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Anyone know any news about where are Ben Acey and Owuru Edwards?

If he does retire due to health, will this be covered by insurance, and thus not included as part of our overall FFP?

I love it when we play in the purple and lime 

Lloyd Kelly is having a great start to the game. So strong against his man

Nathan Baker is too over rated imho. Very soft for a big defender.

Has Causey Woodrow even touched the ball since coming on?

Probably score Now! 

2 minutes ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Korey Smith is summarising on RB.

Would prefer Gary Owers again. Thought he was very inciteful 

10 hours ago, havanatopia said:

It remains vivid in my memory from the Reading game and came home to roost once more when I saw those shocking goals against Cardiff; May I suggest to all those who have watched this turmoil unfold since early Nov (?) that there is something wrong in the head of our back line that smacks of useless or 'frankly I don't give a damn' or, that, with 'I want the little wretch fired so am gonna give their striker plenty of room'.

What I have seen in those two games, when the opposition have been bearing down on goal is nothing short of diabolical. I would go as far as to say i have not seen defending that bad. Actually I cannot remember worse defending since Forbes Phillipson Masters and at least he tried. 

Our back line are supposed to be decent professionals on thousands of pounds a week. I don't accept that they are not good enough. Look at the goals we are leaking across all of the matches and tell me if you see a pattern. The single goal smacks of managing losses.

I need to ask the question even if it sounds stupid; what on earth is going on?

To my mind they are not playing for the manager. That means its curtains for Lee.

Here is my prediction for the next 2 matches:-

Scrape through on penalties against Fleetwood against all the odds and then draw at Forest and that should be the end of that.

 

p.s. sorry mods.. this should be in general football chat. Please move.

I think this is a good evaluation but I do question when you say they are not playing for the manager. Do you think that after 70 minutes the team agree to defend deep so as to let in goals and go against the managers game plan? I'm sure they are professional enough and want to win rather than prove a point.

What I think is that lack that very authoritative voice on the field, marshaling the troops. Could you ever imagine a player like Roy Keane just accepting the ways things are on the pitch - probably not. He would fight (sometimes literally!) to get the players motivated for the final 20 minutes.

32 minutes ago, cityexile said:

Interesting to see Agard and Kodjia both start. Pretty strong side, and good to see some youngsters on the bench.

No Odemwingie means I guess he does not feature in our plans going forward?

Looks like Mark Little is also no longer in the plans 

5 minutes ago, Taz said:

Tis crazy, so tight it's unreal. To be honest the whole league is so tight, if we had an extra 3 wins under our belt, we could be around 10th.

Further confirms how bad we did last summer with recruitment!!!

Makes you wonder where we would be in the league without all the last  minute / extra time goals we have conceded!