RevidgeBlue

I think Gueye and Leonard could be useful together. I've said this before about Cantwell but for me he needs to start doing a lot more in terms of goals and assists. He just flits round the periphery of the game not really affecting it imo.

He wouldn't. You know what I mean - an intentional attempt to play the ball as opposed to an inadvertent deflection.

I wouldn't like to see Leonard go out on loan. If he can stay fit who would you fancy to score more goals between now and the end of the season? Leonard or Gueye/Ohashi? That's irrespective of anyone else coming in.

The offside was discussed briefly on here yesterday at the time. I thought the laws had been changed some time ago so that it had to be an intentional pass or attempt at a pass by the defender to count. Can one of our resident rules experts confirm or dismiss that?

They should fine him a week's wages for that. Playing "dinosaur tactics". Whatever next. Ditto Brittain for going down the outside of Sunderland's defence on his natural side to put in the cross which was knocked back for Leonard's goal.

What do you do if anyone gets injured? We have a couple of glaring deficiencies in the starting X1 to fill first.

Was only asking because I didn't know the actual ST number. I wasn't trying to catch you out. Personally I don't think 18k home fans is that much to crow about - but then again under this regime and given we have so few ST holders - may be it is.

Is that the ST number? 8,900?

Yes but Beck is way way better than Pickering anyway. We need a Hedges replacement and a decent striker before back up players.

Think he was agreeing with you.

So is not pissing about with the ball at the back until you give it away and concede a totally unnecessary goal seemingly.

If anything Man Ure have gone even worse than they were under Ten Haag and RVN got a much better tune out of them albeit as caretaker. Rather funny really given Amorin was hailed as the second coming.

It's not really fixating on him, it's just people saying he's brilliant when he isn't......... If they were saying the same thing about Travis on this season's form I could understand it.

Why do we need a LB?

I'm going to have to bite, what did Tronstad do when we were being steam rollered 2nd half that made you think he was "very good" (apart from losing his man for their first goal)? Agree entirely on Eustace - an improved deal for him should be the priority ahead of any January signings, as important as they are.

Apart from Salah, how many genuine wide players find the net consistently? Not very many.

Did you see his work which led up to the first goal?

We were very lucky to escape with a point there after that 2nd half performance. Really pleased for Leonard. Always thought he looked potentially a very good player as his general movement is excellent. All he's been missing is putting the ball in the net and he obliged today. Let's hope he can stay fit and kick on. Beck is a real player but seems to see the red mist occasionally. Lucky he didn't connect when he lashed out with his elbow right at the end. The midfield didn't do enough today, we were overwhelmed second half, Cantwell just flits about on the periphery of play for me and Tronstad was back to my usual perception of him, completely anonymous. Baker good first half, same as Tronstad second. Travis is going to be a huge miss. Dolan great overall, Hedges as we all know, nowhere near the required standard. Gueye ungainly but caused a bit of chaos when he came on - maybe that's his best role going forward. The need for January reinforcements urgently underlined today before we drop off completely.

The correct choice imo.

I don't think this sort of capitulation happens with Travis on the pitch.

Wheels have come off.

Bugger. Shocking from Tronstad. Too busy marking space rather than his man. Going to be a tough old 40 mins or so now.

I I don't disagree with you but I "think" the law was changed so that if the ball deflected inadvertently of a defender it didn't count. Maybe one of our resident laws experts can confirm.

I've been trying but he's done his more usual disappearing act today.

Whoosh