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3-3 Manning!!!! Yeeessss!!!

At least 7 minutes of ET surely?

LOL - 3-2 Capt Jack

Need Larin on now to combat their 3 at the back change.

Oh fuck - Manning on. Game over.

Eckhert is not the answer even in the Championship. Has he never heard of the lesser known tactic of counter attack?! 3-1. Guess what - our striker scored.

Ah Eckhert has made a lot of changes - even ones that don’t need to be made. What a prize cock.

Once again we revert to slowly pass, pass, pass and allow them to get 11 men behind the ball. We’re not scoring tonight at all unless that gets changed and that means getting Jander off for Cyle Larin and putting Archer off his shoulder. Get Azaz to drop back into midfield to be the box to box man Jander is supposed to be.

Jander and Archer try to score - comes close. In our net FFS!

Fuck me Archer breaks one on one with the keeper - and gets robbed by a defender who catches him up! Twat!

Fuck me. 3-0 - it’s a fucking disaster. Welington not getting any help from any other player. Jander trying to get himself a red card.

Jander is the worst player on the pitch.

Archer proving his shitness once again.

Trust Saints to give a no hope team some real solid hope.

What an absolute disgrace. Put this down to Eckhert. Idiotic game prep and team selection.

Archer just put the ball out unchallenged - and they score in the follow on movement. Utter shit.

Archer misses 5 yards out. 🙄

Well I just don’t get it - two fit proper CF’s who score goals and he plays Archer who is our pet donkey. Reckon we could be chasing the game by 60 minutes. COYR!

It would be tough enough even if the teams above us didn’t win a point while we climbed up. But obviously that’s not going to happen - there’s every likelihood that 6 teams will win as many points as us, or more. Plus there are teams just below us that could start picking up points too. So a play off place is possible, but highly unlikely.

Think we can take ‘em. 0-9…[cough] 1-2.

Well now, far be it for me to say ‘told you so’…but I did say that past scoring history might be down to wrong teammates. It’s early days of course and that might be the first and last goal from Larin, but the signs are good…the right movement in the box losing his man and bullet header that their keeper had no chance with. If he gets a little fitter I think we’ve got a great acquisition. At the risk of overstating it, Welington is hugely better than Manning…he actually stops crosses. Bree has provided equally good balance. Both have allowed the two CB’s so we’re more loaded in mid-field. Peretz has good reactions and positioning sense…just needs to think a bit before giving cheap balls away. Both these changes have led to clean sheets. Good to see Edozie get minutes. I wonder whether there was some bad feeling between him and an influential recently departed player such as AA?

And yet the attendances generally are always still 27k + despite the standing of the club. Something’s going right or have expectations fallen that much?

Surely a no.9 is going to be a starter? Looks to me as though Stewart will be saved for end of games - pointless putting Larin on when you’re taking off Scienza and Fellows around the same time in a match because they’re spent.

What is?

After posting on another thread this morning, I got to thinking about the unlikely scenario of us getting into a play-off place and actually winning the final. What players are good enough to remain as a first team choice and so how many new players would be required in-bound? My initial thoughts are… GK - Rambo back (if possible) or new GK, Peretz 2nd choice CB - 2-3 new players required with THB retained as back-up FB - with decent CB’s there’s a chance that Bree and Welington could suffice, however I think we’d need another FB capable of both sides DM - 2 new players required. Downes not good enough and Charles/Jander only OK as backup. AM - Scienza, Fellows and Azaz could be OK, but we’d need at least one more decent player that could operate across the field. Striker - at least 2 new players required - none of the current players are good enough. So for my money that’s 9 new players required - almost an entire team - and I don’t think Spors or SR have what it takes to make that happen. And if we don’t go up this year (unlikely), the chasm in player quality is only going to get bigger, particularly as SR start selling off our best players (history tells us that’s inevitable).