The Hotel End

Quite simply the biggest game in the World.

We're going to win 4-0, lock the thread.... ;D

3-0 with a complete hatrick from Bryn Morris. One off his arse cheek, one off his knee and one off his bellend

Not quite as detailed a preview as GPC... but good for people like me with a short at

I have a very bad feeling about this one. :-X

 ;D

Back in the good old days of 4 finished stands.
Razor should show them his goal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2stqH687hWI

Last 5 results;

LWLWL.

Complete the sequence lads.

Another full stop?  8)

L?

I know what yo

Plagiarism.

D?

;D

Bristol Rovers and ourselves have the worst away records in the division with 14 points from 20 games. In fact they are identical except we have scored 1 more goal. Also both teams have failed to score in 10 of the 20 games and both have 4 clean sheets.
12 of Bristol Rovers 14 away points were gained in their first 8 away games and their last league away win was at AFC Wimbledon on 5th December. In their last 12 away games they have just 2 points from 0-0 draws at Posh and Fleetwood and 10 defeats, scoring just 6 goals and conceding 25. Before they beat Doncaster on Monday they had lost their previous 5 games so their JB is doing worse than our JB.
We have this year lost to the other 4 bottom 6 teams but in the first set of fixtures we only lost to Bristol Rovers so it stands to reason they will be the only ones we beat in the second set of fixtures.
It appears they have Rodman, Kilgour and Grant who may all be available again after injuries and we will need to keep an eye on their loanee Luke McCormick. We have won 4 of our last 5 home games against better teams than Bristol Rovers so there is no reason we cannot beat them.

So, here I am, 24 hours earlier than usual with my preview and stat pack ahead of this weekends huge game! West Stand and Doc Feelgood have stolen my thunder a bit, but here goes!!

21st place Rovers visit the Fields of Six on Saturday, two points behind us they are, so it doesn't take a genius to work out that we'll be five clear with a win, or 1 behind with a defeat...the proverbial six-pointer!
The Pirates, managed now by Joey Barton of course, have the worst away record in the league, just three wins on the road, those coming at Lincoln, Shrewsbury and Wimbledon, although they have registered Cup victories too on their travels at Walsall and Leyton Orient in the Pizza Cup.

Defender Luke Leahy and Forward Brendan Hanlan lead the goalscoring charts with nine goals each, Hanlan has only scored one goal in his last 23 appearances, with the already identified Chelsea loanee Luke McCormick weighing in with six goals including three in the last two games. Erhun Oztumer is a useful option to have off the bench but its fair to say his form has dipped since leaving Walsall and ending up at the Memorial Ground via spells with Bolton and Charlton.

Barton is new in the hotseat, three wins in 12 games this season, he is their third permanent manager this season following Ben Garners (6 wins in 33) sacking in November and Paul Tisdales (6 wins in 21) short stint.

In the head to head stakes, there's always going to be a couple of games which stick out.....the famous playoff comeback in 1998 which sent us to Wembley for a second consecutive season. Overall though there have been 103 previous meeting between the two sides, we hold the edge with 38 wins to 36.

More recently Rovers are actually unbeaten against us in their last seven games, a couple of heavy defeats for us amongst them, 6-0 at Sixfields in 2017 as we capitulated and conceded five in the last 35 minutes along with seeing Alex Revell be sent off. Nine months earlier we fell to a 5-0 defeat on their patch with Ellis Harrison scoring four.
The last meeting at Sixfields saw them walk off with a 2-1 FL Trophy win and earlier this season they beat us 2-0 thanks to goals from Hanlan and Baldwin in a game where Joe Martin saw red for the Cobblers. The meeting prior to that saw us lose 3-2 on our patch, again we managed to have a player sent off, Zakuani this time after Alex Revell had netted twice for us, we fell to a 90th minute winner by Charlie Colkett, who incidentally was a Chelsea loanee! Lets hope history doesn't repeat itself!

Referee for the game is down to be David Rock from Hertfordshire, he's a second year EFL ref who has handed out cards in each of the 27 games he's officiated this season. 86 yellows and 6 reds so far, worryingly five of those red cards have come in his last ten games. Its his second visit to the PTS this season having reffed the 5-0 win over Southampton juniors in the Pizza Cup, and also his second game reffing Rovers on their travels, the first of which saw them fall to defeat at Oxford at the end of January. His first assignment as an EFL ref saw him take charge of our game at Port Vale last season when he booked five Cobblers, Sam Hoskins being one of them!

