| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv 20:37 - Oct 2 with 3021 views | Bluefish |
What is it in his 28 games that you have enjoyed then most?
Performances
Game management
Results
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 20:43 - Oct 2 with 2106 views | gordon |
For me the stand-out has definitely been that 10-minute spell against Doncaster when we were unstoppable. |  | | |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 20:44 - Oct 2 with 2095 views | chrismakin |
Biggest issue for me is we've still, even through the recent 3 better results, failed to see a side that looks like a historic PC team.
He's had to give up on his flying fullbacks, to tighten up at the back and as such it puts pressure on the rest of the attacking players to create the openings themselves with little extra support on the flanks.
The midfield isn't fluid in its transitions, Evans today went back into his shell, despite playing alongside Morsy again.
In both of his previous clubs, he had flair balance on the flanks, both fast pacey widemen, but Pauls gone with fraser on the left despite him being a 10 and offering us no pace on the left side of the pitch. especially when Penney goes no further than the halfway line.
I mention before, being town boss is maybe to big a task for PC, the pressure of it all has moved PC alway from what he's done for years.
Ive said PC needed time,, that time week by week gets smaller and as soon as take a step forward, we take a massive step back. |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 20:54 - Oct 2 with 2048 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Seeing that we have the ability to score as opposed to knowing it was all over the moment we went behind last season. We have scored goals we could only dream about the last few seasons. |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 20:56 - Oct 2 with 2029 views | BLUEBEAT |
There has definitely been a general improvement and certainly more enjoyable to watch but as today highlighted, the squad consists of lightweights.
In regards to whether he stays or goes, I’m indifferent. The club has conditioned me to feel this way since the Evans takeover. |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:01 - Oct 2 with 1981 views | Bluefish |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 20:56 - Oct 2 by BLUEBEAT |
There has definitely been a general improvement and certainly more enjoyable to watch but as today highlighted, the squad consists of lightweights.
In regards to whether he stays or goes, I’m indifferent. The club has conditioned me to feel this way since the Evans takeover. |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:08 - Oct 2 with 1952 views | BLUEBEAT |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:01 - Oct 2 by Bluefish |
Improvement? |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:11 - Oct 2 with 1954 views | Garv |
I know it's kind of the party line but I wrote off last season's squad. I was pretty consistent during Lambert's last season in saying that the squad wasn't good enough for promotion and we had no right to expect it. They were underachievers and Cook arriving wasn't going to change it.
This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.
Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad. Someone on here last week said if we were promoted via the play offs it'd be a failure because we weren't promoted automatically.
Whether promotion happens or not, I feel confident in saying I'll enjoy this season. |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:42 - Oct 2 with 1829 views | Coastalblue |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 20:44 - Oct 2 by chrismakin |
Biggest issue for me is we've still, even through the recent 3 better results, failed to see a side that looks like a historic PC team.
He's had to give up on his flying fullbacks, to tighten up at the back and as such it puts pressure on the rest of the attacking players to create the openings themselves with little extra support on the flanks.
The midfield isn't fluid in its transitions, Evans today went back into his shell, despite playing alongside Morsy again.
In both of his previous clubs, he had flair balance on the flanks, both fast pacey widemen, but Pauls gone with fraser on the left despite him being a 10 and offering us no pace on the left side of the pitch. especially when Penney goes no further than the halfway line.
I mention before, being town boss is maybe to big a task for PC, the pressure of it all has moved PC alway from what he's done for years.
Ive said PC needed time,, that time week by week gets smaller and as soon as take a step forward, we take a massive step back. |
Is this job any bigger than the Pompey job when he was there? I accept that he has been backed here to the nth degree and I guess that brings it's own pressure but I struggle to believe this is that much more of a pressure environment than Portsmouth.
He seems to be falling back on the Lambert method, assuming that because we have better quality players they will do things to win matches and tactics and gameplan are not such a priority, |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 22:19 - Oct 2 with 1724 views | chrismakin |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:42 - Oct 2 by Coastalblue |
Is this job any bigger than the Pompey job when he was there? I accept that he has been backed here to the nth degree and I guess that brings it's own pressure but I struggle to believe this is that much more of a pressure environment than Portsmouth.
He seems to be falling back on the Lambert method, assuming that because we have better quality players they will do things to win matches and tactics and gameplan are not such a priority, |
Various reasons imo there's more pressure here.
National and global coverage of town is a lot more than his previous clubs
More is expected of town
It's ipswich. Anyone who's still of age to remember the good days knows ipswich. It's ipswich and comes with a massive expectation of what ipswich as a club and where they rightfully should be. Is that correct? That's a question but it's the situation. | |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 22:19 - Oct 2 with 1738 views | Funge |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:11 - Oct 2 by Garv |
I know it's kind of the party line but I wrote off last season's squad. I was pretty consistent during Lambert's last season in saying that the squad wasn't good enough for promotion and we had no right to expect it. They were underachievers and Cook arriving wasn't going to change it.
