[Lord Snooty]

So Dazza wasn't happy with the way we started. Hmm!

The commentator, haven't noticed our more energetic start to the second half, said it must've been a good half time team talk.

Well why didn't he give that team talk before the first half?

[theo_luddite]

Doubt they can hear him with their cans on or ear plugs in

[Lord Snooty]

The tactics were just the same as always. Let the opposition have the ball. Löwe knew it. He says so in his post match interview. We are so predictable.

Preston scoring so early scuppered our plan. Just like the debacle at home to Cardiff. If we don't score first, we have no chance.

We haven't lost when we've scored first since the Boro Cup game.

[Devongone]

Perhaps saying you're two down and playing like a set of linnets didn't apply to the team's performance during the warm-up Snoots?

Before they went on this crap run PNE were top of the league ......... maybe this was the first proper form they've shown in weeks? Two teams do go out on that pitch you know and both have managers giving team talks they imagine will apply to the coming game. PNE clearly do have two distinct levels of performance.

You don't have to ditch the manager every time things go pear-shaped. Tony Mowbray created the best footballing side in the Championship and got sacked for possibly having a big nose and too middle-aged an arse. Now his team, with only backroom staff in charge, is winning even against Leeds. But Birmingham ditched Eustace for Rooney, started playing the style the new owners want and can hardly buy a win. Be careful what you wish for ......... Even theoretically bad decisions sometimes turn out well, but sometimes they do also turn out as dire as everyone expected.

By the way does anyone think Maxwell is a better keeper than Nicholls, because if they do they know as much about keeping as Mikel Arteta?

[Lord Snooty]

We've already made the biggest mistake of all, Dev, by ditching Neil Warnock.

And no. Nicholls should be in goal if he's fit. He's the number one. Maxwell did alright standing in, but once your number one is fit, he plays.

[theo_luddite]

Think he's handed the shirt back after last night.

He was a more than competent stand-in compared to some so called "1st Choice Keepers" of the parish in recent seasons, but there's a reason why you're typically not the 1st choice. Goes for most positions really, unless you and the gaffer don't see eye-2-eye.

[Lord Snooty]

Danny Ward scored his 45th Town goal last night, putting him into 35th= place in our all time goal scorers list, alongside legends Peter Fletcher and Sammy Taylor.

[Devongone]

All keepers make mistakes, but Nicholls is consistently at a higher level than Maxwell (who isn't the worst around).

It still astonishes me that Arteta almost gave away Martinez who had been winning him matches with star performances, ditched Leno without a fight, and signed Ramsdale at a very inflated price and then paid £8 million to loan Raya to either replace him or support him .......... If Arsenal let him anywhere near goalkeeper signatures, recruitment, or sales again they are crazy. He clearly doesn't get it, and other good players too do become managers with equally little understanding of what makes a good keeper and the mentality of anyone who chooses to play in that position. Mr Moore didn't demonstrate much goalie acumen at Wednesday, but he really didn't have a good choice available.

[themaclad]

Afternoon all, would have been on earlier but 4 hours of sleep and worked got in the way.

The light show doing it in slow motion was, how you say odd, and yes it wasn't very good.

There are similarities between the teams we pass it around the back in a crab like manner but we upped our tempo, the first three mintes were like are we in red tonight?
Miller was a handful, Browne exceptional and Whiteman's two tackles in the space of thirty seconds the second denying a goal were outstanding.
Second goal kills it, your goal the cross by Pearson was outstanding, but Flapswell did the rest.
Third victory under lights in 18 months Moore is yor 4th boss in that period which doesn't suggest stability

Sacking Bruno won't help but you need to improve otherwise

[theo_luddite]

We need to improve? Understatement of the season that themaclad.

We were on the road to improving when we changed manager, again. I'm no fan of Warnockball but with limited resources he can play a tune on a fiddle. Problem mainly is Warnockball isn't fancied by most in the Prima Donna League, hence no Prima Donna League loans, though our inability (or unwillingness) to pay even their good "kids" wages, let alone a significant %age of the first teamer's kicking their heels wages, doesn't help.

I thought Moore had cracked the code a few games back, but the last two games show he still thinks we can win by letting the oppo have all the ball in our half and barely trying to counter. Might as well pick his nose with a penny banger for all the good that is.