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  1. Posted

    6 minutes ago, yellowrider120 said:

    Indeed! I thought that R Martin had blown it after that late defeat down the road but they are closing in on the top three although it still looks a gap too far with games almost done.

    Southampton away would be a much more 'pleasant' trip than the horrible, bear pit in West Yorkshire but are on the field chances might be better against the latter.

     

    Their decision to go gung ho for the win when they were drawing two two at Ip5w1ch could come back and bite them on the bùm. A draw there would have given them one more point but more importantly rob the binners of two.

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  3. Posted · Edited by Hairy Canary

    I'm not sure where this often stated conviction that Wagner will go in the summer comes from. There's no indication from the club that that is their intention. In fact quite the opposite in both word and deed. 

    Delia was quite open about aspiring a long term manager in her last interview and also the club stood by Wagner when virtually everyone (myself included) wanted him gone when the wheels came off earlier this season. It fact it was public knowledge that Delia rang Wagner to offer her support at that time. Personally I think the club will feel that decision has been totally vindicated by the upturn in performances, whatever now transpires.

    Next year, if we don't go up, we are going to have to make some serious economies when the parachute payments end, and that's going to mean sales, big changes and a period of rebuild. My reading of the way the Board reacts is that that means Wagner is much more likely to stay than go.   

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    1 minute ago, sgncfc said:

    Bit weird though that at the press conference Sargent was unlikely to play at all, then ends up almost doing his first 90 minutes for months. Mind games, justification for a bad call or sheer incompetence? I guess we'll never know.

    We got the win but not sure how you can say tactics were spot on when we could easily have been three down at half-time. The subs worked out for us, but that's not been a frequent occurrence this season.

    Interesting you thought we could have been three down at half time. I certainly didn’t see it like that. Like Parma’s post above I didn’t feel feel concerned at all. 
     

    Maybe Sargent stayed on for more minutes because we now don’t have a game for 7 days and can manage his recovery? Also why give your opponent information about your lineup when you don’t have to? 

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  5. Posted

    Not sure there is a decision to make yet. Rowe is only just back so hardly going to be ready to play 90 mins in the next game, or even two. Coming off the bench seems ideal. Be brilliant to have a sub that can make a possible difference.

    If and when we get to the playoffs there’ll be more of a decision to make. Let’s hope everyone stays fit and we have that luxury.

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    24 minutes ago, Commonsense said:

    In defence of Tuesday, remember that Sarge was touch and go for today-he is absolutely vital at the moment. Also yes he did 90 minutes, but we don’t have a midweek fixture this week. 

    Absolutely! Seems obvious we are trying to manage his workload and recovery time. 

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  7. Posted

    5 minutes ago, City Stand Ultra said:

    It was well managed in that despite his previous tendencies he decided to actually keep our best player on the pitch (funny how Sarge was able to do 90 mins today)

    football is indeed a simple game.  Me thinks Wagner finally realised the total disaster he created on Tuesday and even he knew not to do it again. So from that aspect well managed - pity about the other numerous matches we have thrown away 

    Talk about faint praise!
     

    Great win, tactics spot on. Rowe back and Sargent played nearly 90 mins and you have to come out will this negativity.
     

    What is it? You need to be proven right that when Sargent went off against Wednesday Wagner lied to cover up his bad call rather than Sargent feeling his ankle? Sad.

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  8. Posted

    2 minutes ago, City Stand Ultra said:

    what injury?  the one Wagner used as his reason for not keeping sarge on the field Tuesday

    I think many people suspect he was thinking we are 2-0 up got another game lets give him a rest but that it backfired spectacularly and then he used the same injury excuse hes used before instead of simply saying  "i wanted to protect him but it didnt work out and i hold my hands up" 

    Could be. Or maybe he was out for months with an ankle injury, not had full training for weeks and is so crucial to the team that we are trying to nurse him through these vital games?

    Jeez…

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  9. Posted

    Everyone agrees we are worse when Sargent doesn’t play, isn’t fit etc.

    Wagner has to decide if our next best option is to play SVH or to go to a plan B and play a different system. From what I’ve seen neither option fills me with optimism. 

     

  11. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Sufyellow said:

    Yep makes you wonder if he has just been given a day to rest, and will be fine for Saturday. Plus it takes a bit of pressure off the subs Tuesday. If he's out let's hope wagner is sorting out some sort of tactics that stands a chance. 

    I hope you’re right. 🤞

    Difference this time is we start at nil nil rather than winning two nil when he was subbed so got to be more positive.

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    7 minutes ago, Creedence Clearwater Couto said:

    Unbelievably, Southampton are back in the hunt for top two if they win their games in hand.

    I was thinking that. If they had settled for a two two away at Ip5w1ch after they’d had a man sent off they would definitely be in the hunt.

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    2 minutes ago, By Hook or Ian crook said:

    Tactical no. Pre planned. Yes. That’s the problem for me. Wagner may well come out and say he asked to come off due to injury. Which if he did there’s not much you can do. I have a feeling though this was more to do with them deciding he could / should only play 60 mins. 

    Well I had a feeling it wasn’t and his fitness is so vital to us that we are very carefully managing it.

    The major problem is that we swapped Idah for SVH and left ourselves in this predicament.

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  17. Posted

    Just now, Creedence Clearwater Couto said:

    I wouldn’t take Sarge off untill 80 mins earliest. 

    We’re a different side without him. A pretty awful one. Wagner should know that more than anyone.

    We’ve had this before when everyone booed. The guy is struggling with his fitness when we play this number of games in such a short period. Did you think it was tactical!

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  22. Posted

    Usually a team with 87 points after 40 games would be close to home and dry, another 6 points would be plenty. A draw away at a top six team would be fine.

    This year though a draw wont be enough. The way the table is they'd probably drop out of the top two if that happens. So they are going to have to come here and look to win. I feel that will play into our hands. We're pretty good at playing on the break especially if they commit players forward. Nice and tight to start and the pressure will build on them..... 🙂 

     

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