Lenny

I thought he had an utterly thankless task all game today and made a nuisance of himself on the limited occasions the ball was near him. Quite surprised at the comments.

Funny I thought he was the only player that started for them that did their job effectively. Thought he had a good game.

Season over.

Is it really a reality check? There's pretty unanimous acknowledgement from the club be it commercial, operational, on field and all in between that we massively over achieved last season.

I genuinely think he's quite crucial to the potency of our attack. His fast line breaking passes often take several players out of the game, giving us way more space to exploit. We're much more middling without him.

From the clips I'd seem prior to his signing, my interpretation was relatively the opposite in that he'd be more effect against the low block due to his tendency to play one-two passes and make direct runs into the box, something I feel would be more successful than a player that tries to dribble through the opposition, as they'll be overcome by the numbers. ASM, for example, sadly isn't overly suited to the play style of a team such as ours that likes to sit a lot higher up the pitch, and therefore has significantly less space in front of them to exploit. Barnes needs to get to know his team mates to build an understanding, after which I think he'll be very productive.

Whilst we're chucking out faves, he might not have been the most prolific or with us all that long, but I loved an in form Big Dunc.

It's a journey and people want to enjoy the ride. The greater expectation will come but for now it's a case of enjoying the novelty for most.

I thought he was pretty fine today but for getting caught on the ball once. He didn't stand out as Tonali did, but was by no means poor.

It's almost like we actually target players that are suited to the way we play

We've probably seen more in his time with us to suggest it's simply not true. Seems his long term absence and subsequent sporadic appearances have resulted in people writing him off. He was very good in the half season loan with us and if he can recover that form he'll be a valuable player.

It's a shame to see ASM go, but if it genuinely does mean in FFP simplistic terms as one or two on here have said, that we can buy another 3 or 4 quality players, then I feel it's a no brainer to sell him. One of few saleable assets we have that for a few reasons (not talent) is expendable. Pre takeover I'd have been gutted at him leaving, but we will absolutely be fine and continue to improve. Just a shame to see such an enjoyable player to watch move on.

Gone with Miggy vs Fulham. My favourite was Wilson's against Brighton to make it 3-1. Had an Enrique against Forest feel to it where it finally felt like the job was done.

Only just seen this, but aye he did it at least 3 times. Just a slight miscontrol, nothing major but looked less crisp than usual. Not that it matters

He is typically fine but he has miscontrolled the ball when receiving a pass several times today (under no pressure thankfully).

Well yes, consistency of officiating is a totally different subject

The contact on Wilson was due to Wilson leaving his foot out to force it. Don't think it was a pen, sadly.

You can't really have it all though unfortunately, at least not with the players we have at our disposal. We'd started to look predictable with our lopsided approach of having Burn stay back so that our right side could attack, so we had to adapt, hence Burn making more forward runs in the second half of the season. Naturally it's higher risk and we'll conceded more as a result, but hopefully, 1 win permitting, the reward has outweighed the risk.

LuIz

Fair enough My perception was that whilst he tends to roam forward more, he's less aggressive at pressing when opposition players are actively in our third than Botman.

I think Botman is more aggressive in that he'll hunt out attacking players when they are approaching our defensive third, whereas Schar is more likely to mop up should they get past the Botman/defensive charge. Agreed on the pace of the backline, we could do with bringing in some faster players to offer more circumstantial depth. I do think Botman is a fair bit faster than Schar, mind, even if he isn't "fast". Schar is seriously slow

I also think that Botman is instructed to be the more aggressive of the two CB's as he has the recovery pace that Schar doesn't.

Studied Mo Diame and said "hold my beer".

Very impressive result, particularly given how poor we were first half. Responded very well.

Really poor performance, that. Very, very passive.