Benji

It’s irrational I know, but if we win this and put in a decent second half I’ll be Marti in for a while. So many managers are criticised for being stubborn and having no plan B. Every week he’s dropped players and reacted to something that’s gone wrong. And against Derby, Bristol first half and so far today we’ve seen a team pressing, looking dangerous going forward and more like a top 4 championship team. It’s been progress but we need to push on. Unfortunately if we throw this away after Wednesday it completely sours the mood and I can see him being in trouble.

Tbf that’s great hold up play. What an enigma.

If Antonio can still jog, I’d take him over Ayew now.

Finally starting to see in the past few games the higher pressing we were promised in pre season.

Shirt sponsor looks so much better

Wonder if there’s some flu in the camp. James looked gassed even in the first half.

Nice to see KDH celebrating and smiling in front of the away fans.

If the answer is Russell Martin then I’ll stick with Marti if that’s alright.

Build the team around him and James. Really is that simple.

Very positive performance. First half we were unplayable with great speed. Second was a good test defensively. It’s no surprise they came out with a bit of fight and pressure same as us last week but we handled it pretty well. A good test second half hopefully we carry it on. Skipp and James the standouts but also good from Bobby first half.

Skipp just beating James for MotM for me.

Bit of pressure on a few kids here certainly not over yet

Losing our heads ffs

I find Nelson a very calming influence. Seems completely in control.

You can see we are just one good pass from breaking through.

Shame Monga isn’t around today. He’d have a field day with the space on the wing.

Good defending by Ayew there.

I’m already dreading the first 5 mins of second half given how we normally start

Ricardo is such a good footballer.

Thomas might have learnt that he’s a shit defender so best of attacking and playing like a winger.

This is ****ing brilliant football. Come oooon

Fire up the old Blame Wellens thread.

**** it. Throw money at MON until the end of the season. Bring some pride back to the club and give us a reason to want to watch games again, if just for nostalgia.

No. Whilst a rebuild from the ground up sounds good as an FM player, it's not realistic in today's game. Financial restrictions, players wages, general club expenditure etc. make it an absolute nightmare and once you go down there's no guarantee if you'll rebuild in the right way in the next 5 or 10 years. You have to try to survive each year and make incremental improvements.

Don’t know if we were ever interested but people seemed quite dismissive of re-signing Callum Doyle. I know who I’d rather have in the team every week.