The Bonk

Why the hell he is playing through the middle is anyones guess. He is clearly better on the wing and Almiron is clearly better behind the striker. Complete nonsense. Is this our worst performance of the season? Brighton was worse, it was a complete dicking. This was more of our regular abysmal, listless approach to playing top flight football.

Horrific.

Have we had an effort on net come off someone's foot?

Inches away from hilarity.

Came out of a Zoom meeting just in time to witness that after optimistically seeing we were only down by 1.

Nah We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew. Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance. The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish. It's no coincidence we look our best against other teams who play a similar way to us, i.e. Sheffield or Burnley. Direct, one dimensional football akin to the heyday's of PFM style. Whew!

Nah We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew. Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance. The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish. The most infuriating is good movement up the pitch into the opposing half that dies out with a whimper as not a single soul other than Wilson has bothered to move with or anticipate receiving the ball in space.

Nah We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew. Don't think we hoofed it that much tbh, in fact I reckon Bruce will be thinking that's why we are losing. We got caught trying to play the ball out of defence. Just when we lost composure after a decent spell of possession.

1 header, suppose you're partially correct.

This. There's no world beating talent on that team, their main goal threat isn't even playing FFF. They are a well drilled unit and a moment of luck or lapse on their end is the only way we'll score.

Nah We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

We've lost all composure, fucking hell.

Walcott should have buried that.

Much more lethal on the break. Much more purposeful with their movement and passing in general. Yup. They've got much better shape, feel like we've had a few glimpse's of decent movement, just not as cohesive as Southampton. Imagine that, a Decent Manager vs an almost retired Fat PE Teacher.

Much more lethal on the break. Much more purposeful with their movement and passing in general. Yup. They've got much better shape, feel like we've had a few glimpse's of decent movement, just not as cohesive as Southampton.

Much more lethal on the break.

Think we'd do decent against a 10 man Benfica, tbh. Don't mind Rangers, though.

The own goal was spectacular. Nice build up to Rangers 2nd and a tidy goal by Kamara.

Which makes it strange that bookies have them as favourite every year, yet they've basically got the same squad as everyone else around them (Hull, Charlton, Ipswich, Pompey).

They will never be a force like they were Seriously they need new owners , build and see where it goes , they will never be anywhere near us for 10 years more in my opinion, if we get taken over it could be a generation before we play them in the league. They need to go up this season and hope someone with actual bankroll takes them over from The Don. Can't imagine what their debt situation is looking like the longer they're down there and without gate revenue.

They did, the penalty was ridiculous at the end. Lucky they don't have VAR down there. huss9[/member] they're a playoff team at best, going to be a stroke of luck to get back up. Them losing in the playoffs would be tasty.

My perception is that under Ashely's tenure we make the most average of teams/players look much better than they actually are.

Ah gotcha, thanks Bimps. Mackem's had some help with their win yesterday, and read some comments on r/soccer that they've had other lucky calls go their way.

When did Ipswich drop the “town” from their name? Remember it always being listed in the table with both.

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