Why

I think given our current plight it falls firmly under 'fair usage'. ;)

Call me what you like (knock kneed chicken or a bow legged hen) but I don't think I can watch.

It'll be peeking out at Jeff Stelling from behind the sofa.

;D

Hate to say this but think Rovers will be right up for this one...dare I say more than we will be  :'(

More than happy to be proved wrong of course  ;D

Whenever I've thought (this season) this next match is going to be a real humdinger, dog eat dog, end to end, bottom of the table dog fight it's ended up the same old error strewn, limited action let down. I put it down to the lack of a crowd but it's happened all too often.

This is a real 6 pointer at the sharp end of the season so....................................probably 0-0 or 1-0 with loads of time wasting.

Will Joey keep his cool ?

I recently looked up the word c*** in the dictionary to discover its origins, it only had a two word description Joey Barton!

According to recent Bristol Media Poll majority of BR Fans want him out, thinks he is bad news for them and terrible appointment. Their Forum is very divided on him.

All set up for a big loss for the Teyn then.

We've got this game in the bag!!!

I don't...  8)

;D

James Henaghan has given an interview to the Bristol press on our strengths and weaknesses...is it just me or is it ok to share information before such a vital game?

nothing they wont know about already.

strengths - none
weaknesses - not scoring enough and conceding too many

We are hardly conceding too many, only the top 3 have more clean sheets than us this year.

Conceding too many to win any games, i.e. more than zero goals.  >:( 

You are certainly having a wobble at the mo'. Strengths possibly the defence; they have at least improved, midfield also doing a bit better mainly thr' Watson. Fwds - well Marmite man Hoskins keeps trying as do the luckless Edmondson, Marshall, Rose and .....?

Not really sure why Edmondson is luckless? he was lucky to be given his only goal that was probably already over the line and I can’t really remember any situation where he’s been unlucky.

Totally agree. Love to be proved wrong tomorrow though.

Trying to be kind😙

I suspects it’s  going to be a nervy niggly affair.
One major incident will probably settle it- a dodgy pen? An incorrect sending off? A goalkeeping howler?
My heart says one nil to us. My head is too anxious to think straight!

Bigger than that.

Oh, come on. It's not a matter of life or death....



....It's more important than that.🤔

7 pointer cos whoever wins goes ahead on goal difference too.

I see they are a few frontline players down.

So are we.

We don't have any.

😂
I have a feeling that this might be time for Jones the Goal to step up to the plate and grab a last minute winner? As we all know, if Watos not got his scoring boots on were not blessed with many goal scoring options?

Such a big game. I reckon a Cobblers, P*sh, Accy treble would be a giant step towards survival.
If we lose then we’ll be heavily odds against with the remaining games. A draw won’t do us much good either.
Could have done with the spirit of 98 today.
I hope we go for it with what we have available and could be 5 points clear of the pack. 45 points could actually be enough this season.

https://www.soccerstats.com/formtable.asp?league=england3

If you look at the 6 game form league, the only team that is lower than BRFC is the team that they beat last Satdee!
I feel my hopes starting to rise which, is never a good sign -  or at least never has been over the last 50 odd years of supporting the Cobbs?!

Really, can’t think of any. We have Miller and Sowerby out but neither have impressed or provided much positively.

Cometh the hour cometh the man = Hoskins

Maybe, I keep thinking with the law of averages and so many massively overdue a glut of goals that each match we must be due a hatful, maybe today is that day.

I disagree about Sowerby, I think the limited number of chances we create every game have dropped even further without him in the team.

1 assist all season (no goals).

 ;D Sad but true.

Kioso out injured, replaced by Harriman. Edmondson in for Sheehan, Academy keeper Charlie Woods on the bench.

Mitchell
Harriman, Jones, Horsfall, Mills
Morris, McWilliams, Watson, Hoskins
Rose, Edmondson

Subs: Woods, Bolger, Jones (A), Korboa, Chukwuemeka, Sheehan, Marshall

Still A Jones doesn’t start

Says it all really. Our striking partnership have about 3 or 4 goals between them and we don't have any other strikers who have or are really capable of, scoring any more than that. Today is the day they need to step up to the plate. Come on.

I just don’t get why we wouldn’t start with Alex Jones when we are completely lacking in goals. If I was him I’d be a bit pissed off, doesn’t make any sense 

Not a good line up.
Ive got a very bad feeling now.

3 players out, so should even up the match as all our 'strikers' are unavailable every game

It’s testament to how desperate we are when we are looking to someone who has scored less than 20 goals at the age of 26. Makes you wonder why he’s on the payroll. The new Alistair Slowe?

