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Yep. Final third they were totally rubbish. Did need some great defending from us though to help keep them at bay. I thought that was Willis's best ever game for us. Games that I have seen anyway.

They did at first, but for some strange reason resorted to the long ball game reasonably soon into the game and stopped playing the ball about. First twenty minutes their passing and movement was excellent. Whether Hill thought they had the aerial game won and therefore went down the longer...

Can I also say once again in my defence, FIVE for me is average as a rating. Most say SIX as average, but I say FIVE. I am therefore saying Venus's performance today at FOUR was below average. Not terrible, but he made mistakes and didn't seem to have any counter to Rochdale's dominance.

And I do worry now for the rest of the season in terms of our being out fought and out muscled. Looks like we now can't do anything about it until January.

Pick them off on the counter? Would accept that if we had counter attacked and looked constantly dangerous, but we hardly got out of our own half all game. Nearly everyone is saying we played poorly today. Should we commend the manager for our playing so badly? ;) He was lucky that his...

No, agree. Thought he worked his socks off today. Just wish he would take more care of the ball. No-one can criticise our workrate or effort today. It was first class.

Haven't said otherwise. Didn't stop us being awful though. Two things would should be proud of today and one was the way we defended to a man and the other was our being clincal in front of goal. We won, probably deserved to win, but played very poorly. We play like that every week and we...

Exactly! Absolutely spot on. We won in spite of Venus's inability to do the right thing and counter Rochdale's tactics.

They weren't amazing. They were woeful in front of goal and in some ways got what they deserved. I have never said anywhere in here on SBT that they deserved the points or that we were indeed lucky. Bottom line is though we were dreadful.

Because he got it wrong. Pretty sure he didn't score the two goals to be honest. No corners all game and hardly got out of our own half. Totally dominated and it was only Rochdale's poor finishing that won the game for us. From about 5 minutes into the 2nd half it was clear a change needed to...

I would be more than happy with Stokes as centre back. Page is doing okay at left back.

I can give Burge less. I base my 0-10 as 5 being average. I know some put 5 for poor, but for me, in my eyes, 5 is average and Burge was average. Some not bad stuff, but also some awful distribution.

Maybe. He was very quiet for the most part and easily crowded out. Just how bad was that first 15 mins though? And that was pretty much from every player in Sky Blue. Absolutely abysmal.

Nope, BPA. They haven't won away yet.

I am still concerned. We look lightweight and lack a physical presence on the pitch and with McCann holding his hamstring when he went off you have to feel he will be out for a couple of weeks or so. The lack of physical strength is a massive worry and we can't go through the season keep being...

I thought he was totally dominated.

So there was no fight between fascists and Muslims then?

Probably argued with his missus on their wedding day and with his first born the second it learnt to say it's first sentence. ;)