TheBrownBottle

Totally agree, would’ve been a perfect move for the lad He never looked anywhere near it to me tbh - it was all built around 45 mins in a friendly against Barcelona, who looked as interested as we did against the same side (the A League XI). He was very, very raw - he wasn’t a regular starter for Central Coast at the time (apropos of nowt I’m heading off there in about an hour for a day with my partner’s family). Australia isn’t exactly a football hotbed, and the locals who do watch it got themselves a wee bit overexcited about the lad

Trippier was the one getting dragged out of position - he was completely at fault for the second because of it. What’s annoying is he did the same thing at VP two seasons ago, and he hasn’t got quicker since

He’s miles away from that level

He was raw as buggery, and we tried to farm him out at too high a level - the loans we gave the kid were absolutely ridiculous. He wasn’t even a regular starter here in the A-League. I feel sorry for the lad tbh.

I thought he had his best game in yonks midweek tbh. Looked knackered today, the criticism I’d have is that he needs to calm down a bit in games like this, his head does go and we could end up with him missing for three games as a result

Hall was also very highly rated when he joined - I don’t remember seeing anyone talk about the centre forward at Sheff Utd who hadn’t scored a goal

This

I’d rather lose every game for the rest of the season than see the bloke do something potentially dangerous. He’ll be back when he’s back

I’m not sure it would’ve made any difference today - we’ve seen a fair few games like today’s, with leggy performances and substitutes made reactively (and late)

We’d have been further ahead of Villa in 6th - it would have been a better return.

Not sure about that like - but it would be good to be able to kick on

Agree on that one - I did think we should’ve made significant changes vs Palace much earlier (possibly at HT)

In tiredness, i initially read that as ‘could easily have had 12 yellows’ and i still thought ‘yep’

It’s tongue-in-cheek At least I hope so, otherwise we have borne witness to the most insane post ever

Not at all convinced by the idea of resting players for this match - the options look very limited. I’d have taken Joelinton off for Willock and Murphy for Gordon (and told Gordon he’s playing RW) well before the 60th minute mind

A lot in wages, though

There is bugger-all to come from the bench. Three games in a week at this stage is a massive ask - hopefully that gets corrected in the summer

Shit day at the office, it’s more the identity of the opponent than owt else which rankles. Nothing is forgiven nor forgotten, fuck these cunts.

Our owners did that for them, which was nice

Haven’t seen anyone say we’re shite - because we’re not This is a shite performance, though - which happens

It feels like it might tbh

Getting embarrassing now

Shite

We have, but we’ve been hurt by this side before in the same manner These games exposed our weaknesses- lack of pace at the back, lack of technique with some of the others

We got done like that a couple of seasons ago. Somehow we haven’t learned from it