Saint_clark

So unlucky

Should have let Che have that shot

Must be a minute behind you!

KWP

Great start

Agreed but for me Stu was the one to drop, freekick aside he was pretty atrocious against Stoke.

Because it's another country they can tick off as having "hosted" the world cup in their quest to, for some reason, host it in as many countries as possible.

Championship sides don't really attract national media.

Be interesting to see if they mark block 15 as the safe standing area whenever that comes in.

As long as the release clause changes isn't less than £20million and increases upon promotion, great news.

Continue this form and he'll be on the radar of all Prem clubs including City. An accurate passer who has end product as well now. He'd be much more useful than Phillips in their team.

He should have left us years ago. He might be one of the best CMs in the Prem now if he had.

They also told them the freekick was soft!? It was an obvious foul by the letter of the law. This new trend of PGMOL licking the boots of everyone unhappy with them is starting to do my head in. It's kind of pathetic.

Yeah both him and his missus had covid and she'd been in hospital with it. The win was at home though, wasn't it?

Or it will make him see what the others are up to and demand a move in january.

Pure nonsense. His distribution is good but nothing special in todays game and certainly not good enough that I wouldn't sacrifice it for a much better shot stopper.

Henderson and Phillips included though. Absolutely ridiculous.

My favourite part was before that, Downes running up to get involved with a big grin on his face. That Pearson was a horrible little prick all game long.

It's been OK, some poor passes along with some good ones and even the good ones aren't any better than Meslier for Leeds the other weekend. His distribution certainly isn't good enough to warrant pinning all our hopes on him, we should have signed an experienced first choice keeper.

Yeah it surprises me there isn't a clear policy on how these things work. Start of the process should be: Referee "On field decision offside no goal, VAR can you confirm?" Not "BFHEHuefhaeawnfoiUSHEOIGU delay delay suehfuoisef offside ushergousheo no problem, cheers Daz"

I agree, if the arms hadn't been round him then it wouldn't be as it's clearly a coming together but the fact his arms go round him makes it look like deliberate contact.

Yeah I was struck by how chaotic the audio was. It almost seemed to me they were in an absolute rush which is quite funny because that's probably due to the criticisms of how long it's taken in the past. I will say one thing that transcript doesn't get across is that it's very clear the VAR official didn't realise what the on field call was - the "off" comment I think is a typo and he was actually saying "kick-off". Pretty sure he thought the goal had been given on field, hence saying there was no problem.

That's absolutely insane. A tournament taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.

Very badly = lots of criticism Badly = criticism Slightly badly = a little criticism Average = not much either way Slightly well = little bit of praise Well = praise Very well = gushing praise Bazunu is doing better that's true. He has gone from badly to average on the above scale. He's doing the bare minimum that is expected of him right now, so there isn't much in either direction.

No, but there were separate stats for long and short passes when I looked, can't be bothered to look now. However, it's kind of irrelevant. You can't make the argument that you're sacrificing shot stopping ability for distribution if the keeper is only good at passing short to his defenders - that's nothing special.