Lighthouse

I think you may have missed the sarcasm there. Good luck against Brighton.

White, Pekhart, Robertson, Patterson, Perricard and Bignall were all dreadful but at a lower level so they’d get the nod for me. Fuller, DMG, BWP and Madsen were nothing to write home about either.

That doesn’t prove anything at all. Maybe he has taken a step forward, maybe he hasn’t. Hopefully he will be useful next season in getting promoted. To have improved us this season, he’d have to have been here, which means he wouldn’t have been on loan at Burnley and have been able to score those goals against weaker opposition. In other words, nothing would have changed; he’d still have been the same substandard player he was last year. Balogun is of no relevance to anything. His technically decent finishes all came with more time, space and against weaker opponents than he will ever face in the Premier League. That’s where he difference lies, I could get a non league player to smash it into the top corner from 20 yards out, if he was stood there on his own with nobody around him.

What an absurd logic to take. Would you also say that the hand of God in ‘86 was a wonderful, thumping header, or that Lampard’s shot against Germany never crossed the line?

Yes, I genuinely thought there was going to be a red card in that too. He made a very deliberate movement to intercept the cross and hit the ball with his arm, which was raised at shoulder height. The fact that he was trying to head it is irrelevant, all that proves is that Lyanco is useless. He did hit him, it quite obviously, litterally did happen. I can't put it any more simply than that. Again, how hard is irrelevant, this isn't UFC. You aren't being graded on how hard you can whack someone. It's against the rules and it's a foul. Djenepo was outside the box and was not a red card offence, so VAR didn't look at it. Arguably a free kick and booking but that's all. He had his hand on his back at one point as they were both grabbing each others shirts and fighting for the ball. Orsi didn't hit him. The fact that DCC couldn't maintain his composure against a team fighting relegation in League 2 is pathetic. It's a foul in the penalty area. The fact that other referees might not have given it is irrelevant. It was a penalty, DCC was an absolute muppet.

Apart from the fact that it was clearly and obviously offside?

No he didn’t. They were wrong.

I genuinely don't know which one you mean as they were both very obviously fouls. Lyanco threw himself at the ball and hit it with his arm, never in a million years was that ball to hand. DCC hit someone, how hard is irrelevant. It reminds me a bit of when everyone was blaming Ronaldo for Rooney getting set off at the 2006 WC.

He isn’t. Most of our players would look decent playing in that team, at that level. Last year he was, if anything, worse than Redmond, Walcott and Moi.

There was a definite whiff of Bristol Rovers ‘08 about tonight’s performance, only much more pungent.

What exactly is it you think the likes of Moi, AA, Walcott, Aribo, Adams and Mara are capable of? What untapped potential are you waiting to see from these players?

Nope, he was finished and had to go, apparently. His last four games were a win at Bournemouth, a draw against Arsenal (who were smashing everyone back then), a 1-0 defeat at Palace and the Newcastle game which could have been 2-2 on another day.

Really? I just can’t begin to care about them. Just useless.

Even if that goal had been given, I’d have vehemently disagreed with that. Give me Lavia and ABK over Bednarek and Walcott any day.

I’d have brought bollards on ahead of Aribo.

He has one goal, a penalty, in 23 Championship appearances this season. No thanks, we clung to him for far too long.

Christ, that’s the worst marking I’ve ever seen.

Orsic, thank god we coughed up the extra dough to get him in the door.

Not to send DCC off?

Absolute w**ker, what was he thinking?!

Think Adams at Molyneux but in our own six yard box.

Having thundered the offside chance into the bottom corner, Mara…

Watching those celebrations, there is a small part of me who wants Grimsby to go through. At the risk of being condescending, it would mean a lot for them to go through and get a trip to a properly big team. We’ll just limply dribble out of the competition against anyone we play in the next round.

How did it take so long to check something so obvious.

Orsic and Orsi being on the pitch is mildly irritating.