Hasta

Ball domination.

MOWBRAY PLAYS STRIKER AT RIGHT BACK Oh wait. That actually happened didn't it. 🙄

He hasn't even had one yet. Joshua wasn't world champion when they fought. He has always had a far more pressing case than some of the opponents AJ and Wilder have fought over the last 5 years.

It'll be like Bowyer. Start next season slowly. When we are somewhere in the bottom half around November he'll leave one way or the other.

Big Thom is player of the season for me unless he drops that inevitable huge clanger he obviously has in him.

I wonder which poster will win the "What do you expect, it's Norwich" award after the game?

Started well but unfortunately play with no strikers, score no goals.

Long diagonal balls into DG and Dack playing off them. The good old days. 🙄

It was. Blatant.

I don't disagree. Contact was completely minimal (as it was on Speedie) But watch it at actual speed and his arm comes across and the guy goes down. At the time that's what I thought it hadn't been given for. I only noticed the knee clash on the replay. Its soft but I can see why he gave it. I can't understand how the ref or the lino doesn't give the Nyambe penalty.

At actual speed I thought it was a penalty because Lenihan puts his arm out across his waist. Very similar to the Walsh / Speedie incident but he had no need to do it.

And the stupidity of picking them there again, and again, and again, and again, and again. Will be the same next season. If we are going to play the fancy ,tippy-tippy football then you need the players to play it. We were better second half because Elliot and Rothwell are just far more suited to receiving the ball wide 40 yards from goal than those two. But I guarantee one of those will be back out there against Norwich. He's too stubborn to realise his philosophy isn't working with the team he has, but also too stubborn to admit he's been wrong for 2 seasons and to stop putting expensive flop-strikers out wide. As I said last night, the people still backing Mowbray obviously can't justify playing them wide so just ignore it happens.

As for the game itself, season is over so we are in pre-season mode now almost. Results are pretty irrelevant providing we pick up a win every 3 or 4 games. I watched last night emotionally unconnected to the game. Of course I wanted us to win but the result is almost pointless. I wasn't gutted that we had fallen behind or were losing. That changed when the ref and lino failed to give the Nyambe penalty, at which point I switched back to normal, got really angry at the game and opposition and became desperate for an equaliser.

It eclipses it because for 2 years we got absolutely nothing in return. Both have been shocking wastes of both money and squad positions. However if you were asked to keep one player from SG and BB, I suspect most people would pick BB now.

As much as I've criticised Mowbray recently, Dack has been back for 3 months now. It's not like he has just returned from injury last week. I would suspect he should be able to play a full 90 minutes twice in a week at this stage. When Shearer returned and scored against Newcastle in 93 we didn't phase him back in over the next three months. He played practically every minute from that point onwards

He basically said it wasn't confirmed but that's what the medical people are suspecting.

yep

Imagine a keeper goaling for a ball and a striker doing that to him.

Raya stopped a corner but how's that not a backpass?

Yep. Its amazing how people who think Mowbray is doing a good job and roll out all of his his excuses seem to ignore this piece of stupidity that he has repeated for 2 seasons now with little result.

Surprisingly, We look a bit better this half without two cumbersome centre forwards on the wings.

Dack in box. Ball in box. Chance. Not rocket science Tony.

As I pointed out in the previous 2 games, if you get the ball regularly into the box and allow Dack to find space then he will be the Dack of old. He's a technically gifted goal poacher. That's how he has always scored most of his goals. He scored against Swansea finding space in the box. He had a golden chance in the last minute of the previous game at Ewood before that because his movement and touch was superb but he fluffed the shot. However we are playing him in a basicmidfield role. Its all wrong for him. He's always 30 yards from goal and just receiving it and playing it off simple. The formation is screwed for him. Put BB up top, get Dack just off him and fire it in to them. It's got to be better than 20 passes in our own half and then lump it into a channel for Dolan to chase

But Nyambe probably doesn't think Trybull is going to give it away so cheaply when we are in posession.

By playing a winger there would help.