LiberalCommunist

You know what's really wild about Tom Fellows injury/concern situation right now? In October a fully fit TF could barely get in the team while we were floundering around doing fuck all. Exactly what sort of system makes this guy not perform. That's some special shit right there. Well done Will. Nice guy, but damn those results were so crap.

Fellows came off with Scienza as a planned sub midweek. He took a few whacks in that game, but no reason to think this is really serious. Fingers crossed.

Congrats to Cam Bragg. Now take your place in the team. Make that position yours to keep. And in doing so, stop someone who does not deserve to be in the matchday squad.

Massive. Prediction breaking almost.

Not saying we'll get an auto place, but we will finish above Boro and Coventry. Just putting it out there.

From the sublime to the ridiculous. The contrast between the first and second period, was probably the biggest I've ever seen. Subbing Scienza and Armstrong exacerbated this, but did not start the drop off. Clearly Tonda expressed a different tactic during his halftime talk. Whether that was to conserve energy or help rotate players to protect them. It didn't work. Getting Leo and Adam off the pitch may well have stopped them getting injured, but the team got a proper kicking which will have left a lot of mental scars. As a fan base who has suffered some real shit over the last few years, we are all fairly expectant of the mental weakness that often leads to our downfall. Watching the last 20 minutes of that game expecting WBA to equalise as if its inevitable allows us to store and generate a nervous energy. A energy that we transmit to the team, and they have become very accustomed to harness and give back to us, mainly by playing dangerous passes between our subpar goalie and the nearest clogger who's being charged down by the opposition. Tonda is learning, he clearly listens and understands, or he wouldn't have got this group playing for him, when so many others have failed before him. But he should skip the first half highlights, and dissect what happened in the second half. We lacked everything. But having no leader was more damaging that having no plan. I honestly feel Jack Stephens would have made that second half performance slightly better, and I don't say that often. If the best form of defence is attack, then its time to risk keeping our best players on the pitch. If the drop off is going to be that severe, we may well want to risk injury and suspensions instead. We were lucky to escape with the points, but don't discount the mental damage that ending will have caused. A good result and performance against Norwich can erase it, but please, lets not repeat it. Ever.

Lovely, fluid movement, clever pass, great finish. Lovely.

That's a good sign. Shoot on sight. More of that please.

Wild out there today. Stay safe everyone. And hopefully this is gone by kick off.

WBA are going to sit back and defend in numbers. Crucial we score first, and don't get towards the end of the match needing to break the deadlock. Or this could be a very frustrating game. This will not be a cake walk.

Home tie would be preferable. Waste as little time as possible on the downgraded competition.

Quick fire game. Hopefully the game management subs pay off for us. On the flip side; 23, J. Wildsmith Number4, C. Styles Number2, C. Mepham Number5, K. Bielik Number6, G. Campbell Number10, K. Ahearne-Grant 39', Yellow Card at 39 minutesTammer Bany 93', substituted for Tammer Bany at 93 minutes Number27, A. Mowatt (c), Captain Number8, J. Molumby Number11, M. Johnston Number19, A. Heggebø Number9, J. MajaI. Price 64' Ryan Mason hates using subs.

How do you like your eggs in the morning, I like mine with a twist.

Oh this is lovely! We look sublime going forward. Best I've seen us with the ball at feet since Mane, Pelle, Tadic.

Crowd medical emergencies are becoming so frequent, I wouldn't be surprised if the start health screening ticket sales at some point. How does a person requiring assistance in the crowd postpone a game? Could a person get a game postponed by faking an incident? What changes it from a delay to a postponement? Might need some clarification going forward. I am somewhat sympathetic to the person involved in todays issue, but it does open the door to questions