MATCHWATCH : Northampton Town (h)

[Brogue]

There is no way we would have had pages and pages of an after game forum discussing the minutia of the ref's performance if she wasn't female!

Bit presumptuous to assume she’s female m8. Do you even know her pronouns?

[MR. CYNICAL]

There is no way we would have had pages and pages of an after game forum discussing the minutia of the ref's performance if she wasn't female!

I was thinking that.
Players tend to give a woman ref more respect than they would a man, hence less back chat and arguing etc.

[Snowflake Royal]

There is no way we would have had pages and pages of an after game forum discussing the minutia of the ref's performance if she wasn't female!

Got to challenge misogyny haven't we.

[morganb]

After the exertions against Cardiff the lads will be tired and likely carrying a few knocks so given the quick turnaround in matches and lack of rest we'll be fortunate to get a draw

Northampton have had the same turnaround and had further to travel

I nearly put that on my earlier post but as I was trying to pre-empt Hunt's excuses I thought he'd probably not mention that either!

Noel Hunt after yesterday's game -

"We looked a bit tired come the middle of the game."

[tidus_mi2]

Northampton have had the same turnaround and had further to travel

I nearly put that on my earlier post but as I was trying to pre-empt Hunt's excuses I thought he'd probably not mention that either!

Noel Hunt after yesterday's game -

"We looked a bit tired come the middle of the game."

Okay, what are the next Euromillions numbers?

[Linden Jones' Tash]

He blames himself for not being ruthless enough. Says that is not about being ruthless with each other inside the club. Towards the end he speaks very well abut the duty of care to treat people, players managers and staff, with dignity and to always remember they are people with families. Acknowledges it's a results based business, but has good arguments to mitigate the on-pitch problems.

Overall, if I could have written a ten minute speech for our owner to make that would reassure me it was this. He comes across so well.

I think Hunt is safe for now, but Rob says Hunt understands the way football works, which I think we all know means that eventually if you're not showing an improvement you lose your job.

Great thanks. Will try to have a listen later

Having been in countless senior leadership meetings, where words tend to be carefully chosen and often weighed with different meanings, my take away was:

we are 25% of the way into the season - results on the pitch are not where the ownership expected them to be - but there is 75% of the season to go and things can/need to turn around...

LW, JP and PoC were the key signings they wanted to make - only two 'major' signings were not concluded - one who went to Austria and another who stayed in the states. They are going to a tribunal regarding AM to get the optimal compo - the two 'young ones' who left to go to clubs in the same division did so to get game time that was not envisaged here...

Its a results business - NH doesn't need to be told this.

but a run of good results can turn everything around and RC is hopeful that this can happen

RC is conscious of the duty of care to employees and things will be dealt with internally...

My take on these last three points is:

The ownership are still very much aiming for a > 7th place finish...

Current form isn't what they expect - and if the team don't go on a run of results and climb the league, changes will be made swiftly without lots of leaks to the media...

You can't accuse RC of not signposting his intentions....

[Hound]

Nope - I think he came over to give Noel the bad news tbh. The Cardiff and Northampton games just delayed things for a short time