That doesn't mean he's not a better player than O'Hare, though, which he clearly is.
Though with all the sour grapes, there is some serious revisionism of how important O'Hare was to us, too.
Ultimately, though, who cares. Neither play for us.
And I don't think our centre halves do look particularly lost. I don't think they're out strongest partnership, but I don't think they're the problem, either.
Thomas had a bad start. Binks has been decent.
I would play them though. Thomas is our best defender, and Kitching is good at passing through the lines, which we don't have at all at the moment. Puts us on the front foot.
Yes, first half, though not brilliant, we were the better team and should have been ahead.
Second, they made a couple of tweaks, and whilst never being particularly threatening, nullified us completely, passed around us at will, got a lucky goal and then had a pretty easy win.
We were...
From what I've seen so far, we aren't close to being a top half team.
Three abysmal performances with a lucky point and a win against last year's League 1 play off winners. Amazing.
This is absolutely abysmal.
This is nothing to do with not being able to land a quality midfielder in the window. It's just a shit team being completely outbattled by an average one.
It was essentially the same thing at Sheff Weds. One of our players defends themselves, but punished in the same way as the aggressor.
I can take things like their goal; if you want things like that removed, you have to accept VAR, and then you get nonsense like in the Cup semi.
Violent...
He does look like he's lost some confidence since coming back. The was a bit of his old form against Oxford, but that's been it, really; not today and not in the first game.
But maybe that's to be expected, it was a hell of an injury to come back from.
Referee utterly lost control of that.
All the business after the goal was right in front of one of the officials. How the fuck did that no. 8 stay on the pitch? Completely unprovoked, he went for Wright, yet we get two yellows. Abysmal officiating.
Simms is clearly a superior player to BTA, so...
Bristol City go down at every touch and we've been really poor aren't mutually exclusive standpoints.
But I'm not arguing that that's been anything other than a completely gutless display and deserving of absolutely fuck all.
Eccles and Torp don't look anywhere close to the standard.
MvE and Wright above the level of this division.
The only one you can give a bit of criticism for was the second header that was way off target. They had absolutely no answer to him, and the coolness to finish the winner is the sign of a proper player.
He's above the level of this division.