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By gfnx25 | On 10 January 2015 - 21:07 PM

Peterborough owner losing his shit once again. Very funny yet concerning read.

https://twitter.com/DMAC102

I'm not 100% sure but I take it the guy is pissed off?

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By Shedender | On 10 January 2015 - 22:36 PM

I'm not 100% sure but I take it the guy is pissed off?

Best part of all this was when he replied to a fan or a journo don't really know anymore and said he was going to sell the club next year anyway

But if I would have to read that on Twitter and not in a dialogue or a personal meeting, I'd literally lose every respect for him and couldn't take him seriously anymore.

I also see you swapped AJ for Paige. Very good

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11 Jan 2015 00:37:25

I've never had a great deal of respect for MacAnthony anyway, but that's bad. To be fair to the bloke, he wears his heart on his sleeve and gives a damn, unlike certain others. But still, not really on to criticise individual players for errors and have a go at fans.

Great performance and result against Watford. We were always the better side - Watford looked like they wanted to be on the coach home from the kick-off - and should have gone in ahead at half-time. But when they levelled Nahki's opener you could just see it being one of those games where we played all the football but were punished for not killing the game. But Vaughan and Lynch scored great goals in the last 15 to secure a much-deserved 3 points.

It's probably a bit simple to blame the conditions for Watford not turning up, but they clearly didn't fancy it for one reason or another and we did. It was quite funny to see Gomes subbed after making a mess of one of two crosses and claiming to be injured. Apparently Brazilian internationals don't mix well with trips to Huddersfield in January!

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11 Jan 2015 02:10:30

At least MacAnthony seems more ready and willing to be ready to show something interesting, and a slightly more fun meltdown in motion than more sedate contemporaries in both the boardroom and dugout. Still comes across as a total arse though, and can't imagine Peterborough fans enjoying it so much.

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12 Jan 2015 19:31:56

Big squad overhaul in progress. Ward and Hammill gone, with Paterson, Gerrard and Dixon all on the brink of leaving (for Orlando City and Preston, respectively). I'd say that quite a bit of the wage bill will suddenly be free to make a few signings, especially with Ward going for £375,000, which isn't bad for a squad player with 6 months left on his contract.

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13 Jan 2015 18:15:47

Bit late but I haven't been on. We were awful on Sunday shocking. Deserved to get beat by about 3 or 4 they missed some great chances. We had a couple of chances but nothing of real note. The play offs look a fair bit away now need to go on a good run! Rhodes isn't scoring as freely as last season which is a worry

but we need to give him the chances. The fans were also chanting "You don't what your doing" at Bowyer which i don't agree with as he has a done a great job for us turning us around the chant was because he took Gestede off and brought Brown on and yes Gestede is one of our best players but he was awful on Sunday and looked disinterested as did everyone else though. But my point is he isn't playing well so we might as well change it Brown could bring some fight. But instead he gets slated. Hopefully we can bounce back next week away at Wigan.

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13 Jan 2015 22:46:06

Are you going to Wigan? I'll be there.... (tickets bought before that shower of sh*te on Sunday)

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By BR. | On 13 January 2015 - 22:46 PM

Are you going to Wigan? I'll be there.... (tickets bought before that shower of sh*te on Sunday)

Yeah I am going..ha ha same.

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George/BR - sounds like we've pretty much agreed a deal for John O'Sullivan, but the move is on hold due to your embargo. Have you heard anything and what's he like?

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By Ad. | On 16 January 2015 - 22:12 PM

George/BR - sounds like we've pretty much agreed a deal for John O'Sullivan, but the move is on hold due to your embargo. Have you heard anything and what's he like?

Yeah I heard he was close to agreeing a deal for 250k apparently. He has only played once for the first team but he seems to have done really well for the under 21s and he was one of our brighter prospects and was on bench in the cup so I am very surprised we would let him go. Especially for just 250k I would have thought we could have got more than that for him. He has been on loan at Accrington this season and he has done very well! He should do well for you I am would be dissapointed if he left.

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17 Jan 2015 17:55:57

Dropped a lead once again because Fatcroft and his over-sized ego decided to mess around with his tactics and the formation. Flitcroft out.

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17 Jan 2015 17:58:55

Bournemouth easy win! ...still on top!

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17 Jan 2015 18:12:59

By gfnx25 | On 10 January 2015 - 21:07 PM

Peterborough owner losing his shit once again. Very funny yet concerning read.

https://twitter.com/DMAC102

What's he going to do now? Peterborough lost again this afternoon.

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By Shedender | On 17 January 2015 - 18:12 PM

What's he going to do now? Peterborough lost again this afternoon.

He's been disappointingly mute.

Don't know how bad it was but the pitch for the Bury-Wycombe game looked absurd.

