[Lord Snooty]

Worra loada rubbish!

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Congratulations to Bolton anyway. Hope you do well in Europe after celebrating like you'd won the FA Cup.

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Scott Arfield on Bowton's bench

Wandering around Gas Works car park after the game.

[jjamez]

I feel relatively calm so no one is going to get both barrels undeservedly. In fact I feel rather subdued, which I guess is what this football does to you.

Balker looks like a rolls Royce defender and showed some class today, I think he was subbed because he's not ready for a full 90 yet, he's played what, 120-150 minutes in 9 months? His partners on the other hand...

Pearson and lees are so slow mentally on the ball, it takes them a working week for their brain to tell their feet what to do. They are too limited to play alongside each other, it needs to be one or the other, probably Pearson for me. Speaking of feet, well legs, lees have definitely gone, I thought they were going over the last few weeks, today confirmed it, he has zero pace left and it looked like he was struggling to be dominant in the air, looked like he was struggling to put power into a jump. If we aren't going to sign another centre half it needs to be balker and Spencer/lonwijk either side of Pearson.

Turton is a right back not a wing back, so having him and Pearson there pretty much stifled any ventures forward and resulted in a turn back and pass back. Spencer did okay, not brilliant. Hogg for me is someone to come on when you're shutting up shop like away at Wycombe. I don't think wiles and Evans work in the same midfield and wiles just about edges it based on the goals he's scored. Kane looked sluggish when he came on and Hodge just added to the height in our side...

Taylor and Charles made runs but the pass was for a different run each time. Think Taylor is still getting sharp, Charles tried too hard, wanted to prove too much of a point.

Duffs tactics frustrated. He says we won't play long to small strikers, yet that's all we did, we won 0 headers up there, if that's what we are going to do, we needed to sign a big man. What we need to do is zip it around and give them chances to run on to. Duff didn't seem capable of changing it.

And can someone explain why, our greediest player in koroma, gets a prime chance to shoot but elects to pass it behind everyone?

[WakeyTerrier]

We miss Kasumu so much, someone who at this level can control, turn and run forward with the ball.

Today’s wingbacks didn’t work and very rarely will because they are too defensive.

Couldn’t agree more about Pearson and Lees, slow and uncomfortable on the ball.

[Lord Snooty]

I thought Hodge did well when he came on. Running with the ball and setting up that chance for Marshall, who also had a good game when he came on.

Like last week when Hogg and Evans came on and turned the game, why, oh why can't our starting XI play well from the start?

[theo_luddite]

Well I blame Bolton for sacking their manager just before playing us. Everyone in the whole of the 92 knows we always lose when they pull that stunt. Apart from that we've spent the thick end of £2m on players we still can't pass or cross the ball to.

[WakeyTerrier]

To be fair they passed the ball to Taylor a fair bit in the first half, it’s just he either can’t control the ball or his layoffs were terrible.

[Lord Snooty]

A lot of Taylor's goals, looking at them on the clips we have been provided with, seem to come from balls over the top and using his pace.

That wasn't happening yesterday as the balls over the top were woeful.

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With regards to question 2. The Frank Worthington wonder goal. As the ball goes in, you can see a ballboy celebrating behind the goal.

That ballboy was celebrating again yesterday. His name?

Julian Darby.

[jjamez]

Hindsight suggests it should have been Taylor or Charles, not both. Both short, to add to regular injury Healey who's also short, plus bojan who's 6ft plenty but short when the ball is in the air or ladapo who makes lees look like slalom skier.

We have no point of difference, atm we need to zip the ball around and drive at teams, pull players out of position and create pockets of space for our short force and probably wiles to run into. Lees Pearson Hogg and turton can't do that and couldnt at their prime either. Probably explains why we are so pedestrian

[theo_luddite]

To be fair they passed the ball to Taylor a fair bit in the first half, it’s just he either can’t control the ball or his layoffs were terrible.

Yeah, but we either couldn't get a cross past their first man or if we did we ballooned it over the bar or so far above and beyond anyone at the back stick it went for a throw in or a dead ball by the corrner flag.

No idea with Koroma. My perch on Row Z was right behind him and he'd fashioned the perfect chance to put his laces through it, the space opened up in front of him, unusually because Bolton's defence was mostly as tight as a Scotsman's Sporran let alone a Yokshireman's wallet. Not that we'd have hit a barn door if it had GOAL writ large all over it anyway. Don't get me started on banjo's, it's not fair to cows.

Hodge called for the ball late on from Chappers and nearly totally undid us with a woefully weak pass back to him. Thankfully Chappers dug him out of that hole but apart from that he's a bit livelier than Hoggy and as he's from this part of the world, I'll sort of forgive him. Don't really see a Prima Donna League player there yet though.

Defensively we fell asleep for their goal. Whoever should have been stood on Collins's toes clearly wasn't as they were distracted elsewhere. At best we maybe deserved a point at a push, but you have to ask what we've done to go from stuffing 4 past them to only getting one shot on target. Yes they've improved too but we saw what that win at their's did to our confidence when we didn't win again for a month and change. Hope that's not reurning to bite us on the bum again. Can February come soon enough?

Our home record v Brum isn't exactly scintillating. We're long overdue a home win but we'll have to do a lot better than we've been for most of January to not fall further behind them. We really should be a lot closer to, if not 2nd, to be honest.

[Lord Snooty]

Live music pitch side tonight from Ellie Sax.

Wish I was going now.