| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ 18:00 - Aug 23 with 851 views | unstableblue |
That’s what we’re dealing with?!
Yes the result and performance weren’t good enough, as McKenna states we didn’t have connections across the pitch, and our attack was ‘random’ at times due to how deep Preston sat.
But we had 72% possession
An XG of 1.34
15 shots, 2 on target
They had to resort to 6 yellow cards, and 14 fouls
We won 53 duels to their 41
Etc etc
It wasn’t good enough, but give Preston some credit.
Saying that’s an abject performance is the vibe that doesn’t help. |  |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:03 - Aug 23 with 804 views | bsw72 |
Exactly. A long way from abject. I would say pedestrian. |  | | |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 with 768 views | Illinoisblue |
Where are we at now. 1 league win in last 20 odd games? |  |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 with 769 views | burnbudgiesburn |
Very reminciscent of league one sides adopting the low block against us wasn't it?
It took us a while to work out ways to overcome that too. We might need to get used to it, that isn't the last time a team is going to play like that against us. |  | | |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:08 - Aug 23 with 729 views | burnbudgiesburn |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by Illinoisblue |
Where are we at now. 1 league win in last 20 odd games? |
Confidence is low as a result. I'd hope a few early wins would be able to get us going, so this start is disappointing.
We desperately needed to blag a few more points early on. | | | |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:08 - Aug 23 with 708 views | Dubtractor |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:03 - Aug 23 by bsw72 |
Exactly. A long way from abject. I would say pedestrian. |
I'd call it predictable - we are FAR too easy to defend against at the moment. Did any of us really believe we'd get a goal from about 65 minutes onwards?
I'm really not sure what we do with Clarke, but he is a waste of a place at the moment. Philogene wasn't much better, but at least he puts a bit of effort in, and he has a little bit more time to impress, having missed half a season with a bad injury.
And as much as we all thought Hirst would be great this season, he's looked really rusty so far, not able to hold up the ball when needed, and not able to stretch defences on his own like Delap did. |  |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:08 - Aug 23 with 707 views | jasondozzell |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by burnbudgiesburn |
Very reminciscent of league one sides adopting the low block against us wasn't it?
It took us a while to work out ways to overcome that too. We might need to get used to it, that isn't the last time a team is going to play like that against us. |
Exactly this
And it made me feel that we're going to be in the champ like we were in league one. Completely dominant with sides not wanting to play football with us.
We solved that before we will solve it again.
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:09 - Aug 23 with 701 views | Mullet |
Whilst you’re right. Not sure you have any credibility when it comes to criticising people for talking completely hyperbolic nonsense about town. |  |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:09 - Aug 23 with 687 views | pointofblue |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by burnbudgiesburn |
Very reminciscent of league one sides adopting the low block against us wasn't it?
It took us a while to work out ways to overcome that too. We might need to get used to it, that isn't the last time a team is going to play like that against us. |
It'll help if we didn't gift opposition a goal headstart. | |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:13 - Aug 23 with 585 views | unstableblue |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by burnbudgiesburn |
Very reminciscent of league one sides adopting the low block against us wasn't it?
It took us a while to work out ways to overcome that too. We might need to get used to it, that isn't the last time a team is going to play like that against us. |
Yes, a good way to think about it.
Preston not only deployed the low block, but they did it with some pretty good quality defenders and quite a lot of belief/energy from their start to the season.
If only Clarke’s sublime cross had been turned in by Hirst, when we did open them up.
The last ditch block to deny Clarke a chance summed up their commitment to defending.
McAteer has to do better. And Philogene need to stay on side when out through by Clarke.
But we’ll need to find more guile and better patterns/connections. Akpom and Cajuste gave us drive. | |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:14 - Aug 23 with 564 views | cressi |
You can have all the possession in the world but it don't win games been effective in both 18 yd boxes does. And we are not effective at all. | | | |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:14 - Aug 23 with 565 views | bsw72 |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by Illinoisblue |
Where are we at now. 1 league win in last 20 odd games? |
The OP was talking about performance. You’re talking results.
In football, results and performance are connected, but not perfectly correlated, a team can play brilliantly and still lose, or play poorly and still win.
Today was a poor game, we underperformed based on our squad and ability but had more of the ball and created more than Preston. Preston won a penalty and then relied on our lack of ability to break them down rather than taking the game to us. Preston earned the points without doubt don’t get me wrong, but based on balance of play etc it’s arguable whether they deserved them but we just did not do enough. | | | |
| Pedestrian and disjointed perhaps a good description on 18:15 - Aug 23 with 538 views | unstableblue |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:03 - Aug 23 by bsw72 |
Exactly. A long way from abject. I would say pedestrian. |
One piece of interplay between Davis (who started well but overall had an off day) and Philogene in their box summed up the day, Philogene just played it behind Davis, and the moment we lost. | |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:17 - Aug 23 with 504 views | unstableblue |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:14 - Aug 23 by cressi |
You can have all the possession in the world but it don't win games been effective in both 18 yd boxes does. And we are not effective at all. |
Agree possession not a great marker, albeit it’s much better to watch us win with higher possession than lower. I’m sure we’d still have preferred 3 points and 40% possession today! | |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:18 - Aug 23 with 481 views | Bigalhunter |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by Illinoisblue |
Where are we at now. 1 league win in last 20 odd games? |
Be interesting to see if there is any other current serving manager in the top few divisions, with a record that stands at x3 wins in their last 30 league games, or if any manager in the last 20 years has ever survived a run like that, remained in post, and turned it around.. [Post edited 23 Aug 18:27]
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:19 - Aug 23 with 476 views | urbanpenguin |
I'm now on the train home. I would say that 15 shots with only two on target (and I can't remember them, so suspect they were not close or good) is pretty abject.
For a team with pacey players it was, as someone just said, pedestrian. No urgency in movement or idea. |  | | |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:27 - Aug 23 with 367 views | unstableblue |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:19 - Aug 23 by urbanpenguin |
I'm now on the train home. I would say that 15 shots with only two on target (and I can't remember them, so suspect they were not close or good) is pretty abject.
For a team with pacey players it was, as someone just said, pedestrian. No urgency in movement or idea. |
McAteer shot was probably the best chance; Hirst had two near the goal, one was well defended the other he should do better.
Two shots form Johnson, one blazed, but one was en route but blocked.
Taylor’s was a good chance and we know he can strike them. But just to close to keeper and too weak. He did connect well. | |
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| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 19:30 - Aug 23 with 194 views | WestSussexBlue |
| Someone described Town’s performance as ‘abject’ on 18:06 - Aug 23 by Illinoisblue |
Where are we at now. 1 league win in last 20 odd games? |
But let’s remember 17 of those were in the Premier League! | | | |
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