Holmes_and_Watson

Oh sods. They had that table up ealrier, giving hope. But we make enough subs to make sure we weaken ourselves for the equaliser. Another one of those that goes past Baz, and you wonder if one day he'll ever get a hand to it. Not his fault for letting the shot happen though.

I trust their keeper will be providing samples to medical science, so everyone can make swift recovery from serious injury.

Some nice passing moves from us. We look comfortable creating spaces, across the team. Just need a few more on target.

Oh, and that was him putting off his player in our box.

Smallbone watch: He did a paced, almost languid looking run from very deep, when he passed it. At every point he was available for a pass into the middle, including getting into the box. Nice to see.

Good running back from AA. Just enough to disrupt their move in the end.

Should be decent subs. Still keeping some physical focal point with Adams.

Lots of possession for Leicester. Didn't create enough from it. Got caught with a nice crisp move. They didn't manage to create much for a lot of the second half. Plymouth were tiring and didn't hold onto it. Leicester had a couple of very good chances, and all of the ball. But couldn't get the goal. 17 mins for Vardy to get a touch, the 'tator said. Leicester have a lot of decent players, but not clicking for them for a little while now. I'd still like to avoid them if they did finish 3rd, although their confidence would be dented.

Pack

Loan

Another win for us. Close though, after we survive some early scares. Fortunately, they don't score, and we get a goal ahead. We start to flag, but Martin has put a rocket up the subs this time, and we see out the game.

Smart of them not to get tied down to a year.

Just had a moment imagining us loaning Tall Paul out to Luton next season, and him scoring a hatful, while we struggle with AA allowed to play up front, because he asked...a lot, loudly (pashun and bravery) and Stewart cheers from a mobility scooter beside the bench. Brrrr...

Night

Sacred

I was a little surprised at that too. Maybe teams are actually just standing around saving energy, while we pass it around to get that 70% possession stat.

Martin's whole set up was to prevent the outrageous fortune of being the subject of a sacking poll. But the fans sleep, perchance to dream of the Premier League. We still have every chance of going up via the playoffs. If we do, we've enough players leaving to reinforce his system. Need to see if that happens before knowing if it will thumped every week. If we don't, then the club can assess his deliverables for the season, the players coming back and the style they want to proceed with, before trying to move them all on again/ bring others in. He may well get next season as well. Seems a bit early for the poll.

I quite liked them.

Lots of possession. But we created less than half the efforts on goal that we did in the first half. It's not that we weren't looking for a chance. But mainly from safer, direct options, rather than creating and driving the game to get more. As Martin's system doesn't recognise things like momentum and human elements, it will continue to remain a mystery to him, why we let Coventry (and everyone else) back into it. Any Coventry pressure in that game was self inflicted. After the subs we looked happy enough to shore it up and stick with what we had. Inviting a few more attacks, where the players ended up congratulating Baz. I thought that the side would be more driven tonight, and hoped the Subs would know they had to be the same level. Mara was aware of where to be around their box. But nothing really came near him, as we'd given up being able to put an attack together with AA and Adams off. Defensively, Mara was poor. Rothwell was quiet again, while Charles was tidy enough, but isn't there to launch attacks really. Stu gave us some needed level headedness, while we didn't use Fraser much. Basically pretty disjointed after the switches. We lost a focal point when Adams went off. Aribo did lots well, with s few of those mixed bag moments. Both off meant we had no strength left in the side. Another reason they got more of the ball. Happy with the three points. Some early signs in the game of what Martin had been talking about in the press conference. But lots more of the same issues later on. And he's going to have to come with some solid instructions when making changes. We've players with particular strengths. If we're going to change things around, we can keep the system but look to maximise those.

Ghosted past 3 of ours to create that last effort.

Shot from them. Mara tracking back, without putting any pressure on them. Stephens and Has giving some folk a scary moment. Aribo off for Stu. Adams off for Rothwell. There goes any physical presence. Smallbone off too. He'd been doing fine.

And after midfield terrier Smallbone had won it, with one of his trademark crunching tackles.

Nice from Adams there.

Baz surel shouted for KWP to leave that?

He might have been tee total before...