Garrett had a bad game, but he's definitely at or near the necessary level for me. You know he's actually our joint third top scorer despite barely playing and being a midfielder? He still has some learning to do but he's a decent player with room to grow. When it clicks for him he'll be very decent at this level. But yeh he was off the boil today. Poor, totally at fault for the Wrexham goal. Still put himself about though and had an important role in our equaliser.

We were 1-0 down until 32 minutes, so I can't agree with that. As well as having witnessed that after they scored we were awful until about a minute before we equalised. In fact we were on top for most of the first 20 minutes, it was between 20-30 that we were shite. After that they were never in it.

I didn't hear it but I've heard some incredibly biased club commentary on ifollow before (yes on dodgy streams). One really stood out, but I can't remember who...but I strongly want to say it was Swansea or Cardiff, I'm sure it was another Welsh voice I was hearing. I think there might be a bit of extra pride and bias when they play English teams maybe?

He also had the most anonymous passes and most maligned performance.

That's quite the feat! We must be really good, scoring twice every time we hit the target 🙂 Guess we don't need a striker now after all. Edit - although I'm looking at it right now and it says 18 shots, 8 on target...are you sure you didn't just fail to refresh it after 30 minutes or something?

Be fair, it's hard to do arithmetic when you're balls deep in a sheep.

Says something when you win 4-1 but manage to be anonymous. I agree I'd much rather see Gilsenan given a chance.

Bit of a stretch at the moment. We've dispatched two lower league sides at home, it hardly makes it a great cup run yet. I mean, compared to the Mowbray days though I guess it is...

Dunno, something to do with being our second top scorer and having nearly double the goals of the two in third. Probably doesn't bring anything though yeh.... goals don't matter, right?

How did they manage to go 1 nil up then?

They still felt the need to chant 'your support is fucking shit' at one point though.

You got the Sammie off ASAP bit wrong though, so I'm glad you didn't bother with the bonus ball.

Can't fathom why Szmodics isn't coming off to give him a rest.

Garrett needs to calm down now he's in the book or he'll be taking an early bath. I'd probably sub him soon, even though I like him in general. Not really his day, good work in the buildup for the first though.

I wouldn't even say that myself, and I'd have to be counted as a Pears critic. I'd say a better keeper like Kaminski might save it, probably about 30% of the time. Mostly from having a longer reach though.

That's literally the opposite of how it went? We started well, could have been 2 or 3 up before we let them score a sloppy goal from our end. Then we looked awful for ages, until about a minute before scoring. Although we did well since then, if that's the goal you meant we responded well to?

So...who else still isn't entirely confident 3-1 up at half time against a 4th tier side?

Now we're talking

Stay fit.

Believe he has been getting rave reviews for them this season, but that was suicidal. Wtf is that from the ref? He let that tackle go, then when the guy stayed down decided they could have a free kick. Weak as piss decision.

He really shouldn't have been palming it into a danger zone like that, but his followup save was exceptional. We have been crap since they scored, after looking like the only team in it before then (one Wrexham break aside).

And he didn't actually have a cat in a box (sorry!)

I didn't realise you were intimately acquainted...

It's also gratifyingly close to 'ya bastards!'

He will be 22 in the summer. At that age you don't generally get a new deal unless you've played a game for the first team. That said, he was already injured when we gave him the one-year deal in the summer, so we knew this was the situation back then and still extended him. Though, the club did say they were 'continuing to support him through his lengthy injury lay-off' (minor paraphrase), so I wonder if it was purely to be nice to a player who has been here since he was 12 and help him have a career, or if we intend to see if he can stay injury-free and impress enough to get another deal. Of course, if he plays out of his skin, it's almost certain he gets offered a new deal. Fingers crossed as he looks a real talent, but he's had a foot problem that needed surgery on 4 occasions. I don't think he played at all in the last two seasons. I was very excited about his prospects at one time.