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All our possession is between defenders.

More and more possession for possession's sake.

Very poor so far. No cohesion going forward and all too slow.

Downes booked for arguing yet again.

Agree but he's also giving it away under no pressure.

Leo a bit off it so far.

Decent header from THB.

They are shit.

Typical, 22 minutes total Russball then we fail to get our back line out after clearing a corner and they score. Our passing is poor.

Of course. Got to have some physicality. Maybe just go out and buy some in the Jan transfer window.

The Echo clearly have their finger on the pulse 🙂

All the chatter seems to be confirmation that he'll not start today - we'll find out at 13.45.

Have they already said he's out next week?

Agree. It is clear we need to do some business in the January transfer window if we are serious about mounting any sort of challenge for a play-off place. We have a bloated squad but not a good array of options in some key positions such as wing back, midfield, goalkeeper and striker. Lots of dross in the squad who have little or no impact.

Madness. Don't think he played a forward pass against Norwich. Would be better off giving Robinson a game. I'm afraid Fraser is past it these days.

Nah, let's be clever and complicate things by pushing a centre back into midfield 🙂

I have a wee bit of sympathy for our journos because I'm sure the club would bar them if they start asking too many pointed questions that might stir the pot. SR seem to like to control what the journos can and cannot ask/report.

I got the impression the Jock journos went out of their way to rile Rusty because they enjoyed goading him to see what reaction they could provoke.

At a guess Adam Blackmore probably knows Tonda would toe the party line so thinks it's a waste of a question.

It's a fair question and no, he didn't but as far as I know he's not famous for his ability to polish turds 🙂

This guy is about as much of a centre forward as Bazunu is a goalkeeper.

You couldn't clone even a half decent 'keeper from the best attributes of both of them.

He did at least explain that the main reason is to get some physicality on the pitch and I suggested this might be the case recently in another post. So the only way out of it I can see is if we are active in the January market and bring in perhaps a decent sized fullback and midfielder. If not we're gonna be welded to 3 centre backs until such time as we do add some physicality to the squad. Interesting to note that he also said the squad have agreed to some extra training sessions - I think he mentioned today and Xmas Day. Bit different to the relaxed approach under Rusty.

Maybe you could explain why Bazunu is pretty much always bottom of the stats in whatever league he play. Surely if we are unfairly maligning him he'd be further up those tables but he is constantly last. I guess he's decent but just unlucky that the stats always go against him 🙂

Shooting practice without a goalkeeper - that must really teach him a lot 🙂