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Paxman II
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Agree. Has he seen the light at last? Has he been reading comments on here?
Cody is a natural goal scorer and he actually put him on!
Solid stuff today and nerves all a jangle. We have the impetus now and surely will not throw that away?
Pompey look to have collapsed today and Donny also know the game is up.
6 unbeaten, another clean sheet, a win away from home at last, scored 2 away again.
far exceeding most of our recent expectations. Now we will expect to stay up!
Cody is a natural goal scorer and he actually put him on!
Solid stuff today and nerves all a jangle. We have the impetus now and surely will not throw that away?
Pompey look to have collapsed today and Donny also know the game is up.
6 unbeaten, another clean sheet, a win away from home at last, scored 2 away again.
far exceeding most of our recent expectations. Now we will expect to stay up!
Paxman II
Well-Known Member
Agree. Has he seen the light at last? Has he been reading comments on here?
Cody is a natural goal scorer and he actually put him on!
Solid stuff today and nerves all a jangle. We have the impetus now and surely will not throw that away?
Pompey look to have collapsed today and Donny also know the game is up.
6 unbeaten, another clean sheet, a win away from home at last, scored 2 away again.
far exceeding most of our recent expectations. Now we will expect to stay up!
Cody is a natural goal scorer and he actually put him on!
Solid stuff today and nerves all a jangle. We have the impetus now and surely will not throw that away?
Pompey look to have collapsed today and Donny also know the game is up.
6 unbeaten, another clean sheet, a win away from home at last, scored 2 away again.
far exceeding most of our recent expectations. Now we will expect to stay up!
castlevaleskyblue
New Member
agreed fair play AT doing a great job with a tiny squad
Astute
Well-Known Member
It makes AT special. We could have a great manager on our hands. Has taken a long time to get a less than average squad to start getting results, but we are now where we want to be.
Believe in our team. Believe in AT
IrishSkyBlue
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Hes getting the results we need, lets not forget tho few games left ill praise him once season is over and if we stay up 
EleanorRigby
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We are Coventry City though, so beware. Peterbrough home is now so important. I think it clashes with Forest v Bristol City so another vital weekend and if we can go to Bristol 4 points ahead what a position we could be in. We are playing well, scoring and not letting goals in. A recipe for success, but as said earlier we are Coventry City.
Paxman II
Well-Known Member
I don't want to spoil the day but I have been saying our squad is not less than average. AT has now got them playing to their ability quite frankly and it has taken until recently to do that!
That does not make him our saviour all of a sudden. Just pleased he is getting more right than wrong lately.
Otis
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I have always said we are not that bad. Relegation stuggle, yes, bottom 3 for 5 months, no way.
Let's just celebrate that we are getting things right at last!
Colonel Mustard
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It's very possible. I said a few weeks ago that the only two fixtures that mattered were Pompey and Bristol City. Pompey was job one done, but Bristol is massive. And for all the elation over a win like today's, the opposite is true too - it can feel like shoulder-dropping quicksand with a big loss.
Skybluedar
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Amazing to think that us staying up this season will end up being the most satisfying feeling we have had since we went down. How ironic. Lets believe we can do it and get behind the lads. Massive win today!
Astute
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We are the houdini of football. Have faith
The CableGuy
Well-Known Member
Fook NO!
Thorn sure knows how to end a season. Compare that to Coleman - only ONE win from the final 10 games from 2 seasons running.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
New Member
It ain't over yet! But, so far mission impossible is going OK.
AFCCOVENTRY
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It is completely in our hands now.
3 more wins would do me
3 more wins would do me
The CableGuy
Well-Known Member
Yep, we still have a lot of hard work to do. For the 1st time since I can remember, its in our own hands now. 6 games unbeaten, great run and great victory today but, in context all we've done is given ourselves a chance - a real chance - of avoiding relegation.
Look at Pompey - gave themselves a chance by beating Hull in midweek - then blew it today at home to Burnley and got their goal difference shot to hell in the process.
We can't take our foot of the pedal now. Screw up next week and the advantage could move very quickly back to Bristol. Peterboro are a decent team and can score goals for fun at times so we shouldn't assume they'll turn up at CV6 next week just for a day out.
Have at em City!
@richh87
Member
Well, some of us never doubted him.
He's deserved to get the plaudits, particularly from the mongs
Exactly.
Mongs indeed.
Otis
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@richh87
Member
Exactly. Playing passing football - great at spotting talent to sign, great motivator and now getting things right tactically too...
What more could people want?
@richh87
Member
Bollocks. Our squad was ripped apart in the summer and kids forced into the team who weren't ready. Our top scorer sold in January - any idea how hard it is to deal with all that and keep the players believing? Thorn's astute bargain signings are what's done this.
Get a brain.
Astute
Well-Known Member
Getting off my laptop for a bit. Need to. Some still insinuating still the fault of AT although we were the bookies favourites to go down as the season started. No cover for positions. Young players put into the team, opposite of Pompey. Need to calm down. Would we need to win this division by 1000 points before some might admit AT has at least done OK with what he had this season?
Nonleagueherewecome
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Well to someone who doesn't rate him, sure. But like Clive just said, you can't blame him when we are doing badly, only to turn around when we are doing well and say it's despite him.
I think the recent success just emphasises what I thought before: we have a ridiculously threadbare squad and haven't replaced quality. The manager has had sod all in the way of fully fit options, and certainly in terms of competition for places we are the weakest in the division, exacerbated by injuries-which of course are inevitable. The only way the manager was allowed to reinforce his squad was to get rid of other players-and not at any stage increase the numbers! There isn't a manager in our division who has been so impotent in the transfer market: a crime given the man's talent as a scout, as we are seeing in the two players he chose to come in (even if one of them is the best non-scoring striker in The Championship to compliment the 2nd best non-scoring striker in The Championship
)Now we finally have a few options, and the raw kids have a bit more experience, not to mention the return to fitness of our two best full-backs and the re-instatement of last seasons back 4, we are doing OK. But we have been sadly lacking up until recently-the team virtually picked itself. That makes a managers job almost impossible, especially when you are forced to play kids when their form and morale has dropped. I'd still say we have the weakest attack in the division, both in terms of quality and statistically in terms of goals scored.