Rovers have unexpectedly gone for two up front, with the physical presence of Jonah Ayunga in from the start..... strength and power in the air according to BristolLive

problem is we have no strength in depth due to terrible transfer dealings.
we are a poor team, but if we don't score today against rovers,
then we are gone

Probably says less about him and more about how poor our other attacking Options have been.

I've just rolled my 6th joint of the day and now on my 8th beer.

My senses are dulled for the next 2 hours. I'm ready.

Why the fcuk is he playing Harriman instead of Sheehan, Harriman is a terrible defender.

This is easily the biggest game of Brady's tenure. A loss and we are almost certainly going down. Even a draw will provide little value. However, if we win, and results elsewhere go our way, then we have a real lifeline. Either way, by 5pm tonight we should have a realistic idea of how many points will be required to avoid the drop. Here goes nothing (hopefully not nothing :-\).

Can you smoke one for me too.

Because Harriman is right footed and Sheehan is left footed, I would have thought.

Bad news that Kioso can't play. He makes a big difference. No idea what will happen today. Just crossing my fingers.

Good man. Certainly need something to get through this. I incidentally, have just opened my first bottle of hobgoblin.

Superb idea

Anyone else find it bizarre having a minutes silence in an empty stadium?

Even more bizarre is seeing Premier League players, the vast majority of whom are foreign, having two minutes silence in an empty stadium!

Wigan ahead at faltering Donny, Wombles behind at Accy

The scoreboards having a mare again, can't we even fix that?

Our mighty screen is looking good  :P

...along with the broken hand driers, broken windows, hot water taps etc etc?

Just what I said and the pitch looking pretty poor. Both fit in very well with the rest of the ground really.

But don't say anything bad about our glorious leader.

Shaun of the dead has carried on from where he left off last week.

Swindon losing

Wigan 2-0 up

Brady out!!!

League 2 here we come

We really are utter shyte.

Sack 'em all......

Poor defending ...2nd ball!

FFS!

Weak as f***.

Oh dear. We haven't won after going behind, all season. Need to start now.

Game over

Sack 'em all!!!

Wimbledon level
Swindon 2 down

Plagiarism!!

Same s*** a different week.

I’ve not watched in a while.

Still hit and hope.

Still no passing on show.

Time to turn off again.

Four players failed to react, just stood there!

Then when the goal went in those same players failed to react still...... shocking!

Lovely close control from Shaun of the dead.

Edmondson f***ing dreadful again.

Edmo is total rubbish.
Not a single shot on target from us.

He's definately gone off the boil in the last few games. Like most of them for most of the season.

Absolutely dire League 2 dross

Actually, most of them were never on the boil.

The death of the beloved duke has affected them more than you think

Hoskins tamely taps the ball into the defender's leg on the edge of the box.

Oglethorpe: "Falls to Hoskins OH AND A CHANCE TO SHOOT ANDITGOESINTOTHELEGSOFTHEDEFENDERANDAWAY!!! OH WHAT A CHANCE!"

Shut the fcuk up you c***.

Wigan 3-0 up

This is a game for Marshall.

The Gas look weak at full back.

Probably a reason why the '4-2-2-2' formation has never caught the world of football by storm...
The propensity of our managers to overcomplicate things never ceases to amaze me.

if you can't reply like an adult, don't bother

We haven't got a single player who would excite a crowd if there was one, and we don't have much on the bench either, with the possible exception of Marshall. Frankly I cannot see us scoring despite Tim's optimism.

“Cobblers playing well without getting their rewards” is also an interesting take on the first 35 minutes.  ???

if that's playing well, there's no hope

Our simple kicking of the ball is letting us down yet again. Fundamentals.🤪

Yep and 'causing Bristol Rovers lots of problems' which is the exact opposite of what's been happening ::) ;D

Looks like its us, Swindon, Dale and the Dons going down.

A Jones must come on at half time, there’s no point waiting till we’re 2 or 3 down. If he only lasts 15 minutes then so be it, we’ve got to try something.

Wimbledon winning

they can kick it, but not to each other, the depressing mood of the whole country after the death of the prince has upset them,

A goal which drops us into the bottom four.....

  ;D

Woy! Desperation has return
Sodom and Gomorrah no deh yah so!

Relax, we’re going to win this.

they have 2 games in hand as well.

Our "scoreboard" is virtually pointless, but certainly embarrassing.

Graham as well insistent we are 'unlucky to be behind' and I really don't get it...for all the possession we've had in their half, how many clear cut chances have we actually created? They've been absolutely comfortable.

