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Up until recently I hadn’t seen current pictures of either him or Paul Nicholas. Quite a shock to see how much they had aged since they were both on TV regularly. Where did that time go?

Archer plays more like Mubama than Larin.

They were clearly trying to bring in a third striker.

I’m not 100% sure but thought that I read somewhere that Lankshear’s preferred choice was Middlesbrough.

It looked like it was heading into the corner to me, but at least he had a shot at goal.

They played very narrow yesterday meaning there was little room to operate in the centre of the pitch.

I haven’t written Mubama off but I do worry about his application, or lack of. Like Downs he doesn’t display any of the basic skills for the position we play him in and is so laid back he is almost horizontal. As for the performance, some people have short memories. There were plenty of times during last season’s unbeaten run where we were rubbish and rode our luck. Azaz has moments of brilliance, as does Scienza, but both are inconsistent which is why they are playing in the Championship. We had a great run but we were not the best team in the Championship last year just as we were never going to be this year. On the upside, we are four games into a new unbeaten run. 😎

One football site made JWP man of the match. If anyone else has passed it (it was way longer than 5 yards) sideways to Welington would they have been accused of playing crab football? Both Downes and JWP had good games today. We didn’t lose because of them. What did Azaz do today? Plenty of others deserve some stick.

If he hadn’t have passed it sideways Welington would not have scored.

Apart from setting up the goal? Too many players aren’t playing up to last years standard in the second half of the season at the moment. Mubama is a strange one. I can only assume he is much better than this and is currently over confident and needs to change his attitude. If this is how he normally plays God knows how he ended up at City or anybody at our club thought he was worth investing in. On the plus side, there is a very long way to go. The return of Jander will make a big difference and hopefully Tonda will leave Stephens on the bench in future.

We didn’t lose. Erm, that is it.

Great crab pass assist from JWP

For which side though? 🤔

Given that Shlotterbeck had a couple of Captain Jack moments against Birmingham I’m not sure of the wisdom of pairing up these two. As we know, Stephens is weak in the air too. Other than that happy to see JWP start and it looks pretty good on paper. At some point Mubama is going to have to start and needs more game time though.

He had an earlier goal ruled out for a foul too.