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I admit, I'm not hard to please or Impress given the level this season, but I feel we deserve something today. Lots of OK/good performances.

Skipp's not really doing much good right now. Get Page on?

Oh my word that was close, Fatawu!

How has Mav stayed on the pitch and Reid or Daka gone off? He's ambling around, clearly knackered or hampered.

And another block. Thomas is really showing up today.

Thomas blocking another cross

Is that not a yellow for Targett? Blatant and nowhere near the ball.

Thomas looks confident. I'm encouraged by our performance tonight.

Mav looks knackered.

Some good forward play. Here's hoping we get to see JJ and Mukasa on the pitch at the same time this season.

Mukasa trying to be 'too cute' as they say

Good defending Thomas. Thats how to stop a cross.

Divine Moussaka 🤔

Can we please stop passing the ball to Okoli?!

Daka is doing great. If only he could finish.

Mukasa pulled up just before that Daka chance. Great news.

Oh Daka.. Just get it on target man. Keeper stranded!

Fixed. Let's not pretend there are huge gulfs in quality between our defenders...

No meltdown. Just a proper facepalm moment. We looked comfortable. Completely needless.

Thank you Okoli

It's the final pass leading to a shot, i.e. he created six chances.

What a solo goal by Ikwuemesi. Looks like it was a bizarre game though. From the highlights, Brugge could and should've probably score 4 or 5 goals, yet Schrijvers could have claimed a point had he struck a decent penalty.

Just trying to balance it out. You could easily apportion some blame to the goalkeeper, no-one stopping the cross and leaving Thomas alone to mark two players (who were Okoli and Mav tracking?). Not to mention the goal apparently shouldn't have stood as Cisse knocks it on for Wilmot in offside position. Thomas is not great defensively, so we should set up to counter his weaknesses. He has quality going forward, which he showed. So here's hopping Rowett recognises this and finally adresses it.

It's just not that black and white, nor can he be singled out as the only culprit. As I say, his flaws are obvious, but pretending he's got no qualities or handwaving them away is just petty.

Considering he made 6 key passes (according to sofascore) in just 55 minutes, hit the post and provided the throw for Nelson's chance against the bar, he was certainly a big reason for our second half performance. I know we're despondent, but let's recognise when he does things well and not only focus on his obvious flaws.