Holmes_and_Watson

I shall miss your user name, when you change it. 🙂

Explosive

Actually, on the inside back cover Dante jotted. "Of course, all of that lot is nothing to being chained in Fratton Park, with a season ticket."

When the Conservatives get booted out, and are about to turn on each other (well, turn on each other even more), perhaps someone will call a halt, and wheel out a swivel-eyed Truss. As they listen to her deranged plans to activate her orbital , Trump branded, laser to eradicate The Left, and install her own New World PopCons, maybe they will pull back from the brink. But they won't, and will spend extra years in the wilderness, unable to jettison their ideological extremes, consumed in their own power struggles, oblivious to the people they're supposed to serve.

Well, there goes the money for some therapy. The dawning horror in that one as you could feel the momentum shift....

Is this connected with Liz Truss' cheese obsession? I guess he took those glasses of milk from waifs and orphans on the way into the studio.

A lesson to us all, Mr Martin. 🙂 I vent on here. By the time I'm a couple of words in, that perspective has kicked in and shapes the posts.

Well we ent on a great unbeaten run. A run we needed to go on, just to make upthe lost ground and keep pace with 3 other clubs. Although we're light in the striker and fensive midifelder positions, we know we've got a strong team, with good support from the bench. Martin decided to pick a team that emphasised the weaknesses in our squad. Agianst a team who were sharper, quicker, with more pace and urgency than anything we could produce. Smallbone and Rothwell were never going to control the midfield. Manning was a weak link in both supporting the midfield and certainly in defence. Mara was a passenger up front. Edozie reverted to the poor decision making that saw him eased out of the team a while back. Neither AA or the more forward placed Stu could keep us in it. KWP was left to try some solo runs. We were poor across the team for the first, which epitomised the lack of tempo, aggression and control we'd ben showing. The second was a sloppy implementation of MartinBall. Bieng kind, you could argue that we'd not offered decent passes all evening. But Rothwell had other options and ran into trouble anyway. We offered none of the positives from MartinBall. And September and some recent games have shown us what happens when we don't have those positives. It took until very late in the game for us to have any kind of control or urgency. Notably, Hull dropped back after a few end to end exchanges, and certainly when we got one back. It's disapointing that the manager has slipped back into some of the issues that gave us September's form. He's not helping himself by not picking a team capable of carrying out his plans. Hopefully, that will be the last of that.

Aribo just not on the same wavelength as KWP there.

6 mins! COYR!

Some good blocking. Manning failed a bit there, thinking Aribo was going to make the tackle.

Nice move with Fraser, Brooks, Adams and Aribo. Imagine, our experienced attackers get a goal, Mr Martin.

Ariiiboooooooo!

Aribo had to stab his foot out to make contact with Manning's cutback. Nothing wrong with the pass, and our players should be prepared to run onto those sorts of passes.

Nice passage of play this. Both from Hull and ourselves. End to end with some excellent passing.

I never quite got why ROthwell went into the eleven so quickly. From all the huffing and puffing he was doing just to keep up with our fitness, to the systems he would supposedly have to learn that Martin got all the others doing. Martin rally eased Fraser and later Aribo into the team. All very gradual. Rothwell, while showing good attacking skill, seemed to be an instant favourite.

Arobo bouncing aorund their box lookign for the ball. Aribo the one chasing down their keeper. What a difference.

Ah. Smallbone. Good position, nice touch and pass that doens;t reach it's man. Sums up his night (being a bit generous now I'm remembering the lack of control in midfield)

Aribo wins it back again. More than both Smallbone and Rothwell combined in the game. When Hull were pushing forward in numbers, Sule would have been an option to stop them doing that. More centrally, and very capable of getting past a high line.

Sule nearly well. Getting past his man.

Sule guided away from the ball he wanted to run onto. Ref not interested. But hopefully a sign he can get past a Hull marker.

Oooh Aribo wins the ball back. So few of our players can go in and win tackles.

Sule for Stu

We were getting in each others' way to get a shot away. A much quicker attack. Adams, Fraser, Aribo and Brooks. The first two starting the move and who should have been starting.

Form the comments, it looks as though a lot of us looked at that midfield and realised there was no physical presence, capability of control in the side. Now we have Adams and Aribo on there, but needlessly chasing the game.