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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 19, 2024 8:49:22 GMT
Home banker....
Just like Shrewsbury...
We don't do home bankers and Port Vale are scrapping for their lives
Summat tells me that Darren Moore might get the better of Ian Evatt and we could see 3rd place at risk as I cant see Peterborough not winning at Bristol
Hope I'm wrong, but then, I never expected us to lose at home to Carlisle, get done twice by Pathetic, draw twice with Barnsley, throw away points at Exeter, Northampton, Stevenage.... I could go on
Winning becomes a habit and we do need to up our game from senseless draws to perfect wins heading into the Play Offs
COYWM surprise us all please
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Post by one2many on Apr 19, 2024 11:24:44 GMT
I expect us to win and win big. Sadly I also expect Derby to win and in effect have confirmation that we are in the play offs. 4-0
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Post by whitesince63 on Apr 19, 2024 17:02:51 GMT
I expect us to win and win big. Sadly I also expect Derby to win and in effect have confirmation that we are in the play offs. 4-0 Actually o2m if we win 4-0 and Derby do win but only 1-0 then it’s still not over. Obviously it’s an unlikely event but Carlisle with nothing to play for could just turn the Rams over as they unexpectedly did us and others and everything changes. It may be extremely unlikely but strange things do happen. 😎 |
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Post by OohMac on Apr 20, 2024 6:38:50 GMT
What is the advantage in finishing 3rd instead of 4th? For me, there's none. You play the team 6th who usually have finished the season strong, take no pressure and feel like they've got a free hit. 3rd team always have that feeling of missing out. So personally I could care less about 3rd and 4th so long as we get 2nd Leg at home*
*subject for another time but should the playoffs be amended to give more advantage to the team finishing 3rd?
As for today. We have to win. Regardless of Derby. It's the last home game of the regular season. It's player of the year do tonight let's have some smiles on faces.
I say we go strongest side, without massive risks but intense from the off.
They need 3 points so theyll either soak it up for 80m and then hit us with the kitchen sink(probably and tbh that plan may work) or they'll come all guns blazing try and get a lead and sit back on it. Either way if we can get the first goal and early on it ruins both those game plans and causes them to try new things. That's where the game can open up and we pick them off.
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Post by davidm on Apr 20, 2024 9:18:27 GMT
Not a “must win” game but we must win it for a number of reasons.
- Firstly, if the miracle was to happen and Cambridge beat Derby, we need to be in the position to overtake them,
- We need to get confidence going into the play-offs.
- A number of players, Charles, Jones, Jerome(?), Morley need to get minutes under their belts.
So we need to win.
We should win. Port Vale will effectively been down if they lose and are on a terrible run so their confidence will be low.
Teamwise, I don’t expect to see Santos but would hope that Jones is back as he links up best with Dacres-Cogley.
Ogbeta is skating on thin ice for me. His defence qualities are poor and his chickening out when the chance came on Tuesday is indefensible. Any player would have dived in and headed it but he seemed scared to get hurt.
Dempsey disappointed me on Tuesday when he got a start. If Sheehan is still left out, I would hope that Morley would play in the Sheehan role because Thomason was no good at all in it on Tuesday.
Collins has to start upfront and do we try Charles to try and get some fitness back into him? He played 30+ minutes on Tuesday and was totally anonymous. We desperately need a firing Charles.
So a few selection problems for the manager but he also needs to improve. Stop this pre-programmed changing of the strikers after 65 minutes, work out a way to change the flow of the game when things are not going well, i.e. find Plan B.
We will win, and maybe win well, 3-0, and hope Cambridge can do us a favour.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 20, 2024 10:03:34 GMT
I cannot see Oxford making 6th now and I’ve got more fear playing Lincoln than them as Lincoln have something about them
That said, Oxford did turn Posh over and. In some style although they couldn’t overcome a stubborn Stevenage last night
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Post by chip on Apr 20, 2024 11:33:17 GMT
Here we go again another Saturday must win game just in case the rams mess up are we that bothered as long as we don’t get anymore injuries 3-0 COYWM
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 20, 2024 12:25:20 GMT
Some might say it’s time for change if Evatt fails us in the Play-Offs
I’d say it’s time for change if he fails today
“It’s the extra 10% that makes a manager special” - Brian Clough
It’s down to management to negotiate a way past one of the worst teams in this division and if he cannot fathom that out then we have the wrong man as we’ve certainly got the players to do it
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Post by chip on Apr 20, 2024 13:20:33 GMT
Just seen the team news I’m not sure what Forrester has done wrong to be completely left out of the squad altogether unless he’s injured good to rest Santos but other than that good team should be enough to win the with Charles getting a goal COYWM
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 20, 2024 14:13:43 GMT
Is it me or has Dion put a few pounds on??
Every single week - 4 changes / 3 changes / 4 changes from the side that drew to / lost to / won at
Never any consistency
Yes I know we have injuries but I’ve never in Evatt’s tenure, seen a settled side
Probably because he only has a Plan A!!!!!
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 20, 2024 14:27:26 GMT
That was awful at that PV corner, almost like the Shrewsbury goal
Do we never learn??
25 mins in and we haven’t scored AGAINST a side that has conceded 72 league one goals🙄
This MUST WIN game, if we want to keep up the pressure, is putrid, mundane, boring, lacklustre, pedestrian, just not pacey at all.
Do they, at least not want to send the home fans home happy after the last home league game??
34 mins in
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Post by Woppy the Italian on Apr 20, 2024 14:40:37 GMT
Is it me or has Dion put a few pounds on?? Every single week - 4 changes / 3 changes / 4 changes from the side that drew to / lost to / won at Never any consistency Yes I know we have injuries but I’ve never in Evatt’s tenure, seen a settled side Probably because he only has a Plan A!!!!! |
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 20, 2024 14:51:24 GMT
Winning teams doing what winning teams do
Beating lower opponents
Derby up
Peterborough up
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Post by chip on Apr 20, 2024 14:53:57 GMT
0-0 halftime stroll on at the moment Derby are going up and we are struggling to score against Port vale never mind eh COYWM
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Post by Woppy the Italian on Apr 20, 2024 14:55:11 GMT
Is it me or has Dion put a few pounds on?? Every single week - 4 changes / 3 changes / 4 changes from the side that drew to / lost to / won at Never any consistency Yes I know we have injuries but I’ve never in Evatt’s tenure, seen a settled side Probably because he only has a Plan A!!!!! Need a settled side but Evatt would rather try to be clever and keep players happy by rotation. Best team should always start, if bench players are unhappy with that, they can leave. |
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