Fabrice29

None of this is true though. That’s why Smallbone rightly starts.

Person who wrote that must be pretty wise.

There’s a few players in their squad we were after at one stage under him.

I just think that maybe the guy who misjudged a header and flicked the ball into the path of the striker might be a little more at fault than someone who didn't. So sorry for being so positive

Or perhaps not everyone has to be so dramatic and not everything he does is the worst thing any left back has ever done.

Hahaha please stop heading the ball away Ryan, it’s not your job.

Christ. He’s not in no man’s land and he’s not heading a non existent ball. He’s literally in the perfect position to either head the ball away or bring it under control himself, and Bednarek jumps for a ball he can’t reach and flicks it over him. Baffling that people are trying to rationalise the guy who perfectly judged the flight of the ball is at fault instead of the guy who mis judges the ball. But hey, here we are.

So we're just blaming Manning for something we don't know if he did or not rather than the guy mis timing a header and flicking the ball into the strikers path yeah? Cool. Look forward to the same logic being applied if Manning ever does that.

The second goal being the one he's about to intercept until Bednarek flicks it over him yeah? If you're going to hate on the guy, make it coherent.

Would obviously point out that not only does Smallbone give Brooks the ball yesterday to register the assist, he also deliberately makes a run to take away the defender in the space Brooks moves into shoot. Not sure if thats me using my eyes or being hipster though.

You questioned my sanity about 6 posts ago, if we're talking about running out of arguments.

If Smallbone getting assist is leading to you having to double down and conclude you can’t analyse football then you really should stop watching. As point out above, you’re talking utter shite, again.

Didn't happen in the 60's and 70's so it must be stinky. Perfectly normal thing to think.

The answer to this is nowhere near as much as you've convinced yourself it is.

Not everything has to be or will be perfect. We won't win everything, but despite your "we'll lose more than we win" claim, we literally are unable to do so even if we lost our final 11 games.

Give it up pal, it's enjoyable football, you're not convincing anyone, but one day you will be able to say "I told you so" I suppose, which is the real enjoyment.

Try and enjoy the football mate, it's fun for the first (and maybe for quite a while) time in years.

Literally our top scoring and our second most creative midfielder but probably not technical goals or something.

I think it's more the space they target than the player personally. He has a clearly defined role to be inside and we sacrifice the space on that side of the pitch occasionally. I have a very vague memory of us making KWP play inside at the start of the season and therefore sacrificing his side of the pitch, probably because his recovery pace is better suited to covering it, but people got upset by that too.

I explained this quite a while ago. He's quite clearly asked to play inside for various reasons. It frees up KWP on the other side, it creates overloads in possession in midfield and out of the ball it allows us to be more aggressive and win the ball back quicker in central areas. Also a vital part of trying to isolate our wingers against full backs because it tries to drift the right wide midfielder into mark him so they can't double up on our left winger. He does it well, he's got a good left foot allowing him to receive the ball and open up to pass to our wide player quickly when the timing is right. It means he has a lot to do when we lose possession but it's a risk/reward situation and switches to the right winger is supposed to be stopped at source.

2 assists today. Not sure if it's meaningless, spreadsheet subjective nonsense from the other side of the Atlantic or not though.

I’m not sure talking about our defence would be particularly relevant to the comment ‘we play it around the back and never get anywhere’ You can find out about the defence yourself on various sites. Who scored.com As a starter, 7th best in the league and 6th best shots against. It’s decent. We’re really bad in the air though fwiw.

You seem genuinely unable to grasp the concept of what a fact is. And btw, it can be both factual and meaningless. But it definitely is factual.

We’re the third top goal scorers in our league. Your narrative, once again, isn’t reflective of the reality.

There’s nothing one dimensional or embarrassing about consistently breaking into the oppositions half into a 3 v 3 match up. We didn’t take advantage but the idea that ‘playing out the back’ in anyway hinders us is just nuts. Smashing it up to any striker we could have signed in January against VVD or Konate would have been much more likely to result in us losing the ball and being under pressure than playing out from the back. Also Liverpool started 3 kids’ yesterday from the start that could reasonably be considered as youth team players. The rest were experienced PL/European level players or Bradley/Quansah for example who are pretty much on the verge of becoming that and been fairly regularly used in their first team. Probably similar amounts to Bree/Charles for us. The desperation to fall into their ‘kids’ narrative and to criticise us is much more embarrassing than us playing out from the back.