18/19 - Northampton (A) Match Thread

That’s a good decision for me. It keeps the same shape and system.

Are we playing 5 in defence or Grainger left midfield?

Really pleased about McCarron, good decision. Hope through the middle, Grainger left

It would be f…ing typical if Keith Curle ends our run

Northampton dominating possession with 61% according to the bbc

Bury & Mansfield getting beat

Up to 4th as things stand outside the Promotion places on GD!

Seems we came into it after a shoddy start.....tactics need looked at they're playing 4 up front...think Etuhu got booked like last week...did he?

I think we are edging it with the better football. Both goalies could be MoM. Etuhu was unlucky to get the booking but just caught the Town player. Hopefully our quality will come through in the second half.

Northampton 1-0 Carlisle

Right, can we come back from this?

No.

2-0

Bring back Curle

How are we losing they are shit. We are second to everything need a good kick up the arse for this performance

Stamfordblue wrote: How are we losing they are shit. We are second to everything need a good kick up the arse for this performance

Maybe [censored] Sheridan would have gave them the boot up the arse like he did at HT in the Oldham match.

I think it could be partly down to that but also the loss of Yates and Nadesan and failing miserably to replace them is hitting us hard now.

3-0

JP says Carlisle fans singing "Keith Curle's Blue and White army"


Response to this will see what the board are made of - strengthen the squad, get the impetus back ,or let it tail off - but I think we already know the answer to that

3 down and Ritchie is on. Not a good day
Hope booked for time wasting!!

Wright Out!

If it was to end this is where it would!
Not the end of the world comrades

Not a good day indeed-need to bounce back quickly or we will lose the impetus of the last month.Bury just equalised too

Just won six in a row so it's a bit churlish to complain about finally losing one.

orfc wrote:

Response to this will see what the board are made of - strengthen the squad, get the impetus back ,or let it tail off - but I think we already know the answer to that

I actually thought we’d win today, but I think many predicted this happening. Fact is we’ve lost 3 players and only brought 1 in with no football league experience. It was an almighty ask to keep this going with that level of weakening.

Nah, Northampton hadn't won in 6 games, so we know what happens then, plus Keith signed half our players on the pitch, he'd know their weaknesses

orfc wrote: 3-0

JP says Carlisle fans singing "Keith Curle's Blue and White army"


Response to this will see what the board are made of - strengthen the squad, get the impetus back ,or let it tail off - but I think we already know the answer to that

Yes we've had it for 10 years now. Another chance to consolidate and get promoted to where we were before their shambolic ownership pissed away yet again

Aye, but they have lost their 3 best players and Curle is their manager. Unacceptable

orfc wrote: Nah, Northampton hadn't won in 6 games, so we know what happens then, plus Keith signed half our players on the pitch, he'd know their weaknesses

I think they call it psychological advantage as well

Oh well, we go again next week.

The worse thing we can do is hit the panic button and in any particular order, sign a load of dross for the sake of it and appoint a [censored] like Lee Clark as manager of the club.

Thats wots gonna happen tho, the usual balls up from the owners. Reminds me of my forces days with the NAAFI which reads No Ambition and F... all Interest They'll pick a donut of a manager and totally knacker us. As has been mentioned "It had to be Curle" Pay back time to the incompetents running the club

If Hope would have put that one away in the first half my 1-1 prediction may have come to fruition.

Hardly a massive surprise as they lost a couple of players this week but are a strong team on paper - it was obvious that losing some of our best players would have a massive effect and we are back to a threadbare squad because Holdsworth is not working hard enough.

Waltero wrote: Thats wots gonna happen tho, the usual balls up from the owners. Reminds me of my forces days with the NAAFI which reads No Ambition and F... all Interest They'll pick a donut of a manager and totally knacker us. As has been mentioned "It had to be Curle" Pay back time to the incompetents running the club

When you leave your job and both sides say good things about each other on leaving then a couple of months later your old boss is slagging you off to the world on the radio then of course you will want to thrash them when you get the opportunity to play them.

Don't blame him but I am still gutted that it isn't seven wins on the trot - I would have taken a draw

The usual brinksmanship at play just to keep us guessing. KC needs the points tho munchy am ok with it, as long as we're back at it next week!

Markovitch wrote: Aye, but they have lost their 3 best players and Curle is their manager. Unacceptable

So what do you suggest Marko? You are currently backing the board and the back room set up and tell us all we're wrong about them. You constantly berate those who suggest Curle did a reasonable job at Carlisle and yet today it is unacceptable that our ex managers side, who have lost their three best players, appear to have beaten us comfortably? I can accept us getting beaten, It happens but, our Board , in my opinion, have been complacent in their business. We've also lost some important players with little if any real evidence that the board have been doing anything to prevent this by a) getting them signed up as soon as the window opened or b )having adequate suitable targets in place to replace them. My view? we won't see Nadesan again or Sowerby, and most likely not see Yates either. Time will tell on this one, I hope I'm wrong, but if they have any ambition to push on, we will need to replace those three players without a doubt. Failure to do so will end the season and fully display the boards level of ambition. As a supporter, that is wholly UNACCEPTABLE!!

Let's hope Bennett has missed the bus home, he's KCs responsibility I say !

