Holmes_and_Watson

A quick peek...If we won every third game, and drew the other 2 0-0, we'd have more points, and be fighting for a play off spot. 🙂 Getting to moan nearly all the time and still go for promotion, is quite appealing.

So, 2 nil to Bristol then. 🙂

Just the sort of second half we didn't want. Swansea dropped back just a little and pressured the wide areas a little more in defence. Still obliged by switching AA and Scienza. We're clearly not coached to break down defences. At every opportunity when we had a yard of space, centrally, in the final third we passed it back. We offered nothing for either Archer or AA through the middle. We've all but given up trying to deliver to them from wide. They aren't going to win any, and the accuracy of our crosses is very poor anyway. Tepid stuff right up to the moment where Jander gets on a rebound and manages to miss a golden chance. After that, we offered even less than before. The subs pushed the team not one jot. Still will look at the near misses. Others will see plenty of other deficiencies to go along with that.

AA and Archer looked keen from the start. That allowed Charles and, as the half went on, notably Scienza to get into the game. Wellington and Jelert offered alternatives down each flank, pulling Swansea out of shape. Despite all the chances, we couldn't finish any of them. Archer a bit surprised when Scienza's effort came back to him off the post; A touch disrupting AA from getting a close range contact; weak AA finishes from his turns into space. Hopefully Swansea don't regroup and reshape during the break. More of the same should see us get something eventually.

Ill

Meanie. 🙂

Clarity

Can't wait for tomorrow's new thread: Benji's psychic hotline, as all of that seems plausible. Of course, you knew I was looking forward to your new thread because of your powers.

'course we learned. Honestly, you'd think SR are incompetent if they hadn't learned from the Delgado incident. They went straight out and signed the yoghurt in Strachan's fridge as a Stewart replacement.

I didn't have time to finish "well, that was one of the worst free kicks I've seen in ages" before Sissoku, who'd just come off the bench, was walking down the tunnel. He'd taken down the Concarneau player. Not far into the VA half. But with everyone still up for the free kick, it gave the ref a decision to make. Whoever, on the training ground, thought that pushing your players up for a set piece, then instead pass it into risk, should hang their head in shame. Or join Russell Martin at his next club. At least Martin had a plan of sorts when racing back. The decision drew a couple of other cards. Most notably captain Courtet. He received a second yellow 4 minutes later. It was a relatively soft contact. But it was from behind, stopping an attack. Down to 9, it was all USC until around 85 minutes. VA rallied a bit, having only faced one excellent chance, stopped by the leg of Louchet. Our Rento created space for a shot. The visitor's keeper received a kick trying to retrieve the ball. Another move was wasted when the VA player didn't take a chance on, and a late free kick went frustratingly well over. Before it fell apart, Moulin had made a positive change. Courtet had been his usual lonely figure up front. Bringing Rento on, gave some support and another outlet. Rento got a quick couple of attacking touches. Unfortunately, attacking isn't something VA seem to focus on. VA's goal was a scuffed effort from Courtet, from a move that started when USC hit their own player from a throw in, and then conceded a soft free kick. Concarneau's first goal was a quick, deliberate move down the flank to get it over for their tall, and very unmarked, centre forward to head in. The second a nice, powerful shot having been granted too much space. Although they had one ruled out before the break, VA offered little. It's cautious, and deep lying. When they get a chance forward they are strangers, with only Courtet's experience hopefully putting him in the right place. It was the same when VA had 11, and Rento was on. Passes going to no one, and forwards trapped in their own bubbles. The midfield, bolstered by players who could be supporting their forwards, offer more of a barrier to opposing teams, than doing anything at speed or with control. USC always looked the most likely team to win. Simply because they looked cohesive enough to put a move together. 10th place, 6 points off third, and down to earth with a thump after picking up 2 recent wins.

Promising youngster Neil McCann, 51, possibly stepping into a caretaker role as Rangers manager. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/crl28r7kwlko

Besides, the mods hired Ms Yahlom to look into supernatural incidents on SaintsWeb. It turns out the endless moaning and dire self pitying warnings of a bleak world was just SOG.

Her tutor would like a word about the validity of the course... You'll have a different view when you wake up tomorrow and your furniture has been stacked by poltergeists. 🙂

If by "job" you mean "robbery"...

Bad reviews on my toilet seat temperature testing company.

Nile Ranger has left Kettering. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp3d5q7wvd7o

100th ranked Belarus got 20 shots on Scotland's goal. Belarus much more attacking, having heard that Scotland had players who had turned out for Southampton and Norwich in it. 2-1 and both had efforts in the net ruled out.

Che McAdams puts Scotland 1 up against Belarus. Angus Gunn in goal.

Nice change of pace to fool the defender, before getting the shot away for the fifth. McAlonie and Ferguson looking good from Hibs and Peplow supported well. Little shout out for Mott, who came on late and looked to pick out attackers with every ball, pushing Pompey back.

The term is "mortally challenged", not "zombie" you lifeist!

The world is your oyster, with quality gags like that.

His work in eradicating musicals should be rewarded.

Beast

Both. They saw him coming a mile off. Nothing burst the new regime bubble quicker than "We're funding a Russell Martin side." It's never universal. Some were giving him a chance. But most of them lasted about a half of watching it, if that. With reference to the chart above, it's a goldfish bowl, and anything not winning the league (regardless of circumstances) is a disaster to be howled at. So, they've plenty of practice that we don't think about. As a bonus, he was widely disliked as a player there. And that was personality, if also mainly playing ability. There's every chance he brought in Rothwell, to move himself down "most disliked players" lists.