17th Nov match thread

[Marked Ox]

We were awful. Crewe deserved their win.

 

[Indian Dan]

Be a fucking humdinger in a couple of weeks, then. 22 useless fuckers strolling about with their tutus on trying to imitate professional footballers.

Bet our shit is shittier than your shit. It’s hard for me to get my head round that there are 4 teams below us in the league.

How is that possible?

 

[Marked Ox]

Be a fucking humdinger in a couple of weeks, then. 22 useless fuckers strolling about with their tutus on trying to imitate professional footballers.

Bet our shit is shittier than your shit. It’s hard for me to get my head round that there are 4 teams below us in the league.

How is that possible?

Who can make the least mistakes wins. Going to an absolute thriller.

 

[Indian Dan]

Robinson on borrowed time? Or too expensive to sack?

What’s gone wrong from the POs to the relegation zone?

 

[Third Team Lucky]

Robinson on borrowed time? Or too expensive to sack?

What’s gone wrong from the POs to the relegation zone?

I would have thought that you'd have your own perspective on the second question based on fairly recent experience.

 

[Indian Dan]

Who have we sacked?

 

[eric read]

Robinson on borrowed time? Or too expensive to sack?

What’s gone wrong from the POs to the relegation zone?

Karl Robinson is very secure in his job. He signed a new four year contract earlier this year. No one (other than knee jerk idiots) is calling for change. Good players haven't become bad players overnight and a good manager hasn't become a bad one overnight either.

What has gone wrong though, is pretty much everything! We have been riddled with injuries and multiple postponements (none of our own making and more than any other club). This has resulted in a lack of fluidity in our fixtures and line ups. Added to that is the ludicrous limit on squad size at the very time when clubs (obviously if they can afford it, and we can) need larger squads to cope with the heavy workload. Our recruitment has had a couple of set backs and this has left us with a slightly unbalanced squad until January. I'd add lack of fans to the equation too, but it could be argued that it's the same for everybody. Oh and before last night we had only played three home games. It's been a bit Catch 22 and the losses have affected confidence in a fairly young squad.

We were shit last night, one of probably two or three of the worst performances under KR's reign. We have also played very well this season, but not got the result the performance deserved on a number of occasions. We are really struggling at the back (injuries and lack of balance) and can't keep a clean sheet, which has seemed to affect those further up the field, as you'd expect. I'm obviously going to be biased, but I think we're much better than our current League position suggests, and I believe we're top of the xG League, for those who are into that sort of thing.

It's looking like a write off of a season already, but I don't think we'll struggle for the whole season, but don't think we'll make up the gap between us and the top places that already exists either. So I'll just have to accept battering Swindon twice as this season's highlight!

 

[Luke Imp]

The limit isn't on squad size, it's on the amount of players aged 21 or over, which the limit is 21.

 

[Claret Forever]

We're winning a game. Nice to see what Smith can do when he gets a bit of confidence, and the teenager Caleb continuing to impress. We've not a lot of matches, but we're beating the teams in the bottom 4 and around us, so doing what we need in a little relegation league.