kevinhectoring

I think the (narrow) pitch was quite cleverly prepared to play into their hands. It was bobbly and seemed very slow, so it was difficult for us to find weight of pass. That led us to resort to route A and that’s a leveller despite that we had more quality on the pitch

Depending on how busy he is in life, one forum member who may have felt a tiny guilty hint of relief we lost is @Rampant
Thanks for your wonderful opening of match threads over the last few weeks - hope you enjoyed doing them as much as we enjoyed reading them 🐏🐏

Thought the same with Gayle last week.  He was being asked to press the goalie and was running 30 yards at pace to do so every time he had the ball at feet.  I said he'll pull up here soon. Hey presto 5 minutes later.

NML has played too many minutes. There have been so many games where we could have taken him off but instead kept him on for 90 mins. And the way he’s played he’s so frequently isolated and having to do it all the work himself 
Fozzy was the same foolishness. Should have been at CB all season.
 
This is not just said with the benefit of hindsight 

No saying you can’t bring him on in the last 10 minutes but he should not be starting the midfield gets over run in the midfield. 

How has the stick insect stayed on?

So with Bradley’s red card and Fozz possibly out for a few games, back to a formation that doesn’t suit us

Not to mention Fozzie 

Not to mention Fozzie 

On the bench. Id swap him now for Hourihane.

Real opportunity for Tommo to make his mark today   Good start 

Superb wing play by Wilson 

Superb wing play by Wilson 

Incredibly slow pitch. And too much hoofball. 

@Jourdan Sorry to put a dampener on your day, but your Carpet Right delivery has had a glitch. Tell the Mrs she will have the carpet now first thing Monday morning, but in better news she can have her underfelt tonight 👍

Think of it every time I hear the word ‘deforestation’ 

Overall he’s been an expensive luxury for us this season imo 

I don’t think it was an attitude problem at all. Think he basically said he wasn’t up to our standard of training because of the low standard he’d be partaking in at Charlton. That added with a few niggles and he’s never really got going. 

A little bit yeh 

Wildsmith for a mid-table Prem team ? Like Chelsea ? Or even Palace , who have two England international goalies. I’m sure he would like a bit of £40 k a week , but would have to learn how to play out from the back first. If he can do better than £10k a week , it will probably be for a Parachute team with £40 mill a year burning a hole in their pockets .

A little bit yeh 

Fozzy is coming back off an injury break. Please please let’s play him at CB or (if we must) play Bradley and have F on the bench as injury cover for the other 3 CBs for the rest of the season.  
I don’t understand why we would now change away from 3 at the back … the last 4 or so games we’ve seen how well it suits our wide players (well, not so much against Bolton…) 

Have you tried something simple like handball rules or how a toenail can be offside?

You should try explaining away a 6 Pint er 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not the craziest shout if Bis still crocked. I think he starts ahead of Kane if he's fit, though Kane is the longer term option.