lambtiss

Some people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lampost, for support rather than enlightenment..

I don't think last nights substitutuons were examples of technical magement wizardry. To me it was desperate substitution bingo at the end. The substitutions were like for like, there was no magical change in formation. Archer has come on on numerous occasions and offered nothing (as he did before and after scoring last night). As soon as we got the equaliser, we went back to boilerplate, crab football which Birmingham were very comfortable defending. The goal put an unmerited varnish on another awful performance, the like of which we have seen again and again this season. We had hoped Tonda had broken this tactical monotony but that didn't last long. One point away to Norwich, Oxford and Birmingham is a dreadful return with no excuses.

The one common factor uniting the management choice under SR is that they were relatively unknown and all with either no experience at a higher level and/or no management experience in this country. Two of them given their first management job. Almost as though the football strategy was more important than the manager. With Martin, the two (strategy and manager) coincided. A strongwilled manager, respected at the level we are appointing for does not seem to be a recruitment factor

Why?

I think we can all safely assume by now that Bazunu doesn't seem to learn anything. He just needs to be replaced by a better keeper.

He did it against Birmingham at St Marys as well. Listless in the next few matches. He's ex Villa

Classic Partridge from Blackmore there... Great work from the 2 Germans there. Well, technically Scienza is Brazilian

Jelert has made a big difference

The goal came from a midfielder playing a forward pass, finally ..

It's substitute bingo time

How many headers did we miss in a row FFS

He's bound to score now

... Are his better qualities

They've just looked at the stats

Sorry, that was technically incorrect our shape looks wrong everywhere

Our shape looks wrong on the left hand side

His delivery was not an issue until the obsession with meaningless passing amongst a back 6.

Not if he isn't asked to pass the ball along the backline. His delivery was not an issue until the obsession with meaningless passing amongst a back 6.

I could understand if he was unavailable but he's on the bench where Bazunu should be.

He is a better shot stopper and much better at coming for balls into the box

And an awful defender, always out of position and never closes the winger down to prevent a cross. His attacking ability does not compensate for this in my opinion, especially as we have Scienza on the wing now, we just need a solid left back behind him.

I'd like to see it more often

I'd probably pick the same players and therein lies a big part of the problem. Not a single one of those is a defender, goalkeeper or defensive midfielder. No wonder our defence is woeful

Who costs £15 million, looks like he doesn't care and isn't a very good striker?

Well, we did only have 3 centre backs on the pitch