Wimbledon 3-1 up

i can't remember a shot on target or have i missed something

A bit like the chairman.

Horsfall had a shot saved by the keeper from an acute angle. Tim got all excited about it.

Ooh, you're not allowed to say that.😁

Cobblers 4 shots, none on target, Rovers 8 shots with 3 on target.

Yep, we're unlucky!  ;D

Even Burton are winning.
Looks like another gloomy week ahead.

We've had four shots, none on target (the Horsfall shot wasn't actually on target, for all Tim's shouting). They've had eight shots, with three on target, and yet Tim thinks we've had 'lots of attacks' and Bristol Rovers have 'offered very little going forward'...I honestly have no idea what game he's watching.

These constant adverts get on my wick, can't they show the 1st half highlights or something, oh hang on a minute, there weren't any were there.

cheers missed that one, must of been getting a beer

Edmondson is an absolute dud...just looks at yhe ball when passed to him in the box!

Not even League Two standard...get Marshall and Alex Jones on!

 :D :D :D :D :D :D :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D

Unless you support a successful premier league team as well, just so you can feel good about things, at the same time as feeling a little bit down.

HOW?

How bloody frustrating are we to watch? There's still too much hit and hope going on, but there's been lots of occasions where we've had the ball at our feet in good areas with plenty of space and players making good runs but we just can't direct a simple 5 or 10 yard pass to find them. It's either knocked well beyond them, behind them or straight into touch. It's not one player either. It's all of them.

How the hell can professional players so often fail to complete a simple short pass?

I posted earlier in the week that in view of fixtures remaining that I could not really see us getting another point this season after today. Have seen nothing in first half here to make me change my mind. So depressing.

As I've said regularly, we even struggle to kick the ball properly half the time. Professional footballers.🤡💩😂

Afternoon

Big 45 mins this as other results not going our way

Time for us to start taking control of our own destiny....

This looks like the day we effectively get relegated.

A bad set of half time scores.

Will we get more than a couple of points by season end.

My old granny taught me if I’ve got nothing nice to say then say nothing ....

Nothing!

Is there a Plan b ?

We need to change it and really go for it.....exploit their defence.

Spot on, what’s to lose?

Rovers look poor at the back and you can see why they lost 5 games on the bounce.

If we put Jones and Marshall on, played it simple, used the width and got some crosses in then we could hurt them.

Brady needs to be brave and make early changes here.

Amen to that brother!

It'll all change second half and they all will be going our way.
Then I'll wake up.

Tim, we all know what the team is. Now give us the Rovers team.

Exactly, take the game to them, don't put Jones on with 5 mins to go when we are 0-3 down .
ATTACK NOW

One week to Boro....there's only one week to Boro......

the goalie makes a mess of the punch and they stand about and watch,get a foot in

Need to get Marshall and Jones on.
The Edmiester is awful

Yes, but we can't go for it, as we haven't the players and it might destroy their morals!!😁

Rochdale losing

Morals.

They're doomed! 1 down, three to go!

MORALES.

Good point they are delicate flowers who lets be honest are still upset by the recent event

We have gone for it though with the 3 attackers like you wanted at Hull, working well isn’t it?

I think he plays in Spain.

Wimbledon 4-1 up

Got to say BRFC are shocking. Problem is we are shockeringer!

Good for their goal difference!

Come on Brady, change it. I know we haven't many winning options, but leaving it as it is, is just asking for defeat.

We’re down. This is awful.

there trying to stay up,we are not ..... simple as

Well, I would hope so, we are at home. It has worked a couple of times this season, but unfortunately we're just not good enough.
Better to have a go though, than just trying to keep the score down, like at Hull.

We desperately need Marshall on. Our most creative player is on the bench when we're not creating anything.

Jones on for Edmo

They have players who can score goals we don’t

Get Marshall on FFS

sad but true

Dons 5 -1 up

Great to see Jones come on earlier, but changing strikers without also improving the service behind them is just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.

4-2-2-2 is a joke. Luke Graham is spot on. What exactly has Marshall done to go from Brady's number one pick to languishing on the bench?

Five now for the Wombles..... Accrington shipped 7 against Boro last week and now 5 v Wimbledon. Next week they are at home to Swindon!

Confidence is shot...if we're playing well and winning, Rose scores that.

Sorry, I'm just so dismayed at the moment and when we go down, we're going to struggle to stay in the league next season.
And an unbelievable miss of the ball from a so called striker.

And that from Rose sums up our season. Dreadful.

