bluebruce

It's his job not to. In fact, during those 90 minutes, that's pretty much his entire job.

Has to be said, Brereton actually did reasonably well when he came on today. A few nice touches. I feel like if something had dropped for him with a bit of space in the box he would even have found that elusive goal. Hopefully he can press on, as we certainly need him to. Third goal was an utter shambles, and we were incredibly open to counter attacks after that. We're a team who can come back from conceding early, but fall to pieces when we concede late.

We need a lot more than just cover for fullback. We've been leaking goals all season, the few games before this one excepted. Even though we play two DMs.

Did he? Looked like Conway went in Dack's role to me and we shipped pronto. Then shipped a load more. We conceded 4 goals in the what, 40 minutes he was on the pitch. A goal every ten minutes. Great shoring up.

We forgot that TM told us Brentford are a bit like Real Madrid, and decided that he must have meant us.

Would anybody like to tell me again that we are fine at the back and don't need better players there?

How the hell are we at a booking for each team?

You cheery fecker! If you can't hope for a bit more than that after 4 straight wins and our best performance of the season, I recommend prozac. I at least fancy us to beat Reading and get a draw at home to Boro. We should win at least one of those five games, maybe even today (though today will be tough and I expect a draw or defeat are more likely than the win).

Are you? Definitely a novel way to occupy your time, deciding whether you like blokes more with or without their ears.... Serial killer-esque one might say.

You can put anything on the fire and it will work, if you're stoking it with boundless positivity.

We were in a relegation fight and beat them. So-called boyhood fan Jones said something like it was the worst moment of his career. Not losing 7-1 or whatever it was, to Manure, whilst playing for us. No. Losing TO us when we badly needed points. Prick. I'd rather have David May back.

He can genuinely go and fuck himself as far as I'm concerned. Thoughts his comments after we beat Manure that time were an utter disgrace.

Do you mean Vincent Jannsen?

Who? Not only never heard of them but can't find anything online about them. Is there a joke in there somewhere?

So you think they're better players than Charlie Austin, who you're happy we aren't getting?

Sir, you underestimate my skills. I'm insulted.

If that's what it takes, I would.

I thought everyone had agreed to stop yammering about Brereton? I know it's tempting to discuss, because with that money back in our budget we could be more adventurous in this window, but it's been done to death here and has its own thread.

Or how about you just show your fellow posters a bit more respect and a lot less passive aggression? What kind of reply is that? 'Its the way it is'. So you're just accepting you're being rude and don't care? No wonder a lot of people haven't exactly missed you with that shitty attitude.

Do you realise how you sound when you say things like that?

Sorry if I've missed it, but have you heard anything about Austin? Ex-dingle aside, for me it would make a lot of sense, if there's no loan fee. Even paying his full wages until the end of the season wouldn't be super crazy to push us into serious play off contenders. Surely it could be justified to the lads (even checked over with them beforehand if need be) by saying look, this could be the push we need to get you all to the promised land and better contracts/profile. It's a temporary short term gamble. It's a contract another club gave him, that we will temporarily service in the hope of a huge pay off, but we're not paying anything like those wages for long term commitments. Are you all up for it? He has proven pedigree in this league and even the Prem, moreso than anyone else in the squad. Surely it couldn't be that hard to justify it to them? Edit - admittedly DG might not be too keen as, while BA and SG can run the channels if need be, if we play one up front it's gonna be either Danny or Charlie.

You know you're lying to yourself Adam. You'll check on here at least 5 times tomorrow.

I wasn't saying you see more on TV, I don't know if you mean me or another poster. I think you see more in some ways, less in others, but not so as it makes a world of difference. Just nuances. I forget if you were the original poster, but whoever it was seemed to be essentially saying BDG's view was worthless because it was on a screen. If it wasn't you, fair play.

As I said in the post you quoted, there's only a bit of off the ball you miss as the camera keeps near the action. Most fans rather than scouts are going to be watching the action and who is in position around the action. We obviously don't agree, but I maintain the missed movement is fairly minimal and it's odd to act, as some do, as though someone's whole opinion of the game or players is useless just because of the medium they viewed it.

You can generally see a decent spread of the pitch on tv, where the play is. You miss the occasional bit of off the ball, but it's pretty minor all things considered. Personally (and this may just be me and my eyesight even with glasses or lenses) I find it easier to tell who everyone is on tv. There are also replays (not always on ifollow though). Why do scouts and managers also do a lot of scouting from recordings these days if tv footage doesn't give you a good sense of things? Lambasting people's opinions because they saw it on tv instead of in the flesh is weird. I can only think it's born of a hatred for fans seen as armchair rather than getting down to the game rather than any real logic.