We're nowhere close to being good enough in honesty.
I know we've been unlucky with crucial injuries, but we've always been capable of putting in dross like this against teams like these.
This is as shit a performance as we've had all season, but to be done by some dirty c**t who should have been off after half an hour fucking boils my piss.
It wasn't a conspiracy. That's mad talk. The officials interpreted it correctly based on the guidelines that they were given.
This issue is examining stills like that to the nth degree. If you have to do that, then what you are looking for had no bearing on anything.
Such pedantry is not...
Language does indeed move on, and I am ok with that.
But people who say 'literally' when they mean 'figuratively' can fuck off, keep fucking off, and then fuck off some more.
Generally I agree with this. For the output, he's not been a great buy. He has games where he's unplayable, but they are too few and far between.
When he's not having one of those game, we need him to be aggressive with his back to the goal and occupy defences by battling, and thus allowing us...
He did a job for the team which contributed towards a very good win.
He did a lot of dirty work today, and you saw how it changed when he went off.
Do we need better? Yes, really, but at the moment, he's by far the best bet in that position and does a job we need someone to do.
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.