Didledee

He's very good at keeping the ball close to his feet when he escapes players and gets past them with his little feints and turns, he reminds me of Mark Davies but more of a ball winner than a scorer/creator, he has errors in him, 1st half he lost it and was kinda last man and for a second I was hoping the ref wouldn't show him a red.

McAtee 🙃

This as been a good performance with plenty of chances to have scored more, took about 25 mins or so 1st half to get going but we have been dominant.

Massive game tonight and at weekend, really hope Sporting carry on missing Amorim and we pick a strong side and take some confidence into Wigan game, wouldn't want to pick a weakened side and then go onto lose to Wigan, that would suck, imagine if Wigan had 10 men also and we lost, sure we'll be fine like.

Vic missed 2 great chances before his goal and if you look at it again from behind the goal it looks like it's going to hit the post/just wide before the deflection of the defender, so he'll probably still get it, but looks an og.

Started very well, should have been ahead but then it got pretty bad, would we have come back v 11 men?, unlikely going off how the game was, but you never can know. fair play to 'em for not repeating last week and beating 10 men and actually going for more goals, doesn't make up for those dropped points, but our subs did well, Tutu deserves a start.

Our form from Jan 24- to Wembley was outside the playoffs, then that 0 shot on target Wembley happened and since then we've gone even further in decline, if we can't beat an u21 side, if we lose to a League 2 side, if we concede and can't beat 10 men along with getting thrashed home and away 4-0 and 5-0, then there is no given that we'll even scrape a playoff/top half. Just over a year ago we won 7-0 and Evatt was getting MOTM, a year forward and it's not even close to then now, the thing we have is that we have talented players, so we'll pick up more points than we lose, but it won't be enough for our targets if things don't change, perhaps like his first season it'll take a brilliant January transfer window to sort it out, because it looks like he's not going to get sacked, because surely that would have happened by now.

Terrible, losing a lead against 10 men is unacceptable, leaving a fre man for a header and then almost concede a second with another free header when you have a spare man, suggests to me in that area and many others they are rather poorly coached and/or have poor awareness/marking etc 2 points threw away against 10 men, 10 men who are bottom 3, it should be the end of IE, but that's clearly not gonna happen.

Look good, feel good, play good .. okay we'll just have to rely on talent then 😁🤞

If Bellingham scored that first goal, we're talking one of the greatest ever assists from kane.

it just continues, just a case of how long he's aloud to continue now, a terrible 2024 with 1, 2 or 3 game mini revivals between another terrible result, knocked out of both cups, lost to league 2, drew vs an u21 team, lost 5-0 to a team that lost 5-0, it's not ending, there's a game on Tuesday but then we have a break, give a new manager at least a week or so and then have his first game against an out of form Blackpool at home. If it's not gonna change now, then it's obvs being allowed to continue and IE is un-sackable.

No chance of winning the thing and whilst every team wants to win every game so this is another failure this season, it might be for the best, the anticipation of the draws and a bit of progression money is not there but team rest and less of a schedule seems like the better thing and that's without trying to sound/think negatively like Megson in that regard.

Fliki Flaka and the high line makes for great games and will cost Barca points in some games, 1st half Madrid had their moments, but 2nd half even with Mbappe's misses, Barca destroyed them, 4-0 and Lewa missed two sitters also.

That would have been a cruel draw so well played and what drama at the end, hopefully a catalyst, it's got to be...

0 - something, it'll take something we hardly see v a good team, drew vs them last season with 10 men for the majority, but we are miles worse now, wonder if we'll see a scared lineup with Arfield starting again, 'cos he offers absolutely nothing.

Dunno why VAR asked the ref to lokk at the screen for that late Stones winner, Bernardo wasn't infront of the keeper who had a clear view.

That last minute clearance from Santos could easily have ended up being a goal, rather from him missing it or it deflecting off his shin or summat past keeper. Burton won't be happy with our first and Randall took his goal very well, as for their goal, abysmal really.

Butthurt people moaning 'cos he's from a nationality that was at war with this country ages ago or that he might not sing a song about a mythical made up sky thing saving the King from whatever. He's the best available, we'd all have taken Pep, it was fine when the women won a trophy with a foreign manager and cricket fans love Bazball, this is an exciting appointment, which realistically even if we play better football will still be tough to win a trophy given the likes of Argentina and Spain etc.

Defo this, looking forward to see how this goes.

or win at Wembley and not have to play in this comp

lost to Exeter, smashed by Huddersfield, needed pens v Mansfield, drew to Shrewsbury, and now probably our most embarrassing result for some time, Fleetwood will fancy themselves.

How can someone with that terrible technique be our first taker, 1-1 v an u21, another low.

Harsh scoreline I thought on Reading who played quite well and caused us problems consistently, 1-1 in open play but much better from Bolton, Dempsey could have had an hat trick himself at the end with those numerous chances we had.

Not sure if I'm remembering this correctly with the naming, but these scenarios meant a lot of the time if someone kicked the ball past the net and far away, they would have to go and 'fag it' (go get it basically) like on Premmy Fives(Power League) for example if you hit it over the netting and into the trees/down the hill near water and bushes), you'd go and fag it, even playing on playing fields with no spectators just having a kick about, if you shot at goal and it went past the keeper or wide, you probably burnt a lot of energy just going fetching it all time lol, the playing field I mentioned near Park Cakes was like this because there was a top pitch and then a steep slope which led to another pitch and if you kicked it down there it was a chore getting it back, also the field were surrounded but thorns and bushes in parts so it was basically good for shooting practice, 'cos you really didn't want it going in there and getting stuck/lost etc.

Was a tap in for Brandwood School on the playing fields on the side of Park Cakes, a minute or so from Willows Park, I left in year 6 and went to the Moss school(different name now), I remember after playing in the playground on my first day, the lads were asking Mr.Bowden(headmaster, football 'manager') to let me play for school, the next day they were playing in a competition on Crompton Fold field (like 6 a side), I went to watch but I never got a game. I did play on Leverhulme in a proper game for them, didn't score on my debut, but scored twice in my next, first goal was a scruffy goal inside box following a cross, 2nd was a shot from edge of box that went like middle high and past keeper, back then at a young age even lifting the ball with enough power was quite and achievement lol, we must have only have played 5 or so times since then before leaving for secondary. First goal for Smithills was a header back post in friendly on the terrible waterlogged grass v Sharples I believe, also I do remember scoring about 5 in like 5 games in year 7 inter form football, they stopped doing that after year 8, no idea why as it was class, it wasn't played on grass it was on the playgrounds with like small goals (cones) but there was like 6 forms in each year(12 total) in each band(P and R, pride and respect) I was in P2, we lost the final on penalties, did score mine and did a cringe finger wagging celebration, did have a goal ruled out by Mr.Bowman in final though that would have sealed victory, apparently the ball went above head height, the other p.e teacher Mr.Nash said he didn't think that was the right call but wasn't the ref, just an observer for that game.