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You make fair points there.

I love him, he works like an absolute Trojan for the shirt and leaves it all out on the pitch. However, no getting away from it, his finishing this season has been absolutely woeful, he has missed a lot of very presentable chances, most especially when time to think.

I like him overall, will never be prolific, but thought he was dreadful today

Not soccer though is it? It didnt seem to affect Cantwell's movement either bizarrely.

Don’t know how long it’s been a rule but it definitely is now:

Looking at it dispassionately, there’s only two things which have broken through in my opinion. The first was the chicken on the pitch: it was highly relevant, took the piss out of the owners, was very difficult to achieve, and consequently was splashed on all the nationals’ back pages. I think that one stunt alone was responsible for virtually all the awareness of us being owned by clueless Indian chicken farmers. The second was the snowball, as it changed the behaviour of the owners by making it personal to them. Again, it was newsworthy, a visceral display of fan anger, and bloody difficult to pull off. I think every fan would agree nothing has improved in 15 years, but the linkage from that to an “official” call for a boycott getting traction is too weak, and ignores concerns of currently attending fans. There’s no compelling answer to “who will pay the bills then”, or recognition of the money that has been put in, which weakens the persuasiveness of the boycotters. Bottom line in my mind is we have an absentee landlord issue: the asset is being badly maintained / run down, the locals they employ are useless or worse, they live far away, and are too rich to care. There’s really only two ways of getting neglectful absentee landlords out: if they continually break the law or if someone pays over the odds for the asset. They aren’t doing the former (as far as we know) and we don’t seem to have the latter. if the only thing we can do right now is keep the issue alive, then it needs something in the league of the chicken or the snowball IMO.

we should`nt be going at each other in training,at this stage of the season it`s about keeping your match fitness ticking over surely though im`e not sure sidnei does much in training tbh,barring a light jog and several misplaced passes

I thought Ohashi was excellent today.

Doddsey it was on CBS via Paramount+.

Where's it come from that Gudjohnssen's out for 5 weeks?

Not always they weren't unless there's been a rule brought in.

Players can get injured in training. Are we training too hard ?

how can sidnei be out for 8 weeks when he does`nt do anything,has he sprained something vacuuming his front room

I'm going to apply for a job with our medical team. How the hell has Gudjohnsen gone from "He's touch and go for the Boxing Day match" to "Yeah he's out for 5 weeks"?!

Not all bad news then.

Noooo...

Opposition managers will target him and look at isolating him one on one. You saw it happen today although Whittaker was quite poor against him. You also saw quite a bit of panic when Pratt had possession with him continually clipping balls down the line to red shirts in the 2nd half. Let's see how it goes, like I said earlier I hope I'm wrong.

Gudjohnsen out for 5 weeks, Tavares 8 weeks. Morishita, too early but VI said didn't look good. Cantwell and Litherland cramp (apologies to chaddy who was right on that) A striker has to be the priority now over anything else I would say. Maybe have to bite the bullet and bring Gueye back into the fray for a time

Baradji looks a class act, sometimes forgets his man when tracking back though, would like to see him start but definitely would need tronstad next to him. Thought Henriksson had his best game for us (not saying much) but I think second striker might be his position going forward.

I think he'll be fine in a midfield 3 - he definitely needs someone doing some of the dirty work next to him. Litherland very much looked like a CB playing RWB today - but the didn't get in down his side, so you can't really complain. We desperately need a credible backup for Alebiosu. Sadly I think the Gueye ship has sailed.

Away tickets are supplied on a sale or return basis so it can’t be that.

That's gotta be post of the year! 😆

Yep today once again shows me defence isn’t the issue

He’s a box to box cm.

What's Baradji's best position? Doesn't seem to track back enough for CM. Very good at progressing with ball and playing others in. Not seen much of him in final 3rd yet personally. Worth a start on Monday. Must be worst bench in the league currently? Lucky we've got Litherland etc to see us through, but I don't think ready for champ yet. Once again we're devoid of speed. Cantwell is our token and we're much much better with him. Dare I say it Gueye would have been a good choice to bring on..