Lovely finish that by Dack and his first full 90 mins. He seemed bang at it tonight and starting to look way sharper.

Yes I like it if he wants to sit on the bench, and yes we need cover. I just don't see how city would benefit from it, unless of course we have injuries (or drop DL)

Hence why I said as things stand! Do City loan him to sit on our bench? Unlikely, do we bench Darragh? Equally unlikely.

HB is really highly rated but I can't work out how another centre half on loan makes sense (as things stand).

Not sure but he looks like he has more in his defensive locker too.

Personally think Darragh is better with someone with pace partnering him, almost a get-out clause. Braithwaite is ridiculously fast for a 6.5ft centre half, think everton list him as one of the fastest players at the club. That alone makes him, potentially of course, an absolute top drawer defender in years to come.

Interesting. We actually don't look too bad fitness wise in my opinion, seeing out games late on. The issue seems to be more with conditioning and injury prevention, not helped by a rotten pitch

Does Kipre even start for us at the moment? I would suggest not, especially given his lack of game time. Don't get me wrong I'd welcome him signing permanently as we're still an injury away from disaster and he can cover at right back too but he can't just waltz in.

I'd like to give Mowbray a few drinks and ask him exactly what his issue is with Chapman. He's a stubborn old thing and whatever it is he has done seems unforgivable!

Erm he doesn't pick the team does he? Although it stinks he can't get a game given their defensive frailties so he's obviously dreadful in training or something?

I get the impression he's pissed off his engine (fitness) is still in 'limp mode' but the turbo will be repaired eventually and the Rolls Royce midfielder back on the road 😁

I'm talking here and now with the players available. I don't think any of them games were dead and buried at half time though. Reading maybe, but Armo got us back in that and Joao killed us off. It may of course be premature of me to say we've turned a corner defensively, but a couple of clean sheets looks promising. Happy to get to every game for the rest of the season 0-0 at half time if it means we can ramp it up second half. I pointed out earlier in the thread we're easily the strongest team in the championship last 15 mins of games, I think that's partly due to a strong bench and the extra sub quota. IF we continue to keep clean sheets and IF we continue the late goals we'll be successful. I've been supporting us long enough to know we may well lose 6-0 to QPR though 😕

His style of play attracts bookings, simple as that. Travis is probably one of, if not the most important players in that team though and his absence is notable. Of course he's not fully match fit so sloppiness sets in, its fair to say another 90 mins under his belt will benefit him though. Does he get booked too much? Probably, and I fully get your point. But do we ask him to change the way he plays and risk nullifying his effectiveness? No (in my opinion of course).

Well it won't will it given how few games have a goal first half

May I ask why? Some of the best teams in the last century score most of their goals in the final 3rd of the game.

Same

With all due respect, have you seen Trav in previous seasons? He's a little bastard who will pick up a lot of bookings but ultimately a persona we have badly missed!

The issue is he never gets up to speed without playing matches, end of. In Mowbrays eyes the risk is worth it for the reward. Same with Dacky. By mid Feb, both should be fully raring to go barring any unfortunate injuries.

Almost absolutely spot on. You start keeping clean sheets folks you start getting these wins. Awful game, excellent result.

Luton away from home usually means very few goals, in fact 8 out of 13 games have had 1 goal or less, a ridiculous 2 games all season over 2 goals. 1-0 all over this, on this occasion it'll be us taking the 3 points too. Gonna be a late one, Elliott in the 86th minute. We're actually the strongest finishing team in the league believe it or not, 14 goals coming in the last 15 mins this season....

Poor little lamb. It happens.

Is it any wonder though, this last week and his latest outburst today:

Aye of course it was a penalty, but it happens to us all and it's that bit better that its upset Warnock so much. A lesson to be learnt for young Braithwaite though, he got away with it today but it wouldn't have happened in the VAR infested prem where he aspires to play. I guess when you have legs that appear 6 foot long themselves you may be tempted to use them a bit more than you should for high balls. Essentially that's why he's here though and learning from this mistake should aid his development. A good 3 points and always good to get that clean sheet but not much to get carried away over.

As it stands, Blackpool, Crewe and Morecombe games are still on if looking purely at northern teams.....

When was a game last called off for a waterlogged pitch? Last I can remember is Wimbledon in the 90's when Fashanu etc started doing Klinsmann dives on the pitch following the decision, but surely there's been some since that?