saint francis

We need to stop the tactic of hoofing it towards Onachu to hold up - it's not working. All game I wanted him replaced - then he goes and gets the winner. Aribo again lacks creativity but good defensively and took his goal well. Aribo CAN hold the ball up when needed to - perhaps go with him if we are to play that game. We looked a more dangerous team with Sulemana in it IMO. We need to try and get Fernandes into games a bit more, very creative and attack-minded.

Onachu losing every opportunity to hold the ball up. Out jumped and outmuscled.

More than competitive here. Three points would be massive.

He suggested two average £20m signings has produced a worse product than the potential of a single £40m signing. I say it's not necessarily about the cost. The not too distant past shows that we have had the ability to recruit good value players successfully, "fairly" consistently and end up with a team in the top half of this league. The deals we were doing with Celtic, VVD, Wanyama, Davis and in Europe, Pele, Tadic etc. They weren't hugely expensive at the time, within our budget and got us results. Let's bring better recruitment back, not just bigger spending.

Hasn't this worked well at times in the past though? We could all name plenty of good purchases within the last 15 years that have gone on to be world beaters. Look at our 2012 to 2016 squads. We seemed to get recruitment right back then on the whole.

That Gasparini, Atalanta style of play looks more like a Hassenhutl strategy than any other we've seen recently. Watch out for the ball in behind!

Looking forward to something different. I can half-understand why they persevered with Martin for longer than they should have, for "some" of the latter games it seemed like we were improving, just a bit. New boss, but NOT same as the old boss. Bring it on.

It's only Danny Rohl but I like it.

Keeper hoofing the ball gets the biggest cheer of the game.

I have Chinese TV adverts during the break. They're cool.

“If any club in England from the bottom of the table needs a coach in two years, I'm ready to go." That's literally us. We just need to stay on the bottom for the next two years without getting relegated.

You'd have thought we'd be good at playing it out from the back by now.

Replaced, no question. Right now, the weakness is the tactics more than the players.

I decided against naming my dog Help for the same reason.

I used to work with a girl called Carina. Nice girl. Sturdy and reliable.