AJ9

Poor again? He’s been our best player so far this season! Edit - from an attacking perspective I mean

I think for this group of players it’s a bloody great experience to bank and to call back upon in future. Gone to an absolute cauldron and came out unscathed. It’s a big step in terms of mentality. Think we will fancy ourselves at home against them.

Agree, he put in another great performance tonight.

I know they're collectively not particularly great, but it does make me smile thinking of Burn, Longstaff and Anderson playing in the San Siro. Local lads taking on AC Milan, living out all our dreams. Makes me very proud!

Absolutely fantastic performance from him again. I feel like I massively undersell him because he's just so consistent. What a player he has been for us.

Carried us tonight. Just an all round great leader on the pitch.

The result is big, and to go to the San Siro and come away with a point is bloody great regardless of whether or not they're a vintage team. Again, humility is probably needed from us. They're an established European side, and we're lining up with lads that would never ever have dreamed of playing against Milan in the Champions League. A little disappointing that we didn't showcase anything attacking-wise and that our passing was very poor at times, but hey ho.

Still in this. Longy been working his arse off. Need Murphy and Burn to step it up.

I know it’s been said before but I love the way his first touch is always positive, moving it away from the defender rather than just getting under control. Quite often takes a player out instantly then he’s passing or on the move

Yep didn’t allow himself to get bullied.

The extended highlights showed a few things he was involved in. A through ball, recycling possession and moving around edge of the box, offering support to Burn and also tracking back well. Can’t see anything wrong with that performance at all. Needs more games.

For the tactics perverts on here who can watch us and see patterns as opposed to my 90 minute emotional rollercoaster watch…are we doing anything noticeably different this year to last? It kind of feels like we’re less intense in the press. Is this a fair assessment and are we now pressing in a different way (maybe to manage energy/or for another tactical reason?). Feels like the right hand side still carries the team attacking wise and we lack some of the under lapping runs on the left. So yeah…what are we seeing so far?

When a goalkeeper commits like that he has to get the ball. I don’t care where it is in the box, plenty of pens are given for fouls in the box that wouldn’t necessarily have led to a goal. See all the ones given for tussling, or handballs. I don’t see why we’re debating this to be honest.

Some common sense!

He’s the man. Isak is the better player, but this guy is a warrior.

He’s class. Knew he would be. ?

He did. No idea where the sluggish thing comes from. Nuts

Delighted with the three points. A clean sheet is very nice as well. Thought Bruno did some nice things, Barnes and Wilson good. They are hard to play against and are dirty bastards. Not a vintage performance but the sort of win we need to grind out.

I wouldn’t be against making a few changes to be honest, but I know the likelihood of that is low. I’d hope that Anderson, Wilson and Murphy/Barnes are getting a look in. Would love to see Hall get game time too. The Brazilians need to put a performance down.

Any idea at all why Maguire got subbed on?

Sort of thing you’d see written on a University bog door.

Not against that draw, but will probably lose

Christ, it’s like the only Athletic content I really enjoyed…

Weird. Even with the obvious issue of Caulkin being a toaster on it put to one side, I can’t see what people find enjoyable about it. I usually like podcasts as a way of getting some niche or interesting insight/comment that I wouldn’t get from other types of media. Maybe a little depth on a topic, perhaps. POTT offers nothing more than you’d get off a mate down the pub. Maybe that’s the intended overall feel, but it’s poor. I even hate the fucking music.