Holmes_and_Watson

Possibly Juric thinking that Spurs would flood into attack, leaving them vulnerable to a quick counter with Archer picking it up. Rather than pinning them back against their natural game, by having TP lurking around.

Ramsdale's face with the save. Our defence moved around. Les no where near his man to pick up the card that led to their set piece.

#scartissue 🙂

Everyone too deep. Any work by Dibling & KWP wasted effort as the ball out to Archer was never getting to him.

Had a chance to do more with that space wide of their goal. But no, pass it back for a pointless hit into traffic. Wasted.

A very simple goal by PL standards to concede.

Reaction from us having a chance. Meh!

Airwave

I thought 3, but this may be corrected by someone who knows what they're talking about.

Stoke down there too. Clearly papering over the cracks for a bit when he left them. Elsewhere, Swansea not going anywhere without Martin and Blackburn finally unable to keep going without AA and BBD.

Good to hear Spors getting some names in... If Spadau Ballet were good enough for Melchester Rovers, Bros are good enough for us.

Virgin

34 points after 23 games. Now 37 after 27 https://www.fff.fr/competition/engagement/425640-national/phase/1/classement.html?gp_no=1 It was an ask anyway. But VA have and had the chance to beat many of the teams around them. They just seem to be one of the slightly stronger teams of a big pack stretching down the table. But well short of the top teams in it. I caught the second half. FBBP went down to 10, after a second yellow for a sliding tackle. There were times they looked comfortable defending a draw, without being under too much pressure. Their goal didn't come from VA piling on pressure and getting caught out. It was a long, direct ball followed by a series of touches taking it across goal, beyond committed VA defenders for one of theirs to shoot home. There were plenty back. VA had a couple narrowly wide of the post. A pass, that would have been a tap in, had a defender not cleared it. But generally, they looked a bit tired and still disjointed going forward. They didn't do much against 10. FBBP now overtake them in the table.

Vacation

Turning up when Spurs aren't there is our only chance. Even then, it will be close.

Bah! I looked up sapio romantic. Hang on "A demisexual person can only experience secondary sexual attraction – a type of attraction that occurs after development of emotional bond" Which is sort of linked with sapio romantic, not least so I can show horn in the one I looked up. "Sapioromantic refers to someone who is romantically attracted to intelligence and intellect, valuing deep conversations and mental connection in their relationships." Not to be confused with sapio sexual "sapiosexual refers to someone who is sexually attracted to intelligence, finding intelligence to be a major turn-on." There you go. Judgemental people might suggest that if you've no physical or socially redeeming qualities, and can't attract anyone who has, you can both pretend to be far more interested in how smart you both think you are. I'm glad I'm not some anti progressive thinker like that. All important pride flags added. The one with the brain is an alternate sapiosexual one. It's not used after the sapiosexual rally and the zombie cannibals rally got booked under the same banner.

Here's hoping...

Lallana replacement?

Another brave, bold policy decision to do the right thing for his country, and his people. Favouring them over decades of financial institutions, companies and countries greedily unbalancing trade for their own benefits. It's a shame it looks so drastic, but this is due to how long it has been allowed to continue. No doubt there will be hysteria over the move. But if he stays the course, the rebalancing will show the strength of our special ally and the use of the popular mandate Trump has. His party has to remain strong, and not cave into short term concerns. - Liz Truss

Shame. I was hoping Veni, vidi, tesci would be I came, I saw, I shopped.

And how many for the second half's loss? 🙂

We are absolutely no better than the points we've got.

Invasion

We nearly got a home win. We weren't great by any measure. But we looked better because someone had an epiphany of putting players broadly into their favoured positions. It's a masterstroke, and if only we had the talent at the club to have given that a go earlier on. A similar genius might also start realising our tall forward, who is good in the air, might benefit from more deliveries like the one that gave us our goal. It was a good goal, but there's also been opportunities we've had to be implementing it for ages. We seemed to want to progressively weaken our side, the longer the game went on. Sule and TP were out the side for ages, and perhaps we're suffering for that now. Downes, who was on a yellow, was out for off field reasons, so also was subbed. Taking off Downes and Les removed our midfield. TP going off late on, removed our physical outlet. Dibling has played a lot of minutes, and is just not the same under IJ. Had they been able to last the course, and IJ not weakened us more with the other subs, we could well have held on. But we invited more pressure instead. The clearance for their goal wasn't a good one. That sent our defense out, leaving plenty of gaps, when a similar ball came right back in. We vacated all the space to try and make up for the first error. So better, but from such a self inflicted low bar.

There may have been teams who have gone into financial meltdown, who have had to build practically from scratch. "They only had 2 players on their books," sort of thing.