Personally I'd say our best loan signing since Tavernier was probably Kieffer Moore. Giles has a long way to go to match that but he's started really well and long may it continue. I'm not getting carried away because Jake Hastie looked fantastic after three games and look what happened to him. Let's not put our hopes on Giles too much because we all know who will be the first to say 'send him back' if he has one bad game.
As for trying to be funny, maybe you should try taking your own 'friendly advice'.
I prefer Johansson in goal to blackman because he is ours
Everyone has a right to criticise players if in their opinion it warrants it. I criticised crookes because he performance at the time didnt warrant a start. But I m glad to be proved wrong.
Our third choice goalie is exactly that he was brought in for cover
I'll judge Johansson when he's under pressure dealing with crosses, Derby didn't test him last night with that. Robbo being fit covering the left of a back 3 could be the way of starting Giles who looks the business. My thinking I'd lv to see Cooper with Icky & Robbo in a back 3, he'd learn alot off those two. Good all round performance last night. Crooks was pick of our midfield with Lindsay.
When you get underneath the s**t and point scoring on here there is actually a lot of good opinions posted.
I really thought our game last night would be a 0-0 draw or one side would nick it 1-0 (Derby came for that). For 75 mins i thought my prediction would come true. Both sides huffed and puffed with us possibly looking slightly more dangerous but with Derby having more possession.Neither goalie had much to do, our lad made a good low save to his right but little else action wise. As with a lot of these games, they are settled on fine margins. Derby got a good cross in from the right and Gregory's first touch of the night should have put us behind. Instead, he puts a tame header well wide. We then go up the other end and Ihiekwe finishes off from a set piece started on the halfway line. Derby, then collapse and we finish the game strong and win 3-0 which could have been more.
I was one of the guilty ones who felt Crooks in the championship was a league too high. His high press (as indicated by Exeter) is making us look a stronger unit, add to this Smith finding the net regularly and a system which appears to suit makes us have a realistic chance of staying up. All over the pitch we have players busting a gut for our club, no more so than the Duracell bunny Lindsay. It also appears we have people to come off the bench to change it up a gear in the oppositions half. Still a long way to go, but other clubs above us are now looking over their shoulders with fear. Let us get behind the club, management ,players et al and if possible cut out this rubbish that appears to get into every post.
Unfortunately, with a focus on your final sentence, we have two regular posters who can not bring themselves to get behind the club, management, players et al even when they are beating the odds by winning regularly. That is a sad truth. When we win they will give us no credit for it. When we lose they are quick to hammer us. Whether to call them out for it or ignore it is a difficult one, but while ever they are on the site they will (and in fact will go out of their way to) cause antagonism.
A quick flick around the message boards of other clubs reveals that supporters of every team in the bottom half of the league think that they are in a relegation battle, which is just how we want it.
Gwru, i am going to try and be polite and not do the point scoring i have talked about and dislike so much. Last night we beat a side in a big game that kept us in the shake up and brought them back to us. We also kept a clean sheet. We are still third from bottom of the league so why do you think we should play an untried youngster in a back three so he can learn off Robertson and Ihiekwe. Please tell me what Wood has done wrong . I know he is at the end of his career but i think his experience and leadership is invaluable to us. I am not having a go here Gwru, as i do think you have something to offer this site, but if Wood needs a rest surely we have others in the pecking order before young Cooper. Just my opinion.
I'm a calculated gambler. Not at Preston but in a on paper not the toughest opponents at home if management feel Cooper is up to it then. I think we can stay up. At least we've got two loans in this window who are up to this level. Next 3 games get max' pts we can. 2 games after going to be difficult to get anything.
The same is true with Vickers. Gwru wanted to 'have a look at him'. If Warne had put him in last night and he had a stinker and cost us the game, do you think Gwru would be on here today saying 'oh well, it was fair enough to give him a go'? Or would he be on here saying that Warne plays happy families, isnt up to the job etc? I think we all know the answer. It is all about making calculated decisions. Warne has calculated that Cooper needed experience at National League North level. With all respect to him, Cooper is probably only back with us because that league has been suspended. Gwru would now throw him into crucial Championship games ahead of Richard Wood, Angus MacDonald and perhaps Wes Harding as a third centre back. I have no idea what he bases that on. He is certainly entitled to the opinion, but I would respectfully suggest that it is (trying to be polite) somewhat bizarre. That's ok, but he keeps saying it as if Warne is mad for not doing it. It's a real head shaker. Gwru can backtrack as he has done so many times when his off-the-wall gambles and snap judgments backfire and say 'performances change my mind'. Warne could say that too, only he would be saying it from the covid safe (?) queue at the dole office. There is the difference. That plus the fact that Warne actually knows what he is talking about.
Jake Southern-Cooper that name has a ring to it possible club captain in the future who knows. It might just be me but I have no clue what you are on about nothing new there what has being on the dole to do with football.
I will try just once. The number of times Gwru gets it totally wrong doesnt really impact him. He is thick skinned enough to pretend it never happened and to get it wrong over and over again whilst claiming to know best. For Warne, these decisions have real consequences. His job and his reputation are on the line. He wouldnt last two minutes in the job if he was as incompetent as Gwru is.
Football is a doddle to what is happening now. In my working life lost count the number of times told if you get it wrong you know where the dole office is. Live with it never worried me.
Football is a doddle to what is happening now. In my working life lost count the number of times told if you get it wrong you know where the dole office is. Live with it never worried me.
You have totally missed the point, but I agree with you that the life of a Championship footballer/manager is a good one relative to the sh1tfest that is unfolding globally at the moment. The point though was how easy it is to be an armchair critic, getting it wrong over and over again without consequence and without ever having to account to anyone - particularly if your hide is as thick as a rhino's. It is much harder when your decisions play out in real life, have real consequences and when you really are held accountable. Can we agree on that?
Football is a doddle to what is happening now. In my working life lost count the number of times told if you get it wrong you know where the dole office is. Live with it never worried me.
So TH, in your working life when you were doing your job in an industry that you'd worked in for years, would you follow your own instincts on what to do, or would you follow the mad advice of man with a clear mental illness who'd never done the job before in his life?
Smiler Whiston Real Miller probably a few more you have my total respect for your persistence in trying to reason/put up with however you want to put it (latest example above) I admit I don’t have the patience or the inclination to entertain him anymore
I honestly think this site would be better off without him and his mate
I realise the whole point of a site like this is for a variety of opinions and debate but when it gets personal about Warne and the provocative and childish comments and constant wind ups enough is enough
Smiler Whiston Real Miller probably a few more you have my total respect for your persistence in trying to reason/put up with however you want to put it (latest example above) I admit I don’t have the patience or the inclination to entertain him anymore
I honestly think this site would be better off without him and his mate
I realise the whole point of a site like this is for a variety of opinions and debate but when it gets personal about Warne and the provocative and childish comments and constant wind ups enough is enough
What about getting personal with other posters is that acceptable? I can take it but this site isn't for that. Regards Warney his way good human beings ect... I don't buy into cause end of the day it works two ways they either like Ajayi & Vaulks move on to bigger clubs or they have served their usefulness & have to be moved on. Abit of praise for Warney & the recruitment staff though it's only two loan signings this window they look up to this level. Alot better than last year's January window which was a non-event signing Tilt & getting Adelakun & Koroma in on loan.
