Big shout out to Rothwell as I've criticised him a little bit but he's come up trumps for us at two big moments. If he could do that from a bench a couple more times this season then could make a big difference.
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Just back. Made really hard work of it. Played really well in periods. Re: Playing out at the back. When it works it is beautiful to the eye. When it doesn't we look idiots. We need to learn when to do it and when to be sensible. Baz annoyed me at the end where they have been playing around all game and then with 1 minute of injury time he hoofs it! Oh and by the way, you guys are gold. Reading this back after the game without looking is absolute comedy gold. We should turn it into a blog.
Unbelievable game. Proper buzzing at the end. Not impressed with Martin or Bazunu today, put us under so much pressure. But we got there in the end. Thought Downes was magnificent as usual - really hope we can keep him forever. Manning had a good second half. Bednarek and THB class as usual. I just don’t get the obsession with playing out from the back. Sunderland were absolutely ****e today - one of the worst teams we’ve played for ages. Yet we let them into the game because we played the game in our own box. Someone needed to slap bazunu and tell him to slow things down. Those fizzed balls in are good once in a while, but we put ourselves under so much pressure. Mental.
This reminds me of this scene from many years ago. Scroll forward to just before 9 minutes for the relevant part of the video. https://fb.watch/qIqTBy-uol/?
It doesn't half make things so much easier when we play our CMs in their correct positions. Smallbone has been so much better in these past two games. Rothwell is showing that he's a useful understudy for Stu. I thought Adam had a really poor match. Missed too many chances, and his cross (meant for Che) at 2-2 was horrid - he got so lucky that the ball fell to Rothwell. I would have brought him off, rather than Brooks. Very good first half. Concerning second half.
It took Bazunu until the 96th minute to finally drop on the ball. Madness. Up until then, he seemed to constantly be playing like only 20 minutes had been played.
The ball into Che/Mara would have worked better if Stuart and Smallbone were playing more narrow, for a simple lay off. They both seem to be playing a bit wider of late which puts more pressure on Che/Mara to keep hold of the ball or to pass it back, all whilst having a CB all over their back. I also think Bazunu needs to work on his first touch because there were times when he allowed the ball to run across his body and then his first touch to open his body up to kick clear was giving the Sunderland strikers a good chance of shutting him down.
Yes, Adarma was poor, but RM has got a Stephens on for playing him now, because we lost to Millwall without him.
Well it felt a bit like we are cruising at 2-0 to a very standard win so though best to liven it up a bit with another 4 goals worth of shenanigans
This is Saints … The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon The movie portrays the story of a forensic pathologist called Jack Cucchiaio (played by Paul Clemens; "cucchiaio" means spoon in Italian), who finds himself being haunted by a deranged-looking man (Brian Rohan), who is, without any clear reason, hitting him with a spoon. No one seems to believe this though as the mysterious attacker only shows up when Jack is alone. He is seen developing a phobia of spoons, stirring his coffee with a fork. Jack attempts to defend himself - stabbing the murderer in the throat with a kitchen knife. But to Jack's surprise his enemy turns out to be immortal, pulling the knife out of his throat and throwing it away, then continuing to hit Jack with the spoon. However, in this scene Jack also notices a strange sign on the arm of his attacker. Jack travels to the far East where he learns that his attacker is known as the Ginosaji ("silver spoon" in Japanese), an immortal and unstoppable being. It searches for a victim to terrorise and slowly kill by repeatedly hitting them with a spoon. The Ginosaji will follow Jack to the ends of the Earth, and it will never stop attacking Jack until he is dead. After this, Jack is shown travelling around the world, trying to escape from the Ginosaji or to fight it. He uses various weapons, including dynamite, guns, and an RPG. Since the Ginosaji is immortal, however, he will always survive and find Jack again. The last scene shows a weakened, wounded Jack, crawling in the desert, with the Ginosaji still striking him with the spoon. Then, suddenly, the spoon breaks. However, Jack's final hope is brief as the Ginosaji opens his jacket and shows dozens of spoons. Finally, the title and credits are shown in typical trailer style
Whatever you are on either stop altogether or read the instructions carefully. Did you get it at the doctors or the vets? Of course you might just be a Dr Who script writer.
When our tippy tappy gets slippy sloppy it looks like it will all go flippy floppy, then the Rot set in...
Edozie was on the bench. Adarma played on the left until Brooks went off and Sulemana came on, then he played on the right. I’m puzzled why Edozie didn’t get some time in place of Adarma.
