Ricky

If Portsmouth win this it puts us in a big hole

I’m ok with it. He wasn’t in the squad and had played for the 21s the day before. He’s made the short trip to watch a friend play.

It’s also an indication of how bad our transfer policy is when a team with a transfer embargo can do considerably better business than us. Hull are 4th and 3 points off the automatic places and weren’t allowed to pay a fee for anyone, they also had the wages capped but still did better than us in the window.

They won’t sack him as it’ll bring the radar back on Pasha and Rudy, they’ve got the perfect shield who can take all of the blame in Val.

I feel that winning the battle in the middle of the park can help set the tone for the whole team. We can’t do that with the current players. Baraji looks skillful on the ball but doesn’t have any fight at all. Loses the ball and watches the player run away from him, Cantwell does exactly the same. We probably have the weakest squad in the league. Our best 11 is lower mid table but the overall squad is weak. That weak squad has led to us having to try to play the best 11 every game with no rest, shock horror we then end up with injuries. I’m also convinced our training and rehab is nowhere near what it’s been in the past so the injuries are more common. in short a couple of signings may cover the cracks but we all know the problems are running deeper. If we keep signing average players then the starting 11 are still under pressure to start every game. Cashin doesn’t start for me when our CBs are fit so it’s a pointless signing, O’Riordan was pulled back from loan and again is probably only on the bench if all are fit. Jorgensen probably doesn’t start if Gudjonssen and Ohashi are both fit (maybe ahead of Ohashi at a push). Last season I’m not sure we signed a single player who was better than what we already had in that position. Some would save Alibiousi, but we had Brittain who was one of the best in the RB position we actually signed the player to play in. Change in formation has been good for Ryan but as a RB I think Brittain has the edge. There are no quick wins, a couple of signings will not get us out of this mess.

I got the joke 😄

Birmingham fans as friends and they quite like Anderson and reckon he’ll so well at Portsmouth. We have to hope he has a shocker as we need a Watford win tomorrow night.

Portsmouth have actually bought in some players who know the league and will push past us so we need a couple of teams to be worse than us. Can’t see it at the moment.

Charlton could be caught but we need to actually start winning some games.

We’re down. No quality at all in this squad

There is no urgency about our play at all. Baraji looks like he’s having a lovely stroll around the pitch.

Although tbf last season he was coming off the back of a bad injury so it could explain his poor form at Blackpool.

Dom Ballard is having a good season with 15 league goals in 20 appearances but he struggled last season with 3 in 35 when he was at Blackpool. Young player so would be a gamble.

If we don’t get a goal scorer then there’s a fair chance we are down. If we get one we’ve got a fighting chance of scraping survival.

Have you seen the line up Gav? A battling draw at best I reckon. Not convinced there’s any goals in that team based on recent form.