joey_big_nose

I dont know what happened to Trav at Ipswich... He can play on the half turn excellently and ping it around in a way he never did before.

You were saying my friend?

Great first half just like Stoke but we got the goal. Travis has been very very good. When hes on song he is beginning to look one of the best midfielders in the division imo.

I am not too worried yet... Stoke was the first game you would definitely expect us to win on paper which we lost, and we played well. Losses in our recent away games and Sheffield Utd at home were not surprising. If we continue in classic Championship fashion and pick up a couple of wins in November all will be broadly as expected. If we go through November with no wins then I'll start getting really concerned. Just need someone to start scoring...

And Mowbray... We have consistent issues in the way we play across the last six years or so. - we're dead once we go behind in games - we give away cheap goals - we have a terrible record in midweek - we go on long death spirals Was hoping that Eustace could fix it, but losing that hope.

Classic Championship stramash.... 3 points off sixth and four points off 22nd...

Yeah we definitely played well across the centre of the pitch... But if you cant score and give away cheap goals alarms bells should be ringing... Ohashi, Gueye and Leonard all missed absolute sitters.

Playing badly and winning is the sign of a good team. Playing well and losing a sign of a bad one.

What about swapping Hedges for Leonard? Think of the few options we have that seems the best.

About as good a first half as you could ask for except for not scoring and then conceding a gilt edged chance... Totally dominant. Hope we can keep it going second half and manage to convert... But could just as easily go down to a sloppy goal. Gah.

On paper it looks good but we've really struggled to make it work this season. When we've switched to a back three we lost the midfield.

That is the funniest/saddest set of goals of the month I have ever seen...!

We've broadly been competitive in the midfield until the subs but now getting totally overrun

Hope Leonard has something about him over the next few games. Need to try something different going forward and dont see any other options.

Fair enough, but there are other examples of players who took a while. He still looks considerably better than Brereton was when he first arrived also. We all live in hope. But Eustace should certainly have a proven striker top of his January list.

He was abysmal against Watford and has been poor since August. Still think I saw enough in August to think he will be a good signing if he refinds that form. Id say we are really way too early to come to definitive judgements. Just go and have a look at what people were saying about Szmodics in October 2022...

Yeah agree with this. Switching to a 532 could help to get some support up there, would like to see it given a shot as others have said.

Leonard getting a crack but probably from the bench is possible I think. After a fantastic August both Ohashi and Gueye have looked well off it.

I loved a bit of JDT ball, first season anyway... But yes Eustace is doing a very good job when you consider 95% would have had the brief as keep us up at the start of the season... We're sixth with nearly a quarter of the games played....

Good point. Main positive was the box defending when we were deep which was really well drilled. They couldn't get anything through us when we were set. Negatives are we looked generally pretty toothless (though no better or worse than WBA) going forward and we were lucky to not concede two goals from long punts up field through defensive lapses.

Surely time for Gueye now?

Anyones game this...

The one highlight!

I think id give Gueye a go for his pace as much as anything

We're breaking the press really well... But don't really have the cutting edge to make the most of it. WBA are so high we are desperate for some real pace.