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Not sure that's true.

That first half was as bad as it gets. What concerns me is that we can play so badly for 45 minutes when we have aspirations of automatic promotion. I'll put it down to a one-off bad day at the office hopefully never to be repeated. West Brom came flying out of the blocks but we should have been ready for that. They pinned us back and collectively we retreated 10 maybe 15 yards and offered no serious press in numbers as identified by Tonda. Not sure why he didn't get a message on to the players but accept it's probably not easy to change things in the heat of the battle. It meant West Brom had it all their own way for the opening 45 minutes. Up front we had Mubama and Edozie which almost equated to us playing with 9 men such was the weak performances they put in especially in that first half. Thankfully we reached half time only a goal down and Tonda was able to adjust things and get us playing 10-15 yards further forward whilst pressing in greater numbers. It immediately turned the game like a switch had been flicked and we exerted a period of pressure leading to Edozie equalising. After that the game ebbed and flowed becoming a good watch with both sides having decent chances to win it. A draw was probably just about the right result overall and, in the cold light of day, looks a valuable one given the horrible first half performance from us.

Poor attempt when one on one tonight - surely he only had to lift the shot for a certain goal. I get that it's in the heat of the moment but he needed some composure. Good strikers rarely miss those opportunities. Having said that he did some decent stuff and was a big improvement on Mubama but so would Long John Silver have been.

My man of the match tonight. One of the few players who didn't continually give the ball away or get brushed off it plus a headed assist for our goal.

Beat Preston and 7 points from a 3 game week with two on the road and, given our injuries, will be a decent return.

Also Mubama seems to have no upper body strength.

Shhhh! You aren't allowed to mention the -4 points....I mentioned it once but think I got away with it.

Yeah, Mubama is not going to cut it and we should return him to City in January.

We'd be top but for the -4 points 🙂

Matsuki man of the match for me especially as he provided the headed assist to make sure even Edozie couldn't miss.

I think superb is a bit of a stretch 🙂

Take a point from that all day long after how poor we were in the first half. Dobbin should have won it mind.

A draw would be massive but I think it'll end up 3-0 to them.

He's on his own. Edozie is doing nothing going forward or defensively.

We're losing this in midfield. Two players in there is leaving us out numbered and West Brom know it. If we don't resolve this issue nothing will change in the second half.