Back from listening to the game v preston on the radio

[Ian Royal]

Have our results actually been worse recently? In terms of ppg are we not roughly the same?

Our ppg over the last 18, split into 6 game periods is

1-6: 2.0
7-12: 1.8
13-18: 1.2
season: 1.7

So yeah, we're basically on our worst run of the season and doing significantly less well.

Interesting. Just a shite February really. No chance the January loan signings are damaging the squad in any way?

Well... I haven't been impressed by Grabban or Mutch, and I think their arrival has changed the selection and shape choices. But it's on limited viewing. We've struggled to get a consistent XI out, even accounting for midweek rest changes - I think that must be hurting us a bit.

[double d]

I have now watched the highlights and we weren't that bad.

[Lower West]

Interesting. Just a shite February really. No chance the January loan signings are damaging the squad in any way?

All the chopping and changing due to injuries cannot be helping. Not easy to come straight into a team and play well either. Rather than playing their normal game the loanees are having to adapt to Stams style.

[Ian Royal]

Watching the extended highlights and our defending is just unbelievable.

Goal 1:
I don't actually think Blackett deserves as much stick as he's got. It's a very hard ball to deal with. Probably shouldn't have tried to lunge for it selling himself, but that's causing no problems until the rest of the defence and midfield decide they don't want to get within 6 yards of marking a Preston player.

Goal 2:
You'd think after Brighton we'd learn our lesson. But no. Williams and McCleary take each other out and Gunter does his usual pussyfooting around. Any one of them could have just taken the cynical yellow and it's no goal.

Goal 3: Two Preston players queuing up to finish it off completely unmarked around our six yard box. It's just not good enough.

We looked like we carried a bit of attacking threat, but mostly the highlights show McCleary or Grabban smashing hopeful long efforts either comfortably off target or too close to the keeper.

[CountryRoyal]

Goal 1:
I don't actually think Blackett deserves as much stick as he's got. It's a very hard ball to deal with. Probably shouldn't have tried to lunge for it selling himself, but that's causing no problems until the rest of the defence and midfield decide they don't want to get within 6 yards of marking a Preston player.

Maybe I'd go a long with that if it was a university team but any professional should have dealt with that situation far better. It was an awful mistake and there's no excusing it.

[Ian Royal]

Goal 1:
I don't actually think Blackett deserves as much stick as he's got. It's a very hard ball to deal with. Probably shouldn't have tried to lunge for it selling himself, but that's causing no problems until the rest of the defence and midfield decide they don't want to get within 6 yards of marking a Preston player.

Maybe I'd go a long with that if it was a university team but any professional should have dealt with that situation far better. It was an awful mistake and there's no excusing it.

Fair enough, we'll have to agree to differ, I was expecting to see something 10 times worse from the descriptions on here, maybe that's coloured my view. I'm sure we can both live with disagreeing.

[Sutekh]

Have our results actually been worse recently? In terms of ppg are we not roughly the same?

Our ppg over the last 18, split into 6 game periods is

1-6: 2.0
7-12: 1.8
13-18: 1.2
season: 1.7

So yeah, we're basically on our worst run of the season and doing significantly less well.

Interesting. Just a shite February really. No chance the January loan signings are damaging the squad in any way?

More likely the dreadful run of crippled defenders coupled with the fact the fixture list has thrown us successive away games againt the rather useful teams instead of the midtable strugglers.

Signing a striker and sticking him midfield, where we've already got about ten different options, instead of developing a plan B is just plainly ludicrous as well - and I think that's the one area you can be critical of Jaap.

[CountryRoyal]

Goal 1:
I don't actually think Blackett deserves as much stick as he's got. It's a very hard ball to deal with. Probably shouldn't have tried to lunge for it selling himself, but that's causing no problems until the rest of the defence and midfield decide they don't want to get within 6 yards of marking a Preston player.

Maybe I'd go a long with that if it was a university team but any professional should have dealt with that situation far better. It was an awful mistake and there's no excusing it.

Fair enough, we'll have to agree to differ, I was expecting to see something 10 times worse from the descriptions on here, maybe that's coloured my view. I'm sure we can both live with disagreeing.

Yep, one of the benefits of being such a vexatious knob is that I've long since learnt to not get worked up with someone disagreeing with me, and don't really understand people who do.

[Ian Royal]

Maybe I'd go a long with that if it was a university team but any professional should have dealt with that situation far better. It was an awful mistake and there's no excusing it.

Fair enough, we'll have to agree to differ, I was expecting to see something 10 times worse from the descriptions on here, maybe that's coloured my view. I'm sure we can both live with disagreeing.

Yep, one of the benefits of being such a vexatious knob is that I've long since learnt to not get worked up with someone disagreeing with me, and don't really understand people who do.

Well, quite.

Wouldn't it be awful if HNA was just an enormous circle of gnoshing each other off in polite agreement.

[genome]

*zips up*

[lewesroyal]

Wouldn't it be awful if HNA was just an enormous circle of gnoshing each other off in polite agreement.

Now frightened to agree with this sentiment....