Spoken to a few people who thought...

Perhaps you could have condensed all that into "we've won".

Trust me - it would have made more honest reading.

Let's get promoted!

 

Well we did have more of the ball and I think we had more chances as well. I never thought they would score second half. Also thought that Kiefer Moore was a bit better as well today. Won lots of headers. Just got to aim them at Barnsley players now! On the other hand Cavare was much worse than normal. He did manage to poleaxe one of their players with his chest though.

 

When he did win em Bahre and others were nowhere to be seen or failed to gamble on him winning the header.

 

I wasn't talking to anyone directly. I added what I saw, my view, my thoughts to the thread. As did others. My apologies if I've come over differently.

I wasn't coming on here telling you how it is. I came on and read an interesting thread full of different opinions and posted my own. Maybe my initial post lacked an 'in my opinion' or 'I believe' here and there.

On a side note, the moves for both Potts chances (one in either half) were superb to watch. I'm really enjoying watching this side.

 

While Moore is on the pitch we're always likely to score. Get one good cross in, like the corner from which he scored, and we've won the game. That really might be all that's required to secure promotion. I thought we'd need a lot more, but maybe we don't. He gives us an edge and that might be enough.

 

I might just be being a mardy lovely person, I'm not above that by any means.

 

Me neither.

I probably do lack emotive wording and pure opinions on players now, for obvious reasons. But I've been on this or previous iterations of the forum for about 15 years or summat daft. I still like to read this place post-match, get a feel for folks' opinions etc. But I ought to just leave it at that - reading.

 

4 of last 10 years get auto promotion on our current form. Not exactly nailed on tbf

 

Portsmouth have won 4 of their games 1-0, 2 at home and 2 away. Obviously I can't comment on the performances but I'd presume they were tight matches

Southend started each half in a similar fashion today, their plan looked to be to try and get ahead early, which did for us at Charlton and Shrewsbury.

We're seeing inconsistency from a few players but in patches we still look a really good side and even though today wasn't champagne football we still created enough chances to have made it comfortable. Southend weren't without chances of their own to be fair.

Back in 96/97,we'd started like a house on fire and then, at a similar stage of the season, we went something like 5 home games without a win, losing 2.

I'm naturally glass half full, but I genuinely think we're ticking over nicely, with more to come. Next 3 games in the league will be tough, but we're slowly learning to scrap with teams who set up to spoil. Necessary evil really.

 

Oh, wow.

 

No idea

 

I've just had a very quick look, 89 would get you up in 5 of the last 6 years. I can't be arsed to look any further back than that.

 

Struggling to see how you can be more deserving of getting something out of a game just because you’re away from home rather than at home. The team that plays better and creates more chances deserves to win the game regardless.

We didn’t play well, but we played better than Southend, created more chances and could have won the game more comfortably. I don’t know what the expected goals stat was, but I’d wager it was easily in our favour.

 

I posted it earlier in the thread. 10 points out of 12.

 

I was Bang in line with their offside and it was definitely offside...

 

Southend had three great chances in the first ten minutes and we had zero. Had they taken them like better teams would, we would have already lost the game so the chances we had later on wouldn't have happened, as the match would have been different.

 

Page 9 in the program before today’s game predicted 86 points based on 1.87 points per game, I dare say it’s slightly better now, but if the club programme is wrong I do apologise.

 

....... ‘Spoken to a few people who thought’

That’s interesting.
Where did you meet them then ?
How far away from Barnsley was it ?

 

You didn't go to the game Nudger. Keep out of this one.

 

I’d respectctfully suggest a new hobby, as watching Barnsley sounds like it’s sending you into a pit of despair. Failing that, I’ve got some good E’s on me !