Lighthouse

The most tragic thing is that had it been one of our defenders at the other end, probably three out of five of them would have bundled that rebound over the line for an o.g. Trying to clear it away.

There’s a difference between appointing someone who matches your philosophy and appointing a yes man.

That’s literally the reason everyone wanted Martin sacked.

I’m astonished. It’s almost as if a senile, narcissistic, orange man-baby, who just this morning posted a video of himself supposedly dropping poo on protestors, has NOT brought peace to a region which has been at war since the dawn of civilisation. It’s almost as if his ‘negotiations’ have achieved exactly the same as the ones with Putin in Alaska. It’s almost as if the same Israeli government who noshed him off as peacemaker-extraordinaire a week ago were in fact just using him to get the last hostages released and have a quick timeout to assess the battlefront. It’s almost as if the rest of the world’s leaders are just manipulating his ego towards their own ends and have no genuine respect for him whatsoever. Surely not.

A fixture we’ve lost every time we’ve played it since 1979. Bring it on.

That would be Martin who built a midfield around Smallbone, Aribo and Downes, none of whom can get into the team at the moment.

We were good for the last 20 mins of the first half and about 10 of the second but apart from that, crap again. None of the subs have improved us, not enough options in forward areas to pass to. The players have to take some of the heat for missing all our chances but I’m less and less convinced by Still every game. Also, f**k me this ‘tator loves Downs.

What the actual f**king f**kery!?!

The keeper deflected that a bit but AA probably should have bundled it in.

That’s Leo getting subbed off at HT confirmed.

Perfectly for who, Mr McGregg?

Came straight back at Archer at an awkward speed, height and angle TBF, harder than it looked.

I’m not sure that’s really an issue, personally. I’m more concerned that there are three other CBs on the pitch at home to Swansea.

I’ve got to be honest, I don’t think anyone is particularly interested in this ‘random spin wheel’ persona you seem to be going for on every match thread.

The transfer business was fine, it’s the manager picking the team I’m concerned about. To be 17th with Boro and WBA’s best players sat on the bench is ludicrous. As many have said though, at least Manning is out.

It’s probably more to do with Donny’s ego believing its own hype after negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza. Never mind the fact that the USA’s gigantic economy and military made it something akin to Andre the Giant breaking up a fight on a primary school playground, Trump will now believe he’s some sort of expert negotiator. Obviously growing a pair of balls and fully supporting Ukraine would go against this delusion, so he’ll just sit their like an overripe satsuma telling both sides they need to be realistic whilst doing f**k all of any substance.

We don’t need a ‘complete squad rebuild’. Quite who you think we’d bring in as an improvement on the players we’ve got now, I can’t fathom. The likes of Edwards, Fellows, Azaz and Charles were some of the best players in the league at their respective clubs, last season.

As has always been the case, Putin will view Trump with little more than the contempt he deserves as the most useful idiot in human history. He’ll string him along with fake negotiations, promises he’ll immediately break and demands he knows Ukraine never can or will agree to. Putin wants nothing more than to bog the US down in bureaucracy and the illusion of negotiation, in order to stall supplies of aid and weapons to Ukraine. There’ll be a whole load of hot air blown around, then Putin will claim somebody else violated some agreement and go back to what he’s always been doing.

Up there with Stephens’ red card against Chelsea for completely brainless, not even trying to play football, stupidity.

Still wanted decent wide players to play his system. We signed Jelert, Mads, Fellows and Scienza to complement Edozie and Robinson. If we start another game with Fraser and Manning as wing backs and don’t win, it’s really time to start worrying.

The last time we did anything other than lose a league game at AG, Pink Floyd were number one with Another Brick in the Wall. Given our start to the season, I’m not expecting that to change next week.

Hopefully he gets things back on track soon because lord knows his Only Fans is…. Let’s just say challenging.

TBH I don’t think that’s even unique to Nic. I’ve noticed a lot of people who, when confronted by an opposing opinion they have nothing to respond with, will simply post a confused or laughing emoji and say nothing. I take it as a seal of validity in many ways.

A win here and things actually start to look a bit better. 8 points from 4 games is the form we need to be at the sharp end come May. It’ll be interesting to see if the international break has been used wisely to sort out our formation and best XI.

Thoughts and prayers