Willo of Whiteley

Ah ten minutes left, it must be the obligatory throw shit at the wall and hope it sticks, aka chuck every attacking player on and hope we score.

Can’t have too many “flair” players on the pitch at one time, or any for that matter 🤣

If we concede we aren’t getting back into it. If we score I think we’ll get a couple more and the floodgates will open.

Coventry will go up this season. They ended very strongly and carried on that momentum.

I don’t dislike that team, it shows we have good squad depth. But I’m not trusting of much of that bench to be “impact subs”. A dull 1-1 I reckon

Probably the laziest link going. JWP is dropped and suddenly every news outlet screams “returning to former club”. 🤣

This could be the real Ross Stewart or that could be the last two goals he scores for the club because he either doesn’t perform or gets injured again. My money is on the latter.

The Preston drop off was monumental, I remember when we played them around October/November time and that was a really iffy game

Having come from behind to beat Sheffield United away, there should be no excuse for not beating Derby. They’ve started very defensively and very slowly.

I’m not really sure where JWP would fit in now. I’m sure the board would love a bit of nostalgia to get fans onside, but is it for the best if the team, not sure. All that said I’d take him over some of our players.

Will Still - football genius

Will Still: I need the right players to play my preferred formation. Buy players. Proceeds to play them out of position and formation.

How a professional footballer can miss from twelve yards is beyond me.

Just tuned in. Five at the back working well then

Ah the conspiracy theorists are going to be coming out regarding Stephens not being on the bench 😂

I’m sure he’ll be on the move come January then

Based on what? There is no evidence to suggest Jack Stephens ever had or ever would do that. You just love a pessimistic rumour. 😂

Is Ward-Prowse suspended?

Alan Nixon? The same Alan Nixon that has never got a transfer right in his life? The same Alan Nixon that is a known bullshitter? Yeah I think I’ll ignore this 🤣

Leo Scienza was a handful when he came on too. He didn’t stop running.

We won’t be signing James Trafford. He’ll go to a better team, and my guess is one up north.

He was very good yesterday

In a nutshell the result is frustrating but I would take a glass half full approach that the team was widely different, the manager made some tough decisions which generally most managers wouldn’t do, and the performance showed to back that up. There were a couple of sitters that we missed, a bit more composure later in the season and we blow this game out the water before it’s begun. One other thing I noticed sitting in the Northam is how many times there would be an opportunity to take a shot and there was always that extra touch or extra pass. That’ll change over time. But I would be more encouraged. Same team for next week would be great, hopefully a performance to match, otherwise it’s a one step forward, two steps back scenario.

I think pre-season I had Brentford and Wolves and the three promoted teams in the running to be going down. I still think it’ll be the case. West Ham will come better under Nuno. Would be funny as to see Forest go down now having sacked Nuno for doing little wrong, and to wipe that grin off of Marinakis’ smug (and fat) face.

Full credit to him today. Very ballsy to make three or four significant changes, I’d say every single one of them justified after recent performances, and the performance today further backed his team selection. It’s encouraging to see a manager drop his captain and a player who thinks he is bigger than he is (you could argue Downes or Harwood-Bellis for that title). He’s seeing what we are. Ronnie Edwards at RB was my only real concern; I’d like to see Jelert start there, he has a bit of pace and will balance out the wide full backs getting forward. He dropped Roerslev too, another big call given how highly thought of he was when he signed. Result aside I don’t think Will Still can be faulted today.