Sad day for all,but Div 2 here we come,
stats don't lie, we are officially sh!te

I can hear the fat lady warming up her vocal chords ... that miss from Rose was comical.
 JB - last roll of the dice time??
Let’s be Avenue ...
COYC

Chuk on for Rose

I’m sure we weren’t just trying to keep the score down, I’m guessing we were were aiming at keeping it tight and nicking one on break. I’m not convinced sticking more attackers on the pitch gives us a better chance to score as they are f@cling woeful.

Jones has done more in 10 mins than Edmondson did in an hour.

Edmondson & Rose are sh1t

all season

Jones has done more since he came on than any of our other so called strikers and he doesn't look that unfit. We really are a fukking mess. Still 20 minutes to go.

Stats do lie, do you mean the league table doesn't lie?

Can we have one of our centre backs taking goal kicks please?

Can we have one of our centre backs up front please. Couldn't be any worse.

ok we have strikers who cant score which means the table tells the truth.
we have a goalkeeper that shouldn't be number one which means the table tells the truth etc

also we are all affected by the sad events the players more than most,
they have to stand still for two minutes, must of been harder to control their grief

Come on Sammy

Beat me to it  ;D

Come on one more

Plus a red card ref?

Super Sammy Hoskins..... ;D

Fair play Sam big balls

Brady in!!!

Super sammy well done

Well done Sam takes some nuts that.

hes the greatest!!!

Forget everything I've said earlier. We're gonna win this. Alex Jones, hmm, don't let him start. As I said he looks fit enough to me.

Well done, Sammy! But a draw won't be good enough. Do we have the stones to snatch a winner?

yes

even half fit hes a cut above the other 'strikers'

Definitely need a winner or else it’s just prolonging the torture.

I know it’s a simple game watching from the armchair but ....
Why are we playing Edmondson every week for 75 depressing minutes!
This is a bit more like it Cobbs. We could win this?!!! The

Keith = Jones's Mum!

Jones and Chuk looking good since coming on.

Wigan 4-1 up

your my mum Paula

4 for Wigan and 5 for Wimbledon? Whats going on?

Injury time to save the earth..

their trying we are not

They don’t have Rose & Edmondson up front

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

1-1 FT

Not good enough

Good result for all our rivals

I know we have non-league players and we are a non-league club BUT FFS can we at least try and play league standard football????

How on earth is our management happy with that. Players and managers frighten to death of making a mistake, was exactly the same issue when Sammo was manager. In 25 mins we played 5 passes, kicked the ball out 20 times and committed 8 fouls, all against a very poor team.

KT and club handed the golden ticket of free promotion and run the club like we got relegated. KT OUT KT OUT KT OUT

We are a DEAD club,

Looked better for the last 10/15 mins.
JB, can we just have 75 mins like that and 15 mins like the first 75?
No more Rose and Edmundson up front to start please JB.

Keeps the flame flickering......but the easy games have now run out!

But we’ve fcuked up every game against the bottom 6 so maybe playing the top 6 will help us.
Keep the faith Cobbs!

A funny c***.

So frustrating and for all the criticism that Edmondson and Rose will rightly get, that failure to win falls squarely on Brady and Co. It was so clear that we needed to get A Jones and Marshall on to change the game and actually offer some threat, several of us on here were saying it from half time onwards, you can look back at the posts...and yet we wait until the hour mark to get A Jones on, 75 mins to get Marshall on (after Rose has already missed another gilt edged chance - created by A Jones). Lo and behold, we batter them for the last 15 and deservedly score one, which was again created by A Joens, could have scored another from some dangerous balls Marshall put in.

If we make each of those subs 10 mins earlier, I'm utterly convinced we win that. Now we've got a huge uphill battle to stay up, our run-in is eye-watering.

Where the ground was built there is rubbish and debris no-one wanted, and above is the same

The only thing that has done has kept us out the bottom four for a while longer.
We need some divine intervention to stay there now. A huge missed opportunity today.
If we beat the P*sh Brady can have the freedom of the town.

I think even the biggest optimist will be struggling to see a win at scum.  :'(

bit harsh but someones got too

I’m afraid I tend to agree. Even a 60 minute swap might have made a difference to the result.
I think it was only that comical miss by Rose that finally pushed JB into the change.

Had to win that and never really looked as if we would. So barring miracles I would say that's it.

if you can't reply in an adult way, don't bother.

makes me think you might be a child, ( i think there is an age restriction on here)

We just have to go for an attacking combination up front now. There is no other option left.

Jones Chukwuemeka and Marshall to start. The Rose and Edmondson format has run its course.

