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He may be a great guy but McCrorie isn't up to much on the pitch.

Mehmeti was on longer than that.

Plus, the more time LJ had on the training pitch the worse we got. Practically guaranteed to lose after every international break. Worrying similarities appearing.

I have the same worry. Rather like LJ, overthinks it. Johnson's best runs were when we were down to the bare bones and he had to ditch the tombola. I fear Liam may suffer from the same affliction and disappear up his own ass trying to be too clever.

I thought the kid looked really nervous and unsure what to do. Won't help playing in a team that is getting boos at the end I suspect.

I'd rather we made it to the play offs as it would prove how close we are and help attract new players. I don't think we are ready to go up but it would add some excitement to the end of this season. I think we'll finish 8-11th though.

Hard to tell when you are watching on TV. Looks promising. Physically he reminded me of Bobby Reid before he built himself up.

Let's hope Liam can also work out how to beat teams that sit back and let us have the ball. If he can then that would be a clear improvement on what NP left him.

Gotta say that McCrorie showed a bit of class with that ball.

Williams made a nice overlap but Mehmeti just seems to be on planet Anis.

Interesting how everyone agrees we need to rotate and rest players but is happy that Vyner and Dickie play every game. Don't CBs get tired too. Smacks of discrimination to me.

Let's not get too carried away by one decent half from Cornick. It was a lot better than we usually see from him, granted. I was still hunting in vain for the donkey emoji to add to a comment about him on the matchday thread a couple of times yesterday.

I had the same feeling about LM seeing McCrorie being the catalyst for switching to WBs. Trouble is, I don't think he is worth changing the whole defence to fit in. Pretty underwhelmed by him so far.

Fast getting to the point where I throw something at the TV when LM reverts to three at the back. How much evidence does he need to see it doesn't suit these players? Gotta take on board what's staring us all in the face eventually I hope.

Is it just me with no audio on RTV?

It's hard enough for refs choosing between red and yellow cards. Add a third and it gets even more subjective and harder to decide which is the appropriate choice. Whatever the rules it is still down to a ref's judgement. I'd rather they left it as it is.

RB saying we are playing four at the back. And sounding much better. Take the hint Manning!

Is the game on TV? Managed to watch the home leg on one of the ESPN channels but have yet to find any channel showing the replay.

If Tommy can score a winner on Wed I think we can stop worrying about that. What he's done in the cup is no doubt raising his profile and adding evidence he could get goals in the PL.

Is it lack of fitness that causes him to cut inside, run into players and fall over? Cause that has been his standard move as far as I can see so far. Won't attempt to beat a man down the outside and has one trick which is to back in and spin with the ball to get past his man. Seen him try that numerous times now. A bit like Mehmeti: a trick that soon gets spotted and the oppo will know what's coming before long.

We are crap with a back 3. Results only improved under NP when he switched to four. We now have McCrorie to play RWB and didn't really have an obvious choice before. However, from what I've seen so far he is yet another SPL player who's totally out of his depth at this level.

If I was a player I'd be thinking the same thing. Hardly helping to inspire them I would imagine.

Where is the info about Bird being loaned back coming from? Haven't seen any announcement yet - does Robbored have copyright on this sort of comment btw?

So, are we bottom of the top half, or top of the bottom half? I feel it is the latter myself. Not good enough to push towards the top six but unlikely to slip into trouble.

I'm sure Bournemouth fans feel the same way about signing players from us.