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They’ll give it all the faux apology stuff, especially Hamer, and people will embarrassingly lap it up. He’s a great player but he pissed us around more than COH, who seems to be the hated one.

Feels very Mike Bassett, but I’d go 4-4-2. It’s a bit of a waste of Rudoni, but if we’re so poor against a low block we need to try something different. So I would play direct with Simms and Wright up front. Everyone knows how poor O’Nien is, give him something to worry about all game...

I think we controlled the game and didn’t really look under pressure, however there’s a difference between controlling the game and doing something with that control. Game plan was ponderous and slow, which then lead to passing to the FB/winger who was isolated/outnumbered. And repeat. Did we...

Still massively frustrated this morning. BTA starting was a mistake and it was obvious to the world after 10 minutes he’d be ineffective against a low block. Grimes is a good player (I’ll caveat that before I get called out) but playing as a third CB and slowing it down against a low block is...

Feels very Mike Bassett, but I’d go 4-4-2. It’s a bit of a waste of Rudoni, but if we’re so poor against a low block we need to try something different. So I would play direct with Simms and Wright up front. Everyone knows how poor O’Nien is, give him something to worry about all game...

I know I’m in the minority here, but Grimes ain’t all that. He’s great on the ball, he just receives it way too deep and is not adventurous enough. Receiving the ball deeper than the CB’s against a low block and then slowing it down is mental.

Not been this pissed off after a game for a long time. Wrong tactics, wrong selection and way too many anonymous performances.

Call it agenda if you want, but we got that so, so, so wrong.

Or Grimes? Playing as a CB against a low block is nonsense.

Anyone fancy defending Wrights performance tonight?

Not sure how it looks at home, but they are 100% in Wright’s head.

They’re all targeting Wright and not convinced he’s giving it back yet.

We struggle massively against a low block.

EMC

Posted a few days ago about how big an early goal for us would be mentally and the impact it would likely have on Sunderland. On a similar point; we faced the pressure of a season defining game last weekend, they haven’t for a long, long time. The mental side of the game is significant and I...

Just watched the interview. He’s 100% getting fined, calls it a ‘shocking’ decision several times, says it’s a huge mistake and references it changing the game a lot too. He also cites previous mistakes made by that ref (including mentioning our game v Luton!) as to why they didn’t want him to...

They aren’t that scary. Good team on paper but they don’t play that way. They’ve lost to some shite teams and we made them look bang average at home at a really tough time for us. Get the tactics right and they’re beatable. Campbell is an average player having a purple patch, Brewster is...

Even worse he’ll do he faux apology shtick again and everyone will lap it up.

Get the sentiment and agree to an extent, but disagree ‘form stands for nothing’. The players are all humans, whether they needed the points or not, losing their last 5 on the bounce isn’t going to breed a team full of confidence but naturally will an element of doubt. As well as negativity...

Based on confidence levels of the respective teams, their form and the last time they came here, if we score early I can see us getting a few. The longer it goes on, the more they’ll grow in confidence, whereas if we score early I think mentally it’ll be massive.