Holmes_and_Watson

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.

One day I'll see us pick out that ball in behind there defence and get our player in on goal.

Oooooh... nearly. Wrong option from Mara. Good move though and nice from Aribo.

Arma's workrate will be missed. More defensive subs with a fair bit to go. Need to see where our attacking outlet is going to be here. We need something to stop waves of Stoke attacks.

Aribo coming on to replace that pace Sulemana was giving us. 🙂

Stoke could still equalise, so not that inevitable. 🙂

Stoke player dived to get a foul... from the ref's tackle.

Big bloke gets header in tactics change shocker... obviously Stoke here. We don;t have a plan B and ship players out to make sure it doesn;t happen. 🙂

Baz lost control of that one. Does exactly the right thing and gets rid. He got it form one of those Smallbone passes back, when there was a much better forward option with minimal risk.

Their keeper hoofs and we get possession back. Baz in the same situation would be getting it to one of us. Just another note to one of his strrengths. Ch..ch..ch.. changes... Suleman off (shame) Alcaraz done lots well, worked hard.

Nice move Arma not hesitating to get it in.

This is where a bit of passing them to death would be nice.

We've lost our momentum here after a bright start. We know how sitting back works for us...it doesn't.

Going forward Stu did the right thing and passed it into the space. Had Manning not got there, it would have been on him, and we were right to get forward. Manning lost it, but we had 1 in the box for him. SOmetimes I think he should just try to get it in there, if there ar eno options to pass back. Baz makes a save! Commentator bleating on about us getting away with 2 penalties or something... so negative...

Crumbs! That corner had a plan behind it. Clearly the work of new set piece coach. 🙂