Roe

Was a very good ref for us. There wasn't a huge amount of big decisions for him to make but thought in general he seemed to be more favourable to us. Makes a change anyway

Was one of the best performances I've ever seen. Incredible

Looks ridiculous on TV and I'd imagine in the ground too. Surely there are rules on this kind of thing (obviously not). Seems crazy how fast they transition and how distracting they are

Imagine the extension is guaranteed now and we'll potentially look at a new contract between now and early next season. While Vyner is now flavour of the month and everybody's (mine included fwiw) favourite player, we need to be careful not to give out stupid contracts to players we might not really want long term. It was only a few months ago everyone wanted rid of him

Only applies to Bailey Wright

I feel like we're going down far too easily on most of those shouts but the fact that 0 of them were given is pretty odd. There's at least 2 or 3 that are probably more likely to be given than not and then even the minimal shouts are probably at a good 10% chance each at least

As much as I obviously want us to get penalties, I don't want them being given for things like the one on Wells. Striker goes down too easy. Pens should only be given when they're absolutely clear (and I feel the same about free kicks in general tbf)

2nd at Christmas ? It was this kind of delusion that caused us major problems that we're still only just recovering from now

Plenty of time to sign more players this month. I'm sure they'll be fine

Idiots

Pearson's change in tactics actually affected the game in a positive way for us

Most clubs are terrible at matchday presentation as a whole and we're certainly bad at that among other things Weird because it all seems quite an easy thing to fix imo Obviously we all know the sound systems are awful so that doesn't help but the massive screens are hardly used in an effective way Downsy and I'd assume some others running the show clearly aren't football fans Presumably one of the main reasons they don't do anything is they want fans back in the concourse buying food and drinks anyway. Still sad though

Sounds fantastic tbh

Been getting increasingly disappointed with Max recently. Always thought he was decent for us but now was the time to really step up and make his own mark in goal. He's not doing that at all imo and is looking a bit of a weak spot (among the many)

Even if true that's pretty irrelevant imo. He could've been offered 10x the wages and it's still up to him if he wanted to sign the contract It's just a bit of an odd stance in a sport where almost all players move around every 2 to 3 years for various reasons For Massengo to be effectively frozen out for so long seems counter productive. We've now lost any value on the pitch, and his transfer value is now likely to be 0 or whatever the fee works out for players under whatever age its set to I imagine Massengo's side of the story could paint a pretty poor picture of our club in a lot of ways

I don't think Massengo really chose to run the clock down in this way as such so it's a bit harsh imo. Its not like he's said he doesn't want to play and you can't force someone sign a contract. I understand Pearson's stance on it to a point but it also seems pretty silly in a lot of ways

The reality is that the vast majority of all football clubs are wasting huge sums of money on players. This has been going on for decades now. Will be interesting to see if we really do cut our cloth accordingly over the next couple of years and keep it that way. The history says we won't

I don't have an issue as such with Pearson's response. It more falls down to a poor judgement call if he really trusted King more than Atkinson. The organisation of our defence has been terrible for a long time (even before Pearson). Strangely Nigel often seems to not do anything about it. Ie: The insistence that "we have to play 3 at the back" Playing strikers at wing back Selecting King over either Klose or Atkinson when available Frequently changing keepers.. There's a long list of questionable decisions

"If players aren't being selected it's their fault, not mine" ?

Picking King at centre back over Atkinson is some worrying decision making

Make up your own mind if you think this is something a top professional would do I guess

Apart from when he deliberately got suspended because he wanted a holiday

It was a lively weekend for VAR but honestly I think it's being exaggerated how bad the decisions were. Almost all of the cases can (and are being) argued either way. And a lot of the experts and people complaining were the loudest with the insistence that the game needs technology to help with decisions

Oooh nice chance to make the last 16

Naismith racking up the assists already