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Post by VLP Fan Club on Feb 23, 2021 22:56:14 GMT 1
Do we have enough in us?
Some vital games coming up starting with Birmingham.
The squad is getting thinner week by week and with Campbell going off injured that leaves us with Phillips as the only fit senior striker on the books.
Have we got enough in us to survive, it’s going to be tight but the signs don’t look great.
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Post by Wingman on Feb 23, 2021 22:59:23 GMT 1
Never boring being a Town fan.
The wins take me high, the losses, so low.
But I’ll always support through gritted teeth or with my (awful) singing voice.
My money is on us squeaking up. But I may change my mind each Saturday.🙂
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Post by huddersfc on Feb 23, 2021 23:01:36 GMT 1
Going by the fight against a relegation rival tonight, you have to question whether we have enough or close to
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Post by digs on Feb 23, 2021 23:01:41 GMT 1
Never boring being a Town fan. The wins take me high, the losses, so low. But I’ll always support through gritted teeth or with my (awful) singing voice. My money is on us squeaking up. But I may change my mind each Saturday.🙂 It was boring tonight |
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Post by drewden on Feb 23, 2021 23:06:56 GMT 1
A bit ironic Reading away last game has a cup final written all over it,
Town to win to stay up, and Reading to win to get promoted.
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Post by wildbillthetownfan on Feb 23, 2021 23:13:17 GMT 1
The team that played tonight wont stay up, so it all depends how many player's we get back from injury and just how many players out out, i make it ten now
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Post by Drew Peacock on Feb 23, 2021 23:16:46 GMT 1
The team that played tonight wont stay up, so it all depends how many player's we get back from injury and just how many players out out, i make it ten now It was the same team as Saturday bar one, it's the tactics, especially away from home, that are shite. |
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Post by stinkypete on Feb 23, 2021 23:18:39 GMT 1
We’re 3 points off 13th! Think positive.
Could do with picking something up at Preston which I can’t recall us ever doing, and obviously beating Birmingham.
4 points from these 2, a few players back and I think we’ll be fine.
However we should be nowhere near this considering where we were at the turn of the year. Shocking arrogance from the club.
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Feb 23, 2021 23:31:49 GMT 1
We’re 3 points off 13th! Think positive. Could do with picking something up at Preston which I can’t recall us ever doing, and obviously beating Birmingham. 4 points from these 2, a few players back and I think we’ll be fine. However we should be nowhere near this considering where we were at the turn of the year. Shocking arrogance from the club. Unfortunately there is very little positives around Town at the minute. The big positive tonight is that we only lost 2-0 a better team would have really gone to town on us. |
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Post by gazramataz on Feb 23, 2021 23:36:19 GMT 1
I'm an optimist but no chance we get four points from next two. Three at best as I just can't see how we get anything from Preston - the exact team we cannot play against.
However, despite that think we should just squeeze over the line. Read the Rotherham/Birmingham/Coventry/Sheff Wednesday forums and its a carbon copy of ours. Even our last 14 games which included our horrific run had us picking up 12 points. Cannot see how with players returning we can't at least equal that over the remainder of games.
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Post by 28901 on Feb 23, 2021 23:41:17 GMT 1
I saw us get a nil nil at Preston once.
It was a night match, Buxton was manager.
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Post by Stavros on Feb 23, 2021 23:44:03 GMT 1
A bit ironic Reading away last game has a cup final written all over it, Town to win to stay up, and Reading to win to get promoted. And we'll be relying on Blackburn Rovers on the last day. The team we shat on in the same situation in the promotion season. |
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Post by Stavros on Feb 23, 2021 23:45:47 GMT 1
I saw us get a nil nil at Preston once. It was a night match, Buxton was manager. I was there. Just imagine how much the current robust, physical PNE are licking their lips at the prospect of putting our goalie under pressure. |
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Post by terriersyndrome on Feb 23, 2021 23:47:24 GMT 1
5 points from the last 30 available & dumped out of the cup by lower league opposition.
Relegation fodder.
