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WTF was Ely doing there to not get rid of that and concede a corner?

I can only assume there must be some sort of fitness issue with him that prevents him from playing 90 mins, and NJ (and Ralph before him) think it's best to play him from the bench rather than from the start

This season's 3rd kit...

Give him his due, he's been better today. At least he looks like he's trying to close players down, so that's already an improvement on his Brighton performance.

Seems so, although we weren't actually playing badly with a 3.

And yet we've still had more shots on and off target than Fulham.

I know no ref is ever going to give a penalty for that, but Salisu missed that header because AM put his hand on his shoulder and prevented him from jumping.

Fucksake. Just as I thought we were actually doing well and competing for once, yet another fluke OG goes against us.

Perraud is on the bench. Can't work out what the formation is from that. No Diallo, which can only be a good thing, but surely we're not playing with just JWP in CM?

Apparently he died peacefully in his sleep. Pretty ironic really.

Into injury time and cruising, and Brighton were still doing something we failed to do all game - closed us down early and stopped us from playing the ball forward. The lack of any effort or cohesion, or ability to pass to a team mate today was alarming. A month to prepare and that's how we perform? Fuck me. The only glimmer of positivity to take from that game was the willingness of Edozie to take people on and try to create something. I can forgive him the missed chances because he's only very young and they weren't sitters by any means, but he's got the potential to be really good, as long as he's playing in a confident team and not expected to carry us onbhis own.

Elyounoussi going off. I had completely forgotten he was even still on.

That should 100% be a second yellow.

And a penalty.

Corner comes in from JWP and our *star* striker Adams makes no movement whatsoever. Pathetic.

There's not a single player out there that looks like he actually gives a shit. Every one of them is phoning it in today.

JWP gave him the freedom of SMS and only made a half attempt to block him when it became obvious he was about to shoot.

He's infinitely better at RB than he is in midfield.

Not read the whole thread then?

I doubt we'll be spending big in Jan. We seemingly can't even afford to print NJ onto Jones' coat.

Aribo and Stu on for Diallo and Djenepo.

I work with a Lincoln fan who made the trip last week, and he said he has seen plenty of better sides in League 1. If this bunch played against our 2010/11 promotion team they would get annihilated.

Oh fuck me. This just gets worse. That passage of play was about as shit as it gets.

He got a touch but that obviously affected where it hit Perraud. Just pure fluke. Two horrendous goals to concede.