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Trying not to let my frustration of Macca's mistake (another) and anger towards Damion Downs impact this reflection. It was a very good performance... I really liked Jelert and there seemed to be an increased intensity to second and third man runs beyond the ball. Not sure if anyone else agrees but slightly concerned at the potential impact of dropping Robinson may have on his game short term. Good effort and unfortunate to lose. Hugo Ekitike clearly rattled by the Isak arrival with that celebration.

He's arguably one of the poorest players I've ever watched. There's no football IQ and the technical ability is appalling. So naturally, you'd assume we're banking on his athletic profile of 6ft4 and developing that. As a fan, I'm angry at his performance as a player and the clubs recruitment. As someone who dabbled in talent ID for a very brief period, he wouldn't of passed the provisional screening (watch before you add to a pool for further reporting and observations) for League Two club.

Fuck me if you haven’t already seen it, go and watch the third goal scored Diego Gomez for Brighton.

I swear I heard Matterface say that Liverpool can call on the likes of Salah, Szoboszlai off the bench. has he had another stinker?

Fav of the night so far.

Matterface having a stinker. ”Fellows is unavailable tonight” he’s on the bench. ”Shane Log scored the winner in a Ralph Hasenhuttl Saints side in the first leg, who would go on and feature in the final”.

I’m going full MLG here. ‘Going long’ is a form of playing out from the back. Playing out from the back is often confused with playing/building through the thirds. Right up there with half space.

Would love to slip in to a parallel universe and see if there would be any difference if his brothers followed him into the club. Nothing that hasn’t been said already but seriously unimpressed with him. Felt like there was an imposter syndrome when I saw the training camp video in London.

Whole thing was shite. Atmosphere was crap, really thought Pompey would be louder (Wrexham out did them) and as for us… other than the build up and first couple of minutes. All too worried by the game to sing. In the first half, the two playing patterns were crap (Archer vs Shaugnassy) and THB to Manning for round the corner for Fraser. Azaz was infuriating, Boro fans feedback of him hiding in big games come to mind. Downes coward in the first half, hid behind their blockers. Will Still being bit of whopper didn’t help. Robinson change came too late, he would’ve carried the ball forward. Referee was awful. my chips were cold. and can we please get that Dawson out.. I arsehole goes back into itself when I see him. As it stands, they’re one up on us whether we like or not and January is going to be hideous.

Good spot from you sir.

I’ll tell you two people I can’t wait to see the back of after this transfer window. That prize whopper Fabrizio Romano and that little twat running the Armenie Football account.

They’re trying to sign Connor Chaplin today. His debut could be against us at St Mary’s and he usually has a good game against us.

Edozie can't stand? He's pretty fast actually. I don't believe I've ever read a player profile or scouting report in 23 years of working in football like that. You might want to double what exactly he's doing in America..

A bit like the rest of you, starting to think something is a foot with Flynn. Is it him that's off and Smallbone is staying now Wrexham have the Cov kiddo? As much as it's no secret he's been bit of a knob in the past, I still think he is a very good player for this level and adds to the group. Would we realistically have Janker, Charles, Downes and Doumbia?

Are we playing Azaz as a CM and not the 10?

Out: Edozie Bree BBD Smallbone Aribo In: Scienza or Rak Sakyi Jelert Striker (Kasper Dolberg/Josh Sargent mould) and I will absolutely spaff in my pants. PS any ideas why this post is formatting like a twat?

I really thought we were gonna have some bollocks about ourselves and keep Matty. IMO intention is clear that the Rudoni/Azaz/Spertysan deal was to replace MF and never in addition to him. Yes there’s still time in the window but as it stands I’m really disappointed with the window so far. Here’s hoping we go and blow £50m on a couple of players.

Agree with the Stewart and Archer notion for Watford. Downs is much more than a work in progress.... just work at the moment.

For those old enough, Red Dwarf and the 'backwards' episode is all I could think of every time I heard Mat-ski.

On reflection, that's a rather poorly tailored suit for an Italian.

Yeah fair enough.. decent win. When the fuck did we sign 'Matski' and 'Cisse'?

Can only imagine how pasty his t-shirt tan line is though.

Struggling to get on board with D.Downs so far. Pretends to press, gets within half a yard of the Norwich ball carrier and instead of interfering or rushing the player - just stops which allows the ball carrier to step out with the ball or pass forwards unopposed. You're 6ft4, impose yourself. Hopefully his first goal will set him on the way.

Watched him for QPR vs Pomp last season. Got completely bullied by Colby Bishop.