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David Mantle is the name of a mid-50s bloke, not a youth team player.

Brentford fans will also be comparing his ball playing ability to actual established PL players. We ain’t that yet, he’ll be fine.

It wasn’t a pen, but the fact they’ve inferred it was for holding is just bonkers. What they’ve actually done is given a different foul.

Unlikely I’d say. Maybe a slight change to the midfield dynamic though. Chuck him in at centre back, let’s have some real fun.

I mentioned about his issue at Southampton a week or so back, and it’s things like the set pieces that make me think he has a foot injury. All of a sudden the guy who never misplaces a pass can’t strike a dead ball cleanly. It doesn’t make sense.

Yeah what I’d do is drop Grimes for a few games and just play a bit more of a stodgy game, but no chance Lampard will do that.

Yeah it’s basically just hoping we play a bit more like this: and a bit less like this:

Other big thing for me is I want our ‘out of possession’ shape to be a 433/451 rather than the 442/424 that we’ve typically used this season. Tell Rudoni to drop back in and congest the middle.

Why on earth have Charlton got someone in on loan from Stockport? Random as you like.

Last 5 league games we’ve had an average xG against of 1.34. First 5 games of the season we had an average xG against of 0.78. Fair to say teams are more able to exploit our system than they were at the start, and that’s why we could do with tweaking it.

So thinking about that specific game, Ipswich left their wingers very high up the pitch which kept our full backs honest and our defence stretched. Walton did indeed play long a lot but was able to wait until their attacking unit was set due to the lack of pressure. I’d imagine we won a healthy...

Find this a little ridiculous. We’re giving a lot of keepers at this level far too much credit for their ball-playing ability. Christian Walton (Ipswich keeper) is a bomb scare on the ball so there was no reason for us to be standing off him.

Fucking lingering cough that just won’t go away.

Got some kind of weird fetish about sending our young prospects to Scotland. Surely a L1 team would have him.

I think we need to admit that the 3-1-6 is no longer sustainable.

Well it’s clear we need to tighten up the middle of the pitch - recently we’ve been embarrassingly easy to pass through. You either play Onyeka and Grimes as a double pivot with Rudoni/Torp in front or Onyeka sitting deep with Torp/Eccles either side.

Best case scenario we’re beating QPR and he can just come on for 20 mins to close the game out.

With his rather severe downturn in form, I was thinking back to that issue he seemed to have at Southampton where it looked like his boot got stuck in the turf. Since then I don’t think he’s looked anywhere near the same - now that may be coincidental but it almost tallies with our loss of form...

I made it 1. If you’re chalking the one under the keeper that got cleared off the line then it’s unbelievably harsh.