When you're not confident in your abilities, everything looks poor. Effort, concentration, touch. I've seen flashes from him, and he's done some decent stuff prior to coming here, but I suspect we'll never found out what kind of player he really is (or at least, could have been). I mean he might just be a bit gash-on-toast, but personally I just think it's mental with him.

"No injuries, Bennett has a knock but he is a warrior. " Aka, "I would play Bennett if his head was hanging off."

I suspect the lad has feeble confidence, which probably means he will never make it as a top player at this level. After a good pre-season he probably expected a proper crack of the whip but was immediately displaced by a new signing. I reckon that's all it took to wobble his self belief. Don't think he will regain it now, and even if he does, he will probably always be susceptible to a crisis of confidence.

Shite. So it'll be Nyambe, Platt or Grayson. With Williams. If only the vulnerability of this area of the pitch to injuries had been apparent through the entirety of the last two windows. Then I'm sure we would have sorted it.

Then he wouldn't have the nous and experience that makes him so effective. He was a different type of player in his youth. But his current brain with his younger body, then you'd be talking.

True. It was the pitiful force against the highly movable object. With both teams counting as each.

Well. League 2 anyway.

I feel like when we sack TM and get a new manager (starting to look inevitable if the Vs have the stomach for it), and he manages to stem the tide and get some results, his interview comments when asked what the secret has been will be along the lines of how it was important to play our specialists in their area of specialisation.

I'll field that. Because our defence is utter womblewank.

We looked that gift horse in the mouth. Hell, we stuck our head in to have a good look at its fucking tonsils.

You think that will be deflating? You should have specified which team you wanted to get the winner...

I'm not sure midfielders in defence and strikers on the wing with 'nobody down the middle' is going to achieve that. Mowbray outwits himself.

First I've heard?

It's 2 shots on target now, dontcha know. "It's just like watching Brazil!"

But they're not. Like I say though, scrape through this (which was my pre-match prediction) and I think we can get a draw v Boro.

I had literally just been thinking Dack is the only way we might get out of this one when I read his name as scorer. Whew!

I've been thinking we would get a point against Boro. If we botch this match up I can't see that happening anymore as confidence on the pitch and in the stands will be too low.

OAFC. They could be OAPFC and we probably still wouldn't score the way things are going.

So that's all subs done by the 65th minute? If we equalise doesn't this go into extra time? Or is it straight to pens?

At home. And despite having 75 percent possession.

Actually that's got to be worth tens of millions at least. After all, it's the only proof of alternate realities.

Umm ok? Hope the u-23s get a decent manager sorted soon. Probably not the cause of this defeat but can't hurt.

On what though? Not benching him? My prediction for this game is that we scrape a victory. Possibly AET or pens.

It's simple. Does Bennett have a captain's personality? Yes. Should he be playing most weeks as a captain is generally expected to? No.

Ack so didn't end too well in the U-23 game. 3-1 to Arsenal. Hat trick from Folarin Balogun. All penalties.