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One thing I would say Hinshelwood might currently have going for him is that I suspect it’s very unlikely the opposition have him down as one of our main attacking threats. We’ve got bundles of forward talent who the opposition have to worry about and have defensive game plans for. Jack is...

That was Coutinho, you’re correct. Prem match. So I now have 4 against us: Ward-Prowse Mahrez Foden Coutinho All at The Amex. Surely we’ve conceded one away from home in the Prem?

That wasn’t even the one I was thinking of! I was thinking when they won the league here - Mahrez maybe?

Great question. I’m gonna stick my neck out and say 4. I’m sure Ward-Prowse scored one. A Man City player scored one. I reckon there’s 2 others I’ve forgotten.

There was a crunching tackle he made in the first half that was very satisfying.

What I find a little concerning is that there’s not necessarily any distinctive patterns to our play yet and we rarely create situations where we have numerical overloads. Potter and RDZ were both very good at creating these situations, in particular RDZ would find ways to put Mitoma and March...

Man of the match for me.

I find it odd that people genuinely believe Dunk is just throwing his weight around as captain and simply putting himself in charge of free kicks. This isn’t Sunday League ffs! At a club run as professionally as ours, with a heavily backed statistics/data model, I’m 99% certain that in whatever...

Reportedly Aina played very well against Liverpool, as well the other full back. Whoever plays on the wing will have a tough game.

I’ve seen a few people pointing the finger of blame at Hinshelwood but there’s absolutely no way he’s the player most at fault for that goal. The first thing that goes wrong is the high press - it was dysfunctional and left us outnumbered. Hinshelwood ends up in a 2v1 so has no choice but to...

I think the phrase a lot of football analysts have used to describe the role is ‘inverted fullback’.

And Enciso’s ‘underlap’. Two great runs after a moment of transition completely opened it up for Adingra. I haven’t seen a great replay angle but I’m also pretty sure if Steele or Verbruggen let that past them there would be question marks. In fact, I’m 100% certain if it was Steele!

He did have the huge benefit of an overlapping Pervis to help him which neither Mitoma or Minteh have had yet. But yes, he probably should start ahead of Minteh on Sunday.

Our penalty shootout record prior to the last 3 (Leicester, Charlton, Man U) was very good.

The only trouble with a big points deduction is that we then have to put up with Arsenal or Liverpool winning the league. When Man City win, it barely causes a ripple. But you’ll never hear the end of it from the plastics of the other two if they win it. No thank you. Though if they’re...

As far as TV moves go, that’s a pretty decent month.

Hinshelwood is still far too vulnerable in 1:1s and defensive duels to be considered a classic defensive full back (aka Joel Veltman). When he is left isolated I feel concerned. But as a modern full back (where he can invert into midfield) in a side who are likely to dominate the ball, I have...

The irony of course is that horrible injury was the turning point in our fortunes. Moder left the team for over a year and a space opened up for Caicedo. We went on an incredible run of form for the next 14 months or so. Then when Moder started regularly reappearing in the team, our fortunes...

The way train prices are, I can’t see a way of justifying doing Newcastle away ever again, unless it was a huge game.

Brilliant match tonight. Proper passion from the fans. The Hundred couldn’t dream of it.