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18 Jan 2015 01:13:04

By Number 1 | On 18 January 2015 - 00:56 AM

Don't know how bad it was but the pitch for the Bury-Wycombe game looked absurd.

This is what happens when your putting down the covers hours before the game, when there is snow forecasted anyway
https://scontent-b-vie.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10553465_10153037668083764_7500119206487753145_n.jpg?oh=c6419ce8c3aea01f4e624da1fe86de8b&oe=5524B9AE

I'd have expected Flitcroft to come up with 'boooooo the pitch was shite and didn't fit our tiki taka allah free-flowing locomotion passing football' but he actually kept quiet. When one of our players tried to pass it, the ball didn't even move. Quite an absurd scenery.

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19 Jan 2015 19:28:27

When you sign James Vaughan you expect him to get injured. You don't expect him to get a facial injury that could keep him out anywhere between a week and about four months, though. That's twice he's got crocked inside twenty minutes against Middlesbrough this season (the first admittedly being entirely his own fault after mis-controlling a ball and flying into a 50-50 with the keeper, though he was desperately unlucky when getting a flying boot in the face on Saturday, especially as it was hard enough to do him real damage). Hogg went off as well. We're bloody cursed this season - our luck really has been out.

New striker needed for the rest of the campaign. Though given that the last one went back with an ACL injury...

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We could either be playing Nuneaton, Gateshead or Wrexham on Saturday... All because A) Stupid FA Trophy rules B) Gateshead are so shit that they can't get a game arranged and C) Gary Mills is a bellend. Subsequently, neither Welling or Eastleigh know who they are playing on Saturday either.

Hate this tin pot league and its tin pot FA Trophy.

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24 Jan 2015 18:34:15

Won a game! Epic! Should have really battered them 5 or 6-1 but we once again didn't take our chances. Danny Nardiello could have had two hat-tricks but he only scored two and miss a penalty but hey: We won!

Flitcroft out

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24 Jan 2015 18:41:37

He meant that. I'm certain he meant that. Possibly. Maybe.

Oh, who cares. We won a bloody awful game. Wigan look only slightly less doomed than Blackpool. A nice 13-point gap has opened up between us and them (17 to Blackpool).

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24 Jan 2015 19:45:16

Aye, I also thought Wigan were woeful last week when we played them. They're in big trouble.

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24 Jan 2015 22:22:29

I will admit I've not been paying close attention to Wigan this season, but I was really surprised at how they played, lumping it into the channels. I think they created one real chance all afternoon. At one point Carson actually kicked for touch, like in rugby, hoping that they'd win the second ball from the throw-in deep in our territory - they did, and put us under a couple of minutes of pressure.

It was a satisfying win, though, especially as their captain's notes in the programme had a heading, 'We should be beating teams like Huddersfield'. When you read what he'd said, he actually said something quite different, but their programme editor had obviously had a rush of blood to the head and now looks pretty silly. Nothing like bringing down cocky little so and sos.

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24 Jan 2015 22:37:40

I'm surprised Wigan have been so poor since they lost the play-off semis at QPR last May. It was fairly understandable there might have been some long term burnout following the intense campaign they had in 2013/14, but they seemed to have sleepwalked into trouble, panic-sacked Rosler, and then just fallen apart.

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By Number 1 | On 24 January 2015 - 22:37 PM

I'm surprised Wigan have been so poor since they lost the play-off semis at QPR last May. It was fairly understandable there might have been some long term burnout following the intense campaign they had in 2013/14, but they seemed to have sleepwalked into trouble, panic-sacked Rosler, and then just fallen apart.

They've made a number of really bad decisions since they got relegated.

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By bluemoon. | On 25 January 2015 - 11:34 AM

They've made a number of really bad decisions since they got relegated.

Clearly. Owen Coyle and Malky Mackay certainly resemble poor managerial ones, and Dave Whelan's foot in mouth has caught up with him, which doesn't help.

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25 Jan 2015 17:05:09

I thought Mackay would have done quite well actually (at least getting them out the bottom three), I'm surprised he's started so poorly.

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By Number 1 | On 25 January 2015 - 15:04 PM

Clearly. Owen Coyle and Malky Mackay certainly resemble poor managerial ones, and Dave Whelan's foot in mouth has caught up with him, which doesn't help.

Hiring Owen Coyle after Martinez left still strikes me as a monumentally stupid decision.

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25 Jan 2015 22:23:51

When did Owen Coyle go from young British* manager who plays football the right way to his current status.

Seem to just happen.

*British enough

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26 Jan 2015 02:08:30

Probably when Bolton went down and then the relatively poor start he made in the Championship with them.

It's a strange one though cos he did do a cracking job at Burnley. Although not as good as what Dyche is currently doing, Dyche has a bit more about him I think.

Coyle's managing Houston Dynamo now so we'll see how it goes there.