Spineless. But let’s loan out your non-playing captain and bring in some kids 👍👍

No. The owners can’t give at the moment because they’ve been bullshitting to the Indian Authorities where their money has been going.

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So despite starting 2023 well, we are clearly in the bottom half of the table for teams who have played 46 games. Great stuff.

You simply can’t move Szmodics. I’d drop Wharton.

West Brom had a guy go clean through near the end of that half then and Wharton was just jogging back behind him. He could see the danger right in front of him and just watched him, then hardly bust a gut to get to him. How the hell can you watch that and think Wharton is better than Travis in defensive midfield off the ball?

His positional play and sensing of danger is far better than Tronstadt and the lazy Wharton. Some people need to look at what players are doing off the ball.

He’s fucking gash mate.

As we all would, I’d be screaming for a foul if it was Rovers, but ultimately the Luton player steps into Traffords line and stops. Trafford then runs in to him. Had there been a few metres between them when he stepped across there would be no complaints, but the fact he did it when Trafford was so close to him made it difficult for the keeper to avoid him. However he didn’t ’barge into’ the keeper.

Also see about 7.17 onwards here.

He doesnt barge into him, but he moves late clearly to make sure he is stood in the keepers way. Its probably obstruction, and Id be furious if it was us, but if thats a defender shepherding a ball out for a goal kick they do it all the time and it never, ever gets given. Highly amusing.

And yet 7500 Leeds fans had to be moved from 3pm to 12.30pm kick off on police advise. One was on TV and one wasn't so I always suspect some of the TV money goes the way of the police in these situations. Who knows.

I imagine Lancs police may object.

And for some of us, it was blatantly obvious 10 minutes into the second half how that game was starting to go. We started well, got tired, had no plan B, lost. The end.

No one is jumping on Leo. I’ve heard no sarcastic cheers or abuse on the ground, and his name is sung after any great saves. But, like Brereton before him, people will always give their opinion whether in a pub after the game or online. I don’t like Pears and was clamouring for him to be dropped for Leo pre-injury. But Leo has made more mistakes and unfortunately looks even shakier. I get people preferring to stick with Leo, but to say he has been streets ahead of Pears is absolute nonsense.

If S4C show it, I presume it has to move from 3pm Saturday? (For once I actually need this moved)

You've said this a couple of times lately but that certainly wasn't my recollection of the game. We had a lot of posession but the only other real chance I recall (and shown on the highlights) is the Sigurdsson chance. We probed and had posession and territory a lot in the first half but, as we do, created little. The second half they looked far more dangerous and eventually their pressure led to 2 Wahlstedt mistakes. All the key stats seem to back up my view. When we tired we had no nouse to try and see the game out.

Cambridge were direct, and did score the twice they got the ball in the box, but couldn't really get it up the pitch to get us under pressure. Our style of football is very difficult to defend against for lower league sides. They just aren't used to coming across that type of play. That's why we put 4 past Walsall, 5 past Cambridge and 8 past Harrogate this season. I'm surprised a few people I've spoke to seem to think this looks particularly difficult on paper. If you remove the hype it should be fairly comfortable, especially as we know JDT will take it seriously.

And yet he openly admits we turned down more lucrative gambling sponsorships. If you are trying to compete on a level playing field with other team in the Skybet Championship then turning that down is a bit naive in the first place, but then going with Totally Wicked just loses any moral high ground.

Well we signed Ennis 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I presume it was some kind of rocket fired over the top of the stand. That makes it more dangerous as it could easy have fired into the JW seats. It’s just luck it seems to come down on the pitch. I may be wrong mind. I’m sure they will have it on camera within the ground.

It looked like it was from further back than just outside the riverside The smoke plume looked like it from higher up the hill on the other side of the river.

I take anything any of them say with a pinch of salt.

It looked like it was fired from the hill. There was smoke where it exploded on the pitch but also smoke from the trees behind the Riverside where I presume it was launched. It startled me and I just looked up to see sparks coming down over quite a widespread range. Looked like they might even have gone in the JW lower area from above.

Hope the nobheads who fired the firework got caught. That could have ended up being fired into the Jack walker seats for all they knew. Plus there were plenty of people on the pitch when it went off.