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A poor game but it was good to see the youngsters come in and do a decent job. Another impressive performance from Baradji who looks a class act. With a busy month ahead I thought Val did the right thing in resting players. The one good thing is the QPR game should now be a 3.00pm kick-off - at least until Sky get their hands on it.

The Kills - Fried My Little Brains

Sometimes I think I watch a different game to some on this board. Baradji is a quality footballer who is getting to grips with recovering from injury and playing with some of the dross we signed in the summer. If he is being made permanent then bravo to whoever is making that decision.

Significantly for us, it has no ending either!

We have no forwards, so we don't score.

The Five Monkeys Experiment (which apparently never actually happened…).

I watched Nigeria v Algeria yesterday. It was like they were playing another sport entirely.

We will see !

Ismael claims he was going to come on in extra time but O’Riordan got tired.

Precisely!

The rumour mill going around is that we've signed Baradji on a permanent, or are close to doing.

What intrigues me, if that is the word, is why Tyjon is on the subs bench but doesn’t go on? Especially when we needed imagination and new energy up front in extra time. It is either financial or the club don’t want to risk an injury before he is sold. If Ishmael is being pissy with him then why is he a substitute at all? Must be some football algorithm I am blissfully unaware of.

We got Baradji fit ( another poster mentioned this earlier) probably for another club next season !

He is no good , he will take us down ! It is how he leaves ? , that is the question, for me !

Some interesting comments about Baradji, he definitely is a strange player to get a grasp on. He does some things that make him a liability, really lazy and/or sloppy play, examples being giving the ball away needlessly in front of his own box today, once or twice v Wednesday he just gave up tracking back. But equally, unlike most he actually has some ability and can make things happen. Obviously he got the 2 goals in the last game, he showed one bit of quality today on the counter, a really well timed pass through to Doherty who ended up wasting a really good chance. He also has the ability to do a turn and seems to pick up a bit of pace to power past people. Definitely something to work with but not sure if he is fully trustworthy. Compare to Henriksson who is always looking at pelt and there are absolutely no glimmers of anything to work with in terms of ability, making him useless to us.

Just need a laptop malfunction at one minute to midnight to finish it off properly. "Its understood Rovers are going to appeal."

Mowbary had to work for that budget. He had to fly to prune and get on his knees like vegrant. And it worked. He has the luxury few have. He somehow had money to buy Downing to watch on the sideline, his old mates kid Ansley for £500,000. Gally for £7 million, Diaz for £7 million to play for the. 21s. Mowbary was backed to a level we will never see again. JDT either had too much trust in the Egg or too much pride to beg the owners for money. Eustace too…seems and manager that wants any funding is required to go to India, kids arse, and remind the owners they own a football club.

Side boob Rao?

To paraphrase a tv show about a nuclear melt down; not good, not terrible. Defensively looked fine - Atcheson, O'Riordan, Pratt all look decent against a Hull side doing well in the league. Cashin looked ok too, effectively a clean sheet over 120. Toth the best keeper at the club and it's not even close. Play without strikers, can't score a goal shocker. Henriksson isn't a forward, but a Henriksson Baradji midfield pairing looks more than serviceable. Can't help but feel that Baradji knows he won't be here next season one way or the other. Ohashi, for all his work rate, has really gone off the boil since we've lost Gudjonson - I'm not sure how well we can carry a striker who needs to play in a partnership when we are insistent on playing one up front. Our formation in general has become a problem for me. We switched to this three at the back because for whatever reason the formation we used last season wasn't working early doors, and it stuck because Alebiosu is very good and Hedges hit a run of form and that made it work well enough for a while. With Hedges out and particularly if Alebiosu gets sold we simply have to re-evaluate the formation, because not one of our other fullbacks suits it in the slightest, but Miller and Ribeiro are (relatively) fine further back. We narrowly missed the playoffs last year with a four at the back so I'm not sure why we are so allergic to it now, other than perhaps the lack of wingers. Poor game in general. Green shoots but not enough of them.

I'm guessing they bought it in a fit of enthusiasm, chiefly by one of their number, have been regretting it for years and just hang on for the sake of pride.

Let’s not fucking do that again

Still no closer to knowing what our style of play or identity is. 12 months in and for large parts of most games we look as clueless as his first game against Norwich, where we contrived to make Shane Duffy look like beckenbaur.

I had the great misfortune of attending today. Easily the worst match I've ever seen. Huge positives were the young defenders who looked top class up against experienced pros like Millar and McBurnie. Cashin was decent and Toth looked his usual calm self but didn't really have a great deal to do. Doherty did well and looks to have a bit of pace. Offensively we were clueless really. Could have played until midnight and not scored. Complete lack of any talent on the pitch was stark. Really depressing to see how far we have fallen. Baradji was a slight improvement when he came on but we still created nothing. Henriksson was really poor but did actually improve a little as the game went on. I thought the effort generally was really good but that almost makes it worse as I cannot see how they could do much more. They're just not good enough and we won't pay the wages needed to recruit the players we need.

He's got himself a three year deal. The job's his for that time unless he decides he wants out. All he needs to do is reference Suhail and the owners by name in a press conference and it will all be over for him. The question is, will he take us down two divosions or just one?

Hahah exactly!!