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  • Birthday 06/02/1961

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  1. Wolfsburg my new German team. (Was Dortmund based on their great strip)...fickle...moi?! Thought highly of Ralph and our time since his departure has shown just how good a manager he was.
  2. Four goals in 32 games is more a reflection of how poor our midfield have been contributing goals so far this season than Smallbone's excellence. He's not even in the top 50 for assists in the league - and that's in a top-four team with supposedly the strongest squad bar Leicester.
  3. There's assists and there's technical assists...granted, his cross for Adams was good I'd give him that...but Brook's goal was entirely Brooks. My issue with Smallbone is he's not a creative playmaker in midfield (he lacks pace and vision for the ace pass and he doesn't score enough goals) nor is he a defensive midfielder (certainly not an enforcer type stopper, but not a ball-winning tackler either, nor is he an energetic dynamo). Not taking away from his attitude, but at this level, he's a weak link in the team for me and I don't understand why he gets the shirt ahead of others. Rothwell not the answer either.
  4. Thank goodness for that. Aribo the saviour. Could be a huge momentum-turner. I was so close to a 'that's it we're in the Championship for at least another season post'... So what did we learn (again)? 1. The mandate to play everything out of the back is suicidal obstinacy by RM. It makes us 100% predictable and every opposition manager knows to high press as we'll invariably concede more dangerous possession in our area than we will exploit goal-scoring opportunity breakaways. To not mix it up with the quick long-ball breakaway occasionally (as they did to score their second) is idiocy. 2. Manning and Smallbone are not up to it. Bazunu is still a question mark for me...not that the goals were his fault today but he is just not the commanding presence I think you need in goal. 3. Brooks is class, as is Flynn Downes. Jack Stephens played well to be fair. Anyway, let's hope this is the beginning of another long undefeated run...
  5. Where's the sexy nuns when we need them?
  6. Astonishingly poor result. So that's it folks - for those of you who want us to stay in the Championship you've got your wish because we aren't winning any playoff.
  7. Soooo predictable Leeds should beat Leicester. They are undoubtedly the form team now and we probably need a mindset to go on a run like them (9 wins in a row now?) to stand a chance of an automatic promotion spot. So nothing but a convincing win here will do. Anything is possible of course, but it appears that of the top four, we're the ones wobbling. Can't afford a draw let alone another loss.
  8. Got what we deserved after a first half display like that - nothing. RM tactically outclassed by his counterpart. We should have started with the eleven we finished with. We cannot keep playing suicide tortoise football like we did first half - never want to see that again. Manning is crap, Smallbone is just not up to it (90% backwards-passing), Rothwell suggesting his brilliant performance against Huddersfield was a flash in the pan. Fraser, Brooks and Aribo showed their class when they came on...and if this was ever the game for Sulemana against a team playing man-on-man, this was it. So we gave up our home record and second place with a whimper. That was pathetic, inept tactics.
  9. WTF was that? Our system has been totally found out...it's suicidal 'we've only got one way of playing out of the back even if there's no pass on because of the high press'...added to weaker players (please get Manning away from our team...Rothwell having a nightmare too...Smallbone is crap, sorry I said it but he is just so not the creative midfield maestro we need, nor is he a tackler)...add to that no energy or imagination and we're cooked. We have learnt absolutely nothing from Huddersfield and Bristol. I really fear for us now. Now prove me wrong and come back and score 5...
  10. Well that's that. Been coming. We have been way off the pace from beginning to end - Bristol have been up for it and better all round. Very disappointing performance. For all the talk of our star quality players, we have some bang average ones too. Manning just not good enough, sorry. I'm not a Smallbone fan - not a creative player, not a ball-winner and just lollops back when we need urgency. Shea Charles was terrible today the pick of a bunch of poor performances. Only Edozie was bright for me, and Brooks before he ran into the post. Oh well. It's been a fun run. The team have done well up until now. Bad night for us with all the others winning but there's a lot of twists and turns still to come. A wake up call that we cannot relax for one minute if we hope to get automatic promotion. Now let's win 3-0 at West Brom.
  11. UN B LEEEEVABLE! What a team. What a contrast in the second half. Rothwell goals just unbelievable. Then a lucky deflection for Huddersfield and still the heads don't go down - score against us would-ya? Okay we'll score 3! Great game and credit to Huddersfield - I hope they do well for the rest of the season.
  12. OMG what was that?! Huddersfield fully deserve that lead - we were terrible! Second to everything. Losing Downes too. I had a funny feeling about this game after Huddersfield won 4-0 in their last game. Huddersfield look like they read our script. Can't see us rescuing anything from this unless it's a 200% improvement. Manning is dreadful. They are picking on KWP defensive vulnerability. Should Bazunu have saved their first goal?
  13. Thanks for the birthday present Saints. First time I haven't been able to find a stream anywhere, but quite a pleasant change watching the BBC Live reporting come in with all its delays... Would be lovely to beat Liverhampton.
  14. After the event looks a routine win but could easily have been 4 or 5-0...or 1-2 and edgy. Bazunu played well, Bednarek and THB. AA super-hard working, Ryan Fraser too, Smallbone played well too. Thought Che Adams was poor, Stuart Armstrong had an off day, KWP looked disinterested in running past the last defender, Manning not great. Brooks is going to be a great asset. Now to keep winning and put some daylight between us and Leeds. That's the rest of the season for us I think. Come on you Saints!
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