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They've been so much better, we've almost come 3rd in a 2 horse race.

True. Just not been effective enough for me. To be fair to her though, we've been so wasteful and she's tried to play off the last defender but just hasn't got it right.

Yep. He's not a defender. He's played more games in his career in other positions. It shows.

They're not alone. Bronze had been dreadful, Hemp wasteful, and Kelly poor since she's been on.

Love our keepers attitude! Was a "fuck off" to someone in that little tirade. Good lass.

Can't agree with that. Shouldn't have taken 20 views. Was bloody obvious.

Not sure why that took 4 mins. Pen all day long.

Has to be a pen...

She's had a poor game.

It is if you do something with the ball, it isn't if you don't and/or give it and concede goals. Very simplistic to say that possession will or won't win you games.

Yep, but not sure what she can do tactically against a much better and quicker team. Interestingly, I heard the other day that there's a push to get her involved in the mens game. No details were given and I'm not sure if it was meant as national team level or club level.

Yep. They're better than us all over the pitch, have more pace, and seem better conditioned. Tough to see a way back.

If their tennis was 5 sets they'd be playing bloody long matches with those rallies. The mens game can go five sets cos they hang down so many aces or serve/volley quick points. Agree re the keeper though, wasn't set.

Should have been 2. Our tactic of not bothering to mark people ain't the wisest.

As has been said, that was coming. Poor from us in midfield, but a great cross field ball in the build up. Decent finish too.

Yep. Awful tackle. This is the first game I've watched. Better quality and much more aggressive than I was expecting. They play better football than us, and have more pace in their team. Good game though.

Attacking CM. Ryan Finnigan is more of a conventional CM/ ditto Cameron Bragg. Finnigan apparently did well on loan at Crewe in the second half of last season. He came off early for the B team on Friday (as did Ballard) so I half expected him to be on the bench with Ballard yesterday.

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I may have misunderstood but I thought the discussion was about paying a few players a bit more than others/structure to keep them. I'm not sure where mention if us having done that with Alcaraz fits in....

There's other ways of cutting it. A signing/loyalty bonus of £1m essentially gives him an extra £20k pw. Thereafter wages in line with structure.

I hadn't realised we'd given Alcaraz a new contract since relegation. You sure about that?

I think many fans would swap our position and squad for theirs.

How do think that will go down in the dressing room? I'd imagine badly. At the end of the day, like it or not, we're a championship club and everyone needs to accept that - fans and players.

No, but he may want the sales that you don't want. Dig Dig makes the valid point that the important thing is to give RM the squad that he wants. I'd like to think that includes Tella, KWP, Adams and AA, but who knows.

It depends whether RM would prefer these players or to replace some of them. If he would prefer some other players, the we need to sell to give him what he wants.