I really haven't seen an outstanding team this season in this league. Teams like Boro, Derby and Burnley should be making the running but aren't, so teams like Brighton and Reading who have put a run together have gone top. We are where we are, a middly team, our Home form has let us down, but a lot of the games in this league have been close with only a goal separating teams.
But I don’t want us to be a middly team in an average League. No, that’s not quite correct. What I don’t want, is to see us under achieving. Picking up on rosc’s earlier point, He’s so naïve and predictable in all that he does. Take the bench last night. Every one of the players sitting there was a like for like replacement for one on the pitch and more importantly you could have set your alarm clock for when he would make the substitutions. Kit seems to go into games with nothing more than a hope that it will be “all right on the night” and a mind set that doesn’t enable him to recognise when that’s not the case.
It would be good to have Ream, Husband and Cairney back. I thought Lewis did the necessary with a few good saves, and got close to the penalty (altough I could not see that so clearly). I'd have loved to have had Patrick Roberts on the bench to bring on for Dembele certainly earlier than Kit brought on Kaca - Dembele became less effective once he got a yellow card. Roll on Saturday against a decent team. COYW!
