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Not enough power on the shot. There wasn;t much pace on Smallbone's pass into the middle, but it went nicely through and his shot could have been better, as he had plenty of time. Any one of these to go in please Saints... we're creating plenty of excellent opportunities. Smallbone and AA putting in a lot of yards as usual, giving us options.

Nice to see AA put one in centrally too. A nice traditional set up and finish. Next time...

Oooooh. Flag up. Lovely again.

MartinBall at work again. Very slow build up, lots of passes. If anything, 2 of our players beign close to each other distracted one of theirs to create that space, and then it was a lovely through ball.

Lovely from Saints. Lots of poessession. Lots, but eventually got the space to let Sulemana run in behind. Good enough pass from him, but attackers just a bit in front of it. Keen to see us continue to get forward with it, when we get the chances and not needlessly sit back.

Horizon

Occurrence

Unlikely

Obviously retrospectively replaying all the games where there have been wrong decisions would be far too complicated. So focusing on the bestest, most special club and the huge number of injustices they have faced over the years should be the way to go.

Last night: Distribution better first half than second. We're not trying to pass it out from the back quite so much, so he's getting in some longer passes. He's good at it. Lost full control of the ball. Didn't hesitate to get rid of it, which was the right thing to do, rather than faff about with it, and lose it. Got in a couple of saves. Got in at least one good punched clearance. Picked up a clean sheet bonus. He did fine.

Congratulations, Mrs Thorn! It's an abomination! Damian's mother gets an early warning, after a surprising gender reveal from the scan.

I think he said he lost his temper during 5 mins when training didn't go well. Martin being angry is probably nowhere near other managers. If it were the players would worry about a jeckyll and Hyde personality. But it did show that he's focused on developing them within a supporting environment, but also does have levels of harsher feedback, when required.

Comments like that, from either side, just show how obsessed they are within their own bubble, and how tone deaf they are when it comes to realising the damage this nonsense can have on the people they are supposed to represent. It's one reason why Trump got the support he did, as his campaign focused on how broken they all sounded, and struck a chord with many who are sick of them.

Let's just take a moment to celbrate a rarely seen thing... ... our defence picking up a clean sheet bonus.

Alcaraz involved? Silly and needless.

Handbags... let's not be picking up any silly post match cards here. It's done and we won.

They were showing Stu on the bench there. But he had to peer over the seat, so I'm thinking MOM has gone to his hair. WHich does look fresh and ready to give another ninety minutes, so well worthy of it.

Aribo doing well again. We could have done with getting it to him more since he's come on. Just lacking that link further back.

Well done getting that offside. But we've thrown away control of this game, which is what Martin's Plan A was supposed to give us. A bit of game management, without involving dropping back in stages through substitutions.

Baz makes another save!

Holgate on to add strength and reliability to our defence.

Mara really needed to hold onto that one. Smallbone didn;t have too many other options. But we need to get control of this.

A couple of moments, but we've not had much out of Fraser/ Mara/ Aribo combo.

Smallbone picking the wrong option, more a pain since his job is largely to be picking out the right ones.