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I've never known a season like it for grassroots kids football. We've only played 4 league games this season. Cancelled again last weekend and likely to be off this weekend. We actually pulled out of the country cup as we are concerned we wont complete league fixtures and get fines etc. We got through the 5th round but each tie was postponed at least once, the 5th round game was postponed 3 weeks in a row. Come April and May going to be playing midweek, saturdays and sundays.

Couldn't agree more. And I'd add to that the lack of strategy and competent management from the top down (different directors of football, different coaches, different styles, no clear plan) leading to an average stay of, what, 4 months per manager / 'head coach'? This squad should easily be top 6, and certainly capable of competing with Coventry and Boro for automatic promotion. The coaching is feebly formulaic and lacks identity, and the team follows suit.

Yeah, it was a tad drizzly and breezy down here. Chaos on the roads today.

That’s exactly what happed , the 1st banger this was thrown over the white tarpaulin about 11:45 ish cue a load of Saints fans chucking their plastic beer glasses at the pompey fans the other side. This wasn’t in the stand but by the toilets / concourse as you 1st came in. then the exact same type was thrown in the 2nd half at the saints fans. It’s no surprise they are claiming it wasn’t them - just another myth. I actually love seeing us at Fratton. The locals fucking hate us so much you can see the anger in their faces and how much just being there winds them up.

Yeah but no club with more quality. Clearly we lack the minerals to perform consistently. The cojones to dominate teams for 90 minutes rather than 25. The balls to turn up week in week out and show the fight that the best Championship clubs have.

This probably the best of a series of excellent nightly summaries of the current situation by Jon Stewart

I believe it just means there is an agreed payout figure in the contract.... rather than on the hook for the balance of the contract

Ok, not sure how you can compare food at restaurants compared to players at football clubs. To me stew looks like dogshit at times but can still taste good. Probably one of the most asinine comparisons ever.

May have said this one before but people who take eternity to get their overhead luggage and disembark the plane

Torrential rain and strong winds last night and this morning. So much so that Cheltenham v Gillingham, is off.

Without Leo we'll struggle for inventiveness in our play, draw if he's fit, loss if not. BTW anybody got any suggestions as to where to park at the Bet365 please?

Echo chamber blah blah blah echo chamber, taxes arrgghhh taxes, Dubai, Dubai

xG is a load of bollocks.

This is the REFORM thread. There is a perfectly serviceable STARMER thread elsewhere.

Russell Martin - Choreographer for Musical Youth tribute bands, teaching them to pass the Dutchie on the left hand side. Will Still - Model for Halloween Products Tonde Ekhart - Hypnotist at Butlins Adam Armstrong - Stunt man for Peter Dinklage Ross Stewart - Porter in the General Hospital Adam Lallana - Youth cpouncillor Rickie Lambert - Crime enforcer who always has a funny anachdote

Most of football is tactics, setup, and having a well coached team. We clearly have very good players for this level. Our tactical setup is absolutely appalling, and the players look lost half the time and completely uncoached for what they're being asked to do at certain points in games... Its massively down to the managerial appointments currently - which are directly influenced by SR, and the type of mangers they want and the style of football they want. As for the squad... I know we've been managed appallingly, but still.. how on earth can people look at our an attacking midfield 3 of fellows/azaz/scienza and not see its one of the best in the leauge? Azaz and fellows are two of the best attacking mids in the champ in recent years. Scienza is better still... Then our striking options - AA and Stewart (when fit) is a very high level of attacking player for the league? AA was the top chance goal/assist player in the entire league 2 seasons ago and is on the for the golden boot. Money boots wrexham are looking at him to fire them to promotion... Or take the likes of Charles (hands down one of the best young players in the champ over the past 18months), Jander (very impressive young player), and even Downes (top player in our previous promotion season) - all fighting for 2 CM spots - that is again quality for the 2nd tier! RB we have bree, roerslev, jelert who are all good options for a promotion chasing side, Roeverslev is a promotion winner, Bree would have been at Luton. LB is actually our weakest position now imo, and even that has Wellington and Manning, one of which has already won promotion. CBs are THB (who is a multi promotion winner - once as champion), Stephens (promotion winner), Quarhsie, and Wood... its still a quartet offering experience, ability, and depth - more than enough for a promotion challenge at this level... Bazunu was a weakness but has moved on, peretz looks better by a good distance as well. This is a squad filled with previous promotion winners or new talent that arguably exceeds them (scienza, charles, fellows, azaz, jander). Sadly we have also had managers who's tactical approach and/or coaching or drilling of the side has left a lot to be desired.

I know.

He scores goals at this level. Probably always will but he severely limits how a team can play and has more than proved he isn’t capable of the step up in the very unlikely event that we were ever promoted again in the next few years. Much rather a forward with the raw materials to develop into a decent player capable of managing the step up if given game time to develop. Assume that was the clubs thought process when buying Downs but he appears to be miles off the required standard.

I don't use those stats - I watch the games and just judge what I see with my own eyes.

It’s amusing that an unelected party who has never been in power is getting more grief on this forum than the current government.

Our passing statistics are as good as most in this league fwiw. Possession, pass success, accuracy, creativity, goals scored in open play, whatever pass based metric you want to use. He's a fascinating player because statistically he has more shots than anyone in the league which means he's wasteful and yet racks up numbers. No player has had more shots on or off target than him. Given the above about our creativity both this season and last time we were in it, I'd suspect his numbers would drop significantly elsewhere which is what happened at WBA. Anyway, the main reason we shouldn't fear letting him go is he's not got the quality of where we presumably want to be. The main reason we should fear letting him go is replacing him.

we should have a poll for who wants a dicking to hopefully end this misery or who wants a win to prolong the agony of hope that we could stumble into the playoffs playing shit football and suddenly start playing like world beaters to get promoted

He is prolific at this level.

He is very good at this level. As his goal record shows.