197
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Ipswich would have to win more and haven't gone on a run like that all season. Keep away from sharp objects fella.
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Jim

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  • Today at 10:25 AM
  • #198
Just rewatching through the highlights again and there’s a bunch of chances that we were putting away for fun earlier in the season. Could easily have been 2 or 3 nil. That chance skimming their keepers chest for instance.

Players definately need a spark of confidence to just go for shots, chances, through balls and not second guess themselves.

Ironically, I think the Boro match represents a chance for the players to lift themselves. Instead of us being the target team, now Boro will be that.

Win that game and it could springboard the team for the rest of the season.
 
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Ashdown

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  • Today at 10:31 AM
  • #199
Otis said:
Disagree.

We were excellent against Southampton. We beat Bristol City at home (both December), Swansea at home, Millwall at home and Leicester at home.

It has been a bit of a spiral, but let's not make out it's all been downward.

Last 6 home games...

4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. That's very decent form indeed.

It's the away form that's killed us
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We have really only just scraped over the line in most of those games though.
People claiming we haven’t got a striker crisis because Simms and Wright ‘scored’ against Leicester. Simms didn’t know anything about his goal and Wright’s was from 10 inches . It’s the manner of our decline that is the most disappointing, from flowing champagne football and lots of goals to a stuttering total lack of confidence. Mentally weak all round, especially those excuses for forwards. If they can’t get going again we’re doomed to an embarrassing slide.
 

Otis

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  • Today at 10:37 AM
  • #200
Ccfcisparks said:
Christ
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If we've won 4 out of the last 6 home games and only lost 1, by very definition that is not downward.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Today at 10:38 AM
  • #201
Otis said:
If we've won 4 out of the last 6 home games and only lost 1, by very definition that is not downward.
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This would make sense if the last game wasn't against the second worst team in the league, home games only make up half of your fixtures and our away form hadnt been turgid since November.
 

Otis

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  • Today at 10:41 AM
  • #202
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Away form has killed us for sure. That’s why we’re so reliant on home form now. We dropped 2 points at home yesterday. There’s no hiding that. We really needed maximum points yesterday.
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We did. But it wasn't disastrous that we didn't. Hull lost at home. If Sheff Utd beat Boro on Monday, which is definitely possible, we will have gained a point on both of them.

Really frustrating though that we didn't bag all 3 yesterday
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 10:42 AM
  • #203
Ccfcisparks said:
This would make sense if the last game wasn't against the second worst team in the league, home games only make up half of your fixtures and our away form hadnt been turgid since November.
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Agree on the away form. The home form has been very good.

Just saying it's not all downward
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Today at 10:43 AM
  • #204
AFCCOVENTRY said:
We’ve been on a downward trajectory for months. We clearly can’t battle.
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I really wish SBT would make its mind up, we were apparently second best against Millwall and Leicester yet won both games, we must have some ability to battle. Obviously can't battle. The win at Middlesbrough was just over two months ago.
 
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Otis

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  • Today at 10:45 AM
  • #205
fernandopartridge said:
I really wish SBT would make its mind up, we were apparently second best against Millwall and Leicester yet won both games, we must have some ability to battle. Obviously can't battle. The win at Middlesbrough was just over two months ago.
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It's so funny to see things get stretched.

It was that we haven't been good for weeks, then it was a month, then 2 months and now it's "months".



Keep going and we will be back in League 2 soon
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Today at 10:52 AM
  • #206
Otis said:
It's so funny to see things get stretched.

It was that we haven't been good for weeks, then it was a month, then 2 months and now it's "months".



Keep going and we will be back in League 2 soon
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Lots of history rewriting going on, there have been been a few posts hinting that we were lucky to win a lot of games early season.
 

Grendel

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  • Today at 10:53 AM
  • #207
fernandopartridge said:
Lots of history rewriting going on, there have been been a few posts hinting that we were lucky to win a lot of games early season.
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I suppose some we were but conversely we could easily have won some of the games we’ve lost on this run
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Today at 10:55 AM
  • #208
fernandopartridge said:
I really wish SBT would make its mind up, we were apparently second best against Millwall and Leicester yet won both games, we must have some ability to battle. Obviously can't battle. The win at Middlesbrough was just over two months ago.
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We edged the Millwall game for the most part and deserved to win but should have probably been 2-1 if not for Rushworth. Leicester we were genuinely diabolical first half and should have been minimum 2-0 down if not 3. Lampard changed it at half time and we were by far the better team second half. Unfortunately he’s not done that in the three games that have followed those two wins.
 

clint van damme

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  • Today at 10:55 AM
  • #209
fernandopartridge said:
Lots of history rewriting going on, there have been been a few posts hinting that we were lucky to win a lot of games early season.
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We've deserved everything we've got and everything we haven't got.
Our home form has been, and is, exceptional, our away form has been awful for 2 months and is the reason we've blown our lead.

Not sure anyone can argue anything to contradict that.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Today at 10:57 AM
  • #210
Grendel said:
I suppose some we were but conversely we could easily have won some of the games we’ve lost on this run
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It's almost as if that's just the game really
 
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