Ground out a deserved point in the end, but earlier changes may have seen a better outcome. Again, as I've said quite a few times, can't the 3 of them, between them, see that we needed to change things earlier, as today, when we did , it made all the difference
and if we had, we may well have won. Next season, I think the aim has to be 3rd from bottom or better. Ooh, I'm so negative

Well, we have 2 decent strikers in, who knew? Certainly not the management, it would seem. Alex Jones and Chukwuemeka have to start from now on, both off the ball and on the ball head and shoulders ahead of Rose (not that bad) and Edmondson (absolutely pants today).

Marshall too made a big difference, and I fully agree with other posters that he should have come on far earlier. Well done to Mr Hoskins for keeping his cool and redeeming himself for the pen against Wimbledon!

Brady must improve his team selections and quick.

Disappointing that we didn't make the substitutions earlier. Jones is far and away our best forward and I'm sure JB knows that. I can only think he's only playing 30 minutes because he can't play longer, otherwise it would be a no-brainer. Not bringing on Marshall earlier when we were desperate for some width is more mystifying.

However, overall we are where we are because we're not very good and we don't have the luxury of changing the team much. Relegation beckons unless something extraordinary happens.

Five to play....

Boro away...2nd place three points off the leaders and five ahead of third places Sunderland
Ipswich home.... 8th place three points outside the playoff places
Gillingham away.... 10th place four points outside the playoff places
Blackpool home.... 4th place, two points inside the playoff zone, unbeaten in 14
Sunderland away..... 3rd place, five points behind Boro

We need divine inspiration. But as I don't believe in such shyte, we're doomed.

Very very generous

Apart from the P*sh game (could be a proper hiding) we should at least be competitive in the others. They’ll all have their own nerves as pushing for the play offs. Sunderland lost at home today and could be safely promoted by the time we get there...that’s if we still have a say in it by then.
It’s the hope that kills you!

Yeah, was always too much of ask to survive from here. Need to look to League 2 now. I've got to be honest, difficult circumstances or not, I'm not sure Brady is the man for me.

I like Brady a lot. His passion and integrity are beyond reproach and I think it's clear that he's a very good man-manager and coach. Curle's recruitment has given him an extremely limited hand of cards to play with.

However, for me the pressure of the relegation battle has transformed him into a risk adverse manager. When he first took over we were properly having a go at teams with Marshall and Miller flying down the wings and the full-backs overlapping in support. He spoke encouragingly about increasing our touches in the opposition's penalty area.

Now Marshall has been jettisoned to the bench and we're playing some kind of weird '4-2-2-2' pseudo-diamond formation with very little width and very little creativity.

Today's draw keeps us just about alive but he needs to have a radical tactical rethink. For me there just wasn't enough ambition to get 3 points in what was a very winnable game today. It's sad how refreshing it is to watch Jones do the absolute basics of centre forward play - holding the ball up, using his strength to turn his man, directing flick ons - which seem to be beyond the purview of his colleagues. I find it hard to belief that we couldn't get 60 minutes out of him (a la McCormack last year) and this could make all the difference. This is what I'd play from now on:


                                               Mitchell
                           
                        Kioso      Jones        Horsfall        Mills/Sheehan



                                      McWilliams       Morris

                           Marshall            Watson             Hoskins

                                                  Jones (sub off after 60 minutes for Edmondson/Chucks)


4-2-3-1 is a tactically coherent formation and would give us some width without compromising our ability to press and defend. It would also allow Watson to get in the box and hopefully feed off Jones. Mills is an interesting one. He looked like a great signing in the summer having scored and assisted for fun for Forest Green as a left-wing back. He's been fairly solid defensively but he looks to me like a player who could do with a rest. His crossing, passing and composure were not up to his usual standard. Sheehan started his career as a left-back and putting him in at left-back might be a way of getting some much-needed composure into the side.

     
                             
                               

Well, for next season anyway. After that it could be a lot worse. I know times are hard and budgets are tight, but plenty of other teams are in exactly the same situation as us and haven't done too bad. Is it just down to the players or does it go higher than that. Hmmm.

i agree but was Mills playing a more forward role in a team creating chances, this is a team that is scared to create anything, we have the players but no the confidence, that's Brady's job

We look league two and quite honestly deserve to be there.
At what point is Edmundson going to score a proper goal or even have a shot ?
We are as sharp as a tennis ball up front

He’s not at all the right man. NTFC NUT also hit the nail on the head earlier in the thread. We knew he wasn’t the man when he failed to beat any of Burton, MK Dons, Rochdale or Swindon.