This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.
Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad. Someone on here last week said if we were promoted via the play offs it'd be a failure because we weren't promoted automatically.
Whether promotion happens or not, I feel confident in saying I'll enjoy this season. |
'Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad.'
Good god.
Christ, Garv, I know I quite literally never agree with you - but you and I see our football club at polar extremes to one another.
We're the Man City of L1, with a manager who, by L1 standards (prior to joining us, anyway), is Klopp.
Your acceptance of this situation bewilders me. It's not even the acceptance of being average - we're not even that good - but you're honestly on some heavy Beta Blockers if you think this is good Juju.
'This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.'
Nice one. I enjoyed the Donny game; that's pretty much it. [Post edited 2 Oct 2021 22:20]
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:27 - Oct 2 with 1605 views | Garv |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 22:19 - Oct 2 by Funge |
'Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad.'
Good god.
Christ, Garv, I know I quite literally never agree with you - but you and I see our football club at polar extremes to one another.
We're the Man City of L1, with a manager who, by L1 standards (prior to joining us, anyway), is Klopp.
Your acceptance of this situation bewilders me. It's not even the acceptance of being average - we're not even that good - but you're honestly on some heavy Beta Blockers if you think this is good Juju.
'This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.'
Nice one. I enjoyed the Donny game; that's pretty much it. [Post edited 2 Oct 2021 22:20]
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Man City also can't just expect to win the league because of who they are. Do you disagree?
It's not about acceptance, but I'm not going to throw my toys out the pram like a stroppy child.
I won't accept being mocked for enjoying attacking football and seeing us score goals. Obviously where we are isn't good enough, and I haven't said it is - it's a 46 game season that we're not a quarter into. If you feel that promotion should be a given because we've bought some good players on paper then cool, have a moan. But it isn't. | |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:34 - Oct 2 with 1575 views | pointofblue |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:27 - Oct 2 by Garv |
Man City also can't just expect to win the league because of who they are. Do you disagree?
It's not about acceptance, but I'm not going to throw my toys out the pram like a stroppy child.
I won't accept being mocked for enjoying attacking football and seeing us score goals. Obviously where we are isn't good enough, and I haven't said it is - it's a 46 game season that we're not a quarter into. If you feel that promotion should be a given because we've bought some good players on paper then cool, have a moan. But it isn't. |
I have some doubts about our attacking play. Excluding us running away from a shattered Doncaster side we've now only scored once in each of our (other) last four matches. [Post edited 2 Oct 2021 23:39]
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:39 - Oct 2 with 1550 views | Garv |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:34 - Oct 2 by pointofblue |
I have some doubts about our attacking play. Excluding us running away from a shattered Doncaster side we've now only scored once in each of our (other) last four matches. [Post edited 2 Oct 2021 23:39]
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Why exclude Doncaster? We could have beaten them 3-0 and been satisfied, but we scored six.
West Ham was a second/third string team, and the game before that we scored two. | |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:41 - Oct 2 with 1538 views | timothyeo |
I enjoyed the bit where he blamed the entire squad of last season for his own managerial record being worse than Lamberts.
I'm being serious, I mean, I knew he was wrong at the but plenty on here lapped it up, but thats besides the point.
It meant we were going to see a lot of transfer activity and we did. We have built a fantastic squad for this level.
That Cook is getting nothing out of them is frustrating, but I do think with this squad a new manager coming in should stand a really good chance of going on a run and recovering the season. | | | |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:43 - Oct 2 with 1529 views | Strimmer |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:01 - Oct 2 by Bluefish |
Improvement? |
First 5 games = 3 points
Second 5 games = 7 points
Demonstrable improvement, for a man that deals only with reality you will no doubt recognise that | |
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| Post of the day (n/t) on 23:47 - Oct 2 with 1520 views | unstableblue |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:11 - Oct 2 by Garv |
I know it's kind of the party line but I wrote off last season's squad. I was pretty consistent during Lambert's last season in saying that the squad wasn't good enough for promotion and we had no right to expect it. They were underachievers and Cook arriving wasn't going to change it.
This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.
Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad. Someone on here last week said if we were promoted via the play offs it'd be a failure because we weren't promoted automatically.
Whether promotion happens or not, I feel confident in saying I'll enjoy this season. |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 00:19 - Oct 3 with 1454 views | Illinoisblue |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:11 - Oct 2 by Garv |
I know it's kind of the party line but I wrote off last season's squad. I was pretty consistent during Lambert's last season in saying that the squad wasn't good enough for promotion and we had no right to expect it. They were underachievers and Cook arriving wasn't going to change it.
This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.
Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad. Someone on here last week said if we were promoted via the play offs it'd be a failure because we weren't promoted automatically.
