True. The guy scored from H-Bs territory as H-B had to go out wide to do Nyambe’s job while Nyambe didn’t do H-Bs job. The replay from behind the goal showed Nyambe staring out wide at the ball the whole time - he had no idea who was threatening the part of the pitch he should have been covering. Lack of situational awareness happens all the time with him IMO.

Kaminski man of the match by a country mile

Best and worst of Nyambe defined that half: great effort to win the corner for our goal but MIA yet again for a goal down our right side and Kaminski saved his bacon later on. He’s a ball watcher IMO. Gally scores his second totally unmarked header from six yards from a set piece - being an effective centre forward requires additional qualifications IMO.

Usual fannying around in our own half borefest. Gallagher really is hopeless.

I might be tempted to support it if it was relocated to Sett End. That’d sort the men from the boys.

The more I think of it, the more the only replacement I’d be happy with is Ainsworth, he’s the only one that can be guaranteed to have the best interests of the club at heart.

Is this the first time this season he’s not started Gallagher or BB when both fit? Maybe it was the shock of SG completing his first 90 mins of the season on Friday.

Plenty of long forward up and unders from Lenihan then!

In my opinion Mowbray has been told by Pune or their minions he can’t play him.

Gallagher was central for all but 15 mins yesterday and looked even worse than usual. I’ve yet to see anything he does well: poor control, zero anticipation, unable to beat a man, wayward heading.

I noticed that yesterday too. Three men along the six yard box with another midway between that and the goal line near the front edge of the box, the rest man-marking. Although obviously, without enough men to mark everyone.

If you added Brereton and Gallagher together, I’d still prefer John O’Mara. Favourite moment of the half: Joe Rothwell sets off in a run then, under no pressure, rolls a pass into a square of four Wycombe players.

The great strength of Rev’s letter is the factual core - fantastic research on Rev’s part. The complete and sudden about turn on how good Waggott says the facilities are; the changing story on why the need; the fact that houses have been planned and training centre hasn’t; the eerie similarity with what happened at Coventry. The more we stick to that and steer clear of debatable opinions around quarts into pint pots etc., the less wiggle room they have.

If Waggott and Mowbray knew they were going to be potted at season’s end, this lack of urgency is exactly what could be expected.

Agreed: great crosser and passer puts him ahead of Rhodes for me, and can add to those a much better headerer than Armstrong.

He’s been able to say “still developing” on those whereas Ayala is a no hiding place

Fascinating read. Seems like the German manager was more the final piece of the jigsaw rather than the sole messiah. Proper owners who know what they are doing. Mowbray bangs on about new trends in the game like being possession-based, data-based recruitment etc but is really just grandad pretending he knows how to reboot his wifi. Data-based recruitment at Barnsley means they have set rules which are followed whoever is the manager - the ex-owners son runs recruitment not some old duffer manager remembering someone who had a decent game against Coventry once. As Gav often says on here, and I agree with him, we’re going nowhere with these owners.

That sounds more like Nixon taking a high percentage flyer - the influx of foreign managers into the Championship is a trend plus old-stagers like McCarthy and Warnock aren’t looking. I think where he might be on the money was his story about Ayala being Mowbray’s epitaph. If I’d have been the one who approved the expenditure on a recruitment dept., and was approached by a manager wanting to overrule their recos and go back to his Boro pool, I’d have said “Are you sure you want to do this? Well, you’d better be right.” And he wasn’t. Being trusted is great till you bet that trust on an expensive, injury-prone striker.

He was. The early season optimism about him has well and truly evaporated. If he was going to come good, he’d have pushed on this season, he’s been on the pitch pretty much every game. His tendency to go down far too easily seems ingrained now.

I don’t see the structure as much different to a lot of foreign owned clubs. CEOs are, by definition, paid employees, who answer to someone else. What was unusual was Williams having the latitude that he did, because the then owners were completely disinterested. Balaji’s son taking over might even by a good thing (or a less bad thing)

It was a free kick from the edge of the box though, so false 9s or not don’t really apply in that situation.

Yes, I bought it a couple of months ago - very interesting. He has direct quotes from players from the earliest days who must’ve been old men when he met them.

Given the season has been a complete bust for a while now, three points from the top 3 is three more than I expected, and more than welcome.

There’s been a lot to complain about recently but that game wasn’t one of them. Good effort, great point. Build the team around Rothwell? No thanks. If he could play a simple one-two we might well have won that.

Maybe Norwich have been bad because we’ve been pressing the crap out of them.