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For sure. But it's Daka making space or Ayew just making us sick. I think Skipp not shooting is also a confidence issue. He should parlay his better-than-most season into a bit of responsibility.

It was an odd (straight) run to the byline - it meant there wasn't through ball on at all. But it did open up space for Skipp and made not going for the shot an even worse choice.

It's also in plain sight, both in terms of the common idiom and what he actually meant ("hidden from plain sight" is a tautology) Worst correction ever. Bobbins joke is on you etc.

Yes, most of the 13 I highlighted were a joke. You do not appear to be joking with your additional list, but you have indeed made your point. TBH I was really just hoping you'd be daft enough to big up Joe Aribo, but I got 'Luke Thomas is an FA Cup Winner' and 'ignore Daka's five years with us' as a bonus.

The squad is listed below. I've highlighted the players who I think might be described as have 'played and proven themselves at higher levels'. I think I've been incredibly generous in terms of what 'proven' means, and also wrt when some of them last did whatever it might mean. Can you tell me who I've missed, because it's a long way off 'almost all of them'? Jakub Stolarczyk Fran Vieites Asmir Begovic Caleb Okoli Harry Souttar Jamaal Lascelles Jannik Vestergaard Ben Nelson Victor Kristiansen Luke Thomas Ricardo Pereira Olabade Aluko Harry Winks Oliver Skipp Choudhury (when I said generous, I meant it) Jordan James Joe Aribo Michael Golding Louis Page Aaron Ramsey Divine Mukasa Bobby De Cordova-Reid Jeremy Monga Stephy Mavididi Abdul Fatawu Wanya Marçal Patson Daka Jordan Ayew Dujuan Richards

I think the OP means he doesn't get the Okoli hate versus the hate our other defenders get. Nelson was worse today (even in terms of giving the ball away, which is some feat), and I honestly think Ricardo is even more of a problem. As for the bit in bold... uncomfortable for sure, but we kept a clean sheet and limited them to once chance in the first half despite a lot of pressure. I don't share your absolute confidence that someone with stats of 4 goals in his last 30+ minutes would have improved on that.

Presumably you've considered and dismissed the possibility that Norwich are currently a better team than Boro?

Very unpopular opinion I know, but in terms of pure 'stoppy bally/clear it" defending he's been decent Pretty much all my ire in this game has been directed at what's happening in front of the back four

I don't think the "sticking a random midfielder on the wing" experiment failed because we used BDCR. Like asking a rook to play like a knight

TBF we also limited them to very few chances given how one-sided it was.

He was just pointing for Ricardo to do that. Don't think Ricardo can face the idea of a full pitch sprint if we lose the ball

Caught between that and whoever completely outran Ricardo

Doesn't strike me as someone who would be particularly adept at driving/ponytricking past a defender to get to the byline, and if he cuts back to shoot it would be with his weaker foot. I know you could argue that Mavididi is not currently doing the former either, and might as well be doing the latter, but losing Mukasa's influence round the D for a non-upgrade on the wing seems like a huge waste

It is, but when was the last time we had this sort of tough one as opposed to the 'which flavour of turd do we play in that position'?

Don't think so, I said similar in the post-match thread. I think losing his starting place, and then the stick he got from midfield for that shit effort on goal. Noticeable that he seemed to be having a 'if you though that was a light jog' sad-on after that. On the upside I'd be very surprised if Rowett a) missed it b) will put up with it

As bad as he's been, that he was a different level of shite tonight. Looked like he was having a mardy on and/or trying to make a point about something. He did get a load of flak from the midfielders driving into the box when he had the shite 'shot' on goal

"Adam Herczeg has just blown his referee"

Luke going for the 'make yourself small' option

Wanted, dead and alive etc.

Hmmm.... AFAICS what you're describing is a 'grass is greener' form of cognitive bias in the case of Skipp at left back, or an 'unrecency' bias for Kristiansen playing there. To fit Schrödinger's analogy, your; "This player is the better player to pick... because we’ve not seen them in the team" should be; "This player is simultaneously a better and worse player to pick... and we absolutely cannot tell which until we see them in the team". ...which is not a particularly strong counter to someone proposing Skipp at left back. That said, the dead/alive cat thought experiment was designed to highlight what Schrödinger saw as the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, so it's possible he would have had some strong thoughts about playing Kristiansen there.

This idea: "get one of our defenders up there instead to just bustle around, create space, win nod downs and set up our midfielders and wingers" Your idea: "play Jordan James up top to shoehorn him in"

The most unhinged opinion ever seen on this forum

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