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Not to mention his persistent diving. He and JCH will go down under the slightest amount of contact.

A lot of people, influenced that great Barcelona team managed by Pep, have become purists. I honestly do not care how we play if the result is a positive one. Look at Southampton, they sacked Puel for his footballing philosophies, one glance at where Leicester are compared to Southampton tells...

Lets blame a player who was 10-15 meters away from where the shot happened.

Refer to my latest comment where I've broke it down. What I've bolded in your quote is the essence of my argument and why Rhead wasn't Haynes' man, there were quite literally, 3-4 player closer to him than Haynes. We could critique all of; Bayliss, Kelly, Doyle, McDonald and Haynes. But, that...

In those carefully selected screenshots, yes, that is the case. However, as we'll later see, the situation changes and Rhead is no longer Haynes' man. He clearly leaves Hayne's 'jurisdiction', the evidence I'm about to provide demonstrates that clearly. He isn't going to follow him 10-15m out of...

No, it’s not, because in the screenshots shown, Rhead is in Haynes’ ‘zone’, let’s call it that, but Rhead when he scored the the goal was in a central position. The full back in any setup wouldn’t follow a striker that far. Your screenshots, conveniently, miss out Haynes tracking back to help...

Your argument is very inconsistent. Changing the team is good when it comes to putting Davies in for McDonald but bad when replacing JP with Bayliss? Which is it then? Rhead didn’t win a single header in the lead up to their goal. He played a pass to their number 10. Which Rod covered, he held...

I usually find myself in agreement here, but you’re wrong, I’ve made a mistake myself too. But, to say Rhead was Haynes’ man is not true, Bayliss, Doyle (who was marking another), Kelly and Rod were all closer to Rhead than Haynes. Rod is actually more central than Haynes. Both Haynes and...

You’re talking with the power of hindsight mate. We tried playing Reid LB in the same manner as you describe v Yeovil. Watch the last 2 goals and that’s probably the reason why he didn’t do what you’re describing. I have no doubt in my mind we did our research, Haynes, McDonald and Willis all...

Yes, I wasn’t disputing that. Rhead bullied our whole defence, whenever he wanted, as did Palmer. I don’t think Stokes would fair any better, or worse than his colleagues. Even when he ‘lost’ the header, it put a sufficient enough of effort to force our headers to be weak and often took the...

No, I’m just picking at your brain trying to work out what your complaints are exactly. So far, I’ve got, well, nothing. For all your vocal criticisms you wouldn’t change anything significantly. The rest is conjecture - just because Shipley had 1-2 good cameos at LB doesn’t mean he’s able to...

You’re talking about the Stokes we had under Mowbray. He’s nowhere near that same player. If Haynes really is as bad as his detractors make out, that reflects on Stokes in a very bad way. Also, Stokes playing last night would have made no difference whatsoever. If McDonald got bullied aerially...

Without a doubt, McDonald has been a liability in the last 3 home games than Haynes has been probably all season. Grimmer too. I’m baffled that both these players form just going to pot this last few games. It’s comical in all the wrong ways. Davies needs to come in for sure. I’d possibly...

You said: ‘He changed things from when we played well against Stevenage last week for some reason and does weird shit’ - we made one change that was Bayliss for JP. With an assist and a goal, it’s clearly a justified selection. In that same post you talk about him not changing the system. So...

Would you keep the system and the squad selection the same, yes or no? If the game passed Bayliss by, the alternative, if we kept a ‘winning’ team, is JP on the wing again. I don’t think that’s better in any way. Moreover, I actually disagree, Bayliss got on some very good positions in the 1st...

That description describes all the defenders quite well. But particularly applies to McDonald - he lost 3 headers that led to goals and Grimmer was out of position for goals 3 and 4 and got skinned by Palmer for goal number 2. Willis and Haynes also share the blame for goal 3 but Grimmer and...

‘No Plan B’ is another bad football cliché. Analyse what you’ve just said, because your ‘Plan B’ sounds awfully like ‘Plan A’ but with Shipley LB and Reid on at presumable a weird quasi-centre-to-left midfield and Biamou on for our goal scorer. If you wanted to say Reid on for Shipley, I could...

Go and rewatch the goals, how you think Grimmer gets a 5 and McDonald a 4 with Haynes a 3 is laughable. Every one of their 1st half goals is prevented if McDonald doesn’t get bullied in the air. And Grimmer got skinned for their second and was lost at sea for the 3rd and at a stretch, their...

Grimmer has a catalogue of defensive errors this season, and for all the stick Haynes gets, I actually think Grimmer makes more mistakes out of the two. I think Grimmer and McDonald were weak links last night. If anyone rewatches the goals, and I’ve watched them all several times, you cannot...

Personally, I think your analysis is all off. We have had to sign 15+ players over this season — it’s a complete rebuild, and if you want to talk about fine margins; Lincoln, Luton, Notts County, Wycombe, Accrington Stanley and Exeter have roughly the same core of players as last season and...