pommpey
THE FUTURE ... AS IT USED TO BE
- Banned
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Great win for us today. Plenty of mettle and some decent finishing and for once we put a struggling team to the sword albeit hanging on in typical fashion near the end. Still - three points and we are fourth, three points behind the leaders. With the way other results are not factoring against us we are still theoretically in with a shout of automatic but it will need a lot more than todays game to convince me we are over the hump as it were. We are still shipping injuries like gunshots and still tend to play hopeful balls up the pitch into empty grass or straight to the opposition for them to come straight back at us.
Good though to see the bench an later the onfield team augmented with injury returnees, if not regarding Brewster who is genuinely now looking to be our shittest signing since Ebrell. The conditioning team need fucking sacking now considering we have had so many defects in the same area. We need this addressing because this is one too many common injuries to forgive. Either players aren't getting the right manipulation and post training physio work or they are not warming and stretching effectively prior to coming on or kicking off. It isn't difficult to warm and stretch achillies/calfs and hamstrings, it is just intensive and needs doing in stages. Just jogging and doing simple plyodynamics won't do it.
First half though WBA were expecting some sort of New Manager Syndrome to kick in and for them to be all over us. In fairness we closed them down well and pushed them back into their own half. Our first was a lovely Doyle/Baldock combination for cool Mr N'D to slot in after McB had made a cats cock of the cross and McBurnies goal was almost Currie and Salmonseque in it's 'joined up football' nature. Great finish too, much to the bellendry of the Baggies commentators on ifollow. We could have had more to be honest with N'Daiye just terrorising their pretty static backline (O'Shea looked like he'd just got up after a night out on the sauce) and went in deserved leaders with hopefully more to come later.
Second half obviously the Baggies tried different combinations to unlock a way through, even to get a consolation goal to make it interesting. We looked firm and resolute though and from early doors likely to break out and put them further behind. The daftest thing though was bringing Brewster on for Fleck after an hour when we suddenly lost all our mojo. Brewster didn't give us anything we needed more than what N'Daiye was offering and we'd likely go further in front with his partnership with McB. Brewster's early exit then gave us JLT and Enda and Billy came on later as we were forced to dig deep to stop WBA getting something from this disastrous game for them. And they got fuck all. Boing, boing ... etc.
Davies 6/10: He's still a bit of a liability and his distribution was poor today. in particular finding the ever willing McBurnie. Much went out of play, into empty grass or to their back four. Good stop in the first half but a bit of a flap could have had them an undeserved equaliser
Baldock 7/10: Full mark for a decent volleyed cross and the other six for his hour and a bit of battling with Townsend and Wallace
Anel 6/10: Not a classic Anel outing but he was robust in phases and came out to attack the ball and stayed involved. Still a class above
Egan 6.5/10: Slightly better performance from him. Some key interceptions and headers and defensive solidity when needed. Their frontline though was a bit bobbar on balance
Basham 6.5/10: Improving in small steps but still vulnerable to pace where more agile players leave him standing. A real Basham tackle late in the second half and looked pissed off to be subbed
Osborn 6/10: Another fairly decent outing from him though in truth he was run ragged at times by Phillips down that flank. Still don't reckon he's anywhere near what we want in a LWB
Doyle 7/10: I like Doyle. Works his socks off and uses his youthful eagerness to the full to do the fetching and carrying and making the option on the right side of the team as well as tracking back to assist with the defending
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.
Fleck 5/10: Not really back to John, or even Jimmy Fleck at all. Time we shipped him out before we have to pay a club to take him off us. If we are looking at Autos, he isn't the solution at LCM
N'Daiye 8/10: Missed a point because he was pushed back into midfield after an hour and completely disappeared. Superb on and off the ball in an attacking stance and a really lovely, coolly-taken goal
McBurnie 9/10: Looks like we've got a striker now. Effective at both ends of the pitch and okay ... some shithousing ... but another well taken front-man's goal and showing us what we expect from such a signing.
Brewster (unmarked): Gutted for him.
JLT 6/10: Great to see him back. Got stuck in straight away and looks happy to be back in the action.
