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Well, look at his career record then judge him....36% win ratio. He was abysmal from the start last year. I'd loved to be proved wrong but I'm not holding my breath.
Not sure if Peter Reid had a good management career record when he arrived but he did ok.
O'Neill probably had a good one.
PP might prove you wrong
 
Not sure if Peter Reid had a good management career record when he arrived but he did ok.
O'Neill probably had a good one.
PP might prove you wrong

Reid had finished 5th with Man City after getting them promoted, irrc. When they had been a bit of a yo yo club as well.
 
We have Mate
That was tough. Wimbledon scored shut up shop and that was that.
We had a winger playing wing back and didn’t look comfortable.
He hadn’t trained all week as had a sickness bug.
Had an injured player on the bench, stress fracture of the back.
All our injuries are 3 to 4 weeks. It’s going to be tough and a make shift side against you Mate.
Couple of glasses of red wine and hopefully some of the gloom will lift.

Welcome to our last two seasons. Go behind in this division and it's shithousery central
 
Welcome to our last two seasons. Go behind in this division and it's shithousery central

With a first team available still reckon we would have won that.
Reckon it will be much of the same against you.
We always start well, dominate the first 15mins and come out firing then fizzle out. There you go tactics for Saturday. Still downbeat after that.
 
We are down to 7th and 8 points adrift of leaders Ipswich.

Still think we have players who can score goals?

I said can, not will.
It's a belief that the goals will come from many, as opposed to one player scoring many more than any other.

If we average 1.2 goals per match, that would be only 51 - 52 goals.
Best scenario (have read the stat man 's article on RR) is our strong defense lets in only 0.6 goals against or 27 - 28.
 
I said can, not will.
It's a belief that the goals will come from many, as opposed to one player scoring many more than any other.

If we average 1.2 goals per match, that would be only 51 - 52 goals.
Best scenario (read the stat man on RR) is our strong defense lets in only 0.6 goals against or 27 - 28.
Or a +24 goal difference.
 
I'll probably get pelters for this but are we even that strong defensively? Hanlan gave us (well Wright) the run around and should have seen us down to ten men when still a goal down. We looked ragged in the first half an hour against Peterborough when they attacked us at pace and they missed a couple of relatively easy chances (I appreciate that's the norm in this league) and then Charlton and Oxford were utterly toothless so it was hard to gauge (maybe I should give us more credit for that).

I just feel whenever we're attacked with pace now we don't look as assured as most people seem to say we are. It will be interesting to see how we fare against Swindon as from what @Swindon On Tour says they play an expansive attacking game and have pace in abundance. Exactly what I think we struggle against so it will be a good test.
 
I'll probably get pelters for this but are we even that strong defensively? Hanlan gave us (well Wright) the run around and should have seen us down to ten men when still a goal down. We looked ragged in the first half an hour against Peterborough when they attacked us at pace and they missed a couple of relatively easy chances (I appreciate that's the norm in this league) and then Charlton and Oxford were utterly toothless so it was hard to gauge (maybe I should give us more credit for that).

I just feel whenever we're attacked with pace now we don't look as assured as most people seem to say we are. It will be interesting to see how we fare against Swindon as from what @Swindon On Tour says they play an expansive attacking game and have pace in abundance. Exactly what I think we struggle against so it will be a good test.
We've conceded 33 goals in our last 40 league games.
I'd say that's pretty strong.
 
We've conceded 33 goals in our last 40 league games.
I'd say that's pretty strong.
Good point, well made! :)
I don't know if we're trying to play a bit more expansively, whether I felt more assured with McLaughlin than with Burge or whether it's the difference of watching on TV compared to being at the match (not being able to see who's round on the cover etc) but I feel far more nervous in the games this season about us defensively.
 
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