The Kraken

Positives Wood is good. Quarshie looked ok. Jelert looks likely. Flynn Downes played well particularly first half. Scienza looks a real addition. Shea Charles is solid. Overall, we looked busy and particularly first half had a style about us that was attractive and threatening. Negatives Damion Downs. AMc is a liability. Damion Downs. Cam Archer is muck. Damion Downs. Jander got injured, hopefully not serious. Damion Downs. Loch Ness Drogba can’t get a game ahead of Damion Downs.

A fact I heard at the weekend. Ekitike is the longest palindrome to ever play in the premier league. Not the sharpest tool in the book either.

Etikike red card surely? yep, my stream is obvs way behind.

I think @trousers and @AlexLaw76 are right, Downs is freaked out by everything tonight. Best to get him off and out of sight before he really loses himself. Geezer looks shellshocked.

Wtf was Endo doing?! 🤣 A howler at each end.

Honestly, Downs makes his lookalike Jason Lee look good.

I think Will Still might need to come up with a 4-6-0 formation. Because our whole forward line is utter turd. Downs looks like he’s won a raffle to play, Archer is muck, and Adarma looks like he did when he stepped up to the PL first time, absolutely lost. LND doesn’t look like being anything other than a 70 minute roll of the dice when we’re losing.

Szienza coming off. Hopefully being rested ahead of Saturday, he’s been very good, very direct.

Archer is muck.

Fuck me lads. After all that.

OMFG

Archer has to score. Or at least make contact.

Desire from a centre back. Forgot what that looks like.

Stop being mean to are Tommeh!

It was a flippant comment. But in any case I much prefer the notion of 4 at the back. Especially if we listen to Still who says that he wants to play wingers, not sure how we do that effectively with wing backs as well. I don’t like the idea of 5 at the back, especially with the players we have doing it. This game was always a free hit and it’s good to get some game time into the squad. I just thought Still might choose to do it within his so-called preferred system, rather than reverting to something he referred to as a stop gap until we bought players to play the system he wants.

A return to the 5 at the back system that has served us so well. Joy.

They can and they will. Or at least they’ll try.

His name is Stephen, not Chris. The pint-size prick.

Utterly ridiculous thing to say. Fuck me. GK: AMc is a perfectly ok keeper for the championship. Bazunu can get in the bin. CB: THB has been promoted twice from the championship. Jack Stephens is a twat but he’s championship level. Wood is ok for backup, Ronnie Edwards was a fans favourite for a side that finished 15th in the championship last season, and he can’t even get in our first team. CM: Shea Charles, player of the season last term playing for a club who finished in the top half of the championship. Flynn Downes, a shadow of a man these days but 2 years ago our most influential player in the side. And Finn Azaz, 40+ goal contributions last term. Plus new guy from Germany. CF: Downs seems awful but to suggest any of our others aren’t good enough for Championship is mental. So, yeah, absolutely hatstand to claim we don’t have the players to be better than where we are. Just a crazy thing to suggest, especially after we’ve spent so much.

I’m in the Still out camp I’m afraid. For any (decent) new manager you can see very quickly what it is that they’re trying to implement. Time and again we’ve had managers who you can see instantly what they’re changing, or trying to get across. I’m yet to see any of that with a Will Still side. Just a completely rudderless side at the moment that I don’t see him improving. I was at hull yesterday in the prawn sandwiches and sat not far behind the dugout (got drenched until I turned it in after goal 2 to return inside). I noticed how utterly passive Still is as a manager, he stands out at the extent of his technical area but does very little to influence matters or try to get an uptick in style or performance. He just struck me out there as being completely out of his depth, he just looked lost to me. He’s relied so far on blaming not having any players to play his system. Well he’s got them now, and yesterday was a complete mess, we got completely done tactically and physically. Listened to some of the Hull players post-game and their pre-match analysis of how to play against us was so obvious and so spot-on. They read us like a book and put a simple plan in place to completely negate us. In comparison we were utterly weak and had no clue how to change anything in our favour. I can only see us getting worse, not better, under this guy. Genuinely saw nothing at all yesterday to make me think “yeah, build on that and we’ll be ok”.

Its exactly what the SFC release said, Still said that he has problems with his immune system.

Flynn Downes is ill again.

Yes. It really is that simple. Well done for explaining it as far as your limit though. Bravo.

Not sure how anybody can be so unequivocal about the fact that JJM has made an awful decision and stunted his development. But lighthouse is gonna lighthouse I suppose.

I found Starmer’s grandstanding of Christian Wakeford pretty poor. I’d have been pretty pissed off had he been my mp.