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Brum 2-0 up against Ipswich now. Need to get the win here now to close that gap.

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Very tight angle.

Another blatant handball from Millwall missed. This ref really is shit isn't he.

Why the hell did Saville go down holding his face there? What a cock.

Only thanks to a foul on Baz.

And making a mess of every one. There's a very clear gulf in quality between these two teams. Would be very disappointing if we don't take 3 points from this.

Fuck me how is that not a foul?

Ipswich losing.

Oh Sully. You'd beaten your man FFS. No need to over-egg the pudding!

How did the ref/lino miss that handball? 😕

With successive managers constantly tinkering with the line-ups and tactics, it feels like a very long time since we had a settled starting 11 that picked itself. Just got to hope it helps us maintain our current form.

When you invite a friend from out of town to stay over after a birthday party, and sleep in the spare room so they can have your bedroom, and they're still in fucking bed at 11:30 the next morning.

I'm also looking at going to this but will have to wait until general sale to get a ticket as I don't have any kind of membership. Anybody got any idea how many tickets are still left?

That might have something to do with him being out on loan at Reading

Why?

Meanwhile in Pompey, someone in a shit Halloween ghost costume decided to go for a boat ride in a park...

Still a thing.

Would you prefer they went back to using RP?

Like it did for us against Forest last season? Except the chance for our travelling fans to resurrect the "your football is shit" chant. Would be worth it IMO (as long as we still win, of course).

I made this point on the post match thread. Their midfielders spent the whole match trying to advance on our back 4/5 while they were playing it around at the back, which left the necessary space for them to play forward passes into. Very few other teams this season will be quite so obliging to us, and that's the biggest problem with Russball - it only works well if the opposition are naive enough to allow it to.

There was also a blatant shirt pull on Arma in the first half as he tried to get on the end of a through ball from FD, but it wasn't clear if it was inside the box or not from the one replay they showed. Would definitely have been picked up and given by VAR if it was because the ref missed it completely.

I think I get it now. You could see today when we were playing it around at the back that the players were waiting for a certain amount of Brum players to commit forwards to try and press us, or for certain Brum midfielders to cross a certain threshold, before going for the forward pass into the space they had left. When Brum made the sub early in the second half, it took us a while to adapt to their new patterns, and as a result we conceded and then had a wobbly period while we worked out who would press where and when. Once we did though, we retook control of the play and from there on Brum obligingly fell into our trap of drawing them out. I've been very critical of Russball so far, but today it worked perfectly, bar that 5-10 minute spell around when they scored.

Don't relax just yet. Still got 8 mins of injury time to navigate.

Jesus. Gone from totally in control to on the ropes.