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Won’t make any bones about not being his biggest fan. I think even at his best this season he’s merely been “fine”, which for what we are presumably paying him and the fanfare that surrounded his arrival, has been a disappointment to say the least. He’s made several errors and for a 6ft5 monster I don’t think I can remember a centre back so tentative. Would do himself some favours by attacking the ball and leaving the wrestling out of it. I questioned the reasoning for his inclusion yesterday given his recent performances and what he did at Northampton, but it seems Warne may have known about Orient’s inability to defend crosses and it really worked. Hats off on that. He was untested defensively, although did give away a couple of poor free kicks first half. The announced man of the match seemed a bit of a stretch, there were 3 or 4 players more deserving.

Three goals from corners was misleading somewhat, just in the second half alone Sibley and NML missed 1 on 1s and Washington somehow managed to miss two good chances in injury time. Good performance overall. I rolled my eyes at Bradley regaining his place after his outing at Northampton and whilst I still loathe his inability to defend without wrestling, he clearly did the business in the opposition box. Luckily we were barely tested at the back. Maybe Warne had done his homework on their crossing fragility? Felt like there was more urgency and intensity from early in the game. We were even taking throw ins quite quickly..! Novel idea given our usual penchant for taking ages and throwing it to the opposition. Wilson lively early, Adams everywhere, Thompson pressed well. One of Collins best games for me even without scoring. Came short and held the ball up properly.

Arsenal have scored the most in the premier league this season. Big, physical Arsenal.

Wildsmith 6 35Nelson 7 5Bradley 6.5 6Cashin 7 2Wilson 7 12Smith 6.5 23Fornah 6 32Adams 8 10Waghorn 6 17Sibley 7.5 16 Tommo 7.5 4Hourihane 5.5 9Collins 7 14Washington 5 11Méndez-Laing 6.5 7Barkhuizen 6

Don’t know who the trialist is but he scored. And McAndrew scored 2 minutes later. 2-0 currently.

Have you seen some of the striking options we've trotted out?

Certainly could do with more creativity, but a lot of it is more indecision and overthinking it. League One players, I'm afraid.

Inverted wingers are just modern football. So few teams play with left footed on the left, right footed on the right like 15 years ago. Coincided with the shift towards goals coming from those players, rather than strikers in a lot of top teams. Think we can analyse that miss until the cows come home but it doesn't really matter. It was a crap miss, one he wouldn't miss if you gave him another 10 goes at it. It's football, it happens. He won't need telling. It's Warne and the team's job to ensure his head doesn't drop over it because we will need him if we're to do this. Whilst I agree, I think Warne would have left him there if he could. We had an injury crisis, he was trying to polish a turd of an attacking force.

gateshead the other night.

Grim strikeforce that. Waghorn is redundant, may as well play someone like Thompson just for his pressing over Waghorn.

I'll say it quietly, but i'd take Ben Osborn as well.

I will finally believe if we can beat Wycombe. We seriously need to, we need to get out this league so I can forget about Wycombe ever existing.

Ipswich spent big for League One and have signed double figures players since being promoted.

One day, maybe not in my life time, people may realise that wingers, and creative players in general, outside the premier league are wildly inconsistent. They’re asked to try things, scoring and assisting is difficult. They’ll mess up a lot, they’ll give it away a lot. It’s even more difficult when you’re often the only creative outlet in the entire team as NML has been.

Potentially, but can’t see him dropping Ward at the moment.

I know you're an AI, but Burrows isn't a midfielder, Mason-Clark has already signed for Coventry, Dembele is a winger and Jones is a lower league winger at best. The only suggestion there is Brannagan, who I don't think will be worth the price they'll want.

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I think Under Armour do make some gear/apparel for hunting. But read up on the guy, make your own mind up. He seemed to have a brief flirtation with Trump which he quickly distanced himself from, but his community work has been really good. I might be biased as Baltimore Ravens fan with him being from the area and doing a lot of work with the team (their training ground is called the Under Armour Performance Centre, for example).

Kevin Plank has done a hell of a lot of good in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

He takes every set piece, skews things a lot when it comes to stats. He's just not as good as any other option and his set pieces aren't that far clear of any other option to make his inclusion worth it - especially if Ward is playing. I think Bird will replace Smith in this current midfield next to Adams if he regains fitness.

Only like 6 months too late, but guess we'll take it.

Did they though? Radio Derby, nor BBC Derby Sport even tweeted any teaser or anything. It was just Dom Dietrich who was excited to announce it, as he is entitled to. I imagine he is looking forward to doing it - I would be if I was him!

Really enjoy reading a thesis of why 1 person is right and the rest of the fanbase isn’t 😂

You're not though. You use xG to prove when we are crap, and when it doesn't, you say it isn't good and invoke 'sampling variance' instead. You're boring.