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It’s a strange one. Seem to recall when Clive Woodward was England rugby coach he used to give the players the day off after a defeat to get it out of their system, but if they won then they were in for training. The logic being it’s easier to work in a positive environment.

Don’t think so, too many obvious flaws. Not to say he’s no good, think he’ll go on to have a solid PL career. But England? No.

Showed for the ball? Blimey. Bloke didn’t move for large parts of our attacking play. In that system you *need* the wing back to make the run outside.

23,625 I think.

Irritated me yesterday. We know he’s playing on his weaker side so get at him round the outside. Dabo made it a cakewalk.

Well, you’ve lost it.

Think a big part of it is who else he trusts on the ball. Been a few occasions recently where he won’t pass to Dabo/BNC/JWE/Howley because he thinks he’ll do better.

Thought I’d share these ratings as they made me giggle: Some of the pass completion stats are startling: McNally 55% Bidwell 60% Godden 47%

Don't know if it’s recency bias, but I feel like we’re quite often exposed to the counter from our attacking set pieces.

Got a video clip of it but unsure how to post. Any ideas?

Just watched it back. It’s a heavy touch in the attacking third. Bit of a stretch. Meanwhile, left 3 on 3 and Dabo makes the most token gesture of tracking back.

People who piss on the toilet seat. Fucking tramps.

Jesus Christ what a mess.

Disagree. It wasn’t so much pressing, they let us have the ball at the back at times. Unforced errors and a habit in the first half of our midfielders going to stand next to one of theirs.

Tactically very clever from Stoke today. Pulled our wing backs high, isolated their wide strikers against our centre backs, then Powell would drop and bring Fadz with him. Caused absolute havoc.

Because everyone left early there was no queue to get out the car park at full time.

Pretty crackers that he’s played 12 times for us, been very good in 11 of them, and now people have decided he’s not very good off the back of one performance.

Fair to say their development curve has flattened after leaving. Back to the original post, though, McNally is a great opportunity and will have considerable resale value if we were to sign him permanently.

5 of the 8 teams above us don’t have a striker on course for 20 this season (would need 17 at this stage). It’s a fallacy. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a ‘nice to have’ but if we signed 3 players (thinking 2 strikers and an AM) that all scored 10 goals then there’s a better return straight away...

No, they can always buy a ticket.