Sheaf Saint

If he had used his foot to get to that ball with Djenepo's head where it was, he'd have been sent off. But not even a FK.

We're hoping he'll bring us back to life?

Erm, who wants to tell him...

His overall performance today was pretty poor, but the thing that really stood out for me was just how crap he was for the first disallowed goal. There is no excuse for him being offside for starters. It's not like me mistimed his run, he was just stood in an offside position waiting for the ball in to him. Schoolboy stuff really. Then when it did come to him, I have no idea what exactly he was trying to do with it. There was no clear effort to strike the ball, more a general lurch of his whole body towards it in the hope that he made some sort of contact. Was like he had total brain freeze. Everything about the incident from his aspect was just utter turd.

Is McCarthy still injured? He's hideously limited as we well know, but he surely must be a better option than Bazunu right now. Gav might be good one day, but right now we simply don't have the luxury of being able to carry a young, inexperienced keeper while he develops. We need experience and leadership in that position to give us any hope of staying up. SR have right royally fucked up this really important bit of recruitment.

Orsic and Djenepo coming on.

I'm just getting flashbacks of Dean and Mason and that fucking atrocious non-penalty decision against Villa a couple of seasons ago. It's like we're playing against 13 men every time we face them.

Completely. As soon as he felt the contact you can see he just chose to fall over instead of even trying to stay on his feet. Pathetic decision.

Barely even tickled him FFS.

What has that done to the shape then?

Now that one I can agree with.

I'm not sure about that. He's done a couple of really good things so far since HT. Really good work just now but the through-ball was just too close to the defender. Had the right idea though.

That's the second truly awful clearance from Baz today.

Yep, pretty inexcusable. And what on Earth was that attempted finish? It's like when the ball came at him he had never seen one before and had no clue what to do.

Villa winning the midfield battle because, among other things, Diallo is having one of his nothing games and is completely ineffective. Every rebound, knock down or panicked clearance seems to land right at the feet of a Villa player and we're really struggling to get out of defence and get any kind of attacking move going.

Commentator talking about JWP's new role: "He is so used to getting the ball, getting his head up and moving the ball forward" Obviously didn't watch us much during the Ralph years then.

WHU 2-0 Everton

Well we're off the bottom as it stands. Everton are losing at West Ham.

Bazunu injured?

Villa seem to be winning every second ball at the moment. We can't get a break.

Bournemouth 1-0 up against Forest now.

Fucksake Che. No excuse for being offside there, and an utterly pathetic attempt at a finish.

https://www.ovostreams.com/player3.php This one is decent.

Tella scored a cracking equaliser for Burnley tonight.

Caleb Watts is at Morecambe along with Simeu. I know he scored a couple recently against Burton.