Holmes_and_Watson

Alcaraz apologetic. Rightly so. It was just a sore one for a normal footballer. But had that been Maddison, he'd have been in intensive care for the rest of the year.

We've had them push us back. We've had them nearly create Now they've had a really good chance. It's not that we can;t see this coming.

Once we had a midfield and it was a gas Soon turned out Lavia had legs of glass - well known Saints fans, Blondie.

Bah..KWP managing to pick out the opponent, between two well placed Saints players.

Saints, the embodiment of agressive, front footedness here, camped well within our own half, giving them opportunities.

I know. I thought I'd blinked and missed another attack. Bazunu saves...a tame bobble... 🙂

Yeah, we missed him turning us down at the last minute too. 🙂

Sweet

Inform

Seeing the teamsheet I saw 11 players who hadn't played as a team together, picked because it was their turn in a bloated squad rather than due to any quality, with morale through the floor. They were playing for a manager who was brought in to shore up a defence, who was part of two failed regimes, and has vastly less experience than the people we got shot off. A manager that doesn't pick a team to give the best chance of a win. I figured Grimsby might have picked a side familiar with each other, with lots of commitment and who were up for it. Not having read the comments, perhaps we peppered their world class goalkeeper, only to concede to two of the unluckiest of goals. But having watched plenty of this disjointed group of clueless wonders, I doubt it. Instead I went to a local game and had much more entertainment. I recall Stockport and Tranmere games, so happy I dodged watching this one.

School

Slipper

The perfect player to fall over and win free kicks for JWP to put in. 🙂

Stop

Union

I turned on the radio yesterday, and the first words were "that's a great save from Forster." I just sighed and turned over the station.

Harvest

Sad to see Murphy wave bye bye to the Man Utd players, as they go to collect their trophy. Sad to see Bruno finish his man child rolling about, only to find out his team didn't win. Sad to see their murdering owners not quite get sportswashing over the line. Sad to see the most, special fans on Earth, doing exactly what everyone else does, but in a more special way, come away with nothing.

I've seen my future. I shall be waking up at 2am screaming. 🙂

I saw him pick out the likely outcome of one of our very rare attacks. He moved down towards the back post, as there was a clear pass to someone free to cross it over. Instead of taking that pass, we passed it across and he jogged back up the park. Once we start providing our forwards with a number of chances in any game, we'll be in a better position to find out how useful they are. 🙂

Not sure I'd have wanted to be one of those crazy people wandering the streets, desperately telling everyone I could get hold of that the world was wrong and reality twisted by unseen forces. 3-0 win? confidence? we don't even own a swash, never mind know how to buckle it. 🙂

Another narrow scoreline against us, to add to the pile of similar scorelines this season. That's the Selles influence and what he was brought in for under Ralph. We don't get hammered. Sadly, the rest of the performance was closer to what it was under NJ than it was under RH. I can see the logic in the lineup, assuming KWP isn't quite 100% and there's a genuine preference over DCC, rather than club politics. But all the old limitations were shown up, with the added bonus of a couple of new players who clearly haven't gelled yet. We were set up to contain more than attack. But with no effective plan on what to do with the ball, and some sloppy errors, the first half was nearly all Leeds. That gap between the decision to make the subs and them coming on coincided with Leeds tiring a little, and Sulemana and Onuachu actually getting a little joy as we moved forward a bit. Mara looked more lively when he came on and Walcott once offered a nearly good delivery. But those, and a JWP corner, are the scraps we had today. We had no effective way of getting past Leeds' midfield until just before all the subs. We had a little moment, then made our own subs. They had all of a minute of promise, before Leeds once again took control. I'll need to see the goal again. Should Baz have saved it? Should his posisitoning have been better, so as not to be blindsided? Should Janny B have ben where he was? What happened to let the ball come in for the shot? I did think Janny B was clearly fouled in the previous play, and got nothing for it. But that's no comfort if we can;t defend what's in front of us. Once in front, we offered nothing at all. Leeds fully controlled the game until the final whistle. A big disapointment every game is that we've seen the majority of these players play beyond their limitations in a high energy, higly drilled set up. Yet, for whatever reason, when that was found out a bit, it was beyond everyone at the club to come up with an effective solution, despite half a dozen other clubs, across Europe, going through a similar transition. Our squad simply isn;t good enough to soak up pressure and get a goal on the counter. It seems like a massive victory when it comes off, rather than a clear sign that we should be trying something else on the back of all the narrow defeats. If anything, it works better against the bigger teams, who may overcommit at home convinced of their superiority. Leeds have had loads of weaknesses this season, and we failed to exploit any of them. They worked harder, completed some passes and eventually, with little firepower themselves got the winner from all that space we gave them all game. It's the same feeling I got after watching Ralph's games early in the season, strikerless and before all those January pennies were spent. Looking to sneak a victory and hope givign away control, space and cohesion doesn't cost us. I can only hope Selles has more exapansive attacking options in his tactics locker, as it was a bit of a shambles in that respect today. We didn't lay a finger on them.

Wow! Leeds can;t even play it into the corner. We force tehm into the box to create something. That's an interesting tactic to regain possession. 🙂

They need someone skilled in dead ball delivery to provide...oh... 🙂

actually, decent corner...