Wanderlust

We can’t fuck this up now.

Ball watching and lost his man for Leeds opener. Well taken goal btw but Paris was 3 yds away from him

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Absolutely kicked off at Ibrox after Celtic dumped the Huns out of the Scottish Cup on their own patch. Masked up Hun Ultras invaded the pitch and attacked Celtic players before the police intervened.

Sunderland were gash tbf Even Xhaka couldn’t pass straight

Fans love him. Asked “why did Bolton sell him to us?” For the money, amigo, for the money. That and we have more midfielders than you can wave a stick at.

TBF I thought a couple of the comments were spot on, especially those about Duff blinking first and going defensive giving us a helping hand. Actually feel sorry for their fans - but not too much - I just know how gutted I’d feel if we conceded three in seven minutes to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I like Sheehan but…. Hang on a minute….WTF, I’m going to defend him for once. Horses for courses/tools in the box - I.e. Sheehan is the right selection for certain games. Yesterday wasn’t one of them though, which is part of the reason why I said that I thought SS got the starting line up wrong against a physical Wycombe side. Sheehan is great when we’ve established a degree of control in midfield and are looking to attack but against a midfield packed with ball winners and athletes he’s about as much use as a chocolate fireguard as he can’t compete physically or tackle. Shouldn’t be allowed near a dead ball into the box either when there are the likes of Demps and Cyrus around. That said, he played well at Exeter - the nice chip down the side for Kenny to run on to for example. He played well because we’d already won the right to play in that game and the opposition were on the back foot. Good player Sheehan, but not every game/situation is for him and that’s true of others too - it’s up to SS to get it right. Yesterday SS got it wrong starting Sheehan but got it right at the end when he sacrificed Forino which surprised a few - me included.

We have some technically good players - and I include Apter amongst them - but it seems to me that SS likes to start games with a mix of athletes and technicians so that we are theoretically defensively sound but still have the possibility of nicking the first goal ie not all out attack. Our player profile is different from any other team in the league IMO. Today we were dominated in the first half by a team of athletes plus Morley. They compressed the middle and won all the second balls preventing us from widening the play apart from the odd occasion when Gale’s pace got him through - and they were happy with that as Gale’s end product is weak. But second half we started to get more joy with pace on both flanks as they tired (and I prefer Gale on the right) Maybe SS has the idea that the starting line up is there to soften up the opposition for the later subs? So we end up praising the subs who can take advantage of that in an all out attacking line up but that doesn’t mean they should necessarily start. I think SS got the starting line up wrong - maybe he was expecting that team to be able to keep it no more than a goal down before he made his move? OK Duff messed it up by trying to protect a two goal lead, and in doing so allowed us to bring on a far more attack minded line up, but even so the lads did brilliantly. However, having watched Wycombe last week I’d have expected to have started with 3 battling midfielders if the plan was to bring on the subs we did later in the game in order to soften them up. The starting players are not necessarily worse - I think they just had a different job to do. CBT was great when he came on, but so were all the subs and it was a huge decision to sacrifice Forino to make way for another attacker. Rodrigues caught the eye as did Demps in a linking role. Anyway, all that is maybe part of the learning curve, and maybe we got away with just conceding two in the early stages, but when teams start to sit back we’ve become fucking brilliant when we go all out attack, especially when they’re pooped. Against teams of athletes like Wycombe we need to start better to keep in the game at the beginning. it was a beautiful watch at the end. Wonderful last few minutes.

Easily done 😀

Our fresh blood against tired defences has been highly effective but we don’t want to have to depend on it too often. Have to say that Duff helped us today switching to a back 5 and trying to hang on at the end especially after their packed midfield had worked so well for so long - he lost faith in his team and bottled it I thought.

No one saw that coming at 85 minutes, never mind half time. For 10 minutes, we were incredible.

A game of two halves Geoff.

Fuck me! wow.

Fuck yeah