Midfield_General

Danny Ings won a lot of points for us, creating a chance out of nothing and then finishing it so that we edged something in games we otherwise would have drawn or lost. He’s the last properly PL-quality centre forward we’ve had, and not having a player like him last season was one of the (admittedly many) reasons we were so uncompetitive. A very good player who was written off by a lot of people when he arrived because of his past injury problems but was a very astute signing.

'September', by Earth Wind and Fire. Because that's how long he'll last.

Well that solicitor must have been absolute quality, bearing in mind good old lovable Brucie got caught on film in a hidden camera sting accepting a big wedge of cash from an undercover journalist and still got off after pleading he was “just gathering evidence so he could hand it over to the police” 🤣

Whatever could you mean?

Yep, I can’t stand it when people are abusive on social media. Ah

Vestergaard and Faes as the twin fulcrums of a Martin side playing out from the back would be a sight to behold and absolutely solid comedy gold.

Oh sweet Jesus, not this again. Surely you must see the tiny flaws in that otherwise brilliant strategy? Really? His first managerial appointment an unmitigated disaster and sacked after 14 games? £7m wasted on an Isthmian quality centre forward? I'm not sure an absolute shitshow for 14 games followed by two scraped wins, two good performances and one sound beating, while sitting in 14th not far off half way through the season qualify as 'coming good' and everyone should be lining up to suck Spors off just yet. No comment

I’d punt Edwards as well. Looks to have slipped to fifth in the pecking order and we’d probably get a decent Championship level fee for him from QPR or someone desperate as he still seems to have a pretty good rep but that hasn’t been borne out whenever I’ve seen him play for us. Promote one of the u21s to be fifth choice and free up probably £5-6m or whatever plus wages to add to the fund for a big, strong, powerful, hunky target man.

Ian Andrews? Eric Nixon? Big Willy Caballero?

Kathy Lloyd. Kick it old-skool.

Tom's hips sink Skipp

"What the f*** did you say? You calling me a c***?" #TondaDeathStare

And the Wembley cup final after beating Liverpool home and away. YAWN

Kill, in cold blood and in full view of the cameras. Send a message.

Christ, he's intense. Fixing Blackmore with a cold, unwavering gaze like he's weighing up whether to take on pity him, kill him or fuck him

Loving the song the Hearts fans have for Claudio Braga

That's got that quantity surveyed

Preach

Personally I’d like to see an unchanged team and shape. We’ve done nothing but chop and change this season, so some continuity would be nice and now we’ve shown we can play let’s let the opposition worry about us for a change. Guarantee they won’t be looking forward to it too much now they’ve seen what we can do a decent team if we hit our straps.

In a sick bed in Ipswich

Yeah, not only a good player but also seems like a GLTHATP. (Great Lad To Have Around The Place). An actual one though, not a Lallana/ Stephens one.

With Williams and Sesay coming through too, if we’re going to continue only playing two in centre mid maybe it will be time for Flynn to return to his spiritual home in January

The difference today was: - every time someone received the ball in midfield they had clearly been told to turn, look up, and drive forward - we played to the strengths of the three midgets/ wisps up front and played the ball along the ground as much as possible and into space behind rather than pumping the ball up in the air - we took our chances (Azaz early one aside) - we were aggressive and competed for everything (almost - free header for the goal aside) - we got our forward players who have the ability to hurt people on the ball as early as possible, to feet, in the areas they wanted it - specifically Scienza, Fellows, Azaz and Armstrong Basic stuff, but put it all together and it’s stuff we haven’t been doing and it’s night and day from the nervous, back foot shite that’s been served up by managers and players too damaged by defeat to trust our ability to attack.

One of the all-time match threads, this one. Spectacular stuff. Fucking Saints. Just when you think you’ve got out, they pull you back in. Magnificent today. Just magnificent.

"If it ain't relegated, relegate it"