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Truly phenomenal achievement well done. Got some dust in my eye.

I left on 54 minutes at 0-4. I walked through my front door at 9.59pm. Normally for a midweek home game, I get home about 2.00am. So, I got home 4 hours earlier! Sorry to piss on your chips.

I wasn’t trying to criticise anyone, I’m simply pointing out there were some unique contributory factors to our downfall last night, which we failed to anticipate, calculate or guard against. Probably the most telling of which is the narrowness of the pitch, meaning players close so incredibly...

I meant arrogance, as in, we failed to take into account any of the unique factors about the start of this match, and arrogantly assumed we could just impose our usual silky thing. unique factors like: the added emotion in the players and the crowd after the Lockyer thing; the fact it was...

No. We were aligned with left side of 6 yard box, 15 rows back.

We need to reduce our arrogance. Inviting them on from ball one, trying to play pretty ball on a narrow, bobbly pitch, when their strikers have been told to press like their lives depend on it. Anyone with half a brain cell would say “let’s just put the ball right up their end and play up there...

Shambles. It was a mirror image of Sheff U. Why had they learned nothing? Igor seems very thick at reading space and threat. Dunk absolutely ripped him to bits on the third.

I said at half time to my lad (who lives in Tooting, I live between Bedford and Northampton) if the next goal is theirs, I’m off. And so I was.

If you’re Palarse, you will have watched the last couple of match videos, and you’ll go at us very very hard, early, persistently, with maximum physicality. It’s f***ing obvious. We lack any form of enforcer, physicality, foot-in, in our entire squad. Scrapping struggling opponents know this...

I normally get home from a midweek home game at about 2am. Tonight (leaving on 54 minutes at 0-4) I was home by 10pm. 4 HOURS EARLY!!!!

olise and eze both injured.

For me, it is extreme arrogance that brings us down. We should play the game deep in the oppo half for the first 5 minutes, just punt it up there and press hard, and as we settle 5 to 10 minutes into the game, then invite them on, pass and play out as we do. But our arrogance tells us we must...

After 50 years watching us live, and travelling long distances (a home game is a 12 hour round trip) I broke my all time record today for an early leave, 54 minutes on 0-4 down. RDZ made the same mistake as at Sheff U. The back 5 is a shambles. Igor so narrow, clueless, Perv miles away up the...

It was a great strike. It really was the dog’s molluscs. Certainly warmed the cockles on a cold afternoon oop north. The world really is his oyster now.

A superb one hour summary. Zelensky is an incredible human being. The West has dithered. Needs to pile in right now.

Indeed, my point being that when you play in a back 3, the wing-backs have to establish an intelligent partnership with the outside centre backs, and this was certainly not the case with JI and PE at Sheffield. Often they were 45 yards apart when we had the ball, and 35 yards apart when they had...

Agree, Igor played far too narrow, especially when we knew they were targeting this flank. Combine that with Perv failing to play in partnership with him (and getting caught far too high up) it meant that the left flank was almost permanently open.

To his credit Fergie was much better at Sheff. He stood up better to the physical battering when holding the ball, and his movement was better. He still needs to get a shot away. But after a dreadful run of 9 games before, that was the first time I’ve seen an uptick in him. May it continue.

I really did not like the 3 at Sheff U. It seemed like Perv gave Igor very little protection and they just kept targeting that area. Against a mobile and physical long ball unit like LTFC, I much prefer a 4411 like you’ve suggested, with Milner back in there.

I mean, if we take this thinking a stage further, when RDZ introduces him as a sub, we are then effectively playing with just 10 players and on-filed coach who is directing acuity and is also allowed to touch the ball himself, and his interplay is often very intelligent and valuable. But...