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Mad Mickeh signing a 6ft 1 target man in James Scowcroft and then playing him right wing so that we had someone out wide to aim at for goal kicks.

Oh alright, I'll stretch to Rudoni then :D

Don't fancy any of players in a shoot out.

I mean it's worse than the Sheaf booking in the first half.

Wright owes us a goal tonight. Ballard has been marking Bollard for most of the match.

Wright having the stones to bollock Saka for not closing down a loose ball is next level bonkers.

Glad Isidor has gone off. A) he's the first one on the floor rolling about and B) he sounds like a region from a Tolkien novel

Ugh, now i'm nervous for the first time in 165 minutes and it's a horrible feeling!

Lampard channelling the spirit of Mark Robins for substitute inspiration tonight.

We're gonna get an equaliser and it will get ruled out for some tiny push only visible through a telescope.

As incohesive as this performance is, I'd fucking love Sunderland's 'sit back and soak up the pressure for 2 legs' to go horribly wrong with no time left to correct it.

Thing is Sheaf and Grimes want to do the same role. With a 3 in midfield you usually need a 6, 8 and 10: the sitting midfielder (Grimes), an attacking midfielder (Rudoni) and a box to box midfielder. That's just not Sheaf's strengths. Especially against a team who have already shown, even at 0-0...

We haven't got a useful striker, that is the main problem. Wright is neither a winger or striker and needs space to run into to be effective. His performances are almost as inconsistent as his first touch. BTA is similar, but without the height advantage, certainly not a lone striker. Simms...

If we sell van Ewijk to Forest Green now, we will have gone full circle.

Was it that bad? Wright was useless but everyone else huffed and puffed against a team playing very deep. Would have taken Wright off for Simms at the same time BTA came off. If anything we were guilty of over-committing looking for the advantage in our home leg, but the ref played into their...