MaltRam

My obese parrot died.
I'm sad, but it's a big weight off my shoulders.

This is seminal stuff JP. You've actually found a way to whinge about the the team sheet BEFORE it's even been released. Why wait until match day after all? Genius! 😋

I can't believe how rude they were on the suppository helpline.

I want to spend tomorrow talking about climate change and net zero. Unfortunately, I was planning to pin most of the blame for it on Paul warne.
Did you know Paul warne emitted approximately a third of the UKs hot gases last year?
I don't see how we can discuss the most pressing issue our civilization faces without deciding it's Paul warne's fault.
 

Nice little win tonight
 
 

I think that might be a million short incredibly.

Genuine question, with apologies for my ignorance...how is the data in that chart gathered if it's not reported somehow?

He didn’t disobey, he was moved there after Embleton went off.
We tried to move the balls down both wings, but the understanding wasn't great between Elder and Sibley, both of whom are very rusty. 
Wilson is very direct but he's always going to try and make something happen. He worked well with Barks as the latter is an intelligent footballer who adapts as he goes.
Smith also played some good through balls centrally, which didn't quite come off. Embleton is still building fitness but I thought showed his potential for us last night. 
This is a very churlish summary for a game in which we had 68% possession and a pass accuracy of 87%, 672 passes and 17 shots to their 4.

Maybe 3 centre backs with Cash and Nyambe mobile enough to cover very advanced wing backs?
I still want 4 at the back, but it's not happening.

Can it not go straight to penalties. I don’t mean at 90 minutes. I mean at Kick Off. 

I can't believe how rude they were on the suppository helpline.

Middlesborough rock bottom. Which is rather lovely.

I can't believe how rude they were on the suppository helpline.

I can't get a Handel on that.

Genuine question, with apologies for my ignorance...how is the data in that chart gathered if it's not reported somehow?

I was particularly unimpressed with the Andrew Sachs debacle. I felt that both Brand and Ross behaved appallingly.

Our behaviour in general is insane.
Ultra-processed food.
Carbon emissions.
Micro-plastics.
Persistent organic pollutants.
Deforestation.
New-England based horror writers, for some reason.
Factory farming.
We've blown it. Planet over. ☹️

I can't believe how rude they were on the suppository helpline.

I think if he had the balls to buy a stricken football club, an employment decision would be well within his comfort zone.

I can't believe how rude they were on the suppository helpline.

I can't believe how rude they were on the suppository helpline.

It's a shame that we didn't use the January transfer window last season. But for missing that opportunity, and then subsequently picking up injuries and getting increasingly leggy towards the end of the season, we'd have been a shoe-in for the playoffs. Whilst I don't think we were one of the top 3 sides in the division, anything can happen in the playoffs, so who knows what would have happened if we had made it. 
This year, it's an easier league. No Plymouth, no Ipswich, no Sheff Wed, and somehow we're making it look like we're playing the likes of Man City and Liverpool week in, week out. The points return is, I'd say, a perfect reflection of where we're at, middle of the road. Unless something changes, and that isn't necessarily a change of Manager, it could be a change of tactics, a change of luck, a change in the quality of the officiating in our games, that's likely where we'll end up finishing the season. If that happens, then by any definition I don't think we can really class that as progress. We have a number of players out of contract next summer, I hazard to think who we'll be looking to bring in to replace those who'll end up going. 
Seems to me that we have a number of round pegs that Warne is trying to bang into square holes. That ain't going to work. I'd just look at the players we have and build the system around them. Shouldn't be that way around, but for some reason we've recruited players not ideally suited to Warne's system, and given we can't really change the players until January at least, then we can only change the tactics in the short term. 
The prospect of playing mediocre teams at home and being respectful to the point of surrendering the impetus to them, I'm not a fan of. Most of the teams in this league are s***. Disrepect them. We should be taking most of them to the f****** cleaners, not trying to hang on to 1-0 leads as though we're in the World Cup final. 1) We're no good at that. 2) The best way of defending a lead is from the front. 3) See my previous comment about most of the teams in this league being s***.
Full disclosure, I've had more than a few tonight, and that seems to have magnified my aggravation. 

Point was fair on balance. I thought they played a bit more football than us, but that's a low bar to clear.
My problem with the game was how little excitement there was. Drab, dull football. I know it's L1 but most of that squad have played Championship football...we must capable of much better than we're showing.
 

Middlesborough rock bottom. Which is rather lovely.

Middlesborough rock bottom. Which is rather lovely.