Eddie

One thing I don’t think has been mentioned yet. Burstow - specifically his heading. That was a great header yesterday and adds to the one against Blackpool (which was arguably better). 3 goals in the last 4 games, over a combined 70 minutes! He’s definitely a confidence player and looks like he’s found his confidence again - forget his goals, his overall play looks really good too. He must be pushing for a start too (although I do really like the look of Kenny).

Conway had looked shot before his injury. I’m not sure the reasoning for GJ playing there since he’s been fit again - although we’ve been doing well and he’s looked ok generally - but there’s no doubt that Conway looked more like his early season self when he came on today. Hopefully he is and he’s benefitted from that break. Conway of the first 10-15 games would be a massive lift for the last part of the season.

Nice touch from the crowd, especially considering the situation at the point he was taken off. Also thought the remembrance for the 33 was done nicely and an impeccable minutes silence. Booing the team during the first half was not so classy!

Surely Apter has had his chance now, he’s got to drop to the bench and earn his spot back by showing something when he comes on. I keep saying that it’ll click but he was fucking terrible in that first half (Tutu wasn’t helping him). He’s way down our list of wingers based on current levels.

Not a chance. I’m west upper and could see it was clearly over the line - you only need to see the players’ reactions to know just how sure they were. That wasn’t the reaction of players that are trying to pull a fast one, they were genuinely in disbelief that it wasn’t given. I thought our heads would have gone after that (mine had), so fair play to them for managing to put it to the back of their minds and still finding a way. edit - the other really poor decision was the offside against Kenny in first half stoppage time, directly in front of me and he was on. The analyst then gets the replay on his laptop and goes mental at the liner (which I’m assuming confirmed what I’d seen) and got a yellow card.

The Mrs has zero interest in football, hates it, but then once every 2-3 years she decides she’ll come to the game with me when the other ticket is spare, bit of people watching and an afternoon off parenting - today was that day. At half time she asked if we could leave at 85 if it was still 2-0, I stupidly agreed (should have said 90 - she’s now claiming she had no idea there is injury time, she thought there was only 5 mins left). 85 comes up, I begrudgingly leave but can’t see how we’d get back into it anyway seeing as we’d been shit for the whole game (and the other late goals are usually when we’ve been good). Heard the first as I got in the car, second as we were going round the roundabout and then saw we’d got the 3rd as we got on the motorway. Tense drive home - the conflict in emotions between the high of winning and the low of missing it was mad. I blame @caffers for the ticket going spare. Main thing is we got the 3 points, kept the run going, closed the gap and once again showed this side is never beaten. The first half was as bad as we’ve played this season but let’s ignore that. Drove past forensics walking the M6 northbound a few minutes later after what I’m assuming is a shocker of an accident - motorway closed all day. Put it in perspective about missing a few goals at the match. Wife’s ruled herself out of ever coming again. Up the whites.

They’ll finish closer to relegation than the play offs. Fans have given up and it looks like the players have - only 38 year old McGoldrick looked like he was trying last night. They really were shite.

1 goal across 8 games in the Prem, champ and L1 - enthralling Tuesday night

But we had the days when astroturf was basically green sandpaper - none of this 3G and 4G stuff. We took the preference of washing some mud off to having a double leg skin graft

Completely agree, but I would say he was ‘sung’ rather than unsung. Everybody recognised his importance whereas Howard was just remarkably steady and so maybe went under the radar at the time.

Fair points and agree with Oxford. Never know with the Wednesday situation, I thought Cardiff were in financial trouble (granted not in admin) and Derby weren’t exactly flush, but the big teams seem to still be too good for L1. A few other points from watching the EFL show - there seems to be loads of goals scored from corners. I’d love to see some stats but I’d bet that this season has seen materially more than normal scored across the leagues. - Kevin Lisbie’s lad at Posh is mustard. I’ve took note of him because of who his dad is and he seems to score or create every time I see him. - Port Vale’s pitch looks like something from the 80s, it makes PNE’s look like Wembley! - Evatt is as deluded as ever

Good chance that the 3 coming down this year are Sheff Weds, Leicester and West Brom (at least 2 of the 3) - we could really do with getting out of this league this year!

Only based on the EFL highlights show, but Bang Average is taking well to the championship with Norwich. Tore Leicester defenders a new one on multiple occasions today.

Sticking on the keeper theme. Mark Howard No frills, just solid and dependable which we’ve seen over the past few years is not always that common.

A proper performance that we finally got rewarded for. As others have said, it didn’t feel like a massively better performance than some others we’ve seen this season, but finally the goals have gone in (and there could have been more). I like the back 4 as it is, especially away from home. It’s more solid and I think Conway’s form fell off a while ago. GJ isn’t actually horrendous with the ball at feet either - is he going to go past people like Conway does, no, but he’s actually got a decent cross on him and he can link up well enough to support the winger. Bonham didn’t have his best game - what the fuck he was doing with that free kick I’ll never know. He’s done enough so far to give him the benefit of the doubt but he’ll be glad the forwards went on to make sure it didn’t matter for anything. Midfield 2 solid, EE plays another 90 minutes! Sheehan allowed to be really influential. Wingers decent enough. Apter probably the best game he’s had for us, although still feels like he’s got a few more gears. Gale in and out a bit but he created plenty and that finish was top drawer. Those forwards though are the stars of the show. If that combination stays fit then we’ll go up. I’m running out of praise for Dalby - I can’t believe the difference in my view from 3 months ago. I was so so wrong on him, he’s the heartbeat of the team. Kenny snatched at a few again but the rest of his play was really good, caused them all sorts of problems and is starting to link up with Dalby. Subs effective, Burstow looks sharp again, someone else said it but you can see how much Cissoko is liked by the squad (and some real quality for that goal). Main thing for me though was the attitude after conceding. So many times I’ve said about us retreating, going on the back foot, changing the way we play, but we never let up today which was great to see. It almost feels like there’s a bit of a pressure off given the gap to 2nd and 7th - a few more of those performances in the run in and nobody will want to be getting us in the play offs!