RevidgeBlue

Great post.

And the sideways header at Bramall Lane.

Im not Cantwell's biggest fan but I do think if fit he should be in the line up. Extrapolating a fairly limited snapshot of results and claiming results are better without him in the side is imo a bit like blaming Jordan Rhodes for the fact we didnt go up when you've got players like Jason Lowe playing behind him.

Lol. So to clarify your original response to RF 99 then you think Cantwell SHOULD be let go?

As usual we probably wont get anything we REALLY need in January but I hope we don't go too overboard at CB. Pratt showed he was a viable option the other night and is there any other reason why one of the other young CB's couldnt come in and do similar? At the very most Id bring in one CB and recall O Riordan. Midfield is going to need major surgery sooner rather than later. Tronstad and Cantwell look as though they'll be heading for the exit door, we don't know yet if Baradji will be a viable option, Henriksson's poor and Tavares looks a complete dud. I think we also need major strengthening up front. I've never rated Kargbo and in an ideal world he'd be replaced. Im also probably one of the few left who thinks Gueye would be a useful asset under a different Head Coach,but, if VI isnt going to use him we might as well sell him and either way we need an additional striker as well. There's a LOT to do this January, not just at CB. I ain't holding my breath.

Yet in your contrarian mode you were probably lobbying on behalf of VI and claiming that "results didn't match performances" earlier in the season.

I mean whist we were still in the playoff picture last season Gestede actually admitted the priority was not getting in to the play offs but "building" for this season in the Championship! You wouldn't get that at ANY other Club anywhere at any level.

Yes, he's been really open and honest about Brittain, Travis, the reasoning behind selling Hyam in the last few hours of the window without a replacement, Baradji, Cantwell, why Tavares has disappeared off the face of the earth etc etc......

Massive over-reaction on here, we're 18th! The season could go one of two ways now, either we'll sort the home form out and have a fairly comfortable season or we won't and be in trouble. I can't see us continuing to win away games at the rate we have done recently. VI is fully "aligned" with the "transition" so if we more or less match last season's finish then it can be considered a relative success. If we finish well short of what we managed last time out then it has to be considered a failure. Every other Club in the Country would have been looking to build on last season's seventh place finish, not rip it up completely and start again. Apart from chaddy who seems to think what happened is completely normal, the Club can't expect to be cut any slack for being "in transition" because it's completely self inflicted and a conscious choice.

3-2 Coventry now. WBA had a man sent off which completely turned the game on its head.

Boom Boom! Very good.

I was told a story that Souness said "Get me the top scorer in Seria B". and thought he was getting a centre forward. At the first team meeting Grabbi explained he was a wide player and Souness turned white.

We have a set piece specialist now apparently. Corners and everything seemed much improved last night. Prior to us scoring the commentators recited a stat that we hadn't scored a single goal from a cross all season.

I usually agree with you on everything Tyrone but c'mon, what is there to learn that he couldn't impart in a matter of minutes? You make it sound like "experienced" players never have a bad game! Ismael bottled it against Derby and we paid the price. He got it right last night and we benefitted so credit to him for that.

I thought Grabbi was absolutely atrocious from the first minute I saw him in a pre season friendly. We were 100% scammed on that one. His Club/representatives saw us coming.

I disagree and I think that's really poor from Miller if he's said that. To the extent the ground is empty it's because of the owners and management and the Club clearly having no aspirations whatsoever of success or trying to achieve promotion. For those that are in the ground it's primarily the team's job to give the supporters something to shout about. We've (I think) lost four out of our six home League games and a League Cup tie against Bradford. Where's the enjoyment in that?

When did he say that? What a load of old tosh. He previously said that he picked Hedges ahead of Pickering and/or Ribeiro because he was slightly taller. Pratt is significantly taller than all 3 of them.

You're never going to get much help from the likes of Gallagher (in particular) or Bayes although tbf historically the latter has always been slightly tougher on the Club than the compliant Jackson who ironically is the one who's found himself banned.

What's happening in general with the Coalition and any protests? I know people can be very fickle and one minute they are baying for blood and two or three wins later a lot are as happy as sandboys, but it does seem to have gone very quiet and I'm not aware of anything at all happening during the Derby game. Are things ongoing or has everything been halted by the threat of legal action etc?

Very workmanlike performance last night and a great result but I think that's a very blue and white tinted glasses assessment. I think we're a pretty poor outfit and everything hinges on whether we can sort the home form out. If we can, happy days and we should be relatively comfortable this season but I don't think we'll continue in this vein of winning all our away games so I'll still be very relieved when we get to 50 points. The one thing I do agree on is Pratt. As I repeatedly said before the game there's rarely been a disaster arising out of handing a youngster his debut and so it proved yet again last night. I dont think people were overly critical about the prospect of selecting him , they'd have been a lot more critical if Hedges had started there again. If Ismael had been braver, and not made a ludicrously bad decision to start Hedges at LCB against Derby and started with the same line up as last night, I think we'd have got at least a point there as well.

"Pratt seemed to cope ok"? He was brilliant!

I agree with you, he put a shift in defensively tonight but he's still pretty woeful in the final third of the pitch.

Is there not some sort of a fair play panel that can get involved or is that only where the referee has missed the incident?

Don't know what it was, I thought Baradji looked quite promising. Might be partially because Preston were tiring and pushing forward looking for the equaliser.

Mercer's taking everyone out for a drink! 😁