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Terrible so far….. we’re all over the place.

This is just going to be 45 minutes of trying to hang on isn’t it?

Ffs…. Watching Thomas defend then, was like watching a gazelle ice skate…..

More of the same please lads.

Bobby Reid is my hero.

Not a bad first half, we look so much better in CM with James in there. You start to see what Skipp brings, that energy and tenacity, and James the drive and creativity. The balance is much better, and we progress the ball forward much quicker too. Funny, how the quicker you get the ball forward to higher % chance of scoring you get…… Just need to keep it up.

Luke Thomas really is ****ing garbage.

Surely he plays Aluko at right back of Hamza?

I’m going 1-2. Bobby and Evans with the winner.

They attack quite aggressively leaving space in behind. Similar to Derby, which is why they’re fairly inconsistent. Play like we did against Derby and we should bag three points here. What am I doing, talking with optimism?

Evans to score a winner tonight…… I can feel it in my piss.

Get Motsi on the bench.

Did say I thought he would be good at this level. Until Motsi is ready I’d say for now he plays as the ten!

Exactly this.

Wasn’t it about £8m after the add ons and what not. £5m transfer fee with agents fee’s and so on.

Silko is rubbish….. Monga is far better if he’s fit he needs to play.

Any games I’ve been to, he hasn’t played. Last season he showed nothing….. no pace, no strength, no real redeeming qualities, and that was at 23’s level. The likes of Briggs and Page are light years ahead of him. Honestly, he will never play first team football at this level. League 1/2 might be about his level, but not this, he isn’t good enough.

Absolutely not. I’ve said it many, many times. He is nowhere near good enough for this level of football. It was nothing more than a PSR exchange, Chelsea binned off a player they knew wouldn’t make it and got £8m for him.

Stolarczyk Ricardo Nelson Yannick Aluko James Skipp Fatawu BDR Monga Evans

He’s naturally right footed, and spent some years playing at right back, however similar to Monga he’s ambidextrous and can comfortably use his left foot too. So he’s spent most of his time in the academy at Left back. He and Monga formed an incredible relationship down the left side, which is why I think we need to bin Thomas off and try and rekindle this relationship.

Well yes, Derby were guff, but we still had to play…. Jow many good teams have we actually played? Only Cov and Stoke have looked anywhere near something that resembles a football team. Everyone else has been gash, but do have we…… hence why a lot of us have been asking for more aggressive front footed football. Forget the “possession based” approach, because we simply can’t do it. Regardless of how shit we think we are, there’s no better player than Fatawu in this league, there’s not many better than James…. Plus we’ve got players who are more than capable of performing at this level…. We’ve seen some hideous football, even against some very poor teams, regardless of how Derby played, we still were more direct, aggressive and attacked the space Derby left, plenty of teams have done the same thing, but because of the way we’ve been playing we’ve not been able to break them down. When we remove the likes of Faes and Winks, we suddenly attack with less passes, we’re getting the ball forward with one or two passes and it means you’re turning the opposition defence around much quicker. I’ve been majorly critical of Marti, and the team, if you’re going to be majority critical you then have to accept when something has changed for the better. The weekend was better, but we need to see it again, this needs to be what we see going forward.

A marker has been laid…. He now needs to build on this…

I’ve managed to watch the game back in whole after not being able to see it. And I have mixed emotions, naturally it’s great to see us batter Derby……. Again, but I’m also a bit ****ed off, why has it taken this long to play like this? The system was definitely tweaked, and we were more aggressive, more front footed, played on the transition more, and managed to get the wingers 1v1 more often….. What caused the shift? Desperation? Did the penny drop? It’s one game I know, but it was night and day to previous performances…… Once Okoli is back, just **** Faes and Winks off all together, it’s clear they’re rotten and it’s funny how our shocking form coincides with those pair being in the team. This needs to be a marker to move forward from. Rely on the academy, they’re more than capable and with experience they will grow. I want to see more Nelson, Monga, Page, Aluko, Evans ****ing everyone, play Motsi as well **** it. But a much more encouraging performance, but it needs to continue, we can’t revert back V Bristol just because we’ve had one win. More of the same please. Build the team around James.

They will probably ban us instead!

Half the Bristol team will be banned won’t it after that royal rumble?