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Post by wildbillthetownfan on Feb 23, 2021 23:51:01 GMT 1
The team that played tonight wont stay up, so it all depends how many player's we get back from injury and just how many players out out, i make it ten now It was the same team as Saturday bar one, it's the tactics, especially away from home, that are shite. Our away form is abysmal and like you say it is down to tactics. |
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Post by ColchTerrier on Feb 23, 2021 23:51:12 GMT 1
5 points from the last 30 available & dumped out of the cup by lower league opposition. Relegation fodder. Still dunno why we didn’t take the Plymouth game seriously. |
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Post by stinkypete on Feb 24, 2021 0:38:59 GMT 1
We’re 3 points off 13th! Think positive. Could do with picking something up at Preston which I can’t recall us ever doing, and obviously beating Birmingham. 4 points from these 2, a few players back and I think we’ll be fine. However we should be nowhere near this considering where we were at the turn of the year. Shocking arrogance from the club. Unfortunately there is very little positives around Town at the minute. The big positive tonight is that we only lost 2-0 a better team would have really gone to town on us. I agree, that’s why the very few positives there are I’m clinging to! Another positive, Birmingham and Rotherham lost! What a fantastic premier league legacy we have! |
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Post by willo on Feb 24, 2021 1:36:01 GMT 1
We’re 3 points off 13th! Think positive. Could do with picking something up at Preston which I can’t recall us ever doing, and obviously beating Birmingham. 4 points from these 2, a few players back and I think we’ll be fine. However we should be nowhere near this considering where we were at the turn of the year. Shocking arrogance from the club. I’m with you at glass half full. Think we’ll scrape over the line but will it be any different next season? Yes we’ll have the remainder of the big earners off the books but then what? The club has clearly set it’s stall out to survive by spending as little as possible despite parachute payments and selling players. Simply surviving year on year to stay in the Championship is one thing but we’ll drop in the end because that’s what happens. And what happened to all these clubs we were told would go to the wall that haven’t had the benefit of parachute payments or prime assets to sell? |
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Post by sabailand on Feb 24, 2021 17:07:05 GMT 1
I saw us get a nil nil at Preston once. It was a night match, Buxton was manager. And i once saw them score three there, mind you we still didnt win  , a late comeback (two goals in last five mins) earned us an unlikely point. |
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Post by brighousebandbred on Feb 24, 2021 17:24:16 GMT 1
A bit ironic Reading away last game has a cup final written all over it, Town to win to stay up, and Reading to win to get promoted. Can see reading needing a win to stay in play offs but not a win to get promoted. |
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Post by iangreaves on Feb 24, 2021 18:04:52 GMT 1
Desperately need Hogg back. Need to rest Schofield and stop giving goals away.
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Post by 28901 on Feb 24, 2021 18:06:54 GMT 1
I saw us get a nil nil at Preston once. It was a night match, Buxton was manager. And i once saw them score three there, mind you we still didnt win , a late comeback (two goals in last five mins) earned us an unlikely point. Had to look it up. 1989. I have no recollection of that match at all. |
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Post by hypotenuse on Feb 24, 2021 19:53:15 GMT 1
Do we have enough in us? Some vital games coming up starting with Birmingham. The squad is getting thinner week by week and with Campbell going off injured that leaves us with Phillips as the only fit senior striker on the books. Have we got enough in us to survive, it’s going to be tight but the signs don’t look great. I think there are 3 problems we have which mean we will probably lose our fight to avoid the drop: 1. We are not battle-hardened to fight and grind out results 2. We have key players out with injuries 3. Our playing style is not suited to a relegation battle - in defence, especially, we seem incapable of keeping a clean sheet |
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Post by hypotenuse on Feb 24, 2021 19:54:44 GMT 1
I saw us get a nil nil at Preston once. It was a night match, Buxton was manager. And i once saw them score three there, mind you we still didnt win , a late comeback (two goals in last five mins) earned us an unlikely point. I was at that 3-3 match. We were awful for long spells but scored 2 very late goals. I seem to remember Robert Wilson got one or both of them? |
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Post by sabailand on Feb 24, 2021 20:17:21 GMT 1
And i once saw them score three there, mind you we still didnt win , a late comeback (two goals in last five mins) earned us an unlikely point. I was at that 3-3 match. We were awful for long spells but scored 2 very late goals. I seem to remember Robert Wilson got one or both of them? Yes at our end too, it was when they had their artificial pitch. |
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Post by hypotenuse on Feb 24, 2021 20:24:45 GMT 1
I was at that 3-3 match. We were awful for long spells but scored 2 very late goals. I seem to remember Robert Wilson got one or both of them? Yes at our end too, it was when they had their artificial pitch. I was at the game with rugbyterrier- there was quite a lot of celebrating and a monster amount of beer consumed (about half as much nowadays would kill me!) |
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Post by marshterrier on Feb 24, 2021 21:46:47 GMT 1
First Preston match i remember was 74-75 Bobby Charlton was their Player Mgr. I was 7 years old at the time. We lost ... i think the highlights were on ITV Soccer Special - i cant remmebr the score but think it may have been 2-1 or 3-1 to them. Thing i do remember is after the match one of their coaches stopped at the Off Licence at Oakes and most of their yobbo fans rammed in and looted the shop apart taking loads of stuff without paying while the lady tried to deal with it... thing i remember was there was a nice couple who apologised to the shopkeeper for the looters and paid for their goods. Funny what gets ingrained in your mind. They were just laughing and taking what they wanted. I hope the cops caught up with their coach but i guess not... and on that note... i'll get my coat. Good night.
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, a late comeback (two goals in last five mins) earned us an unlikely point.