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Start strong, sub after its won. No excuses.

I fear this will quickly morph from "who did the ball come off of last", to "was XYZ offside" or "was there a foul/handball etc in the build up". Its bad enough pausing the game for controversy over a goal/offside/penalty/red card... now we're moving towards inflating the ego of video refs everytime the ball goes out of play... Like fucking hell, imagine being in a crowd and for every corner there is a pause for VAR checks.... Those moments in games where a team can pile on the pressure and barrage a defence with 4-5corners in a row... that will be over and done with, they'll get loads of extra time to compose themselves and reset in between each one.... the more frantic the action on a given corner, the longer the pause... they're killing the game with stuff like this i fear. Maybe i'm overreacting and they'll limit this to a 10second review of who it came off - but i bloody doubt it.

Read my post again. Even in matches that don’t have unnecessary stoppages (like feigned injuries) the time the ball is in play is less than 90 minutes.

Plenty of people enjoy a quick stroke now again. No excuse for poor spelling. 😁

Agreed. He's broadly performing in line with my expectations. I wouldn't say we are massively outperforming anything, simply others have underperformed. We were massively below expectations and now we are where we should be. He still gets significant credit for that though to be fair. Shame we had to have the zero wins in seven in the middle of things though.

😀Lol, oh well having a stroke doesnt always give me a free pass, but rushing as I have other things going on in my business does mean I dont always get it right

Sadly, they are looking for new owners now the consortium who had exclusivity have pulled out. It looks like a money pit (£4m spent this year) and in danger of liquidation. Article

There does seem to be a bit of a reluctance to play players who aren't in the squad or who are low on confidence in the under 21s. None of Quarshie, Romeu or Robinson were in the squad last night, so (bearing fitness) could be getting practice with the u21s, and as others have said, could Archer have a few games in the u21 and we put Oyekunle on the bench?

It's hardly changed in that time

Some managers just fit certain clubs and I get the feeling he just fits this one. He's taken stick but you can't get on his back too much with that record. He's also getting better as the games go on and he gets a better feel for team formation\selection. Whatever he does from now on in at least I've had more fun watching his teams than I ever did for Jones, Selles, Martin, Juric, Rusk and Still. It's been the most fun since Ralph left in 2022.

The FA seem to think politics and football are the same which is a joke …. Lets face it the Northam are right too….. 😁

Kind of with you on that. He deserves huge credit, it's also highlights how poor Will Still was. However he also has a very good squad which should be top 6 minimum. All this shite about players not being good enough etc was a load of nonsense. If he was behind the clear out then even more credit is due, there seems to be a lot more spirit and harmony in the squad now, the players are clearly playing for him, which cant be said for the last few we've had.

It might be harsh but I still don't think we have been overly convincing. I think really he has got us performing roughly how we should be given we have a host of players that would get in virtually every squad in the division. He still deserves credit though, particularly for turning us around after the drop off in form. We look better in comparison to others because in truth no one has really run away with things, especially after Coventry shit the bed recently.

Matsuki offers two more goals than fellows as well! I thought he played very well and wasn’t surprised to see him picked over Fellows who needs to add more to his game.

Yes but we can't get to the playoffs, we sold our top goalscorer in the window. Who's going to get the goals?

Can't argue with that. Considering his age and lack of experience his record to date is remarkable. He has the potential to manage at the highest level if he continues turning in these numbers. Probably a bit early to know what the future holds for him but you can't question his record with us so far.

I don't know, I can see the addition of another 0.75 points per match if your xg is >1.8, your possession is > 67% and you have scored = 1 goal, being good ...

What football really needs is more laws.

Me too. I thought (and still do) that it was a bit of good man management, giving Archer an opportunity to maybe enjoy himself for 20-25 mins whilst the pressure was off. If Archer had have bagged a goal then that could only be a good thing. The problem is of course, he just isn't playing very well. Nothing he attempts comes off. It's getting embarrassing for him. He needs to garner some confidence elsewhere, Under 21's maybe. May not hurt to send Fellows with him. Build some confidence and understanding as a foil together too.

Yes. Some decent side. We struggled in the away games with some of those. Norwich seems like a really tough game and Bristol absolutely smashed us. The long and shirt of it is if we want to get promoted, we need to play (and get results) like a side that is good enough to get promoted. We have pretty much no injuries and the side is on a good run. We have no excuses. If we don't get into the play offs it will be because we don't deserve too - mostly thanks to the start we had.

Not really. If it's not "clear and obvious" then VAR resorts back to the onfield decision. No more need for lengthy delays and would get referees back to making decisions not relying on VAR to save them. If you want precision and absolutes, don't bother watching sport!

Geoffrey Boycott was convicted of a crime, he was found guilty. Funny how there were no "semantics" then. Funny how there was no "the simple fact is he was found guilty" coming from you in that case. oh no!! Just lots of excuses, lots of you judging if she was lying or not by how many bruises she had on her face!! In fact you were at pains to say you had sympathy for him!! Such a hypocrite!!!

promotion is, not the play off final.😉 I agree. It's essential to get promoted from a financial point of view. Being sustainable in the championship is almost impossible, especially if you are actually trying to make a stab at promotion. That said, I am not sure anyone is sustainable in the PL either. As a company we made hefty operational losses in the PL which were offset by player sales. But at least we could make those sales. After a few seasons in the championship the amount you get from players sales become almost nothing, so you become reliant on ticket sales...which tend to fall with every season in the championship...yeah nothing much good comes of being in the championship too long.

He's surprisingly good in the air as he showed last night and I think he also scored another good header in another match...maybe the Doncaster cup tie. Has a decent spring on him.

Aside from that Jo is a horrible commentator, he s not very articulate.