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I thought he did ok when he came on other than he could have put himself about a lot more than he did given he was fresh and everybody else had played for 70 minutes.

Looks like the flight path of one of Ayala’s clearances.

I’m always happy when we win. I’ll have a big smile on my face for days. However that doesn’t blind me to what I saw today. The “ walking football “ doesn’t suit our players. Funnily enough the minute we went from back to front with one pass we scored. JDT talks about polishing up our new style in the World Cup break. He could have whilst the next World Cup break and it still won’t work with players who lack the required technique. The likes of Ayala and Travis etc will never be ball players.

A more incisive team than Hudds would have punished us. They’re not bottom of the league for no reason.

Anybody watching that on TV won’t be thinking - “ bloody hell I missed a great game today, I must get down to Ewood for the next home match. “. The last half and hour was like the “ attack v defence “ we used to play in training. This was against the team at the bottom of the league at home when we were winning 1-0. And we parked the bus !

Yeah, if only our two giants up front could learn to put it about a bit.

The last 30 minutes were dreadful. We were completely shapeless. Play like that next Sunday and it’ll be time to hide behind the sofa.

I’ve seen us lose 3-0 in the past and play better than that. The last half an hour was excruciating.

The first half was lack lustre and pedestrian apart from the goal. All that tip tapping at the back got us absolutely nowhere. Then a simple ale house ball opened them up like a kipper. We need to do more of that. We started the second half brightly but that last 30 minutes was beyond poor. We played almost all of it in our last third. They bypassed midfield and just launched it forwards whilst flooding our box with players. We’d no out ball because all our players were in the last third also. Our shape went to pieces. Why play Brererton out wide after Gally had to go off ? We’d hardly any presence up front after that. On another day we could have easily lost that game. Any neutral turning that on at half time and not knowing the teams would have assumed we were the bottom of the league team and not Huddersfield. Our central midfield was next to non existent in a creative sense. I thought Morton was really poor, if that’s the future for Liverpool God help ‘em. Travis is just a blunt instrument I’m afraid. Hedges did ok and Smodics work hard. But he lacks the vision and X factor to play in that position. Gally didn’t look fully fit and BBD, inspite of a well taken goal, isn’t quite up to his previous sharpness. As somebody else said we need a midfield playmaker. Oh for a Berkovic or a Bohinen or Cowans. Somebody to direct the traffic and calm things down. Play like that with no midfield next week and it could get embarrassing. That’s were the dingles are strongest.

You don’t normally get good results without a good standard of football. We’ve bucked the trend so far.

Sounds like Phillips has outgrown his strength at the moment.

We are above where I expected us to be in the league this season. However the level of football isn’t where I expected it to be. At times we’ve plumbed the depths this season, especially away from home.

We seem to be having more than our usual amount of injuries this season.

Dream on. He’s well past it even at this level.

And myself.

Regarding Mola - there’s an old saying in football. “ Centre halves are born not made “.

He’ll be for sacking if he doesn’t wake up and smell the coffee. Not many teams football their way out of this division. You don’t get the chance to build a team gradually these days. Your best players get stolen away before you know it.

Just shows what a prick he really was. What made him think that we could carry on playing the same way in every game until the end of the season ? Did it not occur to him that when plan A isn’t working you need a plan B.

It’s the flavour of the month. You probably get a “ fail “ at all the coaching courses if you don’t play that way.

Oh, definitely promotion. There’ll be other derby games.

If Vale and Hirst are being considered should I get my boots down from the loft ? Gally has to play no matter what.

Get the ball in their half and keep it there. Forget this playing keep ball with the centre halves. Big Sam would know how how to get a result there, I’m not sure JDT does.

If we can field our best eleven in their correct positions we’re good enough to get a result there. No more experiments though. Don’t forget they came with an ace of losing tonight at home against the mighty Rotherham. They aren’t Barcelona.

If we keep phoning in performances like we did last night what the teams in the top half do will be irrelevant.

It’s the way to play. There’s nothing harder to deal with as a defender than players getting around the sides of your back four and putting crosses in. Especially at this level. Trying to stay with the guy you’re supposed to be marking when you’re running back towards your own goal is really difficult.