Holmes_and_Watson

The stripes are back, but Nathan has a hard time convincing the players of his tactics at training... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpuJBtcMMp8

The only mine is the one our form plummeted down. Thanks Rasmus.

I had a glass of wine with dinner. I'm out before I even read the last few posts. 🙂

Derby matches though 🙂

Premier League manager scouted for ages by new club, gets healthy Premier League wage shocker.

Police Scotland may actually have been the ones to get the term removed... “At the first meeting of the consortium, in Warsaw in September 2022, Police Scotland officers successfully lobbied for the MAP term to be removed from recognised terminology used by more than 20 European partners,” DCS Faulds said." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-scotland-denies-officially-labelling-paedophiles-minor-attracted-people/ar-AA15Rnsh

he posted himself missing on at least a couple of occassions, resulting in team mates failing with riskier passes. Not at all convincing defensively. Did have a moment a lot further up the park, where he's probably best suited for.

Heart

We lost a lot of games this season under Ralph due to personal/ player errors. Not a massive shock to see that under a new manager, we lose games due to personal/player errors. It is compounded by tactics under both that promote the chances of these happening in dangerous positions and by our poor recruitment. Today we didn't close down a corner we rather sloppily gave away. For the second we didn't stop a header from a sloppily given away corner. If we drop back as a team, which is the natural trained thing to do, we are simply not capable of keeping a team out. We're just not switched on enough to do this for long periods (and seeminly increasingly shorter periods) It's not helped by having no one in midfield to pass to. I'll probably say this every game, but whoever thought it a good idea to let Romeu go, should be on their bike. Che is very isolated. No one is near him, so he can't bring anyone into the game. No one is near him, so he can;t feed off of anyone else. Stu coming on gave us some hope for a little spell there. We don;t have the ball much as it is, so he's not going to get many chances. The couple he did get today were good chances, but he's not an instinctive finisher. They all required him to think and that moment made all the difference. Edozie is a decent dribbler. But he's neither blisteringly quick, powerful or clinical (he is a kid). He's useful, but he's only learning to make the correct decisions. Aribo does a decent thing once or twice a game, and seems to be a lump for the rest of it. I'll probably say this every game, like everyone else, but whoever thought it a good idea to not get a striker in well ahead of playing around the deadline, should be on their bike too. When we look to at least be trying to get forward, we look okay. KWP, ABK, Salisu are good. JWP had a good game for most of it. Edozie is raw, but useful. Che works hard but needs a lot of help. Mo did well for most of the game too. For all the good things we did today, Fulham looked the most likely in attack. They looked stronger too in a lot of areas. Glariningly weak links are AMN. He nearly got an assist in the game after a good move, and he should be well up the park, if he's playing at all. Aribo is the other one. He offers nothing that Che isn't already providing, and offers nothing to compliment our attack at present. Baz is a bit flappy for my liking and some decision making is a little off. But he's a kid too, and I'd not expect anything more from him at this stage. We desperately need a finisher, a forward who can hold it up, a defensive midfielder (it doesn;t matter if Lavia is coming back, he's not fit and may be on his way sooner rahter than later) and an attacker midfielder who can provide what Stu seems only able to give us 20mins of at present. SR have had since the end of the last window to get things in place. There are no surprises. So, I'm hoping we get off to a flyer in the transfer window.

Nice little move to take some of that mounting pressure off.

Oops from Mo there, allowing that to be a corner. Not greaat we allowed them in behind either.

JWP keeping the ref right. Human Dynamo on for Edozie.

Stu! Stu! Stu!

Mo taking a decoy booking, while Lyanco mugs their keeper.

Aribo off. A bit off a shock. I thought Nathan might have forgotten he was on there. 🙂

Stu on his way!

Careless. We could have cleared that. Mad e alazy touch instead and Baz had to stretch for a save.

Scuff form Edozie. Good run, but not very powerful or clinical unfortunately.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! JWP!!!!!!!!!

Lyanco with a loose, risky pass. But then he had noone in the centre to pass it too either.

ABK casual. But MN strolled infield, deliberately offering absolutely nothing to want the ball, or get into any position to receive a ball. Very poor.

Like some of the Ralph games, it's down to an error that leads to a gola we can't come back from. In this case, not shutting down that corner far sooner. AMN allowed the ball to fizz in to give the corner in the first place, but even so we should have dealt with it better. When Fulham have got in behind us, the 3 at the back has done it's job. Mitrovic is going to spend the afternoon falling over at the slightest touch. At the other end. Che is very isolated. Edozie isn;t getting in behind, in the way Fulham can. On the other side, Aribo held the ball up well a couple of times, but hasn;t offered much else. Should Jones opt to be mroe direct, there's noone close to Che for him to bring into the game. Despie having to fashion most of his chances, Che has had a couple of opportunities. He does the right things, but just does them too slowly. That split second is the difference between it going in and the keeper blocking. Salisu should have done a lot better from a JWP corner too. We've not really offered much once they went ahead. I hope Jones can turn it round in a way that Ralph could not. It will be interesitng to see how we react to this.

Salisu just let that one hit his head. Had he directed it, it would have been an excellent chance of an equaliser. Probably surprised to be getting a chance from one of our corners.

Massive JWP deflection. Should we not have been closing that down closer to the player though?

MN there at fault for allowing that one across? And from the corner... Bah!