I'd rather give you the contract extension than Mowbray, yeh.

Surprised to see we supposedly have only had 42 percent possession. Wouldn't say it has looked that way at all.

3 shots on target according to the stats. So that would be the two weak Buckley efforts and the Evans one straight at the keeper. Scintillating stuff. It's almost exactly what plays out every game. Some people are just getting a bit more excited because it's against the league leaders.

Enough of you and your wild theories. Personally all I want is possession.

You would think they hadn't seen this play out before.

It makes plenty of sense because it has worked for the vast majority of teams we have played. Why do it any differently just to show off that they're better? Our manager is the one who tries to piss about controlling possession to do that. Their manager knows how to just get the job done. They've hit the woodwork twice, we haven't come close at all. They can look as shit as you like, but they'll come away with the win.

Why do that when you can put a waif-like, pace-shy central midfielder there?

They just know what we are about, and that the surest route to victory is to let us fanny about with it all game and hit us on the break. They might be top of the league, but why not use the same blueprint everyone else has used on us successfully all season? If by some miracle we score first, watch them take charge.

Mostly because of the occasional individual brilliance from a few of our players. Good thing that according to him we don't have enough of that.

It really is the case. Abysmal. It failed midweek when he subbed him on so he is trying again. Clown of a manager. I'm starting to swiftly move past the point of just wanting him gone, and past the point I've been at for a while of disliking him, towards actually hating him now. He needs to go for everybody's sake including his own (though of course for it to be for his sake he will want firing instead of resigning).

Just turned it on to see Buckley is starting in the middle up front according to the speculated formation. I might turn it back off.

Yeh what, a couple of games recently? But hasn't played for most of the season.

In fairness, he won't be as match sharp as the others.

Brighton have some tidy players.

U23s playing more like the first team than normal. Normally that should be a compliment, but it isn't.

If they are club options rather than player options, as we have been told, then Nyambe and Rothwell won't have any say in the matter. I hope the manager has buggered off by then so we aren't leaving it up to his 'judgement'.

Fair enough. I apologise for saying Mowbray in one of my earlier posts.

I don't see why you should get fucked gently while we're all getting fucked hard with no lube. Take it like the rest of us.

It was driving me up the wall with about ten minutes left when we were fucking about with it in the middle and playing it back to the defence at every opportunity.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19168231.find-answers---mowbrays-verdict-bristol-city-stalemate/ Ahhh, it all makes sense now. We don't have enough 'individuality' around the opposition box (Elliot, Armstrong, Dolan, I can see the point...) Tony says if you break Arma's goals down, most of them are on the transition. So nothing to do with the fact we try to control the ball for long spells in the middle of the pitch and don't actually play on the transition, then. "Sam isn’t someone who historically hasn’t scored goals from crosses," assuming that isn't a misquote or him misspeaking, that's a double negative so he is saying Sam historically is able to score goals from crosses. Slap him out wide then eh?

I don't see your point. That sounds like all the more reason to sign him and play him on the wing?

The USA isn't in Teeside.

A what now? Do you mean false 9? Right-back? Never heard of this centre forward bollocks.

But...but...the numbers are good! Possession, focus on that. Not the 1 win in 11, or 6 points from 33. Possession is king. If we have any more 'possession', we'll need a fucking exorcist.

They will step up. And then trip over the ball.