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The goal wasn't a howler, by any means. I'm more pissed off with the outfield players who just stood off and allowed Amass to breeze through our midfield and get a shot away completely unchallenged. But Baz was incredibly slow to react, as he always is. Quite simply, a more competent keeper saves that nine times out of ten. Whereas with Baz there's never any question that shots like that will go in, every fucking time. But the bigger howler for me, that he got away with, was when he punched a cross that even a mediocre keeper could easily have caught, got no height or distance at all on the punch and it fell nicely to an oppo player in the box. This meant he then had to tip over the resulting shot, and once again he did that party trick of his to make a straightforward save look more challenging than it really was.

So we really are putting the band back together then. Who's next? What's Pelle up to these days?

The commentator on Solent today in place of Adam Blackmore.

Sills is making out this was a much better performance than it actually was. You can only beat what's in front of you, but there was still so much to be concerned about in that today. We still panic and retreat into a disorganised defensive block when we take the lead. The formation is still causing the same problems - not enough control in midfield and too many defenders getting in each others' way.

They're going to give it to Eckert aren't they 😔

Oh Downs. Should have released that much sooner.

I'm still unconvinced. We've not really been in control this second half. We've surrendered the midfield to Wednesday and there's no shape whatsoever.

Only in as much as he doesn't look as if he's never played before in his life, like he has every other time he's come on.

Well Downs actually looks like a footballer today.

That's genuinely the first time I've ever seen Downs control the ball and complete a pass.

Poor attempted pass from Robinson puts us under pressure. Downs coming on. Woohoo.

Cross was just too far behind Azaz.

I don't think it was even deliberate shithousery, just lack of concentration as always.

Yeah on first viewing it looked like he got the ball cleanly, but from the other angle it was much more suspect.

Is this really the first time we've scored 3 since the playoff semi?

Can only assume Downes has picked up a knock. That's a really big call to make. Oh Adam Armstrong! Take a bow!

Can only hope BW hasn't yet been infected by the shit virus that so many of our first team squad have contracted. Baptism of fire for him.

Which is obviously the most important strength a keeper should have.

Yep. We should be absolutely out of sight, but somehow keep finding even more cretinous ways to gift them chances. The fact that Eckert thinks Baz is a better GK than McCarthy should be enough on its own to ensure he doesn't get the job.

Nearly gift them a chance out of nothing. Then Bazunu punches the ball back to an attacker when he could easily have caught it.

I do. He's every bit as much of a problem player as those others. The epitome of our falling standards.

We're not going to win this are we.

For once, I'm more annoyed with the defence for just letting him waltz to the edge of the box and shoot. Fucking awful defending.

That's just pathetic. We just let him walk through and shoot.

Was going wide anyway.