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I caught the pulse pre match commentary, when Thornton and whoever he was with talked about how well O’Connor and Mellor played on Saturday. At centre back. In a game we conceded 3 goals in. To a team in the bottom 4.

We’ve forgotten what ‘good’ looks like.

 

The edin out effect

 

OD back in goal, and a new left and centre back will make a big difference

 

Not impressed with Henry so far. Thought J O’Brien would be the better option.

 

Centre back is the main worry!

We need 2 new centre backs

 

What an absolute waste. An absolute shame, but ultimately , an absolute waste of 130 mins of football. If I were our strikers, I'd be going nuts at our defence at the moment. It's 2 steps forward, 3 steps back each game.

 

So true WIlsden, and thats 3 draws v Peterborough in recent weeks which is certainly an improvement. Just hope tonight has not taken too much out of the boys, both physically and mentally. But we have to be positive about creating over 30 scoring opportunities and hopefully we can tighten our defence up in under 3 weeks time

 

I suppose the irritating "take the positives from the game" comes to mind but in our predicament I think playing league games is important to hopefully catch up.If we had a good cup run we could fall further behind even though we'd accrue games in hand.

I think I'd rather see us moving up the table especially after signing some decent defenders,winger/s and a target man goalscorer in Jan.

 

Always turn the notifications off! Although it does impress my kids that their dad has such great football knowledge, that he can see a goal coming approx 30 secs before it happens

 

Yeah you are right there is no way of officially appealing and i didnt mean appeal the result. I meant that there must be a channel to go down like the FA which you could write to and at least officially lodge a complaint regarding consistent poor decision making.

 

Apart from the free kick incident ( yes, if it had been us the ref would have pulled it back until he had blown his whistle) I thought Wilson was very slow to move when any ball came across the penalty box leaving a lot of chances for a tap in..
Hadn't quite picked up on the criticism re Chicksen until last night but he was terrible , along with Henry when he came on..but there were a lot of improved performances from quite a few players, Akpan, Mellor and of course Miller whose manager was surely there to spy on their next cup opponents
All in all though the game was good value for a fiver...!!

 

No issues with the free-kick, if he'd hoofed it wide and the ref had pulled it back and let them take it again because it was a yard away from the foul there'd have been loads of moaning, we should have managed the situation much better than we did.

 

Aye he isn’t the first keeper to get beat like that and won’t be the last, if anything we are detracting away from what was a superb piece of opportunism from Toney,an inch perfect strike. Having watched it back i think the ref was right to let it stand.

 

If you watch the Waddle goal against Everton he hits it around 35 yards out and beats Southall. Should he be on his line? It happens. No blame for Wilson, it's poor from us to let him take it quickly.

 

Agree when opposition teams come and stand over the ball until their defence gets organised it so frustrating but we need to be smarter than Tuesday night, and I'd have thought that would have been something Hopkin would have addressed, you dont give the opposition time to take a quick free kick even though the foul was in their half and the freekick taken in our half with the ball still moving.

 

A win will be good as it will bring in some money but probably only result in us getting battered at Middlesbrough.

We'll need to score at least twice because they'll play on the counter as they always do and they have loads of pace and we don't.

I expect them to sit back watch our efforts and then score on the break at least once. We'll need some luck to win this game

Worst thing that could happen is that we lose pretty heavily say 0-3 or 1-3 which is entirely possible and confidence takes a hit again.

 

Whoever is seriously important for us v Walsall, (that'll be players belonging to other clubs then) rest them. I'll put good money on us going out in the next round, we have a zero chance of going very far in the cup but a significantly better than zero chance of staying up.

 

Totally agree, winning creates mentality, spirit and a feel good with us fans but most important £54,000 prize money at stake and a share of money in the next round and, who knows, more prize money still. Very welcome and much needed if we can get it.

 

Was it really surprising though? They played like strangers, had no passion or drive for each other and you could even see when we scored, they didn’t know what to do!

Clearly Wright was doing a good job as club captain, rallying his teammates together! Have we seen the last of him? Not even making the bench.

 

its just annoying that no team as to work hard to score against us...