Meaningless in reality. If you only have one transition and it's a goal, vs the oppo having several and not scoring etc. Although (to contradict myself) if you have no transitions it suggests you're overrun by the oppo, or unable to get the ball off them in open play. So your only chances would come from your own set pieces.

(TLDR: First real shoots of JDT coaching results, imo.) I was at the Disables Supporters Party a couple of Tuesdays ago and, chatting to Adam Wharton, I asked him what JDT meant by 'transitions'. As an average fan, I'm a bit clueless on jargon. To paraphrase him, it's getting the ball back and turning it into an attack. Makes sense. JDT said about 2 months ago, he wants to see John Buckley with 'more intensity in the transition moments' before dropping him and I saw exactly what he meant in the Norwich 2nd half. Several times tonight, including for our second goal, Buckley held fort in the middle of the park, chasing down for an interception and IMMEDIATELY passing forward or cross-field. It was great to see and easily Buckley's best game this season, allowing Breo, Dack, Gally, Dolan, Hedges all to press for most of the game and (crucially) our defense to maintain its shape. Almost like a midfield general! We're not perfect by any stretch, but it's the first real evidence I've seen of JDT saying something about training a player and it coming to fruition. I hope it's the start of a wave of these and it's come just a bit later than we expected, rather than it being a one-off. We (and JDT) needed it after the last few weeks. If we get that Buckley every game and (imo) alongside Adam Wharton, we'll have plenty of the football JDT first talked about.

Will the Forest game be on TV at all?

We were actually 2nd place when Kean left.

While I understand your point (and completely agree), I think it hasn't helped our general feeling of despondency that those two pathetic results prior to today book-ended 3 weeks of no club football. Therefore it felt like a whole month without a win.

When our defenders DEFEND, their hard work seems to set the tone for our attacks, from which we get to see some fantastic football at times. No need to overcomplicate it by getting defenders to tikitaka.

Wharton should be in there complementing what is (so far) a superb performance from Buckley. We look much better because we're clearing our fucking lines!

CRO 1-2 MOR FRA 2-2 ARG

The possession football is absolutely fine AS LONG AS it's confined to up front. Looking at where our best results have come from, I think we should line up: Kaminski Hyam Ayala Wharton Carter Buckley Wharton Mola Hedges Dack Brereton Defense should clear their lines wide and forward, and everyone in midfield is capable of creating. The reason I offer little specific physicality in midfield is that our defensive resilience with a back 3 has been enough in many games, while the midfield simply provide 'bodies'. Those bodies might as well be the creative players in our squad.

Put it this way: Come tournament time, I desperately want England to do as well as possible and the only reason I found the France match hard to take is because I completely believe we'd have won the WC if we'd beaten France. HOWEVER I'm currently on a Rovers forum, as I have been for well over a decade, discussing even minutiae of Blackburn Rovers, whereas I only found out Steve Holland's name yesterday as a dark horse to replace Southgate.

FRA 1-1 MOR

Displaying your usual self-awareness, I see

Your average fan (me) had never heard of either prior to July.

Also steadfast in his chasing of Hyam and Van den Berg too, albeit the latter didn't come here. As awful as some performances have been, I'm still hopeful. All JDT needs to do is let the tippy-tappy happen up front with Hedges and Dack and Brereton behind Gallagher, BUT insist the back 4 and midfield (imo should be Wharton or Buckley and a new hardman) don't arse around in their own half.

Shit Rovers result, shit England result, and no points for me all weekend!!!

I don't think there's ever been such an embarrassment of riches out of work: Zidane, Setien, Pochettino, Tuchel, Benitez, Bielsa, even Lopetegui. However, if we're thinking about how likeable and articulate the England team have become under Southgate and want to KEEP that while adding some aggression, we could do a lot worse than Dyche.

Well fuck...

Say whut?

What. The. Fuck...

Preston doing everything JDT claims we do.

Seems we've finally woken up a bit... A bit...

The key message here: BRFCS has better stock than BRFC.

Argentina too complacent, like Brazil. Momentum now with the Dutch!

One of them remained in the opposing half on the pitch, meaning kick-off can't happen.

February 2016 is neither Summer nor Christmas, the peak buying times (where we are failing to have adequate stock).