Whether promotion happens or not, I feel confident in saying I'll enjoy this season. |
I expect us to not be in the relegation zone of Division 3. If that’s entitlement, so be it. |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 00:45 - Oct 3 with 1414 views | pointofblue |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:39 - Oct 2 by Garv |
Why exclude Doncaster? We could have beaten them 3-0 and been satisfied, but we scored six.
West Ham was a second/third string team, and the game before that we scored two. |
Because obviously we scored more than one against Doncaster.
Yes, we started the season scoring two match after match. And now that seems to be dropping off, with Tuesday being the blip rather than the norm. | |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 00:57 - Oct 3 with 1402 views | 3_5_2 |
Give it a fecking rest will ya? |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 00:59 - Oct 3 with 1401 views | BlueBadger |
He bought me a beer once, oh no, wait. |  |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 01:06 - Oct 3 with 1391 views | BlueBadger |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 21:11 - Oct 2 by Garv |
I know it's kind of the party line but I wrote off last season's squad. I was pretty consistent during Lambert's last season in saying that the squad wasn't good enough for promotion and we had no right to expect it. They were underachievers and Cook arriving wasn't going to change it.
This season I've enjoyed the positive approach, emphasis on attacking, and I've enjoyed being (pretty much) the joint top scorers in the division.
Again, we've no right to expect to be promoted. The entitlement amongst our fan base is mad. Someone on here last week said if we were promoted via the play offs it'd be a failure because we weren't promoted automatically.
Whether promotion happens or not, I feel confident in saying I'll enjoy this season. |
Balls. You were gutted when Lambert went.
I don't think it's overly entitled to expect to win more than 2 in ten with an allegedly Championship standard squad, we came down with a squad more than capable of promotion, even last seasons when it was utterly moribund under a manager that you championed even when it was crystal clear that he was utterly untenable we had one capable of achieving it, you applauded us to relegation because 'it's just better now'. You whined when we sacked Jewell for trying to relegate us. You as as much of the problem as anyone else, this feeble willingness to accept mediciocrity because there was a five minute passage of play in another limp defeat to no-marks in which we knocked it about a bit nicely in midfield.
B*llocks to Free Hit culture. [Post edited 3 Oct 2021 13:05]
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| Post of the day (n/t) on 01:08 - Oct 3 with 1387 views | BlueBadger |
Ah yes, it's alright if we lose as long as we lose playing Technical Football.
We're in the third division. Technical Football isn't a thing here. We ned to win games then, think about Technical. | |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 01:11 - Oct 3 with 1382 views | BlueBadger |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:27 - Oct 2 by Garv |
Man City also can't just expect to win the league because of who they are. Do you disagree?
It's not about acceptance, but I'm not going to throw my toys out the pram like a stroppy child.
I won't accept being mocked for enjoying attacking football and seeing us score goals. Obviously where we are isn't good enough, and I haven't said it is - it's a 46 game season that we're not a quarter into. If you feel that promotion should be a given because we've bought some good players on paper then cool, have a moan. But it isn't. |
LOL. Loser. | |
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| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 10:56 - Oct 3 with 1118 views | Funge |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 23:27 - Oct 2 by Garv |
Man City also can't just expect to win the league because of who they are. Do you disagree?
It's not about acceptance, but I'm not going to throw my toys out the pram like a stroppy child.
I won't accept being mocked for enjoying attacking football and seeing us score goals. Obviously where we are isn't good enough, and I haven't said it is - it's a 46 game season that we're not a quarter into. If you feel that promotion should be a given because we've bought some good players on paper then cool, have a moan. But it isn't. |
No, but Man City would expect to be challenging at the top of the league - we're nowhere near to that. We should be. It's that simple. Celina, Edwards and Morsy all have designs on playing in the Prem; Fraser, Chaplin, Harper, Bonne and Coulson would all get into several Champ sides; Burgess and Pigott are established at this level.
How on earth are people indulging this mediocrity, and continuing to make excuses for a manager who is failing, and failing badly?
Doncaster was a lot of fun, no doubt - but it would be a lot more fun if we could
have some kind of plan on how to get out of this stupid league. | | | |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 10:58 - Oct 3 with 1106 views | pointofblue |
| Those desperate to be seen to support Paul iv on 10:56 - Oct 3 by Funge |
No, but Man City would expect to be challenging at the top of the league - we're nowhere near to that. We should be. It's that simple. Celina, Edwards and Morsy all have designs on playing in the Prem; Fraser, Chaplin, Harper, Bonne and Coulson would all get into several Champ sides; Burgess and Pigott are established at this level.
How on earth are people indulging this mediocrity, and continuing to make excuses for a manager who is failing, and failing badly?
Doncaster was a lot of fun, no doubt - but it would be a lot more fun if we could
have some kind of plan on how to get out of this stupid league. |
We do seem to have a plan to get out of this league, just not in the direction we’d like. | |
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