He’s improved a lot imo, takes far fewer touches and now mostly restricts his stepovers to where a trick counts, eg his goal at Norwich.

Scott Wharton was a liability at times last season, getting caught in possession or hitting stupid passes, but Kaminski baled him out most times. He now seems to have added Lenihan’s role of going for challenges where he’s never going to get the ball. Deserves dropping.

Couldn’t have been a better time for everyone getting stuck in and two deflected goals. Personally, I’d have taken three points from the last three games. I don’t think we are anywhere near good enough to go up, but onwards and upwards!

A much under-used word on here!

I’m not sure I agree with much of that. The first goal was a crap pass made under not much pressure by Wharton, and not for the first time this season or last. The second was a ludicrous choice by Kaminski and a crap player being very crap. The third Hyam got sucked out wide so Wharton HAS to tie up Evans, but doesn’t. The 4th they all dozed off. The Dack marooned upfront point doesn’t stand up at all if you look at the heatmap. My rule of thumb is that when Hedges isn’t in the front 3 and when Brereton stands on the touchline the whole game, we lose badly. Add in a system which exposes crap players then we get a debacle.

The players who are failing now were failing even worse the first five months of this year, irrespective of who’s in the dugout. There is zero chance a lost dressing room of proven chokers will get a manager fired six months into his tenure, they’ll just get themselves shipped out.

Interesting Tony, and completely believable. They can’t enjoy looking like mugs every week, or indeed having to get up on their hind legs and do tactical presentations. They also must know by now that he won’t change and that many of them are going to be replaced. Not only does he not care, it’s what he wants.

I agree Tony, I think he wants most of them gone and hope to get better players to surround the talented youngsters so they can blossom properly.

What would you do if your goal was to sell some paintings? Like I said, they are obsessed with the notion of how to sell players for lots of money, not how to try and get promotion.

Pathetic effort. Seems to me all the focus is on the sustainable part of the so called journey rather than the promotion part. All the top clubs play it out from the back, so players who can be an effective part of that system will be the ones that attract buyers. Most of our current team can’t, which I think Thomasson is making a point of proving to his bosses. I don’t think he likes our squad any more than we do. The players brought in weren’t missing pieces to compliment our existing lot, they were somewhat desperate, warm-bodied gap-fillers. I expect squad turnover in spades by next Sept. So why does he not play a different system? Two reasons I think. 1) I have no idea what system will make players like Travis and Gallagher much better, and 2) there’s no point doing anything with Wharton, Buckley, Garrett etc if it’s going to just be long punts to the big fella. Personally, I’d make the big calls this window: call time on Travis (maybe RB for a while since Brittain is always injured), send Morton back, trade Gallagher for really any striker, go with our future midfield of Wharton, Bucko and Garrett. Start giving Phillips more game time. I’d even sell Diaz if some idiot offers over £5m as he’ll be playing glued to the left touchline to not get injured.

Please define exactly how you see this project playing out. And don’t answer “from the back.”

I don’t think he’s trying to. I think half of yesterdays team will be gone in Summer, which he’ll justify by saying they can’t play the way he’s going to keep us playing. I can think of no definition of the word “project” that involves trying to get the best out of Mowbray’s misfits.

And he did create our one chance through determination, heads up vision and good delivery. Travis wouldn’t have.

Some observations I’ve had for a while that were fully on show yesterday: - When Hedges isn’t supporting the front two, we create very little. He’s the key for me. - The more Diaz stays rooted to the left touchline, the worse we do as he’s just a spectator waiting for “the” ball. The combination of these first two points means inevitable defeat IMO. - I love Ayala coming on to defend a lead like John Wayne in the Alamo, I hate him starting and having to think and pass. - I still believe JDT is conducting a prolonged public audition of the squad, perhaps to make a case to the owners for major squad turnover and spending in the summer. I think that’s why he is persisting in his way of playing but with players who can’t play it, rather than changing tactics to what they can play (answers on a postcard as to what that might be).

I thought Mola fell apart when we went to a back 4 with him at LB, which he clearly isn’t one. Very surprised at the time Pickering didn’t come on for him. But we were beat at that point anyway.

Annoying though Barnes was, he just highlighted for me what a soft get Gallagher is. When was the last time he imposed himself on a defence?

Wrong team, wrong tactics, no heart, no bottle, nobody turned up and a bent ref.

“A lot” isn’t a fact, it’s an unquantified generalisation. I can’t recall a single goal scored from Kaminski kicking the ball upfield, so “a lot” of our goals scored, and victories, perhaps also had their genesis in playing out from the back?

I was there too, as I suspect were @arbitro @Claytons Left Boot and @USABlue to name but three. Fabulous to see Jones, Faz, Mecky, Field and Napier in their pomp. Things I miss about football: pitches seemingly twice as big as they are now, mud, barrel-chested players, sideburns, tackles, Sir Roger’s woollen gloves.

A repeat of Boxing Day ‘77 please. Waggy lighting a cigar before slotting in within the first few minutes; a player we’d never heard of making a fool of Stephenson for the second, then, on the stroke of halftime, King Noel beating the offside trap on the halfway line and taking seemingly a month to tap into an empty net after bamboozling Stephenson. Then bring on Ayala second half and not give them a sniff of a chance.

Ditto! 😂

It was the Neanderthal attack plans that I didn’t enjoy: Samba trundling up every time to not win headers from Pedersen’s not long throws, while Diouf stood on the goalie’s foot. We don’t score many under this fella, but a lot of what we do score are really cracking goals.

Perhaps I’m in the minority Tony, I always enjoyed Alamo-style defending, feels more like a real achievement. As to doing the defending ten yards further up, that’s when I start to worry about Ayala having to turn for balls over the top and about Wharton having any time to think - he’s too prone to doing something daft. I think they are both better defenders facing the right way with their backs to the wall.

It’s worked 8 times out of 8. Of course, someone might scab a late goal but it seems JDT thinks there’s more risk stretching our own team in search of another goal from what is effectively a one-man strike force. I think I agree with him: our defence is a lot better than our attack.

We defend really well when we set out to, nothing lucky about that - everyone knows their job. Huddersfield had one shot on target - easily saved - and a half chance, they didn’t deserve anything from the game given Diaz missed two one-on-ones easier than the one he scored.