Sammie holding his groin and asking to be subbed. Should’ve happened a while ago

Christ, we look a lot better now. Should’ve been the general complexion for all of the game. Clearly confidence at play.

Excellent header from Leonard to make up for the open goal.

Best install function for 11/10 ratings, Admin, as Sammie has been around that for us today.

Leonard misses an open goal.

I believe that’s Sammie’s first senior hat trick. Not bad managing it in the first half of a game. Clearly in the form of his life, this season.

Yeah, I’m now of the view he’s not got the killer instinct of a goal scorer. He’s there to link up. Which is fine, I guess, if Sammie stays fit and on the kind of form he’s on. Big if, mind.

That is some of the worst defending in our poor run to date. Shocking. Even still, well-worked goal by Cambridge. I wonder if Max Rushden woke up early to watch it, @Herbie6590?

I involuntarily chuckled. After it pinged off Wharton, I asked myself, “are they… gonna score here?” The chuckle genuinely surprised me.

Good strike from them, which we allowed to happen through some poor defending. Cambridge look up for it, we do not. Losing this… well, I dunno, is it sackable? Feels sackable alongside the kind of run we’re having, but especially with this strong of a team selection. Obviously he won’t be sacked, ducking out of the cup early saves face for Waggott and the BBE closure conundrum in future. Honestly, anything less than a battering of Cambridge is a disappointment, but we haven’t got out of bed, by the looks.

Honestly, the people leading the commercial department are stealing a living, starting with the CEO.

Don’t fully understand what the craic is with cup football on RoversTV, but Carabao isn’t shown either.

Where in any post have I declared my mind is made up? (This is a tedious argument, because you’ve knee-jerked at criticism of a move we’ve made. Someone’s going to stop in and tell us to stop bickering, so let’s leave it before they do).

You’re absolutely right, I am making assumptions about a Brighton youth player. The Brighton fan I play football with has described him as “high hopes, time wasted at Coventry, hopeful he can kick on” and I’ve seen 5’8”, 20 years old, Coventry’s form improving after he came out of the team and a lot of comments about a lack of physicality, with a sprinkling of comments about a lack of commitment. Would you prefer I base my assumptions on his YouTube highlight reel?

Fairly confident I can isolate this one deal from the separate Travis deal. In fact, I have.

Absolutely no idea which position he’s gonna play here. Ahead of Szmodics? No. Ahead of Wharton? No. Ahead of Garrett? Maybe. Ahead of Tronstad? No. Feels a lot like Brighton have called us up and said, “Yasin’s not having a nice time at Coventry, can he come and play with you?”

This new lad is 5’8” and will likely be kept out of the side by Szmodics and Dolan, when he’s back. We now only really have Tronstad as a defensive-minded midfielder. Extremely difficult to see what good this does for the team in the short term. January is a long month, granted, but it’s off to a poor start. If it’s true what was learned from Glen and Mark’s meeting with Waggott, about Gregg not really fancying Szmodics initially, then I am beginning to have doubts about the transfer strategy. Got a lot of sympathy with recruitment after the budget cuts, where clearly hands were being forced and the rug pulled from under them. If we’re having to take players from underperforming loans, to replace high earners that we’re loaning to clubs further up the table and there are budgetary motivations for that… well, let’s hope not, because that sounds a lot like the kind of chicanery that doesn’t end well.

Have to assume (hope) this has fairly significant promotion-related bonuses and/or future fee. I do think Travis might have stagnated here a bit, slightly misaligned with the manager. He’s provided some excellent work in his time here and I hold him in high regard. Enjoyed a lot of his shithousery over the years. The logic of this seems mad, though. We’ve done well to keep a lot of deals we’re doing out of the press in the past, so have to assume (again, hope) there’s something in the offing. Losing club captain/current highest apps (I believe) player and Premiership loan player who’d been a regular in the first team and only bringing in a development player from League One isn’t a good first week of business.

Pretty cruel on the player to deny him an opportunity to turn out for his parent club.

Well, if Birmingham really wanted “no fear football,” I know a guy that does that… Any danger they make a swoop for JDT, do we think?

Extremely poor result. Have a good NYD evening, if you can, all.

Fuuuuucking hell, the penny just dropped for me.

You can include Sigurdsson in that criticism, which is fair, but crosses are going to come in and we can probably only handle about 20% of any of them that do come in. That should be bread and butter for a centre back

If you’re struggling against the likes of Rotherham, there aren’t many you won’t struggle against. A loss here is the kind of thing that makes even the likes of me question the manager. This should have been a nailed-on win, they don’t get much more nailed-on than this, in this league, anything less is a huge disappointment.

Stunningly poor. Hill again.