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Fancy posting the facts about our gdp performance post Brexit rather than a recent snapshot?

4-3 to you mate. No personal comments from me Hypo.

More posts from you than him...bait properly taken. It'd be calm and civil if you lot ignored him.

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Thriller

Punishment

Mr Smith is a good lad. Not many people put their principles before their careers.

My guess is that Mara is as good as gone, hence the fair play money/money for Archer. I don't think we'll get another striker either. The Portuguese kid, an attack attacking midfielder and possibly Fraser is all I think we'll get.

He's out of our price bracket but I'm not sure who'll buy him and play him regularly. Feels a bit West Ham to me.

I don't disagree with any of that. However, we dominated midfield yesterday (before the sending off as well) but didn't penetrate enough. This lads scout report suggests that he's a midfield ball recycler, offers little creativity, and little in an attacking sense. That's a million miles from what we need. We need PL ready players - BD, Lesley, Downes, THB, Taylor, and arguably Archer, are there or thereabouts. We need a creative midfielder to make the chances and a proper striker to score them. Plus a keeper. A promising ball recycler is not what we need with limited funds imo.

Seems a complete waste of money. Big Lesley is surely here for that role, with Charles either giving cover or moving on. What we needed was obvious yesterday. He isn't it.

I'd have liked to have seen TP off the bench today, just to give us an extra option - stretch them out wide and hit the big man with crosses, as well as having Cameron stretching them down the channels, and feeding off knock downs.

I thought we put in a very good performance. That said, if BD puts that chance away, and AM doesn't do such a bad job of following daft instructions, we win away at Newcastle. I'm a hell of a lot more optimistic after that than I was at 3.00 today.

Has to be, surely. Had a sensational half.

You don't have to play those passes as a keeper. If he had authority to clear his lines, that goal ain't happening. Yep, McCarthy fucked up, but he fucked up playing suicide football. Clear your lines and then win the ball higher up the park. I'm not letting McCarthy or RM off the hook for that.

He's the only one to blame for suicidal tactics. Expecting McCarthy to be a playmaker from the back is stupid. The tactics are 100% on RM.

Stupid by McCarthy, but, he's playing as he's told. Playing out like that is daft and was/is always going to get us punished at this level. McCarthy has dealt with corners well and looked ok til then.

Yep. Love this fella. Doesn't give a monkeys about reputations and puts it about.

That's the interesting part. Neither of them are wingers, but neither are centre forwards either. RM will probably, I'm guessing, persist with the 2 x forwards idea with no centre forward, or (as I'd prefer) playing one through the middle. Regardless, we're looking better than we did.

And another Abu assist. Larios got 55 mins on the pitch.

Just noticed that Reeves in our midfield is 32 year old Ben Reeves, now our under 21 support player. Started his career here of course, did the rounds a bit in leagues 1 and 2, and played for Eastleigh in the national league last year.

Meghoma starting wide left of a front 3. Interesting to see how he does there.

All this but RM played Mara stuff is bullshit...he literally had nobody else to turn to, so of course he played him!

How do you know we didn't? We may have gone for Phillips too. Because didn't get a player, it doesn't mean that we didn't have a crack at him.

A poor record doesn't mean he isn't a striker! Unproven, sure, but he's a striker. Whether he's an upgrade on Mara remains to be seen, but here's hoping 🤞