LiberalCommunist

JPT with my old man. That memory gets sweeter by the year. 96/7 final day drama. Not cried tears of joy many times. And a shout out to Lambert held high after beating Coventry. Lets tribute smash 'em this weekend!

That season now feels like some wispy dream.

Millwall, missing a raft of players destroy us. Wba, depleted squad give us a big scare. Norwich, with key personnel missing make light work of us. Full strength, fully functioning Coventry are in massive trouble this weekend. 0.2 Saints Easy win.

Glad there's credible rumours, no time for sentiments. Lets bin off some players who are dragging us down.

He did take a right kicking today. Didn't look fun.

The last two teams we have faced have used the battering ram tactic on us, and its worked incredibly well. I'm kind of happy Coventry will want to play football. It can't be any worse than watching some right cloggers who have had an appalling season, look like scoring at every attack like they did today. Bring it on.

More of our fragilities exposed today, but oh what might have been. Had Leo's shot gone in, and Adam tucked away the pen. But he didn't. And from then on it was carnage. It suited them not having Sergeant playing today, instead they could just bully everything through the middle and over the line, and they did well at that. Pitiful defending from us, yet again. No leaders, no composure. Same strategy that doesn't take the pressure off. Why are we not learning? Its so frustrating having the same problems. Poor teams find workarounds, yet we don't seem able to, even with some really good talent sprinkled into the team. Not happy.

You know what's really wild about Tom Fellows injury/concern situation right now? In October a fully fit TF could barely get in the team while we were floundering around doing fuck all. Exactly what sort of system makes this guy not perform. That's some special shit right there. Well done Will. Nice guy, but damn those results were so crap.

Fellows came off with Scienza as a planned sub midweek. He took a few whacks in that game, but no reason to think this is really serious. Fingers crossed.

Congrats to Cam Bragg. Now take your place in the team. Make that position yours to keep. And in doing so, stop someone who does not deserve to be in the matchday squad.

Massive. Prediction breaking almost.

Not saying we'll get an auto place, but we will finish above Boro and Coventry. Just putting it out there.

From the sublime to the ridiculous. The contrast between the first and second period, was probably the biggest I've ever seen. Subbing Scienza and Armstrong exacerbated this, but did not start the drop off. Clearly Tonda expressed a different tactic during his halftime talk. Whether that was to conserve energy or help rotate players to protect them. It didn't work. Getting Leo and Adam off the pitch may well have stopped them getting injured, but the team got a proper kicking which will have left a lot of mental scars. As a fan base who has suffered some real shit over the last few years, we are all fairly expectant of the mental weakness that often leads to our downfall. Watching the last 20 minutes of that game expecting WBA to equalise as if its inevitable allows us to store and generate a nervous energy. A energy that we transmit to the team, and they have become very accustomed to harness and give back to us, mainly by playing dangerous passes between our subpar goalie and the nearest clogger who's being charged down by the opposition. Tonda is learning, he clearly listens and understands, or he wouldn't have got this group playing for him, when so many others have failed before him. But he should skip the first half highlights, and dissect what happened in the second half. We lacked everything. But having no leader was more damaging that having no plan. I honestly feel Jack Stephens would have made that second half performance slightly better, and I don't say that often. If the best form of defence is attack, then its time to risk keeping our best players on the pitch. If the drop off is going to be that severe, we may well want to risk injury and suspensions instead. We were lucky to escape with the points, but don't discount the mental damage that ending will have caused. A good result and performance against Norwich can erase it, but please, lets not repeat it. Ever.

Lovely, fluid movement, clever pass, great finish. Lovely.

That's a good sign. Shoot on sight. More of that please.