Saint Matty 76

We do love inexplicably losing a game just before an international break to mull over for weeks.

These two commentators are absolutely batshit mental. Hope we shut them up at some point.

Need Manning for a bit more creativity in the team. Would get Fellows on as well.

Dobbin cannot control a ball. Bounces off his touch so often...

Ref doesn't play a sufficient advantage which stops them going down to 10 men.

Good timing for the international break then. Hope we can get through today but Schlotterbeck is so important for how we build up.

Draw probably fair on the face of things with them dominating the first and us largely the second, but it’s hard not to feel like Dobbin’s cost us 4 points recently (albeit not just him vs Bolton). He does certainly offer more than Mubama as the Larin stand in, though. Also, a really good and entertaining game.

Ahhh it’s just not good enough Dobbin. Bolton and tonight which was even easier.

Nice move, shame Azaz couldn’t get the reverse to Mubama. Miracle Downes hasn’t been booked here.

Proper team talk that must have been!

Soft but no idea why Stephens put his leg where he did. Deserve to be behind. Can’t play much worse.

I think Edozie and Matsuki (somewhat controversially) are super ordinary. Struggle to see how tonight goes well without a massive Azaz performance.

Will almost certainly be appearance fee related.

I think Peretz for sure. Azaz surrounded by better talent and I'd also make a case for Larin if we had two much better wingers either side. Jander for me is a certainty and I'd also (from what the little we've seen) back Schlotterbeck with a better surrounding three. Scienza/Downes also probably get big roles when(!) we do go up this year. Anyway, very off topic!

I think a lot of the names above could have quite easily been predicted by our fanbase on whether or not they'd push on. For example, I think we all believe Fernandes and Charles to be players who can go on to really big things in their careers. However, we have always been quite consistent in the belief that neither THB or JWP were brilliant players. Dibling was the iffy one that was quite hard to predict where his career would go, although I personally always believed Everton to be a terrible fit club-wise. Likewise with Scienza, good player and a good lad, but if a Premier League team suddenly picked him up I would have absolutely zero expectation of him doing well.

Seems a really good bloke and definitely the best English player of my lifetime. A huge shame he's never got over the line internationally, and always disappointed somewhat in the big moments, but you'd assume he has one (perhaps two) more opportunity/opportunities to correct that. If he can finish his career with an international trophy and a Champions League, he probably goes down as the best English footballer ever?

Happy for Dobbin, did brilliantly today and was incredibly unlucky the 2nd hit the post!

Outside of the one shaky rebound, Peretz has been excellent. So nice to not have to worry about the keeper position after the previous years of nonsense we endured.

A horror 10 minutes in there but otherwise brilliant stuff. I can't see us not scoring again, but I also can't see them not scoring either. Chaotic 2nd half I imagine.

They’re a proper fucking mess at the back.

Ridiculous goal from KWP. Let’s hope we wake up now.

Ridiculous amount of space behind their midfield. Schottlerbeck hitting it every time.

The two goals which Bree has scored from his last three chances are quite funny.

Got no real issue with Blackmore although he definitely overextends himself sometimes and can come across a bit condescending. Embarrassing blokes giving him online abuse and also a bit embarrassing from him to pull a hissy fit and deactivate.

Not pretty but good stuff! Great work from Edozie.