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That was never, ever a foul.

Great to see Lavia back in the starting lineup. We've missed him so badly. No idea how Lyanco continues to get picked ahead of DCC. Still not sure how Ely starts every game and Stu gets left on the bench. Other than that, looks about as good as we can muster at the moment.

Nope. I've tried, but I can't think what possible relevance this has to a thread about what is wrong with the UK.

He's got a second now. 5-0.

Caleb Watts has scored for Morecambe with minutes of coming on at HT. Currently beating Burton 4-0.

He is. Watched Everton loads last season and he was appalling. Terrible positional sense and he was at fault for a good number of goals they conceded.

We had players who could play that position - A Armstrong and Mara. Granted they would not have been as effective, but bringing one of them on and staying with the formation that waa looking OK, instead of the very limited Perraud and changing the shape completely, would have been a much better option IMO. As soon as he made that change, we surrendered the momentum to Fulham and gave up any hope of winning the game. It was a bad call on Jones' part.

He did. He changed the defensive shape yet again when Edozie needed to go off, when all he needed to do was make a like for like sub and stick with the formation that had been working OK up to that point. It's no wonder our defenders all look so lost and confused all the time when the manager keeps re-shuffling them multiple times during a game. Overall it was a better team performance today than against Brighton, but there still doesn't appear to be any discernible plan or system from NJ. I really wanted to give him a chance despite his apparent lack of pedigree, but the early signs are pretty worrying. Would we really have done any worse in the last 3 games if we had stuck with Ralph? Can't see it myself.

So depressing. At least there looked to be more effort and desire today, and we looked to be fairly competitive once Stu came on, but we can't keep relying on pens and FKs from Prowsey for goals. At some point soon someone else has to stick the ball in the fucking net from open play. Really don't see any way out of this now. Can't score, can't stop conceding comical goals, can't stay in the PL.

What the actual fuck was Lyanco doing there?

Why oh why did NJ change the formation when we were playing well? Edozie needed to be hooked but the shape was good so why not just do a straight swap with AArmstrong or Mara? As soon as we we changed it, we lost all momentum and gave the advantage back to Fulham,. The goal was inevitable after that.

We were playing well until he swapped Edozie for Perraud and changed the formation again. Since then we've been backs to the wall.

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.