Holmes_and_Watson

My dancing is coming along nicely, I think. Nice to be in a place where people just accept you, and you can relax into it. Mentions of awesome things like cats and wheelchair basketball, as well as the usual CoT quality, is making this a top thread.

Hand

I think you'll find that I'm Spartacus. 🙂

They are known to pull people's arms out of their sockets, if they get upset. Wait, that's Wookies. Carry on...

Pretty fair assessment of his time with us. A capable player brought into a crashing club to play a tactic that never materialised, with any chance of it departing along with Jones. I do hope he gets on fine wherever he ends up, we get as much back on the fee as we can, and we all move on to better things.

The return of The Nile Ranger! Who was that masked man... committing an offence?

Obsessive

That's £7.99 million and the only mug is us. 🙂

Hygiene

You heel 🙂

Norwich are going to be a lot happier with that point than we are. One of their two attempts on target went in. They did enough to frustrate us, and had an offside decision. Becuase of the way we set up, their fans could get some excitement as they pushed it onto our full back gaps or tried some counters. On our side, we played 3 at the back, with some mobility in there with Stephens. That really supports KWP. KWP had a load of touches, covered a lot of ground, and got an assist too. Easily our most skilful player. But he, along with everyone else, didn;t make enough use of the possession we had. We did had 755 possession. We dominated the space. But although we created 21 shots form that, we simply weren;t putting their defence under pmassive amounts of pressure with them. Gunn was not the harried keeper he should have been with that level of possession. We looked a little tired (after a lot of games), a bit disjointed in our passing game. Manning's position along with KWP's role and Stpehens in there too, might have trhown us off a bit. But mainly, we looked pretty poor in creating clear cut opportunities. Norwich sitting deep early on frustrated us. But we lacked the cutting edge to take advantage when they stepped up. Martin will look at only 4 efforts on target. Behind that there was the lack of those nearly moments where it's not on target, but could have really worried a defence. Stephens had a good effort off the bar. Far too many deliveries without enough purpose. Far too many wasted passes, and Admas twice having Fraser in better positions and having shots from range didn't help. Our massive unbeaten run continues. we're now in touching distance of Ipswich. But there will be a sense of disapointment from today, which is a good thing that they are all hungry to do better. Lots more to come, and some extra days rest will only help. It's been a very productive festive period, and the focus has to be on claiming that second spot.

FInal whistle

Nice touch form Adams. Corner to us.

Charles did nicely cutting that one out. Hernandez can be decent, and was waiting right in the middle for it.

Smallbone watch: Stephens is a bit keener to get it forward, directly. So he basically runs past Smallbone, who is reduced to makign a little "get it forward" motion with his hand, as if Stpehens wasn;t already doing that. Meanwhile.. AA through...straight at Gunn.

I knew there was a reason why all the things I cook from Delia's books get burned. It was never my rubbish cooking skills! It was Delia TIme! 🙂

Scoreboard has malfunctioned.

Adams ooks to see who's in the box. Not Stu or Fraser as it takes most of our attack to go 10 yeards down the flank. He holds off. Then he gets towards the box, and it's a poor delivery. A lot of our delivery has been poor. There's little chance of them getting to any of our players. It takes something skillful and direct, like KWP's run to give us a good chance. Norwich putting some good pressure on us.

We're on the front foot, Aribo gets completely take out of play with a one two . Srgent runs form wide, taking KWP on rahter than a centre half, and it's in off the post. Good goal form them. Wagner will be very pleased, as this was his game plan to at least get parity, and capitialise on our weak spots. Another Norwich counter, getting their fans going.

I was about to moan that we had 4 players at walking pace trying to get a delivery in. But Fraser got an angle. shame it had too much pace for Adams, who was in the right spot (and it's a plus to have a player being in the right spot) #scar tissue gets Sargent an equaliser. >sigh<

It showed the value of getting a couple of players into the box. It's taken a while, and a few attempts at similar deliveries. But Che was a yard from where he should have been. He had drawn away some defence though. And with that second player (noted also just how mobile AA is working a lot of areas) AA gets a short range chance. Hmmm. Our scar tissue resulted in Manning giving that away when we were trying passing it out, when we didn;t look settled doing it. Hopefully, we'll get some more space. Wagner's plan hasn;t kept us out, and they'll need to change something.

Fraser has already had a blast at Adams. Now Adams does that. Better options Che. Perhaps looking for a shop window wonder goal. Or inside knowledge on how poor Gunn is. 🙂 Finally! AA get in!!!!!

We did well to get a corner out of that tame attack.

Baz! He doesn;t stop to have a go at Sargent coming on, as we were all doing. 🙂

I thought AI had decided to start taking over the world by commentating on all championship matches. Sounds the same guy as a few matches.