Today was a must win and we were shocking for huge spells of the game. The delusion to think this daft formation was working is incredibly frustrating. We may as well not bother with the three away games as they’re 0 points. Ipswich is dependant on whether they turn up or not, they’re the inconsistent side we have left, and Blackpool are on a play off juggernaut and will be thanking their lucky stars for having us to play.

We are down. And that was so avoidable. Thanks to the board for allowing it to happen.

I don't see how you can properly tell what formation we are playing from iFollow

I'd rather not be playing teams scrapping for their lives at the bottom - our record, as said, is shocking against them!
Can see (hoping!) a draws at Gillingham, as well as home to Blackpool. Cobblers could and should have won at Portman Road...so a cagey 1-0 win against Ipswich Town coming up!

Of course, no chance whatsoever of getting anything at Posh next week!

Spot on post, as per usual.

Through the interviews Brady comes across as a lovely bloke but, to my mind, not as a manager. He allows emotion to get the better of him and whilst that is endearing in a man, you need a cool head to plan a strategy. It has also astonished me how the three members of his bunch could put out teams to play the way they have ever since the Crewe game. I am surprised  however that he hasn't been able to transfer his passion to the players who look to me like the weakest set of footballers you could choose in one team. If they had played some of these games with fire in their belly we would be safe by now. There are some awful sides in this league.

Disagree. There is nothing wrong with the 'passion' of these players. The likes of Edmondson and Rose have been much criticised for a lack of quality but you can't deny that they are working their bollocks off and chasing everything. Compare this group with the last Cobblers team who were relegated from this division (Van Veen, Crooks et al) - there is far more passion, fight and work ethic but sadly passion will only get you so far.

Our problems this season boil down to 1. poor recruitment and 2. poor tactics.

Brady can do nothing about recruitment but he has been tactically subpar over the past few weeks. If you play without any genuine width then it affects the composure of the whole team because there is never an obvious 'out ball' - this I think is why there were so many misplaced passes today.

 

I just hope someone has a quite word with Mitchell and tell him to kick it a little more to the right, lost count the number of kicks that went straight out of play on the half way line.
    Just a thought, he could have been "got at" by a Chinese betting syndicate, with bets on the number of throw ins, 5U Sports get their revenge !!!!

Managers today are rather more PR representatives for the clubs, employed to give good soundbites. You've only got to look at Klopp's new teeth and Mourinho's latest spat to realise that. Brady hasn't been media trained yet so he comes accross as a real person. If he gets the job in the summer expect the usual platitudes to follow.

yes because we set up not to lose. What happens? We never win.

Beginning to warm to you Keith - don't like Punk, Reggae, Iron Maiden type music etc but like and admire the Rolling Stones and Petula Clark!

You're so negative.😁

I take full responsibility.

Brady is a decent coach but is he a manager? Going forward, whichever division we are in, there is a huge rebuilding job to be done in the summer as many players are out of contract. Does anyone have confidence that Brady is the man to have in that position?

Thomas was hinting at an overhaul.....perhaps a Director of Football appointment is on the cards.

Any 'overhaul' should include the Chairman who has been an abject failure and will drive us into non-league should he continue to speak from his arse.

Who else has he been involved with again , Torquay, Oxford. Have any of those ever been non league?

At some point I hope to meet you because EVERY post you put I agree with! No one else anywhere ever does, so it would be refreshing to talk sh1t with someone who I would never argue with!  I have nothing to add, apart from one thing...

...that my frustration with Brady has been and continues to be his late subs when things are not working. He lets games drift. It was crying out for Marshall to come on at half time, yet he keeps him benched until 75 minutes. Shortly after we score. It winds me up incessantly watching it!

 

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Partly agree with you as JB might have rung the changes sooner to bring on Marshall and AJones as within a few minutes we had scored. I also thought that Chucks made a difference too. What annoys me is that the attitude of a few on here who seem to think that after todays result we are going to be relegated with 15 points to gain. As Pedji points out we appear to be set out not to lose.  I often wonder what his selection team are thinking?  Actually I believe todays result favours us more than it it did Rovers. Think Brady is coming to the point where he has to be brave and chance his luck and ours for that matter. Can we do it ? 7 more points may well be sufficient and is not beyond us.

I agree that the result did Rovers no favours at all.....and if we only had to finish above one or two teams we'd look at it as a good point, but its 4 from 6 and there are a number of 6 pointers still to come for other teams....therefore teams below WILL pick up points along the way......will we pick up any? True, we have five games left, and yes we need 7 or 8 points I think.....but Wimbledon still have seven to play, Swindon still have Rochdale, Wimbledon and Wigan to play.....Rochdale and Wimbledon still have to play each other.....they can't all lose!

