I always felt that we had some decent players that were just totally lacking in confidence but Bassi and Quinna have been the catalyst for lifting the spirits of the whole club. Credits got to go to Poya too for gelling it all together.
Can`t see us getting many points away from home,so it will have to be our home form if we are to be saved.
Impossible to say, given Reading seem quite unpredictable now. They have threat in Joao and quality in their squad, and I'm not sure many would've predicted a point away at Bournemouth last night. Hopefully Blackburn's win last night gives them a push ahead of going to Reading on Saturday. Specifically on Poya, while he's clearly made mistakes, he was also unlucky. Couldn't really blame him for the players' lapse that gave Preston a win. Then Helik's injury gave Blackburn a win, then we were down to the bare bones in January.
When Poya took over we had a team in tatters. A shell of a team, one who had their totemic leaders taken from them and two of their best players gone. Then Schopp came in and screwed them up worse than ever, confused them and sapped their will to win. It has taken him a long time to work all that poison out of their system, to get them working for each other, to get their confidence back and to make them believe they can win.
If we stay up then he's earned the right to carry on imo. If we go down, especially given the points deductions from 2 other teams then I'd hope we'd be looking seriously at the best options to get us out of league 1 as quickly as possible.
We don't deserve to be? What kind of mentality is that? We deserve to finish wherever our points tally dictates we end up. Especially against a backdrop of overspending way beyond our own modest losses in comparison. The gloom you have over this football club at every turn is a difficult read. As difficult for some of us as you find the pre-match press conferences you're criticising.
This. I just hope he can do the same with one or two others currently in the matchday squad, and we can get Woodrow fit as well.
I can’t buy into this idea that Schopp somehow ruined the players. Look at the squad he had early in the season. Morris & Anderson weren’t available, Quina & Bassi weren’t here, Gomes & Leya Iseka weren’t fit enough to start & I’m presuming Vita was even more out of shape. On top of that we’d lost Mowatt & nearly all the back room staff. I’ve no doubt at all that if Poya still had a team where Benson, Palmer, Moon, Kitching, Oduor, Adeboyejo & Frieser were regular starters then we’d be cut adrift. I think given the upgrade in quality through Bassi & Quina & returns from injury of Morris & Anderson & improved fitness of Gomes & Vita has meant that whoever was in charge whether that be Poya, Schopp, me or anyone on this board would’ve started improving things the longer the season went on. It’d be almost impossible not to.
Schopp did absolutely nothing to get the team organised, and made us progressively worse with every game. He had two international breaks, where he solved none of the problems that we had, either with organisation or fitness. I've no doubt that we'd be adrift with Schopp in charge of Morris, Anderson, Quina, Bassi, Wolfe etc...
If he's lucky in having "two brilliant loanees", he must have been cursing his dreadful bad luck at what he was stuck with in midfield before they arrived.
Maybe the 'tough read' was too much but hardly harsh. The bit about disagreeing that we don't deserve to be in with a chance of staying up is totally fair though and not harsh at all.
Paul Conway ruined the players. Schopp was the wrong appointment at the wrong time, who didn't help himself at all, however all roads lead back to Paul Conway
I was sitting behind a neutral, a Leicester fan up here for work, who decided to pay his first ever visit to Oakwell, and he certainly thought we comfortably deserved the win.
That's my reasoning behind thinking we'll stay up. The players haven't raised their game. They're playing to the required standard. A standard that with clarity and vision is easily good enough to be higher up in the table. Low and behold they're picking up results and will climb the table.
I partly agree, but I think we can ill afford to lose any key players, and we could do with Woodrow back in the squad soon. We'd surely miss not just Quina and Bassi, but the loss of any of Morris, Helik, Andersen, Vita would also be a very big blow.
I don't think Bristol were the better team. But on another day they could easily have ended up coming away with something on the balance of chances.