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It was. Not necessarily by him controlling the ball, but by him making opponents fight him for it, occupying them, and thus giving us a chance to swarm and win the second ball. Bassette they just took it without fuss and could build.

He's shown in the past he has ability, and is very young. What you shouldn't expect him to do is hold the ball up and have people playing off him. When he replaced Simms, that's what he was trying to do, and it put us under pressure.

Don't think it was complacency, but when Bassette replaced Simms it wasn't sticking, so kept coming back and putting us under pressure. Simms had a good game; it's not pretty but he was doing a crucial job up front.

Nor should we.

Shambolic.

And Dasilva at the moment is like a new signing.

Last ten or so were a bit hairier than they should have been after Simms went off, but that was as straightforward a win as you will see, really. Some of the desire to win the ball back from them and keep the pressure on was exceptional.

That was an excellent half of football. Rudoni sensational. Need to close this out.

It must be what they've been asked to do; prioritise keeping the ball over riskier, but potentially more beneficial, actions. It does nullify us, imo, but it may also stop teams breaking against us.

You can't have any kind of success without significant financial backing, but you can become something like Man United or Chelsea who seem to have become completely disconnected from their fanbases, mostly treating them with contempt whilst they chase the corporate and tourist money; they don't...

I quite like them nowadays; they're good, but still come across as a proper football club, rather than a corporate global mega-brand. They still seem to have their soul intact.

Absolutely that should have been. He cleaned him out; i.e., he challenged his opponent after the ball had gone. That's a foul.

The OP comes across as a complete bell-end. Why would you link someone into something that's deliberately dissing them? What purpose does it serve? It's not the worst example, but it's a good demonstration of how social media really brings out the twat in people.

He appeared to be intoxicated in some way.

Agreed. No issue with the performance other than the inability to actually put the thing in the net.

But you saw the game; they were extremely poor, and had next to no attacking threat. It was a game we should have won with something to spare. It wasn't a given going into it, but as the game panned out, that's a very disappointing game not to win. I'm not expecting Luton or Plymouth to be as...

He was wrong-footed from the deflection!

Yes. He looked effective, and played in the ball across the box for the last chance.

It was, just. We should also have had a penalty. But we should also have scored lots of goals, we had the chances.

Not really. We won't come across a team with less attacking threat again this season. It should have been a straightforward three points.