Morning - I have never minded a defeat to a better team as long as we played as well as we could and positives could be taken from it. Our last three performances have been far from good and nothing positive apart from 3 points yesterday.
I hope I am wrong but the only way to turn the season around for me would be a new manager with a kitty to spend, that realistically isn't going to happen so it will have to be wait and see who Warnocks targets are.
If we end up with Tate, Tonge, Hill and Derry I will be majorly disappointed, surely we need 2-3 players who can make a major impact in both our promotion drive and as in being good enough for Premiership football which probably means under 30 years of age rather than players with 12 months left in them if you are lucky.
We already have a problem with players not being able to play 3 games in 8 days, that surely has to do with age as well as fitness.
I would like to see a central play maker and a wide winger with pace and who can cross the ball as well. Two players of decent quality in midfield would keep me happy, it would be a base to push on from in close season. Oh and FFS when will Hall get a chance, he is 24 years old, if he isn't going to make it why sign him? We had him on loan and hardly took a look at what he can do.
Varney, Norris, Austin, Pearce, Peltier - All BIG disappointments for me, what has happened to Austin, he started like a house on fire. Pearce, if he is the best Portsmouth had then it is no surprise they went down and it is no surprise we are doing so poor performance wise when we also have Varney and Norris in the team.
On a positive I do find it a miracle that we are only 3 points outside play offs when you consider our on field performance
