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It's that old problem with Arma - too much time to think about what he's doing and he inevitably fluffs it. AZAZ!!!!! lovely finish.

It's telling isn't it, that this post could have been made at any point over the last 4-5 years and it would still be just as appropriate.

No idea why he's even on the bench. After that total non-performance last week that should have been the last time we'll ever see him play for us again.

So now you're claiming to know my own mind better than I do, just for the sake of continuing an argument. Great stuff. Have a good day and enjoy the game.

And get a third wrongly ruled out for offside.

Leicester 2-0 at Derby after 15 mins.

OK so you clearly haven't actually read and understood my point then, and have resorted to a pathetic straw man argument instead. I wouldn't have minded losing so much if we had put in a good performance and been unlucky. But that's not what happened is it. It was men v boys as we got schooled all over the pitch by a technically limited but well organised team. The scoreline and the fact that we only lost in the dying moments don't tell the whole story. We were incredibly lucky to take the lead from that penalty because up until that point Millwall had completely nullified our attack and we had created nothing. That's why I have my doubts that Eckert will bring us anything better than mid-table this season. With the resources we have, there is no way we should be settling for that.

Millwall are a decent team and are 3rd in the table because they have an experienced manager and are well organised, not because they have a lot of quality stuff n their squad. Despite the players we had missing, we should still be giving them a much better game than what we did. The fact that we didn't and were outplayed is reflective of a naive tactical approach against a well drilled side. There is a huge gulf between us and Millwall in terms of resources. With an even half-decent manager we should still be going there confident of getting a result, not making shit excuses about missing players.

So were Millwall. But they still comprehensively outplayed us because their manager is much more experienced than ours.

Underwhelming. Nothing personal against TE, but we only played well in two of those five games while he was interim boss, and that's largely because the opposition played right into our hands on both occasions. The way he was so easily sussed out by Millwall was a massive red flag to me. I want him to succeed, I really do. But I also can't help feeling like I'm being gaslit by SR, like an abusive partner saying "I promise I've changed and things will be different this time babe. Please give me one more chance" Well this is absolutely last chance saloon now for SR. Once again they've gambled on someone with no proven track record for the level we're at, and they keep on failing to learn from their mistakes. If this appointment goes the same way as the last five then they need to be driven out of the club by any means necessary. Time will tell.

As much as I want TE to succeed, something tells me we'll be resurrecting it before the season is over.

Apart from him forgetting to announce the video ahead of the pot 2 draw, and the fact that he keeps talking over his co-host, yeah he's doing a grand job.

Of all the people in the world, of all the talented, articulate and charismatic people they could have got to host the draw, they chose Rio Ferdinand 😐

Yeah I don't see how anyone can write him off considering he got injured in the first game of the season and hasn't had a run of games since. From what I have seen if him, he's clearly a better option than Manning.

Like clockwork 👌

Got to be a loan, surely. There must be a half decent striker warming someone's bench somewhere that is desperate for some game time ahead of the world cup, that would drastically improve our frontline.

Just feeling quite upLifted.

Did they live on Ocean Drive?

A young striker from the German second division for £6-8m. What could possibly go wrong?

OK these are all good points you make. But here's an example of how he indirectly "makes the defence nervous"... Shortly before one of Millwall's goals yesterday (first or second, I forget which), there was a ball into the box that was very easily going through to Bazunu to catch. Or at least it should have been. But he just stood quietly and timidly on his line, and in the absence of getting a shout from Baz, THB attempted to head it clear instead. The clearance wasn't great, and the ball got recycled and shortly afterwards it was in the back of our net. A confident, commanding keeper in that situation would have shouted at THB to leave it, and caught the ball. The Millwall players would have re-grouped further back up-field with the keeper in possession, and subsequently they don't score. That's the negative, unnerving effect he has on the rest of the defence. He's too quiet and doesn't command his box at all, which constantly puts the rest of them under unnecessary pressure.

Evidently. I was going to add "which is backed up by the stats over multiple seasons" to my last sentence. But I know trying to make that point with you would be as futile as trying to teach a goldfish to ride a bike, so I didn't bother.

The only opposition keeper we have faced this season who I would say is actually worse than Baz is Ethan Horvath at Sheff Wednesday - an emergency loan from Cardiff after their only other senior GK got injured. But even then, I've also seen him make occasional saves of the kind that Baz has never been capable of. He is not average for this level.

On paper, it should have been a good one to make. When he's playing to the best of his ability, Aribo is good in possession and less likely to give the ball away than JRob was. He's obviously been training OK, otherwise he wouldn't even be on the bench, but for whatever reason he decided to just phone it in today (and in other recent cameos) and that gave Millwall all the momentum. As far as poor substitutions go, it's not quite up there with Still taking off Scienza and replacing him with Jack Stephens at Ewood Park.

Yep, agreed. Was a really good hit and would have required an exceptional save to keep it out, rather than just a routine one. He made one really good save in the first half today, but then made a total hash of coming out to collect a spooned header and was lucky the ref disallowed the goal because it didn't look like a foul to me. Just another example of Baz not being strong or decisive enough. The only one of their three goals I really think he could/should have done better with was the third, but even then Manning should have dealt with it first.

He couldn't have looked any less interested today. Absolutely disgraceful performance.