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A moment of momentum after that shot...cue Diallo misplaced pass... normal service resumes. >sigh<

JWP rallying the troops. Some sloppy passing. the direct from deep passes giving possession away. But a shot! from us!... checks replay to make sure it was from us and not a weird pass back... yes! Alacaraz! 🙂

4 of them lining up to put that in.

Jeez. Baz is so flappy.

Alcaraz got booked for the foul, but Bruno tried to swat him in the face often enough. Cheating git.

A corner routine right up there with Salisu throw ins. >sigh<

Another Willock blasted effort. Not so good, we're letting them get these efforts in, after giving them plenty of build up passes too.

Not as much as xG though 🙂

only a foul for that clear and viscious arm block on mara though. Booo!

clear booking for DCC.

Ooooh Djenepo looking miffed. NJ has him riled up. Good to see new signing Janny B offer him some support.

NJ using Baz injury (a number of saints fans rush forward to volunteeer to help him off, as a precaution 🙂 ) to instruct/ make up to Djenepo. At least it's a chat. Not sure the there's player buy in to that instruction though.

Nice crisp passing move there form us, all the way form our box. Before that Jones went absolutely ballistic at Djenepo. The player muttered a few comments with a "what?" gesture, as Jones went on ranting. I noted his coaching staff didn;t change their expressions at all, during all of it.

Howe makes lots of little, cryptic hand gestures, each motioning changes in spacing and positioning. Jones makes one sweeping otion, as if saying "hoof it." 🙂

Longstaff is on his feet. What a moaner.

I'd like to think that the club would actually implement the pathways they go on about, from Academy players as well as those we nab from Man City. So, I'd like to think that if he was good enough, he'd be getting some minutes. It won;t be helped by the position we're in though, so will require some patience, if he's not clearly better. But the coaching staff see him all the time, and would know if he was ready.

We're certainly lulling them into a sense of false security in the opening minutes. Giving them all these passes across the box and shots, before we break out and score.

Breach

Rod

Nice to see Bednarek back. Hopefully, he'll add some strength and depth when he can fit us in between Poland internationals.

I like the optimism of the "if" in the title! 🙂 I also like the relaxed tone of MS and RA. Not for them that Cortese ruthlessness to drive success. Because he was a berk. Far better to have a knowing chuckle. After all, we're in the strongest position we've ever been. Even including the days we had a striker. I'm sure all the club staff staring redundancy in the face, if we drop, will share in the laughter. It's normal practice to have contingency planning. It's less common to incompetently drive your organisation towards having to implement them. At the bottom of the table, responses should be a balance of reassurance, self awareness and drive to get us out of it. We only got the first part, and that read as complacent.

Voodoo

steward

Sheep

Cry