Red Army 87

Pleased to see LM make changes at half time, as opposed to waiting until 65 mins, wasting 20 mins of seeing the same thing. Whether planned or reactionary I guess we’ll never know, but a positive for me vs what he has done previously.

Twine very good at ‘winning’ free kicks

I thought the same

Twine - kicking the ball away.

We’re defending the wide areas well, an obvious switch up for Ipswich would be to pump some long passes into Moore and feed off it, I think we would start to struggle if they do that.

Do we know which way we are shooting this half?

Looking like a great day for us….

Saddest part for me was as soon as Cardiffs goal hit the net, it was obvious that it was game over. Fans knew it, so did the players and the body language said it all.

We’re ‘borrowing’ him for a set period of time. Burnley will have involvement with his injury and rehabilitation, as we will with any player we have out on loan. There will be a requirement of some sort for us to keep them involved.

Some guys just love the game - look at Warnock at Aberdeen.

Confirmed by LM on pre match interview that cornick is feeling under the weather, but makes the bench.

Is there a city group link here with manning, or is that a bit far fetched?

Fair play, that’s out of nowhere. Hope he does well

I was walking past the rising sun when that happened - some bloke decided it would be a good idea to try diving head first into the door and bouncer. He was on the floor quite quickly after that…

Very assured and aggressive with the ball - you can see what he can bring to the team when fully up to speed.

Prices have put me off as well. £70+ for anything that isn’t the upper tier of lansdown stand if I’m understanding it correctly.

Joe Williams said as much in his post match interview regarding creating more chances for Tommy, so it’s clearly something that’s been discussed as a group.

Not often we go away from home and get treated like the home team. A few players off the pace and the pitch didn’t seem to help, so a point and a clean sheet is ok. Good to see us controlling games like this - never really looked like losing which is a positive for me.

I suppose the reasons for being unpopular are important here - easy to be unpopular for telling a few home truths?

I was just thinking how much we miss him on the pitch in a game like this. Composure up front really lacking for us and he has that.

Rob Garnacho there

“Keep it tight first 5 mins back out there lads”

Always hoping for a win, but will be more interested to see if there are any changes to our style of play tomorrow - any signs of LM putting his stamp on things. If we lose (against a side doing relatively well) but can see a positive change to approach I won’t be devastated. However, losing with the ‘same old’ approach would be a bit of a worry.

The rugby lines were right in my sight line and definitely not covered as they were last time. On the tactics I very much agree, it felt after a few attempts to be positive in the first 15-20 mins city (consciously or not) seemed to set up to take a draw. It felt like only a matter of time before villa would score as players tired.

It was - completely unnecessary too.