Match Thread: Leyton Orient v Port Vale

[gavcradd]

11 minutes ago, Biddulph_PV said:

Because he isn’t a poacher/out and out goal scorer. If he scores a hat-trick in his next game it will be 3 in 7 which looks completely different.

And if my uncle had boobs he'd be my auntie. What's your point? 0 in 6 and offered nothing else today. It's not about picking a boo-boy, it's about assessign whether each player is worth their starting position. For me, Guthrie isn't contributing and so Clarke might as well give someone else a chance.

[Iron Curtain]

14 minutes ago, TylerB said:

I suppose Happy Clapper 2021 is truly impressed with his record and performances? He's not going to shag you, mate.

I thought he worked hard but lacked quality and didn’t add that much today. Saying it once will probably be enough to get the message across.

No no... I’m sorry... you are right... You come across as very measured and level in your continued posts about how you don’t rate him. 3 or 4 weren’t enough to get the message across to us simple folk. Thanks for going on and on and on and on about it. 

Let us know in a few hours when the emotions have settled again.

Emotional rollercoaster poster = ERP which is an anagram of REP. 🤔

[PV1973]

5 minutes ago, Iron Curtain said:

Set up to not concede and a poor lapse in concentration from Gibbo cost us... but these things happen. First full game back so maybe not match sharp.

We looked more industrious, closed down well and all in all looked more solid... especially in the 442 which worries me given Joyce has struggled in a 4 in the past. Maybe because that’s what we have spent most on this week.

Some individual performances that were not great... but more from a quality rather than an aptitude point of view. A problem that can be fixed in the summer.

Will take a point away from home all day long. 

Heard Gibbo hasn’t been training with the team since the Southend game and only came back in properly late this week. So maybe understandable, but apart from that one lapse he was much better than Mills in that position and I thought overall we worked hard and put a shift in. A well earned point in my book. 

[Conrad]

Would have taken a point before ko.2results have gone for us and Tuesday night is a big game, win that and our league status will look far more healthy.

[LancyTony]

18 minutes ago, Iron Curtain said:

I see the emotional rollercoaster poster has a new target!

There's been a few queuing up to lump on the new whipping boy...must be some bloody perfect workers in our fans!

[Iron Curtain]

1 minute ago, PV1973 said:

Heard Gibbo hasn’t been training with the team since the Southend game and only came back in properly late this week. So maybe understandable, but apart from that one lapse he was much better than Mills in that position and I thought overall we worked hard and put a shift in. A well earned point in my book. 

Absolutely... I rate Gibbo very highly and are 1000 times better with him in the side.

[Conrad]

1 minute ago, LancyTony said:

There's been a few queuing up to lump on the new whipping boy...must be some bloody perfect workers in our fans!

Perfect workers, I read that wrong first time.

[valiant_593]

1 minute ago, LancyTony said:

There's been a few queuing up to lump on the new whipping boy...must be some bloody perfect workers in our fans!

Play well and they wouldn’t be a whipping boy. I don’t understand why people post this. He wasn’t very good that’s a fact. 

[Powerline]

7 minutes ago, TylerB said:

Why not just put Leon Legge up top then and save on wage?

You may joke but it’s a serious point. Some games a big man up top is more suited. Today with how it went second half, I’d rather go with an experienced big man to hold the ball up and put himself about rather than the inexperienced and small Swan. Much more helpful to the team defensively when we were hanging on for a point.

[Powerline]

Just now, valiant_593 said:

Play well and they wouldn’t be a whipping boy. I don’t understand why people post this. He wasn’t very good that’s a fact. 

It’s not a fact though, it’s your opinion and a terrible one at that. What did he do that wasn’t very good?

[valiant_593]

1 minute ago, Powerline said:

It’s not a fact though, it’s your opinion and a terrible one at that. What did he do that wasn’t very good?

Thanks. Why is it a terrible opinion? I don’t think he contributed much at all today and hasn’t other than the Southend game. It’s not just about not scoring I don’t think his overall game today was good enough. He wasn’t the only one and shouldn’t be singled out but he wasn’t good at all. 

[TylerB]

2 minutes ago, Powerline said:

You may joke but it’s a serious point. Some games a big man up top is more suited. Today with how it went second half, I’d rather go with an experienced big man to hold the ball up and put himself about rather than the inexperienced and small Swan. Much more helpful to the team defensively when we were hanging on for a point.

I absolutely get that. Which is why I was saying earlier in the season that Cullen wasn't the answer if played alone. But even forgetting the fact that he hasn't scored and hasn't looked like scoring, Guthrie's overall game has been average at best. He offers next to nothing and I don't believe Robinson would go 6 games without scoring at least once. Bradford fans were laughing their arses off that we took him from them and we're seeing why.

[Iron Curtain]

 

1 minute ago, Eddie Ford said:

Looks like you have.

You are a complete dick to anybody that got a different opinion or agenda to your own 

Hows Derek?

[Powerline]

Just now, valiant_593 said:

Thanks. Why is it a terrible opinion? I don’t think he contributed much at all today and hasn’t other than the Southend game. It’s not just about not scoring I don’t think his overall game today was good enough. He wasn’t the only one and shouldn’t be singled out but he wasn’t good at all. 

He has been singled out though. I’m not saying he was great today but he wasn’t bad by any means, worked hard for the team

[TylerB]

1 minute ago, Powerline said:

He has been singled out though. I’m not saying he was great today but he wasn’t bad by any means, worked hard for the team

So if he doesn't score a single goal for us until he sods off back to Bradford, you wont mind just as long as you can say he worked hard for he team? 

Brilliant.