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Have heard rumblings he is to come here on loan with option to buy. Benson going to Hull. Assume as a bit of “sorry, thanks, here’s your apology present”

The bloke is a total weapon, who basically just made fun of our fans who were crammed into their away end with no view of the game in the CC game there a few seasons back after they clearly massively oversold the allocation

You can tell he doesn’t give a **** about the club, the fans or players (probably feels above them all) & probably also doesn’t want to be a coach. All of his interviews stink of “you lot are just wasting my time”. How they’ve gone from Rob Edwards to him in 18 months takes some doing. But anything that means failure for Dale Vince, I’m all for.

Of course there is. But when a side brings on an attacking 10 & two strikers on at HT, they were always going to be massively going for it. To expect us to just soak that up, especially with how the second half started, without having to make any changes was very naive and dumb. IMO. It was pretty obvious to Everyone watching it that we needed to change something, rather than stand there and say ‘well….this is a tough one for the players to figure out isn’t it, good luck to them though’. As @Harry mentioned, going 3 at the back with Tanner at CB, once we were already 1-0 down, made things even worse somehow. We took TGH off, by far and away our most creative CM, to settle us into a midfield two of James and Williams, whilst 1-0 down. That’s what you do at 1/2-0 up, not down.

I went there once years ago, pre covid, and it was really really nice food. Just a bit off the beaten track. Great environment in there too.

Sorry that wasn’t aimed at you was a hypothetical one back to Mr Manning

Literally never take pics of food, but had to for this really. Bank tavern roast, look forward to going again in 2028!

Why not change something to help deal with it then?

The pitch itself is also thick as hell. Anytime from October onwards, it Goes from looking lovely and perfectly playable, to churned up to hell in the space of a half.

One thing that strikes me from yesterdays interview, and mentioned this to @Davefevs, is that he’s talking like a man that was powerless to make any change to counter the changes that Preston made. Made the point in the MTD, but him saying (paraphrased) “they didn’t do anything special, they just went direct” is a bit alarming to me. Basically shrugging off that it’s not a ‘good’ change up because it’s not a tactical masterclass type switch up. As a few have said, Watford is going to be really intriguing as we’ll be able to see the real make up of Ismael, who’ll no doubt have rewatched our mauling of them many times to see what can be done to counter that. And how can our Liam get the side to react to these changes?

******* hell, 11th in the league but they’re the best side in the league.

Apparently will be movement on this one way or another before Tuesday. Clause in loan meant if he was to be recalled, it has to be by mid-Jan, so tomorrow. If true, and he’s still there on Tuesday, he won’t be signing for us this window

You’re actually not allowed to bring up the brilliant performances under him this year. It’s not allowed. Only allowed to bring up how poor we were in his first two seasons when the squad was even worse than it is now, and we didn’t have a pot to piss in until we sold Scott and Semenyo.

He said it in bbc interview, after Ed asked him about their subs

Interesting, and a bit of a worry, LM said post match that their changes “weren’t exactly big ones, they didn’t become more free flowing, they just went more direct”. It’s not about making changes to look prettier on the pitch mate, it’s about making changes that win you the game.

‘Optimistic’ there’s a real chance we have a new signing in by next week says LM. May I be the first to say, welcome….. back, Chris Martin.

Probably why he hasn’t, and in my opinion won’t, sign a new deal

And how well coached we look. And how much our home form has improved. Etc

3 straight league games where we could stay out til midnight and not score, and getting a raft of penalties in a fair few other games suggests different

Well for all those who facepalmed me saying this system really doesnt work one bit if we want to score goals, there we have it.

Chasing a goal so change the CM to be Williams and James doesn’t make too much sense to me

Preston looking very cosy for that first clean sheet in 18 games

Jesus wept

13 points off the play offs. Something special is happening at Bristol Rovers

FAW stream is working perfect. Preston ifollow stream. I’d almost rather not watch than have to put up with RTV these days, it’s borderline unbearable.