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He’s petrified of disobeying Rasmus. What does he do to the managers?

Rabbit in the headlights, if I was Lallana I’d be telling Fellows to warm up and prepare to change shape straight away, Lampard’s made his changes and been proactive.

Definite red card, could’ve broken Wellington’s leg. FFS get Fellows on. Rip up the Rasmus playbook and ditch 5ATB, show some cojones.

Except when the all you can eat Christmas buffet is on, Joe is always first to that.

Wellington as well. Manning has been a liability all half.

Don’t like booing our own players but he deserves to be today. Like he’s had four pints at the Xmas market before kick off.

Terrible from Manning, this is like a collage of the worst bits of early Benali defensively but who is picking the free striker up six yards out? No pressure whatsoever on the cross coming in, just pick your spot. And again nearly, between a cross and a shot that time. Pathetic. Three centre backs and their striker gets a free header six yards out. Dopey cunts.

Coventry’s struggling with the long throw and get away with it.

At least it wasn’t in full public view.

Good save, at a height he should be saving, but decent nonetheless. Absolute shambles on the corner glued to his line. Very lucky to be 0-0.

Lampard still moaning about the shoulder to shoulder.

#Martinboys

Wright never in control of it either.

Despite being crap, we’ve arguably had the best two chances to score. We were linked with the centre half who was at Swansea under Martin.

Could stretch them via the channels though, doesn’t have to be diagonals straight at their CBs. This ponderous, plodding shit just fuels their press and proving very effective for Coventry.

That would have been too sensible and obvious to the muppets ruining the club.

Crowd are too patient, give the passing around the back a full load of jeers and slow hand claps. Knock it out of the player’s systems.

Atrocious so far, reheated Martinball.

Duckett only leaves 1% of deliveries. This was touted as new and revolutionary but in Australia where you need to be able to leave the new ball on steep bounce from back of a length on 4th/5th stump, I feared it would be a weakness and it was. Pope doesn’t have it inbetween the ears but tbf to him, he was no #3 and shame on Stokes and Brendon for that cock up.

Lib Dem voter and no fan of Labour and especially Reeves. However, whilst I agree with many things you’ve posted recently, this one is miles off reality I’m afraid. Not saying they’re doing a great job at all, but the economy was fucked from 2020 onwards even before the pandemic hit. That wasn’t Starmer, Reeves, Sunak, Hunt, Javid, May or Hammond. That was fairly, squarely and unarguably Johnson and Farage’s doing, which is why neither of them should ever be allowed anywhere near levers of power. They set our economy back decades all for a bit of xenophobia and in Boris’s case, pure ambition.

No credit on this though https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform-mp-slammed-for-trying-to-defend-party-candidate-who-told-david-lammy-to-go-home_uk_694009d7e4b0775c5078c4f7

More tacky and megalomaniac behaviour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp84pxvp87eo

Ben McKinney has been their likely Crawley replacement and done well for the Lions. Is he better? I suspect we might find out in the summer. James Rew at Somerset would be another wk/bat option if Jordan Cox was used as a specialist top order player. Tom Haines at Sussex is liked by England and Josh Bohannon at Lancs would be #3 option although played D2 cricket last term, was D1 top scorer before that. Jacob Bethell is in the Ashes squad and had some white ball success and a decent NZ red ball tour at #3. But needs more domestic red ball experience and still to score a FC ton.

His ratings are rapidly tanking and MAGA letting loose on infighting in a way even our parties would blush at. Mid-terms next year the Dems will do well simply by not being the GOP as they’ve done in recent weeks in other contests. After that, it’s whether the GOP will be ruthless enough to kick Trump out or at least sideline him and do what the Dems didn’t have the cojones to do with Biden. Biden was deteriorating unacceptably but this is even worse from Trump, this is a full scale mental health breakdown on the way. Vance is unpopular so that’s why there’s so much jockeying going on in MAGA.

Pope at 3 hasn’t worked consistently and doing the same thing, failing and repeating it is stupidity from Key, McCullum and Stokes. Pope at 4 or 5 I can handle but he will have to dislodge Root or Brook for his place. Crawley - not Test quality bar one off innings. Duckett I’m not sure about vs genuine pace and ditto Brook. Jamie Smith - white ball basher, Jordan Cox is the longer-term bet as wk batsman.