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Not sure I'd start him tomorrow against his old club. It's a tricky decision for Eckert.

When you watch that you can only scratch your head and wonder what's happened to him. We simply have to get him back on track because he's such a talented player.

I'm guessing they'll play this wonderkid Max Dowman - he looks scarily good.

I for one hope you'll be repeating this message for the rest of the season.

We're at home so have a chance. It's a one off game so maybe the luck will go our way. Arsenal will take us lightly at their peril so I wonder how strong they'll go. Should be a good game.

It's the word 'outclassed' that I think is wholly inaccurate and makes it sound as though Fulham were waltzing through us and creating chances at will. The figures don't lie but they do paint a false picture because we could have scored at least three goals from big chances whereas Fulham didn't create any actual big chances. So perhaps we 'outclassed' them when it came to creation of real chances.

It was basically handbags. Seen more proper punches thrown at a pensioner's jumble sale.

Larin didn't use his brain on that one. All he needed to do was stay behind the ball and he's onside for a tap-in. The fact that he didn't is a worry and vindicated Leo's decision to go for goal even though he missed. Larin should have held his run to stay onside which would have given Leo the option - he'd still have shot mind you 🙂

Agree although he did blot his copybook yesterday with one very poor pass that led to a Fulham breakaway which might have been costly. Generally though he is calm, composed and rarely gives the ball away cheaply.

What did you predict for Norwich at home?

Phew! That makes me feel a whole lot more confident. Nice to know we can relax now and look forward to the play-offs 🙂

I have a nagging worry about Norwich at home because they'll be no pushovers. Having watched them yesterday against Leeds, although they lost 3-0, they had plenty of good moments and showed they can produce some very good football. I think they have a long injury list too so presume they'll have players to come back in when fit who will do a job. Leeds were good yesterday and deserved to win but Norwich showed enough to convince me we'll do well to beat them at St Marys.

Tom Fellows has been a major disappointment. For whatever reason he seems to have lost his way and is very low on confidence. I think we all expected to see him flying down the wing and whipping in dangerous crosses, creating chances and weighing in with a few goals. It just hasn't happened for him. There must be some way for the coaching staff to get him firing again. I get that he's a poor finisher so isn't going to be a regular goal scorer but we need to get more out of him or he may as well go at the end of the season. With Leo doing his stuff on one wing it would be great to see Fellows in full cry on the other because we'd be a so much better side. It's a head scratcher for sure because the guy has bundles of talent.

I think I get your drift but don't agree with your wording. Yes Fulham were well ahead on most stats (apart from the most important one) but for all their possession, corners and shots they didn't really create much at all that could be classed as decent chances. We, on the other hand, with far less possession created much the better decent chances and should have won more comfortably. We certainly weren't 'outclassed' statistically or in any other way.

Big shout out to Matsuki in the lead up to the penalty. He's in midfield when their keeper clears and he springs tremendously to head the ball forward. It reaches Stewart who moves it on to Azaz who chops inside and is caught. Doesn't happen without Matsuki winning that header.