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Good report Pomps, I was fearful for Osborne cos that winger had him for breakfast early on but he stuck to it.
Excellent work rate from McB, after his fresh air try at the cross which luckily Ndiaye picked up easily and showed what a quality player he is. This lad is walking on water at moment. As pointed out in earlier posts Norwood has to get some shooting practice in, Jesus some of his attempts were woefully bad. Goalie did well IMO. - Basham, Fleck OK -Baldock good work effort , Doyle did well.
Have we got ourselves back on track? Maybe. Tuesday night will tell. Those twats at Ashton Gate have long been our nemesis , since John Atyeo used to slot a few in against us. Lets turn them over.
Keep the faith.
 
Corkblade said:
Disagree, the baggies changed the set up in the 2nd half, including moving Phillips as it wasn't working due to Osbornes perseverance.
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Let’s face it West Brom are in a mess their fans reckon Phillips was their best player and to be honest he had the beating of Osborn admitting he had no support from the invisible man Fleck
Without RND we are weak down the left
 
pommpey said:
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.


pommpey
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pommpey said:
Great win for us today. Plenty of mettle and some decent finishing and for once we put a struggling team to the sword albeit hanging on in typical fashion near the end. Still - three points and we are fourth, three points behind the leaders. With the way other results are not factoring against us we are still theoretically in with a shout of automatic but it will need a lot more than todays game to convince me we are over the hump as it were. We are still shipping injuries like gunshots and still tend to play hopeful balls up the pitch into empty grass or straight to the opposition for them to come straight back at us.

Good though to see the bench an later the onfield team augmented with injury returnees, if not regarding Brewster who is genuinely now looking to be our shittest signing since Ebrell. The conditioning team need fucking sacking now considering we have had so many defects in the same area. We need this addressing because this is one too many common injuries to forgive. Either players aren't getting the right manipulation and post training physio work or they are not warming and stretching effectively prior to coming on or kicking off. It isn't difficult to warm and stretch achillies/calfs and hamstrings, it is just intensive and needs doing in stages. Just jogging and doing simple plyodynamics won't do it.

First half though WBA were expecting some sort of New Manager Syndrome to kick in and for them to be all over us. In fairness we closed them down well and pushed them back into their own half. Our first was a lovely Doyle/Baldock combination for cool Mr N'D to slot in after McB had made a cats cock of the cross and McBurnies goal was almost Currie and Salmonseque in it's 'joined up football' nature. Great finish too, much to the bellendry of the Baggies commentators on ifollow. We could have had more to be honest with N'Daiye just terrorising their pretty static backline (O'Shea looked like he'd just got up after a night out on the sauce) and went in deserved leaders with hopefully more to come later.

Second half obviously the Baggies tried different combinations to unlock a way through, even to get a consolation goal to make it interesting. We looked firm and resolute though and from early doors likely to break out and put them further behind. The daftest thing though was bringing Brewster on for Fleck after an hour when we suddenly lost all our mojo. Brewster didn't give us anything we needed more than what N'Daiye was offering and we'd likely go further in front with his partnership with McB. Brewster's early exit then gave us JLT and Enda and Billy came on later as we were forced to dig deep to stop WBA getting something from this disastrous game for them. And they got fuck all. Boing, boing ... etc.

Davies 6/10: He's still a bit of a liability and his distribution was poor today. in particular finding the ever willing McBurnie. Much went out of play, into empty grass or to their back four. Good stop in the first half but a bit of a flap could have had them an undeserved equaliser
Baldock 7/10: Full mark for a decent volleyed cross and the other six for his hour and a bit of battling with Townsend and Wallace
Anel 6/10: Not a classic Anel outing but he was robust in phases and came out to attack the ball and stayed involved. Still a class above
Egan 6.5/10: Slightly better performance from him. Some key interceptions and headers and defensive solidity when needed. Their frontline though was a bit bobbar on balance
Basham 6.5/10: Improving in small steps but still vulnerable to pace where more agile players leave him standing. A real Basham tackle late in the second half and looked pissed off to be subbed
Osborn 6/10: Another fairly decent outing from him though in truth he was run ragged at times by Phillips down that flank. Still don't reckon he's anywhere near what we want in a LWB
Doyle 7/10: I like Doyle. Works his socks off and uses his youthful eagerness to the full to do the fetching and carrying and making the option on the right side of the team as well as tracking back to assist with the defending
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.
Fleck 5/10: Not really back to John, or even Jimmy Fleck at all. Time we shipped him out before we have to pay a club to take him off us. If we are looking at Autos, he isn't the solution at LCM
N'Daiye 8/10: Missed a point because he was pushed back into midfield after an hour and completely disappeared. Superb on and off the ball in an attacking stance and a really lovely, coolly-taken goal
McBurnie 9/10: Looks like we've got a striker now. Effective at both ends of the pitch and okay ... some shithousing ... but another well taken front-man's goal and showing us what we expect from such a signing.

