Holmes_and_Watson

Rothwell touch of a horse, as Edozie and KWP look to create something despite him. Yellow for Edozie as a result.

You can have moments where it goes okay, but make gererally little overall difference, I guess.

Next 15 minutes? #strawclutching 🙂

... and we're over the half way line (after 6 or 7 passes across the back)! Sule did get some space, but it gives Millwall all the time in the world to reset.

Nice build up, with some frustrating moments, but we kept at it. AA actually got some space for the header. Wouldn;t expect too much form us in terms of physicality in there. Maybe Sule., who did well keeping it in to create the chance.

Graphic has Millwall going up to 19th with this win over promotion challengers Saints.

Manning's pass results in Millwall getting it back. But then, he wanted it hit in fromt of him, and it wasn;t Down the right, ball coming in... free kick to them. We are getting a bit of space in behind them, even as they are trying to be compact.

Sule burning past his marker. Cut back...doesn;t get there. Corner. Millwall will be looking to close up that option.

Get in!!! 🙂

Brooks and Stephens off Sule and Manning on

Rothwell...straight at the keeper.

He's clearly been reading the threads where I called him a rubbish commentator. Bitter 🙂

Hammond saying that on the occassion that the momentum is with the team, having been out there, that you have to go for the kill. That you don;t need to hold onto the ball quite as much. This really isn;t the way Martin has ever set out to play. Going for the kill, opens you up to losing it and conceding. It's Plan A, all the way. Which has had it's strengths, and as we've seen those lows, where we allow teams back in, or pass it around and struggle to get that momentum back.

We're not going to be holding up the ball to bring others in. Hoping for pace and trickery (and a cut back to AA)

AA and Rothwell on for Adams and Aribo.

A minute later it's the opposite. Edozie revertign to his tricks that don;t come off, rather than get the ball in there, where there were bodies waiting.

Smallbone should have gone with the straight pass to the player who was motioning for it in the box, rather than a speculative cross to back post where we didn;t have the height and the cross didn;t have the pace on it.

Aribo looking mobile again. Able to track back, which is more than he could at the early stages of the season.

Well, that was a waste of a free kick

Adams nearly on the end of that one.

Break

You: Jones will win the Champions League Your Dad: Europa League, at best. 🙂 Somewhere, on the SaintsWeb of a parallel universe...actually, even in infinity not that one...

Sore

When I was posting, I thinking of all of the Beeb mentions of senior political correspondent or senior royal correspondent. Taking that into football I'd take a senior football correspondent to be a different role to football correspondent. Same level of rubbish spoken about football, but keeping a role based pecking order, with the non-senior ones developing. Likewise, a role could have a starting salary. But I'd not expect a new start to walk in on the same salary as the staff member who got the highest pay rise over 10 years of excellence, just for wage parity.

Slipper