Stevens 5/10: Not much to comment on but again a timely return with us struggling on the left side of the pitch
Sharp 5/10: Stanard graft and grit from Billy winning free kicks and being the receiver of our clearnaces as we dug deep
HJ&SMcCL 8/10: Good to see us pressing and attacking in the first half to stamp our mark on a clearly struggling WBA who couldn't answer to anything we had. Nice also for him to present JLT and Stevens back and us still to hang on effectively. Another long trip on Tuesday against a team who were beating Swansea at one stage today. It's a big journey and one we can ill afford to come away with nowt from considering next Saturday is a massive game v Burnleh which will define our pre WC fortunes
pommpey
Good though to see the bench an later the onfield team augmented with injury returnees, if not regarding Brewster who is genuinely now looking to be our shittest signing since Ebrell. The conditioning team need fucking sacking now considering we have had so many defects in the same area. We need this addressing because this is one too many common injuries to forgive. Either players aren't getting the right manipulation and post training physio work or they are not warming and stretching effectively prior to coming on or kicking off. It isn't difficult to warm and stretch achillies/calfs and hamstrings, it is just intensive and needs doing in stages. Just jogging and doing simple plyodynamics won't do it.
First half though WBA were expecting some sort of New Manager Syndrome to kick in and for them to be all over us. In fairness we closed them down well and pushed them back into their own half. Our first was a lovely Doyle/Baldock combination for cool Mr N'D to slot in after McB had made a cats cock of the cross and McBurnies goal was almost Currie and Salmonseque in it's 'joined up football' nature. Great finish too, much to the bellendry of the Baggies commentators on ifollow. We could have had more to be honest with N'Daiye just terrorising their pretty static backline (O'Shea looked like he'd just got up after a night out on the sauce) and went in deserved leaders with hopefully more to come later.
Second half obviously the Baggies tried different combinations to unlock a way through, even to get a consolation goal to make it interesting. We looked firm and resolute though and from early doors likely to break out and put them further behind. The daftest thing though was bringing Brewster on for Fleck after an hour when we suddenly lost all our mojo. Brewster didn't give us anything we needed more than what N'Daiye was offering and we'd likely go further in front with his partnership with McB. Brewster's early exit then gave us JLT and Enda and Billy came on later as we were forced to dig deep to stop WBA getting something from this disastrous game for them. And they got fuck all. Boing, boing ... etc.
Davies 6/10: He's still a bit of a liability and his distribution was poor today. in particular finding the ever willing McBurnie. Much went out of play, into empty grass or to their back four. Good stop in the first half but a bit of a flap could have had them an undeserved equaliser
Baldock 7/10: Full mark for a decent volleyed cross and the other six for his hour and a bit of battling with Townsend and Wallace
Anel 6/10: Not a classic Anel outing but he was robust in phases and came out to attack the ball and stayed involved. Still a class above
Egan 6.5/10: Slightly better performance from him. Some key interceptions and headers and defensive solidity when needed. Their frontline though was a bit bobbar on balance
Basham 6.5/10: Improving in small steps but still vulnerable to pace where more agile players leave him standing. A real Basham tackle late in the second half and looked pissed off to be subbed
Osborn 6/10: Another fairly decent outing from him though in truth he was run ragged at times by Phillips down that flank. Still don't reckon he's anywhere near what we want in a LWB
Doyle 7/10: I like Doyle. Works his socks off and uses his youthful eagerness to the full to do the fetching and carrying and making the option on the right side of the team as well as tracking back to assist with the defending
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.
Fleck 5/10: Not really back to John, or even Jimmy Fleck at all. Time we shipped him out before we have to pay a club to take him off us. If we are looking at Autos, he isn't the solution at LCM
N'Daiye 8/10: Missed a point because he was pushed back into midfield after an hour and completely disappeared. Superb on and off the ball in an attacking stance and a really lovely, coolly-taken goal
McBurnie 9/10: Looks like we've got a striker now. Effective at both ends of the pitch and okay ... some shithousing ... but another well taken front-man's goal and showing us what we expect from such a signing.
Brewster (unmarked): Gutted for him.
JLT 6/10: Great to see him back. Got stuck in straight away and looks happy to be back in the action.
Stevens 5/10: Not much to comment on but again a timely return with us struggling on the left side of the pitch
Sharp 5/10: Stanard graft and grit from Billy winning free kicks and being the receiver of our clearnaces as we dug deep
HJ&SMcCL 8/10: Good to see us pressing and attacking in the first half to stamp our mark on a clearly struggling WBA who couldn't answer to anything we had. Nice also for him to present JLT and Stevens back and us still to hang on effectively. Another long trip on Tuesday against a team who were beating Swansea at one stage today. It's a big journey and one we can ill afford to come away with nowt from considering next Saturday is a massive game v Burnleh which will define our pre WC fortunes
pommpey
only Anel I have a different opinion looked miserable out there not enjoying it and thought he was poor today however 3 pts and I'm in a good place tonight. Ps big thanks to the fellow blades again for your support on the mental health forum.
