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Thank god at least some decent MPs survived 2019. Hopefully Ms Beckett can put her power and influence to good use!

Thank god at least some decent MPs survived 2019. Hopefully Ms Beckett can put her power and influence to good use!

Thank god at least some decent MPs survived 2019. Hopefully Ms Beckett can put her power and influence to good use!

Thank god at least some decent MPs survived 2019. Hopefully Ms Beckett can put her power and influence to good use!

Thank god at least some decent MPs survived 2019. Hopefully Ms Beckett can put her power and influence to good use!

Thank god at least some decent MPs survived 2019. Hopefully Ms Beckett can put her power and influence to good use!

Unchanged line up.
We can win this ?

Unchanged line up.
We can win this ?

Unchanged line up.
We can win this ?

Unchanged line up.
We can win this ?

Reading the Metro on the way to work this morning, I see their 'hot tip' for today is Forest to lose 2-1 again.
Brings a tear of joy to the eye, it truly does.

"MAX BIRD KIDNAP SAGA FINALLY OVER" it says as a headline in the Sheeply Evening Telegraph. The culprit has finally come clean, saying that he ran around trying to look like the real Max Bird, but could never produce the football of a player of that stature.
WELCOME BACK, MAX BIRD!!!!
We had a bit of a difficult start because Hull played a tremendously high press, giving us no room or time anywhere on the pitch, and Buchanan in particular had a tough time. Their winger was pretty tricky! Davies was looking like man of the match already with some brilliant defensive play. But that is just the start.
Thankfully Hull couldn't keep that level of intensity for long, and we started to get a bit of a foothold in the match. I didn't see much of the pre-season, but the opinion was that Baldock wouldn't pull any trees up, just running around a lot, and never quite reaching through balls, and not shooting  very well, and my early observations were that yes, he does run around a lot, and isn't quite there when the ball comes through. Oh well.
Joswiak and Sibley played well - possibly their best game for the club, but faded after swopping wings for a while. Byrne and Buchannan had a tough time because Hull seemed to like getting the ball wide and getting crosses in. With Jagilka and Davies I don't mind that one bit though!
As ever we seemed very ponderous playing out from the back - it didn't seem that Shnnie played the ball forwards at any time in the 90 minutes, and we needed to get out much faster. Hull noticed, so as soon as we got the ball to Shinnie or Bird there was a swarm of Hull players in a diamond spread right in front of our player, who had nowhere to go. Good tactic, so we need to be more incisive. But how played was a decisive factor in beating that tactic, and our movement through the phases was a major factor in last night's success. The interplay was tremendous at times, with some superb touches, lay-offs and through balls. WE could have had 3 or 4 goals by half-time, but it didn't quite happen. We could have had 3 or 4 free-kicks and a penalty by half-time if we had got a ref on the pitch! Ho hum!
Ravel Morrison should have played Sibley in and we would have gone head, and probably turned Hull over big time, but he went for the lob and failed. He has great talent, but is a bit full of himself - not the arrogance of "what are you doing playing on my football pitch" attitude of Igor Stimac, but loads of confidence in his own ability. Long may it continue! 
Jagielka being hauled to the floor with a bear hug was an absolute nailed on penalty, yet Buchannan giving their man a single shoulder charge was a free-kick? Come on EFL. Sort your refs out! Same for when Stretton got booked or kicking the ball aw y late on in the game. No-one ever gets booked for that. Ever. Teams spend the entire match doing it against u, with no consequence. But this is a Derby player. And Roos - he caught a cross and was just coming back to ground, heading for the Hudd who deliberately put his shoulder into the keeper's chest, winding him. The very next moment Roos came for the cross and their CF not only made a back for him, but stepped backwards ensuring that he flipped Roos over, and there wasn't even a free-kick. This was deliberate bullying of the keeper, and Roos went apoplectic at the lino, and was booked. For protesting after being assaulted twice in two minutes. And the pull back on Baldock - did I mention his running? He caused them all sorts of trouble with it, pulling defenders away, getting in behind, and so on. The ref wasn't going to give anything. We don't do it often, but our players surrounded the ref while play was still going on, but the lino intervened, and the guy was carded. It wasn't a red, although quite close, but that the ref wasn't going to do anything yet gain was the disgrace. 
And the goal - Baldock was in the right place at the right time. Yahoooooo!!!! Did I mention his running? We now have two poachers who can score true striker's goals. We are rich beyond our wildest dreams!
At the start I thought Davies would be our man of the match by some margin, but when Roos's three harmlessly misplaced passes is about as bad as it gets, it is difficult to single one person out. So I am going to nominate a whole load of them as man of the match - the travelling supporters., who were stupendous yet again. The coverage was from Hull TV, but all we could here was our lot! Brilliant!
COME ON YOU FANS!

Looking at other team’s forums and the heart warming responses on Twitter and the like makes you realise how people blindly lap up anything printed in the Daily Mail. No wonder we are stuck with Boris Johnson for the next 200 years. I had a read to check the number of modal verbs used in that badly written article and subsequently found another article that said our survival was ‘one of the most dismal sights of the weekend’.
I love the unbiased tone of that article. I am going to presume that Mel Morris has become friends with Jeremy Corbyn. I think it is the most likely explanation for this love affair they have developed with us, whilst conveniently ignoring all other transgressions, as pointed out elsewhere.
Personally I draw comfort from knowing that no matter how much that awful rag hates us, it will never be as much as I despise it and it’s bigoted, badly written divisive poo.
 
 

Considering I thought he had literally killed himself for the cause early on, fortunately turning out not to be his head against the post, to then go on and score two goals and take charge of the defence at the end... put a bust of him next to Bloomer!!

Considering I thought he had literally killed himself for the cause early on, fortunately turning out not to be his head against the post, to then go on and score two goals and take charge of the defence at the end... put a bust of him next to Bloomer!!