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    30 minutes ago, AJ said:

    He also allowed a goal to be scored in the 5th minute of 4 minutes of injury time. No obvious reasons for adding on more than the signalled time 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Pretty sure they started that final attack well within the 4 minutes. I don't remember feeling like it was a time issue when they scored - refs don't blow bang on the suggested minutes, wherever the ball is, nor should they.

    And the suggestion that our players should surround the ref more is bizarre. It's like suggesting we should dive more and kick the ball away to waste time etc. We want less of that in football, not more.

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    I was surprised when another Champ club went in for him, and I had been surprised we'd held on to him for so long despite injuries, but in hindsight both these things suggest that the clubs knew his ability a lot better than I did! His goals at Barnsley support that too. Good luck to him, it's always sad to see a player so blighted by injuries (see also Louis Thompson).

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    My heart sank a bit when he was announced as the sub coming on but then he did look a lot better than previous appearances when he got on. I'd been starting to doubt whether we should have signed him and I'm still not 100% convinced, but it's nice to finally see some promise.

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    I don't want to see Dowell starting until we've picked our form back up again. He's offered nothing so far since coming back from injury and is clearly low on confidence/rusty, which is not what we need at the moment. I don't think I've ever seen Onel low on confidence so I'd rather go for him (or Vrancic).

  17. Posted

    I hope he gets up to fitness enough to play some minutes out on loan in the EFL for the rest of the season, I seem to remember him being quite a positive signing based on his age and how regarded he was by Sochaux. Seems a real shame he went on loan to quite a small club and then got injured. Same with Sinani. Both of them were really excited about signing for us and then got sent off to Belgium!

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    They were good and put our rusties under a lot of pressure which worked. I maintain that Placheta isn't that effective. Loads of people on here seem to be really excited by him based almost solely on the fact that he's fast. You need more than speed to be effective in any league, but especially the EFL. His touch and decision making were poor today. He's young though so hopefully lots to come. Dowell on the other hand worries me more. Didn't offer anything and has been around in the English game for long enough to be better.

  20. Posted

    When we're getting consistent results as we have been this season, it's always tempting to keep the same line-ups (this definitely seems to be Farke's policy anyway). But it's often said by fans, and also in the media, that we still have more in the tank, and I guess getting players like this new guy, or Xavi, into the LB position so we have an actual LB playing at LB, is a way of getting that extra out of the tank and improving an already great team.

    Sorensen has been really good at LB, but that doesn't mean another player wouldn't be even better. We're generally winning games by only one goal, so maybe a more attacking LB will help that?

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  21. Posted

    On 02/01/2021 at 19:04, HazzaJet said:

    ST: Omotoye or Hugill - can’t decide who. For me it’s either hand another youth team product a first senior start or give the current backup striker more game time. One to start, one for the bench

    Start with Hugill and then bring Omotoye on I think. Hugill is our first choice cover for Pukki so we need him to get some decent game time to maintain his sharpness.

  22. Posted

    52 minutes ago, dylanisabaddog said:

    And Gibson and Placheta. We are still close to having a team of injured players that would survive in this division 

    Mumba I was including in my 'barely-seen youngsters' comment. I had completely forgotten about Byram though, another good one.

    Gibson yes, although he's only just got injured. And I intentionally left out Placheta as I don't think he's as good as most of our other midfielders, so i don't know if he'll be challenging for starts when everyone else is fit.

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    And we've achieved all this with some crazy injuries. I was thinking this morning whilst brushing my teeth how good it is that we're top and yet we've still got Krul, Onel, Idah and Xavi to come back, plus Cantwell and Dowell are only just getting back into the team, and then 3 hours later I've just remembered that we also have Rupp (arguably our best midfielder before he got injured) to come back! Our squad depth is absolutely insane. And that's before you even start thinking about some of our barely-seen youngsters.

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