The Doctor

cool, I went and thought he did fine aside from the ball hitting him a few times which generally indicates bad positioning. he didn't get any major decisions obviously wrong, could have been a bit wiser to the tactical fouls and time wasting and cracked down on it. that's not inconsistency, the rules on the ball hitting the ref is: When the ball touches a match official, remains on the field of play, and one of the following occurs: A team starts a promising attack The ball goes directly into the goal The team in possession of the ball changes In these cases, play is restarted with a dropped ball. This means that the referee will stop play and drop the ball at the point where it touched the match official, allowing the team that last touched the ball to regain possession. the first, clearance from Justin and creates a promising attack for Villa, drop ball. the second, hits him and creates a promising attack for us, drop ball the third, hits him, stays in possession with us, no attack on, no need for a drop ball.

it's an uncontested drop ball which is what he gave, we were in possession when it hit him so got the drop ball.

it's been pretty abysmal, and what concerns me most is this tbh: clear signs of a team that just will not attack until it's too late really. basically create nothing while the game is level, neither taking many shots nor creating particularly good chances.

I mean we shouldn't have. he signalled for it initially and then got the word it was offside from Vardy. If Vardy was on then VAR would indicate that to him and the original penalty decision would have stood

it's baffling because Enzo didn't play him as a ten, he played him as a defensive midfielder but 20 yards further forward than you'd usually do so, forcing turnovers higher up and keeping our boot on teams necks. not the same as playing him as an attacking midfielder which is what's happening now

yea, what I mean was it's not just a "if the ref asks them to take a look" deal, VAR would have looked at it as a matter of course

VAR check everything, If there was actually something in it then they'd have been in his earpiece and told him to give it/sent him to the monitor

was he? his crossing wasn't great and but for Okolis recovery tackle, we'd have lost 3-1 because Kristensen was nowhere to be seen as McGinn (?) had the freedom of Leicestershire to run into

not sure he did necessarily get it wrong. sure Skipp wins the ball but that doesn't make a tackle not a foul, it's if it's in control and doesn't endanger an opponent, typically tackle from behind will be a foul

it's not the forest connection at all and it's honestly childish to pretend critics of him are just doing so because he's ex-Forest, but since we're talking about his connections to forest, his team there were the same kinds of awful as we're seeing, with the hyper negative tactics and a "just don't get beat by too much" approach. that for me does buy him less time but it's not specifically because he's ex Forest, he could have done that at Bournemouth, Everton or any other club and I'd be saying the same, because it's not the case of a foreign coach coming to the division and learning how these sides play and how to adapt his tactics, it's that he is tactically out of his depth and these first three games show he's learnt nothing in his time out, because he's making the exact same errors he did at forest

absolutely awful again today, his positioning was non existent and I think the ghost of Danny tiatto would offer more of an attacking threat than he did. how this lad is our first choice is baffling

absolutely awful again today, his positioning was non existent and I think the ghost of Danny tiatto would offer more of an attacking threat than he did. how this lad is our first choice is baffling

yea, the fans at the game were more bothered about moaning at perceived slights by the ref but patience and support among the masses with him can only last so long when he's already so obviously out of his depth

pay the money for Corberan or swallow our pride, make Rudkin vice executive of KP horse racing and let Potter bring in an actual DoF.

had a decent game, bit ropey with his passing at times, need to see the second goal back but not wholly impressed with any of the defending in that. good athleticism, marshalled Watkins well, and that recovery tackle to stop I think McGinn getting 1v1 was fantastic (serious questions about kristensens positioning for that to even be necessary mind)

yea, it is sad that we're reduced to waiting for this championship standard manager to be sacked so we can have a crack at trying to stay up

the one positive I can find is it's Everton at home in 3 weeks and when we lose comfortably to them it'll get toxic enough to force tops hand

for the ref, because the ground is pretty reactionary towards refs

he can't set up a team for shit, constantly playing to not lose. this team is good enough to get to 14th-17th but it won't manage it with this bloke in charge

free kick for the first looked a bit questionable but other than that he didn't really do much wrong. turn the blame for that tripe on those who are actually responsible

set up like a league two side hoping for a plucky draw, got what that approach deserved. get this gimp gone.

everyone blaming the ref as if we didn't beat ourselves with league two standard tactics and coaching

Ricky needs to be on the blower to Top tonight then

mcateer on for Okoli. shape be damned, he's already desperate

here he comes, just got stripped