Brewster (unmarked): Gutted for him.
JLT 6/10: Great to see him back. Got stuck in straight away and looks happy to be back in the action.
Stevens 5/10: Not much to comment on but again a timely return with us struggling on the left side of the pitch
Sharp 5/10: Stanard graft and grit from Billy winning free kicks and being the receiver of our clearnaces as we dug deep

HJ&SMcCL 8/10: Good to see us pressing and attacking in the first half to stamp our mark on a clearly struggling WBA who couldn't answer to anything we had. Nice also for him to present JLT and Stevens back and us still to hang on effectively. Another long trip on Tuesday against a team who were beating Swansea at one stage today. It's a big journey and one we can ill afford to come away with nowt from considering next Saturday is a massive game v Burnleh which will define our pre WC fortunes

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Thought Davies was fine, kicked a couple with his left foot that went awry but given last weeks howler that showed bravery, some timely punches (more Hodgy than Flappy) not least the bullet shot later in the second half. For a player who's sat on his arse for a year or so, I am happy enough with him as back up.
 
pommpey said:
Great win for us today. Plenty of mettle and some decent finishing and for once we put a struggling team to the sword albeit hanging on in typical fashion near the end. Still - three points and we are fourth, three points behind the leaders. With the way other results are not factoring against us we are still theoretically in with a shout of automatic but it will need a lot more than todays game to convince me we are over the hump as it were. We are still shipping injuries like gunshots and still tend to play hopeful balls up the pitch into empty grass or straight to the opposition for them to come straight back at us.

Good though to see the bench an later the onfield team augmented with injury returnees, if not regarding Brewster who is genuinely now looking to be our shittest signing since Ebrell. The conditioning team need fucking sacking now considering we have had so many defects in the same area. We need this addressing because this is one too many common injuries to forgive. Either players aren't getting the right manipulation and post training physio work or they are not warming and stretching effectively prior to coming on or kicking off. It isn't difficult to warm and stretch achillies/calfs and hamstrings, it is just intensive and needs doing in stages. Just jogging and doing simple plyodynamics won't do it.

First half though WBA were expecting some sort of New Manager Syndrome to kick in and for them to be all over us. In fairness we closed them down well and pushed them back into their own half. Our first was a lovely Doyle/Baldock combination for cool Mr N'D to slot in after McB had made a cats cock of the cross and McBurnies goal was almost Currie and Salmonseque in it's 'joined up football' nature. Great finish too, much to the bellendry of the Baggies commentators on ifollow. We could have had more to be honest with N'Daiye just terrorising their pretty static backline (O'Shea looked like he'd just got up after a night out on the sauce) and went in deserved leaders with hopefully more to come later.

Second half obviously the Baggies tried different combinations to unlock a way through, even to get a consolation goal to make it interesting. We looked firm and resolute though and from early doors likely to break out and put them further behind. The daftest thing though was bringing Brewster on for Fleck after an hour when we suddenly lost all our mojo. Brewster didn't give us anything we needed more than what N'Daiye was offering and we'd likely go further in front with his partnership with McB. Brewster's early exit then gave us JLT and Enda and Billy came on later as we were forced to dig deep to stop WBA getting something from this disastrous game for them. And they got fuck all. Boing, boing ... etc.

