Just now, Mattyblue said:

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That was the point I was making! There are these diamonds out there, blowing £7 million on ‘potential’ is a crazy way to operate for a club like us, Preston’s ‘model’ seems to be working much better from where I’m standing.

sorry miss read your post thought u was having a dig 

Just now, PNEmad said:

Personally I thought PNE were dead and buried at half time, you completley stopped us playing for 45mins. Our back four was makeshift at best but thats no excuse, it was blackburns half by a mile. I'm a north end fan so cant comment on blackburns previous games but that 45 was prob the best half any away team have played at deepdale this season.

Second half i think rovers looked apprehensive from the start. A bit fragile. We started playing long balls (which is not our game and the reason Stockley has hardly featured this season) and we got the early goal. After that we just kept applying pressure and rovers fell apart. 

Ive seen pne lose like that before and its def down to a lack of confidence. 

Based on first half i wouldnt be sacking the manager just yet, this is a tough league and whilst youve got a glorious past you're just not that team anymore. Theres no quick fix, build on the first 45mins and if it takes 2 or 3 seasons then so be it. We've waited half a century ffs!

I wouldn’t say they stopped us playing they where playing well but we where awful we gave every other pass away we made them look good... probably are worst half of football in a few years 

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Bullied by Stockley, brought in from Exeter. Barkhuisen scores two... from Morecambe.

Shows what proper management can achieve at this level...

What’s where they came from matter barkhuisen has been championship regular for the past 3 seasons... wasn’t that long ago Jamie vardy was at fleetwood yet he scored a premiership hat trick last night