I can see how it means the handball has no real effect on anything, no advantage to be gained as it would strike your body anyway. But there can't be a much more obvious movement of your hands.

Everything from the ref to the way the ball is bouncing tells me we are not winning tonight. Draw at best.

Gallagher got a great opportunity to go through on goal on his own there. The commentator just said 'Gallagher' quite calmly, as though it was just someone with normal possession in the middle of the pitch. He has clearly seen him play before.

Sadly, yes, it probably is.

We will revisit that at full time...

He has known he was signing us for at least a week...what's he been spending his time doing? He's on loan initially and it's mid January ffs, we can't wait weeks and weeks for him to play.

I'd rather be on the ICU ward.

Very good point. On top of which JRC is clearly risking injury by playing tonight.

Possibly 2-1 to us. The guy who stopped it on the line was the same one who should have been sent off for the penalty apparently.

I'm sure Khadra has guyliner on. Is that for the sky cameras?

Defenders returning, think they might have got in the way if he took another touch.

Khadra shot stopped on the line. Yep. Not our night.

That was a penalty all day, and yet I immediately knew we weren't getting it. Going to be one of those nights where we just come away with a sense of outrage, buckle up.

Has a feeling of a game where we will have severe injustice, because we should have mopped them up nearly a month ago. I suspect an injury or two, and/or a red card.

Knew there was a reason I had a bad feeling about this game.

It doesn't. But it will give them a boost. Sometimes the match is won in the mind, rather than on who is the better team. I've seen many better teams lose games.

No, one of them is inexperienced. Another is inexperienced at a decent level. The other has played in two of Europe's top flights.

You were hoping for a couple more in by now? We have recruited 3 new players and it's only halfway through January. This is already the most active Jan window I can remember in years. Normally it takes us until the last week to get anyone through the door. Sometimes the last day. Sometimes not at all. Agree with the rest of your post, but if anything I'm surprised we have players in already at all.

I'd have kept that to myself if I were TM, and kept Hull guessing whether we were going to play that animal at RB, or our scrawnier but more creative CM, which would give them a different threat to consider (as well as changing our midfield). I suppose they can still wonder over whether it's JRC or Buckley, but that's less of a difference.

Cool. Who is Patrick Barclay?

That depends- who the hell is Tom Barclay?

Are you saying we have cancelled a deal with a sponsor because they won't pay what they owe on time, to replace them with a sponsor who won't pay what they owe on time?

Wow...wonder if there was some underlying resentment about us taking their top scorer just before the game? I watched that a couple of times and it looks by far the Spurs players starting most of the shit and crossing the line. I think it's very harsh that we each got the same number of players sent off. Hope it doesn't unsettle Markanday's welcome to the club, his old team mates scrapping with our lads.

So not only are we missing him for a game that is a few days before his Chilean game, but he is already undergoing some regimen to change his breathing in readiness for high altitude, which he will not be playing at with us in the meantime. It better not reduce his fitness at normal altitude even 0.01%.

Well, you called that right, unfortunately.