StrangelyBrown

Damien Downs is the complete mystery to me. No exaggeration... watching him warm up it was obvious he had a poor touch and didn't seem to kick a ball properly. As soon as he started a competitive game it was clear that he didn't have the fight for the game. What the hell did the scouts/recruitment team see in him?

To be honest I think Still's "tactics" suited him better. Tonda's fast transition, high energy game doesn't seem to suit him especially when he starts a game. Personally I'd like to see him further forward in an alternative for Azaz as he's got an eye for goal and I think he could be effective in those occasional games where Azaz isn't.

Only he did nothing of the sort. He's a potential match winner very infrequently, but also slows us down every time he has to have 3 touches before moving the ball sideways.

Shea Charles with the ultimate propaganda performance tonight. What exactly is he saving himself for? Everyone else put in a shift but Charles trots around like a useless twat. Never have I seen such a pathetic performance in such an important game. Rant over.

That was properly funny

You don't understand football do you?

Ive got the same. Think it's normal

Likewise!

Charles wasn't particularly great tonight - did some really good defending and then gave the ball away needlessly too many times. As for that sliced shot....

2 more wins under our belt and 4 games to go. Dare I say it - the playoffs look nailed on? What about 2nd....

We can only beat the teams in front of us and fair play to Tonda that's exactly what he's got us doing. There's a chance that Ipswich drop more points so all we can do is keep winning and hope someone does us a favour. Fair play to the whole team tonight. A very professional performance and some well taken chances. Credit to Archer for his performance tonight - I was expecting him to drop off but he kept going. Otherwise special mentions for Larin, Bragg, Charles and Manning.

It's a good point, we had a weak squad and were over performing. SRs first move (summer 2022) was to get rid of the manager who had us over performing and make the squad significantly worse. We'll never know if we would have stayed up with a different set of owners, but I'm pretty sure no one would have done as badly in that first full premier league season as SR.

When we're back to being comfortably mid table in the premier league then Sports Republic will have achieved nothing (we were 14th mid way through the season when they first came in). Until then no matter how you look at it they have taken us backwards with their "strategy" and deserve all the criticism that comes with it.

Lots of good shouts above so far. Azaz for me. Even when things weren't coming off for him you could see he was trying things and just needed a few players around him on the same wavelength. When we're playing well he makes the whole side tick. Irreplaceable IMO. Leo a very close second - has been a huge part in turning our season around and when we weren't clicking as a team was a very important outlet. Azaz gets it ahead of Leo for me because Leo isn't quite irreplaceable. Special mentions for Peretz, Harwood-bellis, Bree, Downes and 4 at the back (which all came together to result in our upturn in form).

With 6 to go; 8 wins from the previous 10 and the other 2 results were draws. How wrong could I have been? Somehow I think we'll need more than 2 more wins from the last 6 though...