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To be honest I don’t mind us resting a few key players like scienza azaz etc with an eye on keeping the best players fresh for city . The whole squad is contributing at the moment so there isn’t much drop off in performance, could see us giving archer another start whilst he’s hot

End of the day though he’s not really a lone striker .. if he was played in a partnership with someone like larin we would have seen a different archer. I think it’s getting difficult for short strikers in todays game as if you play with one cf it doesn’t really work for Them

Vital goal from Archer today I think In his time here he’s been misused for most of it, he was never gonna be a good lone striker but if you play him in a partnership with a target man would be a different story he’s always been a good finisher and his time at boro wasn’t some fluke

All the people slagging archer off all season feeling pretty silly now 🤣

Not really wanting to take on this argument but just because Bragg is doing a ok job in a great Southampton side where he is surrounded by quality for the league players doesn’t really make him a good championship player .. do you think he would be all that if you threw him in Portsmouth or Blackburn teams ?

Tbh he looks pretty average to me, don’t see any attitubutes in him that are superior to the likes of downes jander or Charles and he’s pretty small and weak looking too . If we get promoted I actually think we need more physical midfielders then downes and jander too

I think this is a really really tough decision, Stewart has scored in the last 2 rounds cup so there’s a little bit of he deserves to start for the cup there. Larin has been the better player of late in the championship a lot of it is down to his work rate and off the ball play he really puts a shift in and busts a gut for the team you could argue his pace would be a big plus if hitting city city on the counter attack for Stewart maybe you could argue his better touch and more clinical traits might be more suited to premier league opposition where we might only get a couple of chances is Stewart more trustworthy ? It’s really hard actually I’m pretty torn here

Well done archer on the goal and assist can only be a good thing to get his confidence up as well .. gives a different option if we need it. Larin gotta be motm for work rate alone was everywhere even back defending. Good to see wellington back as well. 3-0 win without scienza and azaz even starting .. we are just cooking no matter what team we put out . is breezy ok though he’s one we can’t really afford to lose ?

Charles anytime 6.5 looks a bet 👍

Whilst the stats are usually a good indicator I’m not sure this matches up in the same way it does with baz . Looking back through the ramsdale thread most people seemed to think he was super and how it was a shame we finally got the gkposition right but in a shit team .. I can’t be bothered to go back and analyse every goal but I’m sure the suicide passing around the back line didn’t help his stats

Personally I think ramsdale was more important to us then fernandes was .. fernandes only had 3 goals 3 assists whilst being good on the eye his play didn’t really help us a lot .. Rambo stopped us getting some absolute hammerings and was a big factor in the games we did pick up points

One thing you gotta love is at the moment we can make a load of changes and there’s hardly any drop off in performance , near enough the whole group is contributing , there’s hardly even any scapegoating from the fans. Gotta give props to tonda for this

Best game jander has had for ages imo tons of quick breaks came from him and played a lovely ball near the end

I think this is pretty close to what I’d go with too peretz impact is so key to the succcess we are having so peretz would be my choice too Leo is a joy to watch and beats players for fun and is a pacy outlet and super important player for us , I’d say the one slight criticism is that for the amount of great positions he gets himself in his goal and assists are actually pretty low azaz goal tally is almost double and it’s not like Leo doesn’t get enough chances

Bit harsh . Ramsdale was our best player last year., he’s a good keeper.that said he deserted the sunk ship and now we have peretz who is arguably better, but if we hadn’t found a diamond like him I think most of us would be welcoming ramsdale back with open arms

Humble pie for me regarding tonda, I thought he was a ridicolous appointment and total gamble when we brought him in. Even after good runs I thought it was more being carried by a good team but gotta say this last month or two he’s really starting to put his stamp on things tactically and is consistently adapting game plans and tactics to suit the opposition excellent stuff . We never looked anywhere near this solid under Martin even with the huge unbeaten run. Tonda is giving off the impression that if we do go up we can be competitive.

Dunno about recency it’s not like he’s just had a couple of good games recently he’s been great for months ever since coming in . Along with peretz these two have made a huge difference to our defense

Lol 6 points behind Ipswich and have them last game of the season .keep doing what we are doing and we might just pull it off

I think he’s been absolutely quality does he ever have a bad game? Personally I think I actually prefer him to KWP walkers peters looked good going forward with mazy runs but Bree gives you better defence and is more of a goal threat, personally give me that over a full back who plays like a winger all day

Such a underated star for us gives you a 7-8 out of ten every match, he’s solid provides a goal threat and pops up with important goals . Would actually have no worries iof him starting for us in the prem either .. we used to go for right backs who are great going forward like kwp but Bree is like a proper old school right back he makes you more solid first and foremost but also gives you goal threat

Think you could argue he’s been our player of the season even in such a short space of time. The difference it makes having him on goal over bazunu is just mental . All this good run we are having just wouldn’t happen without peretz

His dribbling style kinda reminds me of Eden hazard but more direct , love his diagonal runs off the ball too he should of scored when azaz routinely put him through on goal

Feels like the cats really out of the bag with him now, bbc commentators where gushing over him. We really need to win the playoffs it would be a shame to get this side taken apart

Yeah Loved broja when he was here was extremely fast for a big man I genuinely thought he was gonna be world class

Ideally I think we would all rather have a Rickie Lambert then just a lump up front enabling others is kind of second job for a striker