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What a save by macca - as good as a goal that one.

Honestly guys, the championship beligum-ing has begun.

Derbies GK kit is very similar? 🤔

No presser for this one?

Most obnoxious manager we've ever had?

He did say he was fit tbf...

FML. We are 4 points of 2nd with 38 games to play. Stoke are 2nd, they won't finish 2nd. Which means we're at most 3 points off a potential 2nd place rival, so 1 game... Saints fans - "automatics are done" 😄😄😄

Love this ref. Macca got lucky there. Needs to be stronger than that.

Unlucky to be behind, even without the penalty... But FFS Armstrong. What was that?!?! Just isn't working for us at the moment 🤦

It would take some in the championship to have written off play offs by news years. It really would.

Actually thought he was a pretty decent ref. Have done both times we've had him this season.

Found one... "The players could have easily chucked that game and thrown another manager under the bus. Yes, they need to do better and step up we can all see that.. may not be popular but I hope this can be a pivotal moment in the season for the manager. A last minute winner no matter who it is against will give the group some belief and confidence. We live in a time where it's easy to direct anger and hatred.. fair play to Martin for continuing to put himself out there and continuing to swing as it must be terrible on a personal level. I am desperate for him to turn this around."

Obviously won't be us will it ffs. Still gave stephens a new 3 year contract, he's probably his favourite person right now.

Yeah agreed. Its weird. I expect us to be beating boro at home - i'll accept a draw because i know we're struggling to gel and get going at present... But we were (and are) the better side - we need to be turning these draws into wins for most of the rest of the season.

I feel like we are seeing progress. But its taking a while for them to click, we've got tough games atm (do well to take anything from Wilder's Sheffield away). Fair play on him for dropping Stephens and THB. Thought fellows, AA, woods, and Quarshie all had pretty strong games all in all (although the CB's did lose their man for the goal - not helped by the decoy runner being offisde and them appealing for it). In some ways, maybe this tough run of matches is going to hone the team - but we'll be looking for Reading McDermot style run to get automatics if we don't start winning soon.

Better. But not good enough. Another travesty of defending and goalkeeping to cost us the game. 1 shot on target and a goal for boro... oh how i haven't missed macca being beaten at his near post

Adam blackmore and Tessem really are a shit pair of commentators does have to be say.

Macca there. Almost did one of his specials ffs.

Blimey... The defence....

Currently committing a slaughter away at Fulham 🔥🔥🔥

https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/ive-never-hated-a-manager-until-now.309109/ Wow...

Agreed, that was the best performance in a very long time. Since the playoffs at least.

Well they're hardly going to pick them up and walk off are they...

It was one of the best team performances we've had in the past 2years. But fundamentally its a better team. Even playing with 9men second half (downs and robinson were non-existent or even helped liverpool) and Macca in goal - which just shows that at least the rest of that team is at a higher standard than previous seasons.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Macca is the worse keeper of the two. He's a liability that will give away goals or horror passes multiple times per match and without warning. Bazunu's shot stopping isn't as strong, fine, but his all around play is far superior - he is better with the ball at his feet, he will sweep the back line and through balls, and his kicking/distribution is very good for the level we're at. That brings a calmness. Its the defences job to stop shots - the chance he parried back into the box vs Hull is 3 defensive fucks ups before its Baz's fault - the cross comes in unchallenged, 2 of our players fail spectacularly to mark or win the header that THB in particularly should be a favourite for, and then Stephen's is ball watching for the reboud. Its a car crash. And then its also rinse and repeat for the rest of the defending that led to the other goals. The baz haters then blame bazunu for the shit fest that is in front of him - when the error macca made is far far worse, and is a major reason why we didn't get to pens last night - instead had to come from behind to try and get back into the game. Reality is that we went from what should have been a 1 -0 lead to being 0-1 down in the space of half a minute. And the goal we conceded was yet another howler. Nothing is more unsettling for a defence than a keeper that can't be relied on to sweep up lose balls and provide reliable and safe distribution. What is more frustrating is that we can play that well against Liverpool (albeit it rotated) but we'll likely go back to being disjointed and cack vs Boro.