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Actually, I'm going to back him up here; Tadic was awful. Even the corner we scored from was pretty poor, look where it landed, Wigan will be kicking themselves that they let us score from that. The amount of times that he actually hides on a pitch is remarkable. What him next time you are at a game, Someone near him will get the ball, he will then position himself so that there is a defender between him and the ball. Then there's his tendency to delay his cross by cutting one way, then back again, then back once more. As a striker, how can you make a run for that, you literally have no idea when he's going to swing the ball in to the box. Then add in the amount of times that he will take a quick break and slow it right up, allowing the defence to get back. I genuinely feel that we have played most games this season with 10 men, he has contributed that little. I really thought that he might start contributing now he has a target man to hang some crosses over for, but there's just no sign of that happening yet.

Corrected it for you...

Given that Sims had been called over to the bench and was getting ready before they scored, you're just plain wrong there.

It was mentioned in a Guardian article yesterday, didn't have time to search for a thread to update it though! https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/feb/05/ademola-lookman-slips-slides-from-everton-into-leipzig-affections

I've got to reply, because I can't really remember ever feeling like I agree with anything you've ever posted before, but to give you your due here, I agree with you here.

Come on, we bossed them from about twenty minutes in, you can't class that as narrowly beating them. I say that as someone who thought the Brighton line-up was pretty close to a sackable offence, but give him credit here, we were significantly better than West Brom.

Pro tip: I find that if I replace the phrase "end of" with "I'm a massive tw*t", I find any statements preceding it a lot more palatable. Hope that helps...

That's the one I watched, are you seriously telling me that you can't see Hegazi attempting to pull Stephens' shirt off? Not going to lie, I didn't see it at the game, just thought that someone had failed to mark Hegazi properly, but it's not a clear-cut case that Stephens just lost him.

Ok, I know I've had four beers since full-time, but what replay are you watching?!? Third replay: Hegazi clearly has a handful of Stephens' shirt, which unbalances him and allows Hegazi a free run.

Oh, f*ck off! If he gave that pen, then he would have had to give the one on Long (which he damn well should have anyway). Add in all the chances we missed, we absolutely bossed that game. Just p*ss off and enjoy today, FFS.

Do we even have the option to recall him? Season-long loans usually don't have recall options.

There were definitely some boos as Redmond came on around me.

I'm going to have to disagree here, I'm afraid. Sure, there were some periods of good support, but there were also a lot of periods of nothing. Don't get me started on the sheer idiocy of singing "We scored a goal". Nice support there, lads. I guess I just don't understand most people who go to football. One bloke behind us went apoplectic at the slightest mistake, bellowing insults left, right and centre. I genuinely don't get what his thought processes are; how does losing it at someone help the situation? I'd love to follow him round his job for a day, and lose it at him every time he makes a mistake, and see if the penny drops (I fear not). And before the usual suspects trot out the "I pay my money, I can say what I want" line, I'm not saying that you can't act like this, I'm saying that you shouldn't; it makes players worse, makes them fearful of making mistakes, and if you can't see that, I genuinely hope you either never have kids, or at least realise that you can't treat them like that. As for booing Redmond *as he came on the pitch*, my mind boggles as to the level of moronic stupidity that involves. Seriously, do you not want the player to try his best for us? Or do you think that basically saying to him, before he's even touched the ball, that you think he shouldn't even be on the pitch, is going to motivate him to play better? Seriously, people, we're called supporters, and, for the duration of the game, how about we try supporting the team. The second the final whistle goes, you can berate them as much as you want, but whilst the ball is in play, how about we roar the team on a bit. It can't make our situation work. You never know, it might even help...

What was he thinking when the ball went in with him hanging on the crossbar at Pride Park? I know what was going through my head...

Plenty? Was there f*ck. Given the rest of the ground was practically silent, I'm pretty sure I'd have heard this "plenty of support". I'm in the Family Stand, pretty sure there's nothing I can do that will make the blindest bit of difference to the atmosphere in the ground, it's the Northam that needs to do it, it's what the Archers used to do.

I'm with the OP on this; as a long-time Archers Road veteran, I've been saying for a while that the Northam needs to have a long hard look at itself. I'm happy to go with the argument that you need something to get most of the crowd going, but the hard-core section should not need that. In fact, they can be the ones to get the team and rest of the crowd going. I don't care how crap the team are (and we never let that get us down too much in the 90s, when we were mostly appalling), we're called supporters, but the ground seems to be mostly full of customers at the moment. To be absolutely clear, for the more hard-of-thinking among you, I'm not excusing the appalling manager, or some of our players's "performances", but we have a role to perform too, and we're currently as ****-poor as the team.

Really, out of the keeper glued to his line and the three centre halves we had not marking the only striker in the penalty area, and it's Targett's fault for not stopping the cross?

That would involve our players actually converting our chances, which I still don't see is the manager's fault.

Not only does my wife share my disdain for Valentine's Day, she was happy to go see Gillingham v Saints as part of our honeymoon. So, to answer the original question, not me!

I'm almost lost for words here, what the hell are you on? You despise the man who has taken us to Wembley? Because he made the same number of changes to a team as the opposition did? There's no such thing as a wrong opinion, eh?

Yeah, but as it was Long, was it technically a goal-scoring opportunity?

Didn't he say that a replacement would be lined up? That's somewhat different to actually signed, isn't it?

Couldn't agree more, main difference today was taking some chances, though we should have scored a couple more, Hojbjerg needs to develop some composure!

That's demonstrably untrue, unless you're deliberately attempting to be ironic? If you hold an opinion, and I hold an opinion that is the opposite of it, how can they both be correct?

That's funny, because I always despair of your comments.