Match Day Thread PNE v Hull City AFC

-> Do you think he wanted Magennis playing wide right? Probably not given that he's a striker.
When he brought Magennis in, he said he could play him as a CF or out wide. Said same about Balogh (no, really).

-> It was obvious to anyone that we needed a proven replacement goal scorer.
Hang on, he's brought in Eaves, Magennis, Balogh, Wilks ... How many more chances does he get?

16 players signed yet no midfield general, no captain, and apparently no goal scorers.

Wednesday night is not do or die, but another loss and it's a relegation battle for sure. I think we will win btw.

Here's hoping Duffen's attendance was significant. It's the hope .....

 

I was thinking more on the lines of the clubs transfer policy, the Allams talk of sustainability, bringing down the debt and balancing the books. They have hit 20 a few times Maguire, Robertson, and Bowen for example. My guess is that their plan is to buy lets say 10 young up and coming and hope that one or two turns out to be the big treble tops and not 1 or 5's

 

No goal scorers? Wilks has 3 in four games. He looks a decent signing. Eaves scored a hat trick the other week.

 

The team has been bleeding talent over the past two years and most of the new signings are really just like sticking plasters trying to stem the wound. Personally I will be glad if we get to the end and are still in the Championship. We have been going backwards since Bruce left and it’s bloody depressing. Even Mr Positive hold not cut it in the end. It’s easy to turn a championship squad into a L1 squad and that’s what we have done. We might have made a few decent signings but I see no sign of any real ambition and you can’t blame Terry for that. Papa said he signed Bruce because he knew nothing about running a football club. Look at the players Bruce and Stan T. found for decent money. They knew what they were doing. Neither the old man or the lad has a clue.

 

I'm not a great believer in knee-jerk changes of manager. I tend to believe you should have a replacement lined up before a change is considered, and if you cant get a better one, then stick with what you've got. However, if I owned a team and considered myself £50 mil down, I'd be getting a tad worried at the moment.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more of Balogh. I know he put a half chance into row Z yesterday but at least he was in the right place at the right time then and on one or two other occasions.

 

Tbf the Rotherham match feels like a lifetime ago.

 

Funeral itself is an anagram of real fun. Tasteless but true.

 

It wasn't row Z. I was on Row 10 and I tipped it over the imaginary bar above my head. Now it might have landed in Row Z from there but it wasn't Balogh's fault that his terrible shot ended up there.

 

On Radio Lancashire after the game, Stockley, one of their players, said he thought the first one was more of a penalty than the one that was given and that had influenced the ref to give it. It looked soft from where I was but it was right at the other end of the pitch so I really couldn't say for sure. I've not watched it back yet.

 

That’s what I thought at the time. The referee gave a penalty penalty after bottling the first, more giveable decision.

 

It looked like he went down very easily from where I was. Still, it's gone now.

 

He did go down easily, that's what they do to 'win' penalties. Magennis should know that and shouldn't have got involved.

 

am i still getting carried away?

i mean losing at home to leeds 4-0 is unforgivable
our team is absolutely garbage
imho we need a miracle to stay up

lost to barnsley at home for godsake
im always right god god sake.


bowen was literally 60% of our goals

long burke, de wijs are ****e, on what basis do you think they are good as 'most of the championship'?
championship is tough

trust me, i know what i see in football, im almost always right