Lighthouse

So who’d take another 15 minutes of boring possession football.

Kaboooooooooosh!!

I think this chap is taking the phrase ‘playoff second leg’ a little bit too literally.

That’ll f**king do, Voldemort!!

It’s a very finely balanced game between two of the five best teams in this league. Both have a game plan and are playing it quite well, the game could go either way. I don’t know why anyone would expect differently, Norwich’s collapse yesterday was very much the exception, rather than the rule.

I don’t know what game most of you are watching. If this lot had swapped shirts before the game, you’d all be saying we’d be thoroughly outplayed all over the park, were lucky to make it to HT and can only see one winner.

Equally you can say our game plan is to keep the ball, keep possession, keep probing and patiently wait for a decent chance. We’re playing it well so far, I see nothing to be upset about, yet. I think most neutrals who aren’t infected with Saints paranoia would fancy us, watching this.

He looks nothing like Wilson.

If we’re still in this league next year, it’ll be a shame not to have THB.

I’m guessing a back four, with Stephens at LB. It worked at the Hawthorns earlier in the year.

TBF that could still be kids these days.

Started well enough, good to have KB and MA back in the team.

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I’ve just had a Jaffa Bar. I quite liked it.

I think Sky had to wait until after 9pm before being allowed to show Ashley Barnes.

I hope West Brom are this crap tomorrow.

That's the kind of never say die attitude that's sure to bring us glory. This is the same Leeds who had a chance to make the autos if they got a decent result against relegation threatened QPR but completely bottled it and got thumped 4-0.

No, he has a save percentage of 71% this season.

We’ll have a much better chance with him starting, even if he only lasts an hour and Stewart comes on after that. We’ve got potentially two one off cup finals ahead of us, we can’t be resting or saving anyone for anything.

I'm not sure we really have that luxury.

We've been playing every match on the furthest East wicket so far, I don't know if the others are being saved for the Blast or if it was tactical. Either way it looks like someone's going to need to have a 'mare with the bat for any kind of result. A bit of other mixed news today. Naveen wont be coming here, for personal reasons apparently but on the plus side Neser and Baker are in the squad for the first time this season.

I don't understand how anyone who's watched Alcaraz this season can say that. He's been largely substandard since an initial flurry of goals in the firsrt month he signed. He isn't three times the player Rothwell is either, if anything the latter is marginally better. Going back to the general point about younger players getting game time; they'll get it when they're good enough to at least look better than the liked of Sully and Mara. If they aren't doing that then they aren't ready yet and for many of them it's likely they never will be.

It’s not perfect but I’d much rather have it than not. People seem to have forgotten the regular, blatant dives players used to get away with when they weren’t even touched, amongst many other offences. Conceding a goal to a player who should have been sent off 30 minutes ago (aka the Carroll) was another popular one.

And with a different keeper who wasn’t so composed with the ball at his feet we’d have been much more susceptible to the press, have conceded more that way and would have started fewer attacks playing out from the back. If you’re going to criticise Baz for Ipswich, you have to take away our second goal which started from him playing it out quickly from the back.