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Vauxhall Viva, £60. It was green and the accelerator pedal fell off. Definite metaphor there.

Not gonna post opinion on everything that has been said before but I will post a true story. I promise you I am not making what comes next up..... The day after the vote my Dad, god rest his soul, called me. Pretty sure some of you older ones know his name, he was pretty well known in non-league circles as a competent and successful manager, and I say that to highlight that seemingly 'smart' people can also got caught up in the whole Brexit mood of the time. I loved my dad, he gave me the best childhood a kid could wish for as a football nut and gave me things not many kids get to experience but I digress. I wouldn't swap that, or him, for the world. But this is what happened... The call to me the day after the vote (and these are the precise words): Dad: "What do you think of this Brexit then?" Me "I think we're dumber than snot" Dad "Pfff....well I voted for it. I'm tired of all this immigration" Me "Dad.....you live in Portugal. You're an EU immigrant" And that kind of sums up what our intellectual population voted for. It wasn't anything more than that. Island nation thinking, screw the important details.

Can't agree more. I feel a bit sorry for Mara because I don't feel that he's been given a fair crack and I reckon he's a confidence player. If you're gonna start him, stick him in the number 9 role and give the kid a chance. I think there's a player in there but he hasn't been allowed to show it and you have to say that time is running out for him. Sticking him on the wing with AA in the middle was just.......a strange decision that kind of makes you lose faith in the management. Smallbone - he's done alright. I gave him MoM in one game but I think you're right that he's a fair weather/luxury player and not a guy who will jump into the trenches, where we need other personalities in his position.

He puts the right players in the right places and we have a team that should be there or thereabouts. I think a lot of us fans see the same 'anomalies' about players and team selections so I sometimes wonder why the professionals do not see it. Granted they have more data and background to go on than we do but some of these things seem so obvious. Case in point (for me) is Alcaraz. Yes, he didn't have his best game against QPR but for me he starts every time. His major attribute, which he mostly backs up with his talent, is his attitude. He's a fighter, I suspect he is a bad loser and I want guys like that in my team. I want to see passion and a will to win over anything else at all and I wouldn't give a toss at getting beat 5-0 if I thought we went down fighting, so give me 11 guys with that attitude over more skillful players without it every time. So not starting him makes us a softer touch in my opinion. I would expect our profesiosnal football people to see that too or maybe it's just me being wrong, I don't know. Then we have AA. Blindingly obvious he can't play the 9 role but our professoinal football people apparently can't see that. Why? I could go on about several areas but you guys all know it already so I won't bother.

Remember him from the last World Cup where he played right wing/mid. Rapid and looked very good from what I saw

They listened to his heart and heard an echo.

It's been well useful and I now understand the strategy behind us playing the transfer long game. Dying to do a wellie pun too.

Hopefully Stockholm after we kidknap him.

Peno!

We played well and it was a good result, but I share the concerns of others about our lack of penetration and our defence. Sheff Wednesday are very poor I think, and we were not able to put them away. They were gone by 20 mins and we let them back in it. Against teams who really know how to press we won't get away with that lack of penetration when have those phases where we are on top. It's early days and RM himself highlighted there was still a lot of work and development to be done (very refreshing RM!) so I hope we will improve in those areas. It's an encouraging start but I didn't see a team going up yesterday, despite the 80% possession and a generally good performance. A promotion hopeful would have put Sheff Weds away before half time based on their performance.

Smallbone for me. The General.

Me too. Slow? I don't think he is, he just has a long stride so it might appear so, but i've seen him get away from defenders. Good player who'd do a job for us if he stays fit.

Did you mean to put Smallbone, twat and love in the same sentence or was it coincidence?

Me too. Always felt he needed a run of games to adjust/settle and it was hard on him being in a side that created diddly too. When the Championship Top Scorer market opens, if he's anything around 33/1 I'm having it.

The only thing that will console me now is Luton getting promoted

True, but there's no law saying he has to remove our creative players after 65 mins or so. One can argue about fitness etc etc but to be honest i've never seen Sule, Lavia and Chaz (who, OK, goes into 'give the ball away' mode sometimes) seriously run out of steam. He left a 34 year old Walcott on for 90 mins today, deservedly so, so why not start with your best team and leave them on longer?

Perraud gets a pass on that for me. Salisu get's sucked right, Perraud see's it and goes over to cover and visibly passes Porro onto Moi.......who does fuck all about it. That was Moi not tracking back when he had a man passed onto him.

One can only imagine that this is a grand masterplan to hang on for 60 mins and then bring on Sulemana and Chaz once Spurs get tired. Not the worst plan in the world when you are a defeatist and if you can guarantee we'll hang on for 60 mins, which is a bit optimistic i'd say.

3-0, Adams hat-trick with 3 scuffed shots at Forster's feet.

In Selles I trust........until Diallo fooks it up, upon which I will slate him.

Agree with the ref on all 3 calls but I think it did marginally hit ABK's arm. I think he got away with it because he slipped.

Not sure about that, I think she's lost a bit of pace

Aside from one player, where I'm slightly leaning towards someone else, yeah this is it. More important, the formation and the 3 guys you have in the middle. If we want to win games those are the 3 players in the middle I think we need. Sulemana - I can already see he is a luxury player but he has to play wide, and I did see he can work back today. I can't see a player like him ever working through the middle, as he was today. ....And for the love of God, when we get the chance out wide let's please get some quality balls into the box. We have a guy who is rumoured to be mustard at converting those chances but we'll never find out it we don't play to those strengths. We've had plenty of options to do so in the last 2 games (at least) but we've either done something else pointless or the quality has been shocking and difficult to understand (based on the fact that I'm pretty sure the players I used to play with in a lower standard of football could do it)

I respectfully disagree. I've never seen what I consider our best team/formation on the pitch at the same time.

The management of our club have taken a lot of flak lately, Rasmus Ankersen especially. Everyone knows he dropped the ball with NJ but the villification has, in my opinion, been over the top. RA has a good record of making good decisions over his football career. He made a mistake, he prolonged the mistake and we are where we are. Does anyone doubt he has our best interest at heart? I don't. I don't know if this appointment of Selles is an RA decision but if it is he's nailed this one. Continuity, stability.........that is precisely what we need right now and if, in the end, it turns out Ruben Selles was not the man to take us forward (I believe he is, even after this one Chelsea game) then I will still believe that this decision was the right decision for our club in the here and now. So credit where it's due. NJ was a mistake, fix it and move on, well done for having learnt from it.