Thirsty Lizard

Agree about that.

Overspending unfairly on players directly influences performances on the pitch!

You can't even get the number of games right.................................

It's worse than that - we're playing a 'double away'. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Er.........er............er........... So Wagner's job now is to sub on any young player that you think might have an impact just so that you can collect evidence as to whether they are in fact good enough. Just for clarity - does this only apply to games staged in Sheffield? The North perhaps? And if it turns out that Wagner's view formed from seeing them every day in training is correct and that they aren't actually good enough and we lose, then that's okay?

That's a fair point and provides even more context as to why we've struggled away so often, but the stat is a generic one for all teams - or at least all Championship teams.

I asked you a simple question - it just needs a 'yes' or 'no' answer. Any chance you could give a straight answer Rishi.............

Thanks - this is a really, really interesting stat.

As many others have said - Duffy for Baath and Rowe off the bench if he's fit enough. With Gibbs out we'll have very, very little of quality on the bench to bring on though.

0:32 to 0:53 here. But we don't need VAR in the Championship.

There's one regular contributor on here who thus far is strangely missing from this thread...........................

I agree with you that out of the 3 Placheta might have been worth keeping for impact off the bench, but of course we couldn't have known then that both Rowe and Onel would get injured at the same time.

This was only going to be of limited value. Wednesday completely changed their tactics at half time. In the first half they continually tried to play out from the back - with disastrous results. They made 4 substitutions at half time and went full Sunday League Meat Head. In the end we weren't able to hold out against the constant aerial barrage. Pressing high up the pitch is fine when the opposition are trying to play out from the back, but is far less effective if the first opposition player with the opportunity just lumps it forward.

No! I've never gone for the bald look. Prefer a bit of hair. 😉

No - obviously not. Do you think Wagner set up 'negatively and defensively' in the 4-4 at St Mary's?

Stacey tried it early on in the derby as well.

It isn't difficult - you're the one who started talking about Saints - not me! Anyway, since we're on the subject, the two League games against them this season give us some grounds for optimism if we were to meet them in the play-offs. In the 4-4 draw down there we were robbed blind by an eye-wateringly incompetent linesman who basically rewrote the laws of football to give Barnes offside when he wasn't in an active position. Then Saints levelled with a very late penalty which was soft to say the least. In the home game a perfectly good winning goal by McCallum was ruled out for a non-existent off-side against Hwang. I'm not making any bold claims that we'd definitely beat them over two legs or anything like that, but I think we'd go in with a decent shout.

The person who would have been really, really helpful when they were dominating the box for those corners was Duffy. The problem last night was that we didn't bring Duffy on early enough (as I've said elsewhere they may have been reticent because of the injury he was carrying) but given that we did bring him on in the 90th minute you have to assume that he would have been okay to have come on shortly after we conceded the first goal.

Wagner is no more Webber's afterthought than Knapper is.

I've quoted your first post and your second one. It was YOU referencing Saints wasn't it you wazzock?

Genuinely interested where you got these figures from Hoggy. I was able to watch most of the match, but not all of it, but didn't get the impression that McCallum was particularly guilty of giving away posession. There is of course a whole lot of context missing here. For example if McCallum put a dangerous cross into the box which a stretching Wednesday defender just managed to get a head on first, does that count as a loss of possession? You do realise that if you can't answer these questions you'll be condemning me to watch the whole match again on the official site with a pen and paper collating how many times each of our players lost the ball. 😅

Sure, yes there was. We'll find out in time if there was anything in it. It could be that Knapper knows Cuesta from his time at Arsenal - likes him - and will bring him in in the summer. It could also be that Cuesta and his agent were looking to get him a pay rise from Arsenal and deliberately put the story out there to put pressure on the Arsenal board, knowing that it would have a ring of truth about it because Knapper had been at Arsenal before he came to us. Who knows?

Think that's very unfair on him. He won an awful lot of important defensive headers last night - he's prodigious in the air for a full back - I hate to think what would have happened last night if Gianoullis had been playing there.

Like we did in the 4-4 draw at St Mary's you mean?