Patches O Houlihan

Fancied joining in with Gary O'Neill song to win hearts and minds with the fanbase

Glad we’ve got Ori back - we need someone in the middle of the park to bully the guys trashing Scienza every 3 mins

Scienza has been fouled that many times that he starts the second half with a shirt that makes him look like a rugby league player!

Watching back the half time highlights interesting to note that several start with loud very audible renditions of the Gary O'Neil song one would imagine the board have heard the Northam's opinion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0mds4j7 Shane Long 8m interview on this weeks events

On the plus side that's Championship goal of the season sorted out 😁

Downs played the last 15 mins inside our area - so there was no out ball and their defenders could push right up without worry

We played the same as every other game this season; Easy tap in missed on their goal line One of our shots takes a massive deflection and hits the bar (but goes in) Long range worldie from Scienza crept inside the post instead of hitting it Really shit goal given away 2 mins after we score Useless subs hand the game to the opponent for the last twenty minutes Manning was fucking woeful Baz has the goalkeeping IQ of Graham Norton Made a shit team look really dangerous

Have we enough subs left to bring McCarthy on?!

£20m for THB...

Stephens & Manning cut through like a knife through butter for the fifth time?!

Downs might be crap, but this is his best game for us

Baz lets them in and we've taken off 4 out of 5 of the attacking talent in our squad...

Not entirely true. Jander has taken the ball turned and charged forward with it a couple of times, but Fellows seems to be crap at loosing his marker (in every game) Arma is squeezed between 2 huge CBs and Scienza is in space but miles away

The issue is that he looked at them via Zoom - he wasn't stood next to them. Plus Spors looks like a small chap too so everyone looks tall to him 😉

I screenshotted this earlier Admittedly our CBs were lined up on the 6 yard line but even so. These are all good, skilful players "with the ability to be worth more in 2 years time" but you can't fill a Championship team with small skilful players unless they are re-incarnated 1970s Brazil

Dog shit

Is it just me that thinks this team is playing like Stephens is the coach? Backwards passing endlessly and inviting the press

You've got it wrong. Tonda watched against Real Madrid. Baz is the striker and Arma is in goal

He's not playing in the PL this time though is he? He's playing against the likes of Smallbone & Aribo. Also being cynical he's currently unemployed, and fancies another 2 year pro contract from the team most likely to value his services and pay well

Is it the same mysterious board member hidden in the shadows that was pressuring Nathan Jones into not doing things his way in Feb 2023?? “I have compromised. I’ve compromised in terms of certain principles because of one, personnel, but two, the way that people want to play and so on. I’ve allowed certain things to happen and gone away from what’s made me successful in the past. … What I said was I have compromised things I do on a day-to-day basis, which are my decisions. I don’t get pressure from anyone. I listen to people, like I do at every other club. But I live and die by my decisions. That’s not shifting the blame.”

One bullet... bang bang

Sadly he’s managing Uruguay, and they are FIFA ranked 15 in a World Cup year. Nice idea though

I agree with all of this. Yet I do wonder how a gegenpress style will get us into the upper reaches of the league: If we get good at Ralfball the whole league will sit back and hit us on the break. Even though he was a striker I don’t see Ralf as a Pep type who could coach breaking down all those stubborn teams consistently. Great in the prem for a lower side like us though