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Is the interesting pattern that those who don't look interested, track back or don't look as if they are putting in maximum effort are deemed lazy?

Young keeper who is learning still, Cook doesn't deserved to be lumped with Phillips as you did, he also isn't shocking either or a calamity. He has a tendency at times to overplay it and had a few lapses v Doncaster and Sheffield United, he also has made some very good saves at crucial time. If...

Cook 6 Phillips 4 Ricketts 6 Ramage 5 Stokes 5 Vincelot 6 Fleck 5 Murphy 4 Maddison 6 Lameiras 5 Armstrong 6 Tudgay 5 Bigi 6 Cole 6

I think we're all more interested in him becoming a better footballer rather than ruining him, to do that you need to acknowledge what areas need to improve.

Feel thats a very harsh attack on Cook, couldn't fault him for the first goal he nearly pulled off a fantastic save. Second goal he could have done better with but nonetheless a decent finish by the Burton striker. Pulled off a fine save first half as well. After a wobble in December I think...

Yes, thought Ramage completely switched off for the second goal. Seems to lose track of the flight of the ball over the top

Or can Murphy only play well when the other forward players play well? Cause and effect

Mowbray is just covering all the bases with cover, imagine if we had to play Finch or Thomas for two matches now with the Fleck ban.

Don't think he did particularly well today, certainly not anything worth highlighting or mention worthy. That said he's a much better option than Fortune I feel, shocked that Fortune used to be a premier league footballer.

Exactly, Murphy needs to add consistency and decide how badly he wants it and how hard he wants to work for it. When things aren't going his way he seems to retreat into his shell and half the time he doesn't look interested and imo he bottles a lot of challenges, he has talent and when he's on...

He's at the stage now where he really needs to kick on his career.

Murphy will be 21 in a few weeks time/

Gillingham were so open that day in midfield and defence, could have driven a bus through their defence that day. Burton and Walsall were much more compact than Gills, not as easy as just saying go out there and destroy them.

Not sure if we purposely changed the shape to have no one on the left flank, or whether people were just out of position. Stokes had bags of space every time but we know Stokes is not going to isolate the opposition full back and dribble past him 1 v 1 as he doesn't have the pace or skill to do so.

Its January, not the business end yet. Turning over a 4 point deficit with 19 games left to play is easily doable, if we're 9 points off with say 6 or 7 games left then maybe I would say its time to settle for the play offs but automatics is still very much on the table at this point in time.

I think you may be right but we may not see the benefits of squad rotation until the latter part of the season, say we go and win 9 of our last 10 games this season which secures promotion, Murphy, JOB, Cole, Maddison all play blinding matches because they haven't been burnt out over the season...

Stokes was poor but he had zero support as we had no one playing on the left flank second half. Cook did ok and don't think bigi did as badly as people make out.

Murphy is Jekyll and Hyde, he will look poor for a period of the match and then play like Messi for a 15-20 minutes. Unreliable in the big matches, destroyed Gillingham but was awful v Walsall and Burton.

Of please do just piss off.

pretty sure it's bull, the no recall would have been decided between both clubs and its likely we pushed for it rather than Newcastle insisting on it.