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Anyone been able to have any luck with stre@ms? Struggled first half. Dm if you had a decent one first half. Please and thank you.

You can't even spell, mate.

Respectfully, I played the position. Not to a professional level, but half decent. Goalkeeping will never be understood properly by those that haven't played it. The footwork, for starters, was amateurish. Totally committed himself.

If it's so common, why don't we see a repeat of that goal every week? Because keepers don't act like they're in the grand national galloping to the back post.

Let me put this in terms you might understand. Ball go high in sky. Player no able to head ball hard because ball high. Goalkeeper no need worry hard shot. Goalkeeper better staying more central. Goalkeeper able react obvious looped header, or weak front post header. Better?

Bottled it by not going for it earlier.

And how exactly are you expecting a player to generate a powerful header from a looped ball? Doesn't happen. Can't happen.

To some extent. But they won't take a panicked hop, skip and a jump and end up almost at the back post. If they did, every team for every corner would ping it to the back post and try to head it back to the front post every single time.

It's a floated ball in, of course he can anticipate where the best place to be is. Hint: it isn't in touching distance of his back post. As I've mentioned a number of times now, a looped ball is never going to be headed with power to the nearest post. It's not physically possible. It doesn't require an ability to see the future to anticipate that.

Hate to go all Mike Basset on you all but I'd love to see a 4-4-2, tonight and moving forwards. Daka and Vesty up top. James and Skipp midfield two. Monga and Fatawu on the wings, switching sides intermittently. Whip it in at every opportunity for JV to attack and let James pick up the scraps. Might sound a bit all out attack for the modern game, but we contrive to concede in more cautious set ups anyway. In the spirit of 'attack is the best form of defence', we might as well go for it. Especially against the poorer sides we have now in our run in. Oh and Begovic starts.

There is no way on this earth that a looped cross like that is ever going to be met with enough power for a near post effort to be a problem. You do not commit yourself to the front post like that in those circumstances. No ifs or buts, it's a mistake.

Maybe if he wasn't stood touching distance from the back post he'd have had a chance of getting to a looping header back to the front post. Woeful positioning. Goalkeeping is all about anticipation and when it's done right, everything looks easy and the average fan doesn't notice the footwork and positioning involved. Just ask yourself this: Should a looping header which crosses the line in slow motion result in a goal when it doesn't even cross the line close to the post? You don't see it very often for a reason. Professional keepers are usually switched on enough to anticipate it and then either move two steps to catch it, or worst case back track and nudge it over the bar. His footwork is also so far off anything that is trained into keepers. He practically takes a hop, skip and a jump to arrive at his back post (as opposed to the textbook controlled shuffle). You just can't change momentum and divert track quickly enough when you do what he did. It really is amateur stuff and the kind of thing I'd have been disappointed to watch back if I'd done it when playing in the 10th tier.

Genuinely has a long throw of his ever so much as resulted in a shot? Kills us and boils my piss.

Add that second goal to his growing list of lapses in concentration. What's he doing skipping out to his near post like that on a looping ball? There's only one way they score there and it's a looper back the way it came. Shocking defending to have two men free at the back stick like that, but to be honest I'm beginning to lose my patience with Jakub to the point I'd be of a mind to blame his organisation for that as well.

Didn't even need the tech. Knew it was over in real time

Just pass the ball to Fatawu. Take Mavididi off, complete waste of space. And can we please give up with these Luke Thomas long throws from 40 yards out?

Has he ever struck a ball well on his right foot in his time here? I'm being serious.

Can't remember who it was (possibly Albrighton?), but I remember an ex player saying he's a talented keeper but needs to be less hard on himself. Stacks up. There's nothing wrong with analysing where you can improve, but the best keepers are arrogant. He's clearly too prone to losing his confidence and he's shaky as a result. You can afford 'confidence players' in attacking positions. But not in net. The outstanding saves he's capable of making will never compensate for the consistently shaky presence his personality creates. That's just the harsh reality of sport at the highest levels. Not that I'd expect our lot to recognise that. What's the opposite of ruthless? We have an abundance of ruth. We are ruth abundant.

I lack a deep enough understanding of football finance and the business side of the game to say this with any confidence, but I'd like to think that our heritage and infrastructure alone would attract new owners in the event of administration. We're beyond salvation under King Power, relegation or not. So it's a risky stance to take but I'm happy to roll the dice on our future if the alternative is a continued struggle under KP for the foreseeable. Am I wrong?

But who would you have as captain specifically?

Just another intellectually bankrupt player in a long list from the last 5 or 6 years.

Criticizing Cooper for this is the most wrong I've been about anything following us. So it's worth bearing in mind that sometimes managers see more of players in training than we've seen. Aluko might be a bomb scare. Even so, as I've repeated too many times on here now, change the formation if that's what it takes.

I don't expect much, but he's got to find a way to drop at least one of Ricardo and Thomas. Both, ideally. Very hard to win points when it's so easy to get in behind us down both flanks, deliver crosses from each side and easily pick men out at each back post. I'd expect any manager worth his salt to recognise that. With the squad we have, any alternative comes with its own issues, but I'm struggling to imagine anything worse. Totally nullifies our wingers as well, since they (rightly) are very aware of how exposed we are behind them. There's a difference between having to track back and having to effectively play as second left and right backs.

Easily our best player today. You can see he's sick of the circus surrounding him and to be fair I would be too. Still a cock but I do have some sympathy.

They snatched at their chances and weren't composed. We were there for the taking and they failed. There was good desire to throw bodies on the line but from a footballing perspective we were lambs to the slaughter. Ipswich will be kicking themselves.