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Quite a few guilty of that, but I wouldn’t say he’d done it egregiously.

Subbing Leonard off is a bit of a shitty move. No room for sentimentality and that, but he’s really put himself about and the level of graft we need, I don’t think Gueye likes to apply. Height, fine, but he’s as likely to put it in his own net as he is to clear it.

Tronstad eventually played it to Leonard who played it out wide, but the initial pass that was on, Tronstad wasn’t looking.

Tronstad in the position to play through Weimann, clean through. That’s when you want Trav in there to just slip it to him. Gosh, frustrating. They’d have collapsed with that.

There’s that fucking clanger. That’s a deliberate handball that stops an attacker being in a dangerous position. Yellow card all day.

Has had but he’s letting things go a bit more in their direction, I think.

Ref buckling a bit under the Elland Road pressure. He’s gonna drop a clanger at some point.

Leeds so dirty they foul each other.

Absolutely no idea how that side beats Leeds away, but keen to find out.

Genuinely a waste of everyone’s time, but there are maybe four players who need to be in the dressing room apologising for a level of disinterest/distraction in their performance that feels quite new. Cantwell really poor, no idea how he’s missed as many sitters as he has, as I seemed to remember him being pretty clinical earlier in his career. I’m not currently seeing the reported £25k/week value. I really hope we’re making moves to get rid of Buckley, you can’t be a 5’9” CM with no pace, no obvious forward intent and the capacity to only play within yourself while expecting to pick up a wage. Seems to have especially dropped off after both Dack and Brereton left, which probably speaks volumes to his attitude.

Fair point, but we’re filling out the bench with Fadz and youth teamers currently, so I think he’s on there because that’s who we have. I agree, I would want him on ahead of Gueye at the very least, but I suspect a lot of our previous injury worries have come from poor load management and we’re trying to manage that better.

I think a double injury for a young player needs careful handling, which is frustrating but probably for the best.

I’ve never witnessed someone so inherently talented be so unbothered by their own talent. He looks resentful of having to play men’s football and that he’d be much happier doing low-stakes reserve football

Someone on the pitch needs to step up and make this happen. Body language doesn’t inspire confidence. John Buckley is a waste of a shirt.

Really sloppy little window and passages of play leading to an extremely avoidable goal. A loss here in the circumstances is very poor.

Cantwell has missed a real sitter there. Seems madness that he’s missed as many of those as he has, he could be sat on five goals if he’d just put away very finishable chances.

6’5” Makhtar Gueye in the middle and any crosses from the byline are being fired in low. I’m sure there’s a reason for it, I just can’t figure out what it is.

ACD the only real outlet, definitely having more joy down our right side but he is leading the charge. Dolan industrious if a little inefficient. Beck arguably being asked to do a bit too much currently. Cantwell needs to make more happen for himself, he’s getting himself clogged up too deep. Gueye needs to find an extra 15-20% work rate to keep his place. Only looks for a pass when his feet get muddled and rarely chasing the ball back. A few having off days (Tronstad looking a bit ropey) but quietly having a good game are Batth and Brittain. If they score, it’ll be from their press against Pears’ distribution or a set piece. We need to be a bit more direct, like ACD has been.

Standard unverified Twitter gossip, but you’d imagine he’s on a shortlist and it’s local to him, so not something that will be dismissed out of hand.

Interesting switch around, but Hedges has looked out of sorts for a little while now and Yuki’s probably approaching burnout, taking into account the season he’s had before joining. Would hope to see at least ten minutes for Leonard, as reward for taking his chance when it came to him on Boxing Day. Beginning to look a lot lighter on the bench these days, injuries have come at the wrong time for us and that’s four long-term/serious ones we have now, among players who would be expecting to start a lot of games between them. Today’s a good opportunity to put together a professional home performance against a good team having a bad season and set ourselves up for next week’s two very big fixtures. Hopeful that Eustace isn’t paying any mind to the West Brom rumours, too.

Millwall obviously have a reputation for an agricultural approach to football, but they almost set a new level of it today. There’s an A road that runs through New Cross, but they should consider scrapping that for a full-blown bypass and just demolish the stadium, club and community, for all the good it brings the world. Horrible place and people, in my experience (and I’ve a fair amount of it). Having said the above, we didn’t help ourselves. Such is the mentality of a club like Millwall, the ACD chance would’ve collapsed them, had it been put away. Trav getting a booking so early put him on the backfoot for the rest of the game, which opened up the middle of the park more for them. We allowed ourselves to be bullied and didn’t have much scrap in us to get even, while a poor referee didn’t fancy arbitrating. Lots of us didn’t seem up for it today, although Danny Batth did. In isolation - a poor showing. Contextually - 6 wins in 7 is an excellent run. Sunderland a tough ask, but at home on Boxing Day is a good thing and we ought to be targeting another clean sheet against them.

2-0 up at home to a recently-relegated (albeit horrendously underperforming) side while not really getting out of second gear is pleasing.

Excellent work from ACD, really good finish, too. Good work in the buildup from Gueye. Luton are pushing now, we need to be sharp and incisive on the break for the rest of the half.

Strange one so far. Two early cards, Luton look a shadow of the side that went up. We’ve got our main aerial threat on and can’t put a cross anywhere near his head. Everyone looks off their game, currently, both sides.

Good opportunity to try out a different approach. Quite like the look of that team for what we’ve got to do today!