Paul Murray on the radio was saying they want to bring 4 players in, think he said they were hopeful about Yates coming back, apologies if I've miss-heard as my radio started to break up as he was talking.

seesaw50 wrote: Let's hope Bennett has missed the bus home, he's KCs responsibility I say !

Set up Simpson and he wasted it, wasted two chances actually.

He could be the new Waring/Cosgrove/Beck/Stockton/Bennett

Take your pick….

3 readily winnable games ahead- no point in crying over today’s result.Its gone.

Lad at works just sent me his 8 game both teams to score acca. 15 teams scored, no prizes for guessing who let it down.

Glen Murray?

First half we started slowly, got away with it, grew into it, should have scored and been 1 up at the break.
Second half we started slowly, didn't get away with it and it seemed like we had nothing in the tank.
The second half was generally very poor. We did have good chances later on to give us a way back in but it felt a little too late.
It's such an old cliche in football and I'm loathe to believe it but second half it felt like they wanted it more or maybe the run of games has caught up with us,
The thing that really struck me today and what I'll take from the games was just how well Curle had prepared his side.
Clearly he has an advantage that no other manager has in knowing our players so well and it showed.
Lots of hard tackles on Devitt throughout would be my first instruction playing Carlisle and that's what happened.
Get the back 4 turning and playing towards their own goal as that's not what they are good at.
Play forwards up against the back line and get them to play in around the them on the deck.
Attack down the left hand side as it'll be hard for Danny to get up and down and cover Gillesphy.
All these things happened and it was a masterplan for Curle for which he deserves credit, unfortunately.
He was screaming and screaming for them to get the ball forward quickly so as to keep us facing the wrong way and running back to our goal.
Throughout I felt they pressed us, harried us and generally were quicker to the ball. Curle had clearly got into them and told them not to let us play.
I thought MacCarron did well. Still a bit soon for me but he got better as the game wore on.
With Yates and Nadesan in the side you sense one of those 1st half chances may have been taken.
Tellingly, that through ball option from either Devitt or Sowerby isn't on without that pace ahead of them.
Fine line with this side at the moment. The starting XI looks a match for most. Lose a couple of players and it's a big ask.
Looks maybe a bit soon for Simpson at the moment but must have been brilliant for him to get on and I'm sure he'll be given room and time to develop as by all accounts there's a player in there.
I think criticism of Wright and Murray is far too premature. Nobody was going at them last week. We're key players down against a side managed by our ex-manager.
Fair enough that something could have been done about the incessant attacks down our left and there could have been a re-jig. The second goal felt like a matter of time and it looked clear it would come down down that side.
But, it's early days, they're learning on the job and hopefully will be given time and players to do it.
Very disappointing 2nd half today but 1 defeat in 7 and in the play offs. Who'd have taken that in August?
COYB

I thought you'd like that, Munchy!
Like you, I rate Curle. I understand the criticisms of him and agree with many of them but I thought he did a job on us today.

Couldn't argue with that assessment NCF. We had enough first-half chances and shot either wide or straight at the keeper. Definitely missed Nadesan and the pace and experience he has of getting passed his man. Devitt looked a bit lost without that opportunity to play it wide or into the channel. We also didn't make the right choices at times when we did have N'pton on the back foot first-half. Defensively we were weak on the left, as you mentioned and made a few unnecessary mistakes. Curle certainly did us on tactics second-half, but then we never got ourselves going until it was too late. Simpson was a bit too fresh for this game, but I hope will work his way into things like Yates has done. All in all a poor day but given Murray's optimism on signings and in particular Nadesan, let's give DH a week to get things done before we, collectively, worry.

I thought today was a gutless performance with absolutely no redeeming features. Let's make no mistake Northampton we're very poor yet they thrashed us. We never got out of first gear and at times it was the Butch Wilkins coaching manual sideways or backwards. I appreciate the run had to come to an end but to give it up in such a hapless manner was galling. This was not a good advertisement for Wright and Murray in getting the job...or maybe it was exactly what the Board wanted.

Oh and the officials were inept

ParcelPete wrote: Glen Murray?

Could be good. Problem being, the w**k ers who run the club would probably sign Al Murray - the pub landlord.

Still fitter than Andy Murray though.

Listening on the radio there were spurts of pro Keith Curle chants from the Carlisle section.

Just goes to show that a few grumbles on here doesn't go to show what the true reality is on what fans think about Curle.

Laffy wrote: 3 readily winnable games ahead- no point in crying over today’s result.Its gone.

If the players didn't get a few days off last week...they need it this week some must be suffering playing so many games in a short period. I wouldn't have them back in till Wednesday or even Thursday afternoon

CCU wrote: Couple of fans on Twitter said James Phillips was talking shite regarding this!

First half I was up the other end but second half I was sitting right infront of our fans and didn't hear any. There were plenty coming from the Northampton fans, who were in the corner of the main stand nearest us. So from where the broadcasters were sitting they might have thought it was coming from our end.

CCU wrote: Couple of fans on Twitter said James Phillips was talking shite regarding this!

Yeah, it didn't happen. As Bumble said above, a few of their fans at the end of their stand were singing about him, but none of our fans were.

According to Philips artistic licence he actually said all 4 sides of the ground were singing it at the same time.

To be fair to Keith he outlined we had a lot of weaknesses in his interview before the game and seem to exploit them quite well when you see the highlights with what was a far inferior team on paper.