Engvall’s Splinter

What do you mean by make or break exactly? Make the play offs, make the automatic promotion spots, make the top 10, make the top of half? As long as we don’t regress and financially we are improving, I see Nige here until he decides he wishes to leave. The side and ethic he has been / continues to create is one I can finally get behind. I feel real pride in the team when they leave the pitch. The players are putting a shift in week in week out, they seem an honest bunch too - no egos. Appreciate this should be the baseline but it’s been missing for sometime. Players are throwing themselves to get in the way of shots & crosses in numbers. They appear to be proud to wear the shirt - of course we want to see quality but I love the players showing fight and determination.

Pearson won’t be getting an extension? Compensation for what - somebody else wants him?

Decent in E28. Did chuckle at the Foden’s mum song.

Semenyo with a “you’re welcome guys” ?

Sykes over Weimann for me.

Might bump up the compensation.

Love the newly found in game intelligence. The dribbling round the corner flag to waste some more seconds, Nakhi purposely putting the ball outside the D so he’ll be pulled up to waste more seconds. Cornick holding the thrown in to then hand it to Sykes to take. Joe Williams very good today. Breaking up play superbly well. Nakhi giving us a little bit more than Bell too. good win.

Would like to see bell get across the front post.

Wells on please. He must be itching to get on one of the end of these crosses.

Looked like he went down without being touched I thought.

Real positive start. We look a decent side again.

Wonder why Wells continues to miss out. Originally thought he was just being rested for a solitary game.

Tracksuit or not, great victory for Hudds yesterday.

Our young side, in front of 40k fans have come back from a goal down against a team who are 5th in the Championship, who were / are 4th in the form table. Absolutely there’s positivity. Long may it continue - these Saturdays are to be enjoyed. As at some point, possibly soon, we won’t win for a few games.

Sunderland commentary team was positive about us and in particular how we moved the ball out through the back line. I think they’d made a comment not many teams manage to do that at the SOL.

What a strange comment. In flashes he’s lit up the last two games. I can’t remember Ryan Kent giving us that? If he had already learned to pass at the right time and consistently make the correct decisions, he’d of leapfrogged us for another club. Worked to be done, yes. Ryan Kent, I don’t think so. (Feels weird knocking Kent as he’s carved out a decent career by the looks of it).

Love the intelligence from Sykes to wrestle it off him and take the heat from the keeper before handing it to Nakhi.

Spirit. Fair play lads. Dug in for a point. Love that.

Happy to be proved wrong when Sykesy fires one over for Cornick to nod home.

Bizarre if we’ve taken Tanner off to play Sykes at right back.

I would say his stance was attempting to show him down the line. A quick cut back onto his right and the lad has put it in the top corner. He hasn’t showed him inside has he.

You think he showed him inside?

Bell not been in it yet.

We’ve effectively played with one up top since Swansea have we not?

You leave Sykes out for a second game despite his form?