honeybradger

Taken off at half time because they were already 2-0 down and wanted to save their best player for the league. Braybrooke was the only Newport player who played well in that game as usual. Before his injury he was out performing Rico Lewis and Adam Wharton whilst on the same pitch for the England youth teams. He might not ever get back on the same career trajectory as those two but with him regaining his confidence a player of his talent could be able to skip a level and make the leap from league 2 to championship.

will be hard to surpass Dewsbury Hall considering the way he's been playing for Everton.

Braybrooke is averaging 3-4 tackles a game at Newport, might not be able to replicate those numbers at a higher level but he knows how to get into the right positions to win the ball back and is surprisingly physical given how slender he looks.

Drinkwater was just better at football than Winks, work ethic or not. Winks sits at the base of midfield and passes sideways and backwards because that's all he can do. Drinkwater could play balls over the top, carry the ball up the pitch, score from range and he could also play the short passing football that Winks gets praised for and did it at Premier league level rather than in the championship. Very underrated footballer due to how his career went at Chelsea and shouldnt be put in the same conversation ability wise as Wink.

Braybrooke

Good riddance. Can't believe some of our fans saw the performances he put in last season and were happy to keep him around.

This, i dont care how well we play as long as we are making the right steps to get the playing squad on the right track. Faes on the bench, Winks out of the squad, Nelson in the XI and Aluko, Evans, Page, Silko Thomas on the bench is a positive place to start, rebuilding is a marathon, not a sprint.

The kingpower masterclass, bet against us, tank the club. Next summer we have enough money to sign Mbappe.

He will find it his way to that level or the bench of some Belgian side like Westerlo anyway. We're the only losers in that situation.

There have been a few times where he has thrown the towel in when we're 2 or more goals down. Just stops trying to block or tackle and is as much as an onlooker as the rest of us. Also he doesnt just throw his hands up in air when we concede, he throws his hands up in the air, complains to his teammates and it was often his error that caused us to concede in the first place.

It's part of the problem with our wage structure, Vardy can point to players like Winks, Faes, Soumare etc who are on £80-90k a week who dont pull their weight and he is in every right to say he would be hard done by if he didn't earn more. At Cremonenese where everyone is earning £10k a week £30k a week suddenly seems a lot more reasonable. We need to get all the high earners out and reset our average wage to £10-20k a week with a team of young hungry players.

Similar to Maddison in that he is one of the few players who have shown any quality this season but is receiving the brunt of the backlash from fans due to his off field personality. Personally I like the fact that he actually cares and wants to be here, his decision making has been off this season but without his goals we would be staring down the barrel of a second consecutive relegation.

Braybrooke is actually improving every time he has stepped on the pitch this season. This loan has been massive for him considering how lost and out of confidence he looked in pre season, hopefully massive for us in the long term as he looks back on track for making it to our first team. All we need is Will Alves back fit and playing well and we could have the dream scenario of all three of Alves, Nelson and Braybrooke being key players for us next season in place of Winks, Cordova Reid, Faes.

We would be better off starting Soumare. Considering how well Winks started here it's a major indictment on how he has allowed his level to fall off. Hopefully we dont see him put on the shirt again.

Winks and Faes's last game for the club? A man can hope, it's all fallen apart since they returned to the starting XI. Two of the most disgraceful players we have ever had.

I'm not really bothered by who we have as a manager as long as our squad is filled with twats. Should have stuck with Van Nistelrooy, at least if he was still here Winks and Vestergaard and a few others would be gone by now.

This would make sense if Azaz was the only player that Aluko had to consider but he wasnt. Aluko moved away from Azaz before the pass was made because the passer faked passing to the other attacker behind him. It was good play from the opposition and there was nothing Aluko could do as he was marking two opposition players. If he sticks tight to Azaz the player behind him is open and scores easily, if he tries to gamble and predict the pass to the other player then that give Azaz space which is what happened. Either way Aluko was in a losing position, there was no right play there because he was outnumbered. It's hard enough to defend 1v1 but he had 2 players to consider so it was an impossible situation.

What did he do wrong if you dont mind me asking?

The sickening thing is that the club would probably renew his contract in a heartbeat if they could.

It wasnt bad at all. What is he supposed to do, he had been left as the last man covering 2 opposition players. The player on the ball played a convincing fake pass to the player on his right which Aluko understandably fell for then played a pass to Azaz on his left. You cant expect a player to be perfect when struggling to cover passes to two opposition players, he was at a disadvantage there, you would expect the opposition to score from that situation more often than not.

He wasnt that good under Cooper, was a dangerous dribbler but didn't have any end product.

In his prime he was shipping 9 to us and was bombed out of our squad a season and a half later for being crap under Rodgers. How he is still here is bewildering, even more bewildering is that Nelson couldnt play over these centrebacks for most of the season despite looking very assured when he came in.

He is so bad that despite the overwhelming negativity on this topic i dont think 90% of our fans understand how bad he actually is. Cant win a header, cant win a tackle, constantly out of position, regularly loses his man. He is genuinely in the bottom 10-20% of starting centre backs in this league yet you will still get some fans saying he gets into most teams.

Is there a case to play Brayrbooke in his position when he comes back from his loan? He might need some time to get settled but at least he has a future here and can put in a tackle unlike Winks.

Otchere starting to find his scoring boots at this level recently. Have been underwhelmed watching him in the past but it looks like he's made an improvement.