Harry the Cat

I appreciate that this is what he’s been asked to do by his manager, but for whatever reason this condenses play in the midfield. He hardly loses the ball because almost every one is a safe pass sideways or backwards. In my opinion, he has been fortunate to keep his place because we have not had an alternative. Let’s see what happens when the Man City loanee gets up to speed

He doesn’t pass forward. He has two operations. Pass back or bring the ball inside which clogs everything up. He’s left footed, why doesn’t he use it to play forward and get us on the front foot with more urgency? There were three or 4 occasions when he had oceans of space to run forward, but turned back or played a sideways pass.

Apart from JJ the whole defence was shaky. Could had been 1-0 down within 15 seconds due to Souter’s brainless pass to their player. When playing across the back, we look a car crash in waiting. Why does Thomas always come infield and block off everyone’s space? Can he make a forward pass? Least said about BDR and Mavididi the better. I was hoping to see a reset with more constructive and positive play. Sadly saw more of the same from the last 2 seasons. We need a couple of strikers. Can’t the management see that?

It does sound unbelievable

He showed more fight when he was subbed and was walking off than he did during the game. An utter waste of space.

God knows where Rowett got his coaching badges. We’ve got a forward who can’t receive and control a ball who has the physicality of a toddler, wingers who can’t head, yet we persist in lumping the ball forward. Yet cannot understand why the ball keeps coming back. Midfield lacking creativity. No one showing to receive the ball. What happens in training during the week? Central defenders with the pace of a snail and turning circle of an oil tanker. The saddest thing of all for me is the demise of Ricardo.

Because all we’re doing is booting it up. We’ve not got a player who can win or hold the ball up front. Garbage

Woeful

They’d say it was our tomahawk…and we stole it from them!!

Actually felt less anxious watching the game tonight. Apart from Okoli’s usual distribution error leading to a goal, we defended better than we have all season. As others have said, great to see fight, effort and determination. A promising start. Now we need to build on this on Saturday.

Cripes. First Evans is on loan at Northampton and is completely unproven. Anyone who thinks Daka is our saviour in my opinion is deluded. He is lightweight and offers next to nothing. Ayew was poor yesterday, as he has been much of the season but I’m not sure who you think could have started. The lack of a striker has been evident for the past 3-4 seasons and we’ve not resolved this problem. Would definitely prefer Aluko to Thomas but urge caution playing too many youngsters. I feel they lack the physicality to cope in this league.

Brain dead idiot. Player turned him on the halfway line and he pulled him down. How can he protest? Can’t understand why we were 1:1 in the first instance. Nevertheless, stupid challenge cost us the game.

Well…we’ve certainly got a keeper whose afraid of crosses!!

This has been the situation all season. I’ve lost track of the number of times he’s lost the ball (sometimes illegally) but sat on the ground remonstrating and the game has progressed and we have conceded as a result.

I agree. It’s a challenge for these young lads to compete against experienced and hardened professionals. I felt we also lost what momentum we had when Monga came on for Mavididi. Coming into a side lacking confidence is a big ask.