FWIW, I think Rochdale are gone, Rovers will join them and then probably Swindon as well.....but I can see Wigan and Wimbledon as the two to escape which leaves us in 21st......

Such negativity. Evers won't be impressed. Have you got some sort of anti club agenda?😮

Since a great performance to beat Pompey we've won 2 in 8 and haven't scored more than one goal in any of those eight games.

I've studied the form, I've studied the remaining games and I think we'll come up just short.....

There's no doubt we can stay up....but that goes for any of the other  teams too.....and we can't all stay up!

Another disappointing result, but...
As others have said, Jones, Chuks and Marshall showed some reasons for positivity today.
Give all three (much) more game time in the coming weeks, and at least we might have a chance of scoring, and therefore gaining some much needed points...

I needed that too, cheers and I had many more. I couldn't see to type stuff here. ;)

I have to disagree with "The Verve," as last night the drugs did work and by half time I couldn't give a shit.

I'm going to need a lot more to get me through to the end of the season.

I think you’re going to need something a little stronger for next Satdy.  :P

Completely agree whatever the deal with A Jones’s fitness he has to start, it it means we end up having to take him him off early or very early then so be it, starting with the inept Rose and Edmondson puts us on the back foot from the start. As for Marshall I think the ball is in his court, it feels every game he comes on and has a great impact, he get to start the next match then has a complete mare. Would also like to see more of Chucks and hopefully his brief cameo has put him further up the pecking order.

The guy is a fcuking unmitigated disaster, apathetic doesn’t even begin to describe his attitude!

 

Try Chucks , AJones and Marshall for Peterborough.Also consider trying Rose instead of Morris might well work as he is very mobile and combative? Defo keep Hoskins in!

It's ok for him to run our club cos he's not a fan, apparently that is the main criteria many of our fans look for in an owner !!  And he has demonstrated that on so many occasions.

Surely it's time to start asking for him to leave or at least give the club back to people who actually care, do a DC and sell it for a £1.

Golden chance to start building the club and we are where we are, think we will finish bottom and the lowest scorers, it don't get much worse than that.

The problem is, Evers, we might grind out three draws, but that can be overhauled by any of the others landing one big win. I agree with you that it is coming to the point where he has to throw the dice and have a proper go. Realistically, failure to beat either Blackpool or Ipswich and we are almost certain to go down. That is unless we can find some away form. :-\

Which contributor or supporter has gone on the record anywhere and stated that the main criteria for someone running the club is that they are not a fan?

I think it’s easy to say we should be more attacking or have a proper go but that’s always going to be difficult given the players we have. We are currently playing 3 attackers, Watson is our most attacking central midfielder and we are playing 2 fullbacks (Kioso/Mills) who are arguably wing backs.
We just have inferior players and in attack very inferior players. If other teams play to their potential it doesn’t matter the formation or mindset we will struggle to create anything and get a good beating.

The defense is solid enough, we just aren't creating at the other end. We set up far too narrow yesterday, and one of Brady's major failing seems to be he is unwilling to change things early enough. The amount of times this season when it has been blinding that things aren't working, and yet changes aren't made soon enough. And when they do arrive they don't always seem logical.

He’s good that Bungle ain’t he?

He’s the greatest.

The greatest what?

I thought it rather strange that a few travelled from Bristol to stand on the hill and see half a game when they could have watched the game at home at less cost.

The way the players celebrated the goal I imagine Barton told the players that fans had gone to that effort to motivate them.

You do have to question the mentality of these people, also where they stood they could only see the goal at the south end of the ground, if it had been me I would have watched through the gap between the West and North in the 1st half, to see the goal my team were attacking.
    Also a bit disappointed our local plod didn't arrest them for breaking the Covid travel rules !  :o    ;)

Possibly local to the area?

You are allowed to travel.

"Under current UK COVID-19 restrictions, you must stay at home. You must not travel, including abroad, unless you have a legally permitted reason to do so. It is illegal to travel abroad for holidays and other leisure purposes".
 From www.gov.uk      Some restrictions removed today, so you were NOT allowed to travel on Saturday. :)

The rules from 29th March were not too clear, but roughly they were:



The ‘Stay at Home’ order will be lifted and although the overall message is to ‘stay local’, no legally defined acceptable travel distance within England has been set at this stage.
However, travel within England must be limited to day trips, as overnight stays are not permitted at this stage.

So they could travel.