superniko

It was proper variance there, all stats showed they were scraping undeserved wins (sort of the opposite of ourselves). They’ll be back to the usual mid-table finish.

Markanday has such a good nick for winning the ball back, he’s starting to get a bit more confidence and is looking better every game.

I know it’s said tongue in cheek to gain a reaction, but around this stage of Mowbrays stint he was just handed £12m to spend on strikers….then we had another 3 years of nothingness with them.

Yeah the ref was bizarre. He gave us a free kick for a perfect tackle on Moran that was literally 1 yard in front of him. Coventry didn’t look up too much. £15m of strikers looked pretty average, just unfortunately our team of pocket change and academy grads looked even worse!

Cheers mate, can we have the £14m or Clarke and Bellingham please?

They hit the bar two other times too to be fair. Maybe if we had another two we’d eventually bundle the ball over the line

It’s only been glimpses, but it looks exactly as many of us expected when he was announced. Desperate for a number 9 all summer and we pick up a lad from the dog and duck in Bavaria on the last day for whatever change Venkys dangled for us.

Worryingly created very little tonight. I wasn’t expected anything from the game but god we lack any quality. Markanday and Dolan are league one at best, they should be nowhere near this starting 11. Bottom 3 if we lose on Saturday I’d imagine. Brittain and Hill if we’re scraping for some positives

Sigurdsson after a great first touch has just cost us 3 points there. You have to square that for an easy tap in. I’d expect that decision making from Dolan but not Sigurdsson.

Frustrating that with 1 minute to go in the half we have a free kick in an area we can stick it in for our 3 cbs but we play it short and back to our own half. Coventry doing what we should have here. Thankfully shocking output from them

Just our luck he’s injured. Hopefully Harry isn’t out for too long.

STEVEN REID

Quality has been really low with Dolan and Markanday out wide (unsurprisingly). Wharton having a good game in my opinion, Moran also bright and seems very good at nicking the ball of the opponent. Brittain again very good

The line up is giving me the Burnley away vibes where we moved players around with Mola coming in and Hedges at full back.

We desperately desperately need 3 centre midfielders. How can this not be seen. Teams are walking through us in the middle.

Brittain LB Hill RB JRC CM I think

He was saying it as a sarcastic joke mate, lighten up. 3 points incoming and our march up the table begins.

Not a clue on the formation here. Is it wing backs with 3 defenders? Who is centre mid? Dolan starting must mean some unfit lads on the bench.

Tough game tonight, mid-week away from home after a run of losses in a close space of time and a big injury list. We're rightly decent underdogs, but a win would be massive ahead of a very winnable trip to QPR to get the season rolling. Nothing to fear with Coventry, if we're playing as open as we have we just have to pray someone sticks a few in the net in the 1st half!

3k allocation at £26. Expect us to sell this out but anyone who wants one will be able to get one I’d imagine

Wahlstedt Brittain Hill Hyam Pickering JRC Wharton Travis Moran Szmodics Sigurdsson

(assuming you’re on about the first goal and stating the header hit the inside netting - but people aren’t blaming Pears for his shot stopping on the goal) I’ve never seen a keeper as week at dominating his 6 yard box. He does not come and claim anything, even the absolute bread and butter. How many more examples of this do some fans need? Huddersfield, Coventry, today, probably more direct crosses I’m missing Birmingham and Luton he could have dealt with on original cross too, Millwall and Ipswich not dealing with a ball over the top, Hull City where he was positioned somewhere near the M65. All this on top of the fact he put the ball out for a corner that was a yard over the bar, because again, his position was all completely wrong. He should not be playing Championship football, and if our management team are adamant he should, then we should have spent our £800k sofa change on a striker, loan or permanent, and not a keeper to sit behind him

It’s looking bad at the back but I don’t fully buy the ‘suicidal approach’ messages. These games where we’re shipping loads are often killed off in the last 10 mins when we’re chasing (like we have to) with a 1 goal deficit. I know a lot don’t buy into xG but Leicesters was a modest 1.97 and that includes 0.7 or so for the penalty. - Pears mistake (again - and that is on JDT no denying it, should have been dropped for Kaminski after the flapping at Huddersfield) - Vardy beauty after a pin point pass - Penalty - Game over already as there are no leaders on the pitch (Hyam a particular joke in this area, he wouldn’t say boo to a goose) Can’t emphasis enough how pissed off I am with how Pears starts week after week regardless of what has happened. Conceding after 3 mins to these meant it was always an uphill battle. We won’t go down, but we need to start getting some positive results soon for sure. Embarrassing how much our heads drop after conceding, we give up at 2-1, same as Sunderland, then opposition go on to make it look like an embarrassing scoreline Pressure is mounting now but perhaps I’m less annoyed by what’s happening on the pitch because of how pathetic we are off the pitch. Cut off the snakes head and go from there.

Yes.

£10m on Jack Clarke too. Can’t compare the two. I said the German 4th tier was the level of Spennymoor and some tried to claim it was a Bundesliga signing (lol). Venkys killing us one cut at a time.