DJ Barry Hammond

How long does this ref want to play in this second half? It’s surely been two hours long already!

Fair play to this ref - that shouldn’t be enough for a penalty, but plenty of officials would have given that - especially given the previous ‘shouts’ can lead to an unconscious bias.

Well this is a truly tepid start to the second half.

That was never a penalty - I’m amazed a pundit can claim so with a straight face!

This needs to be converted now. If we don’t get the maximum points here we will be staring down the barrel.

Already gone very negative with the ball. And Stolz holding on for an eternity typifies that.

I imagine most of this forum don’t know what to do with those two outcomes! 😂

Walker AND McCarron (who I thought was serving notice first?) in addition to Enzo and Willy. Well… one can only wildly speculate!

So Thomas has been threatening to score in the last two games - third time lucky today?

What was Villa’s reported as yesterday? 156% I believe. And then below is Cardiff from last years relegation season - 151%!

He probably is, but he’s not had much action and when he has for us it’s not been in a position I imagine he’d say is his favourite. It was notable that after coming on last night on the left hand side, Rowett didn’t really like what he was seeing and ended up bringing on Page to play there and shifting Aribo central.

Given he seems more of a wide right inside forward than an out and out striker, I think he came in as some additional flank cover; namely for Fatawu.

Yeah; makes the two points added to our tally feel a little more like a missed opportunity for six (or at least four).

Why with LT? He’s got quite a good left foot and often plays some neat passes in tight spaces to help us beat the press.

Thomas with a chance to win the game in the dying moments again… albeit this one was much harder. Fair play to him, Ricardo, Skipp and Winks - that was a pair of full 90, lung busting performances on short rest.

Well that was absolutely shocking defending… yet given it wasn’t us for a change, who cares!

I agree, but I don’t think either pass the two in the middle was clearly on, Boro’s defenders positioned themselves excellently there.

Yeah, that site hasn’t been great for our games for a while now 😒

Rowett won’t care about that - he’s not going to be playing as an orthodox winger, he’s going to be asked to sit a bit deeper / drift inside.

Being factually incorrect is sensible? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yes, because the monies due are assigned to the bank as I already explained.

I did wonder whether Rowett would go for Bobby on the right. He’s going to be the winger / come central midfielder in this setup I reckon.

I didn’t deny that - but your suggestion was we’ve taken out loans against monies we won’t now receive, which I do not believe to be the case given how these loans are structured. My understanding for TV rights / parachute payments is that the club will receive a lump sum from the bank - and assign the future payments over to the bank who receive the monies when actually due directly from the Premier League. Macquire are not interested in high risk, unsecured loans; they’re quite happy with these very profitable, highly secured advances that have pretty much guaranteed repayment schedules.

Nah, we just go off the players YouTube video to make an assessment… until reality hits.