Most liked posts in thread: Away vs Cambridge United - Sat 15 Feb 2020

We did not lose because of the officials. We did not lose because of Stuart. The alleged foul on Pritchard was on the halfway line. Ten strikers on? Ten midfielders on? Ten defenders on? It doesn't matter. The lad should not have got anywhere near our penalty area.

 

There is no promotion team in this squad, it's garbage, generally people are happier now Stuart is in charge and I am, but would we have achieved less points under Bowyer from these 3 games? Doubtful. It's time to suck it up and stop hammering our manager until he has his own team, which with SmC is going to be next August.

 

McCartan was playing in midfield, 4-5-1.

 

You are more obsessive over Stuart than @Ricc.

 

Fundamentally we are what we are. Spent most of our time in the lower echelons of the football league. Made it to the promised land of the top division of supposedly the best league in the world. But we were doomed to fail. We are what we are. No getting away from it.

 

How do they have TWO men unmarked in front of goal for the 2nd? However, it was embarrassing tracking back by MH for the cross. He was challenging their no.21 in the attack but trailing woefully when he arrives unmarked in the second wave to put the cross in for the 2nd goal. If MH was too tired he should have a breather in our half, not theirs. We've had this before. It's like some players feel they don't have to defend when we play 3 centre backs. He was also slow to react to the loose ball in the first goal.

I'd have given a foul for the left hand push on the back of Pritchard.

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Everybody attacks. Everybody defends. That's teamwork and organisation. If they can't do it, get fit or get lost.

 

The way we crumbled at the end worries me.

True, the wind made the second half very difficult, but they deserved to equalise long before they did.

We still lacked balls in the middle of the pitch. We needed a stronger leader to gee us up and drive on to the death. We need a Gary Jones man badly.

 

Akpan shouldn’t be playing if he can’t do more than seventy minutes. Playing him automatically wastes a sub.

 

No one's marked because we went from two centre backs who knew what each was doing to three where no one knew what they were supposed to be doing. Only one person to blame for that.

 

Your anti SM agenda is already clear. Nothing he will do will please you. Your track record is for all to see.

 

Very sensible - and we go again and live in hope.

 

I would love it, love it! If Stuart got it right. Night all.

 

Oh better still Rhodes and Rupp

 

We are just a mid table 4 division team with a expensive stadium!!

 

Bang on Bronco. That is exactly as it was. They were always going to score whether or not we brought on Paudie. In the last ten minutes teams under the cosh don’t have systems. They defend for their lives. It’s every man to the pump. It’s ridiculous to imagine if we had repositioned one man somewhere else suddenly the tide and the wind would have changed.

 

You would think our newshound at the T&A would be asking this very question at the press conference. ‘‘Tis a mystery but in our dire need I doubt an extra payment to Blackpool can be the reason.

 

Don’t agree with the majority of your post, but do agree with the highlighted. However, I think Stuart has hardly any time to properly assess the players.

 

It might have been 1-1 or worse if Stuart had waited until the last 10 minutes you say we surrendered to attack and defence far too early, as I posted I could only watch the second half and it looked very much attack and defence for virtually all the second 45 minutes, maybe two chances second half Connollys great cross that maybe Novak should have done better and the Pritchard situation when the ref didn't think it was a foul and Cambridge broke away and scored, having said that challenges should have been made before the lad got chance to cross, how many times have we seen that situation this season.

 

One aspect that seems to have slipped under the radar is Guthrie’s absence. It looks like there’s a story there. Our deadline day signing starts one match and then is left out of the 18. I’m not surprised frankly but how annoying that we may well have made a poor signing in the wrong position.

 

I don’t think we should pick people up on their English on a football forum. We all make mistakes when writing rapidly and autocorrect can perpetrate some enormous errors. I think if the meaning is clear there’s no problem.