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Think he was waiting to see the reaction of the two players involved before deciding as more often that is the giveaway in right or wrong. Notice the Blackburn defender didn’t complain when he did give it because he knew it was blatant as did the players around it.

Prime Ade Akinbiyi all day long.

Only concern is now his contract is winding down he’s suddenly turned up.

Unfortunately his vision is not teachable.

He’s a reactive player, tends to ball watch more than most unfortunately. Was asleep for the first goal too although Max takes the most blame for it for a wild chase out.

Not sure we need a goalscorer as Tommy and Nahki are fox in the box type players, our problem is creating.

Coventry are home to Oxford so think we’ll be avoiding that fixture anyway.

Was subbed after 9 minutes of the second half for Sykes who stayed wide and then Bell who also stayed wide when Sykes went off might point towards Weimann being in his own little bubble. Agree he should be played centrally but think maybe he’s trying too hard with the captaincy or he’s just not playing the role he’s told to.

Shocked Weimann made it to the second half, was like a 6 year old kid following the ball across the pitch. When you’ve got 3 in the middle the last thing you need is a supposed wide player standing in the middle of the pitch. Gave us zero output on the right hand side especially as we have Tanner on the right because he won’t progress into the space. For an experienced pro I’m really disappointed and annoyed by his lack of football intelligence. Genuinely don’t think we will lose much if he goes soon.

On Conway I’d say he’s more fed up with the style of play than confidence, as a striker you want to know that if you miss a chance then another will come along and I don’t see us playing the style that keeps him busy in and around the box. Tanner isn’t weak he lost his head because of the OG and that was visible so should have been replaced rather than waiting for him to get booked for a stupid foul and grow into himself even more. Vyner always switches off, he’s always been a reactive player than proactive, watch him every game make a mistake and then TBF he does recover well but unfortunately today it was against someone with pace. I think we do have quality but not where we need it and where it shows which at this level is the difference.

I was thinking the same but more like what Barry Bannan has been for Sheffield Wednesday.

I’ll always remember the stadium of light fondly, the noise was incredible and the fact we literally got in their half once and had one shot on target the whole game to get a draw was a bonus but that was when I was a kid so everything seemed bigger/louder.

@Davefevs do you have the stats to back up his comments on the “we’re in the top 10 in the league for fan base, wages” etc please? As a quick Google on average attendances has us 12th and average wage bill also 12th.

Didn’t even realise Weimann was playing today, completely anonymous again.

Was lazy in his play when on and was pointing out Yeboah to do his defensive work for him.

Got injured when run over by Alexander at the HPC, explains why he’s suddenly left the club.

Not necessarily as most managers that are genuinely concerned will pull their players off straight away, it’s the clubs that get their players to feign injury that will be punished and rightly so.

Pretty impressive considering he done his ACL a month or so ago.

They’ll probably hand out torches to the 40000 fans to keep on during the game.

Certainly would help if the football and rugby pitches were under opposite stands.

Probably best to put things into perspective in the fact that yes he’s not young but he is still inexperienced in that he’s made 62 appearances for us at championship level and 30 for Shrewsbury at league one level. Compare that to Cam Pring who is now classed as a real quality championship level player who has made 68 championship appearances for us, 9 league one appearances for Portsmouth and then 36 league two appearances for Newport, Cheltenham and Walsall so maybe a little more patience is required with Max considering his growth with us.

Went to school with Matty and you’re right, defensively sound. Had he been taller he would have been made a top top centre half.

Do you think he may have been more involved/progressive with Sykes in front of him instead of Cornick who seems to be an easy option for a long ball/aerial duel?

Passing stats today according to Sky were Tanner-45 passes 68.9% Vyner-55 passes 85.5% Dickie-69 passes 72.5% Pring-38 passes 57.9% Weimann-6 passes 66.7% subbed 23 James-39 passes 76.9% Knight-34 passes 64.7% subbed 88 Cornick-16 passes 56.3% subbed 70 Wells-13 passes 84.6% subbed 69 Bell-14 passes 42.9% subbed 87 Williams-35 passes 60% subbed 23 Sykes-8 passes 50% subbed 70 Conway-4 passes 100% subbed 69 King-6 passes 33.3% subbed 88 Mehmeti-1 pass 100% subbed 87 team 425 passes 65.6% accuracy clearly very poor down the left side today and the failure to keep possession after the subs shows we weren’t good enough with the ball. 20 tackles 75% successful and 18 clearances.

He was trying to block the shot and it got struck from close range, VAR probably would have slowed it down as much as possible and just shown it between his hands to the ref so that he’d have had no option other than to give it.