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‘And a special welcome to his new co-pundit, @Wade Garrett’

Interesting and potentially positive development, although it’ll be a bumpy ride to get there https://www.azernews.az/region/267026.html

Divided on this one. Heard he can be selfish as he won’t puss to anyone else near goal. But on his day can ooze class. Good from the spot too. We’d have to bring in Dean Whitehead as coach to get the best out of him.

99% right, just tweaked your post slightly in remembrance of Damian Downs, whose two first team contributions were air shots. Divin is the second worst striker I’ve seen since 2006. How the scouting team find these 💩 I’ve no idea.

Don’t know about the forum but the new ownership of the Telegraph don’t support him and have let him go as part of cost-cutting to save the business and pivot more towards the US as a centre-right broadsheethttps://www.aol.co.uk/articles/nigel-farage-regular-column-telegraph-150938000.html Saving of £4k per month. No doubt Trump’s rout this week didn’t help Farage’s cause but Reform, on top of more allegations of serious sexual offences https://www.itv.com/news/2026-11-03/reform-uk-councillor-charged-with-35-offences-including-12-counts-of-rape and other strange/perverted behaviour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw8dz3g0d1e8o are disintegrating. Sounds like Tice’s other half, Isobel Oakeshott, also caught up in the Telegraph’s house cleaning. Allison Pearson is a horrific journalist and human being so that improves the paper 10% straight away if she goes. Probably end up running conspiracy theory forums with Liz Truss.

However much the loan fee was, he isn’t putting in the work rate and making the contribution, even a modest one, he should be. Therefore, he has to earn minutes and he isn’t earning them. You can tell by the players’ reactions that they’re pretty fed up with him being on his heels and not helping the team.

Add Villa to the list as well. A whole world of other clubs exist where we don’t need to take cast-offs.

Get the players fitter and you’ll see quicker starts. They’re having to start with Russball because they’re seemingly only 75-80% of where they should be fitness-wise. In most games there’s a 20-25 minute spell where we score and then do enough to win comfortably but today the goal didn’t happen and PNE actually looked more likely to score in injury time than we did which was another tell on poor fitness.

Villa saw us coming twice for Archer then Dobbin. Have become the new City in pulling the scouting team’s pants down. That said, look at his performance for today’s opponents last season. He looks like a fish up a tree but wasn’t he supposed to be the Azaz rotation? Club messed up on the striker department (again) which is the biggest issue.

I’d rather have actions such a new fitness coaching coming in so games are started quicker. We’ve been very slow starters at home too but frequently scored first and improved a lot from there. We’ve shown more resilience second halves away but didn’t get the goal today. Patterns and data are there, it’s what’s done to address them.

Far worse than the result.

Leo’s finishing needs coaching during the break. Has been below par for a while. Finn is quality, and the keeper does very well there. Mubama - well, Obama would have done better with that. Can’t see him being in the higher levels of English football by 25 with his attitude and application (lack of). More crap from City. You can tell by Flynn, JWP and Finn’s reaction to him over the last two games that they think he’s a lazy waster. Give Prince a few cameos, at least he’ll run and put himself about, and not be a lazy cunt from a big name academy.

Yes on Larin, Kevan injury not ideal but we’ve not missed THB as much as spring 2026 Stewart. Whereas Dobbin bar two games and a half at Norwich is terrible VFM and the lad from City wouldn’t have scored for Sholing at Salisbury today.

B, except they didn't up the tempo much, it was down to PNE dropping deeper. Movement was very poor on and off the ball bar a 20 minute spell second half. Got away with it in a few games but not today and PNE well organised with no freebies. Fitness (lack of) is part of it. With a smaller squad, you’ve got to be fighting fit and more evidence that the players are only 75%-80% of where they should be into November.

Bolster the fitness and conditioning team - essential with a smaller squad. We start games out of condition and grow them into them - it was going to catch up with us. Match work-rate in first halves and quality will show as the game goes longer.