Davies 6/10: He's still a bit of a liability and his distribution was poor today. in particular finding the ever willing McBurnie. Much went out of play, into empty grass or to their back four. Good stop in the first half but a bit of a flap could have had them an undeserved equaliser
Baldock 7/10: Full mark for a decent volleyed cross and the other six for his hour and a bit of battling with Townsend and Wallace
Anel 6/10: Not a classic Anel outing but he was robust in phases and came out to attack the ball and stayed involved. Still a class above
Egan 6.5/10: Slightly better performance from him. Some key interceptions and headers and defensive solidity when needed. Their frontline though was a bit bobbar on balance
Basham 6.5/10: Improving in small steps but still vulnerable to pace where more agile players leave him standing. A real Basham tackle late in the second half and looked pissed off to be subbed
Osborn 6/10: Another fairly decent outing from him though in truth he was run ragged at times by Phillips down that flank. Still don't reckon he's anywhere near what we want in a LWB
Doyle 7/10: I like Doyle. Works his socks off and uses his youthful eagerness to the full to do the fetching and carrying and making the option on the right side of the team as well as tracking back to assist with the defending
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.
Fleck 5/10: Not really back to John, or even Jimmy Fleck at all. Time we shipped him out before we have to pay a club to take him off us. If we are looking at Autos, he isn't the solution at LCM
N'Daiye 8/10: Missed a point because he was pushed back into midfield after an hour and completely disappeared. Superb on and off the ball in an attacking stance and a really lovely, coolly-taken goal
McBurnie 9/10: Looks like we've got a striker now. Effective at both ends of the pitch and okay ... some shithousing ... but another well taken front-man's goal and showing us what we expect from such a signing.

Brewster (unmarked): Gutted for him.
JLT 6/10: Great to see him back. Got stuck in straight away and looks happy to be back in the action.
Stevens 5/10: Not much to comment on but again a timely return with us struggling on the left side of the pitch
Sharp 5/10: Stanard graft and grit from Billy winning free kicks and being the receiver of our clearnaces as we dug deep

HJ&SMcCL 8/10: Good to see us pressing and attacking in the first half to stamp our mark on a clearly struggling WBA who couldn't answer to anything we had. Nice also for him to present JLT and Stevens back and us still to hang on effectively. Another long trip on Tuesday against a team who were beating Swansea at one stage today. It's a big journey and one we can ill afford to come away with nowt from considering next Saturday is a massive game v Burnleh which will define our pre WC fortunes

pommpey
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Hanging on.

Lol.
 
Ahmedhodzic had to play a more restrained game today after that early yellow. Last thing he needs was a second yellow.
Bash should improve if he gets his regular slot back, hopefully supported by JLT coming back on the left in midweek.
I suspect that Brewster was intended to get minutes so McBunies hernia could get rested for next week too.
Ndiaye has such a massive bag of tricks in his locker, he can still change a game even if he’s tired or having an off day!
I really like Osborn because he reminds me of me in my playing days. Great engine and industry, but minimal talent at this level. His motivation cannot be questioned. ;)
 

Up to this point I’ve been in the injuries are just pure random chance camp.

However, another hamstring? Summats not right somewhere.

And what Illy can do with the ball at his feet in a ruck of players is just astounding. Have we ever had someone that good in those situations? I cannot recall one. I go back to 1976. A joy to watch. He must be terrifying to play against.

A top-drawer away win with recent events: injuries and loss of form.
 
Taking Fleck off made some sense in that Norwood was walking the yellow card tightrope so we could've potentially been relying on him to be available Tuesday, and with the game nearly won it was a low risk move. That said I'd have sooner stuck another midfielder in there instead of dropping Ndiaye back.
 
Yet again pretty much spot on.
A good result and a great 3 points, but frustrating that we could have won 3or 4 nil.
Davis: was like Dracula at times yesterday with his aversion to crosses.
Anel: had a touch of the Eganitis at times but still class.
Baldock: 👍 stay angry George.
Basham: almost back to Bashambauer standard......almost.
Norwood: stop with the blind passes, they don't work!
Fleck: errr no.
Osborn: love him for his energy and black boots.
Doyle: class player this lad.
Ndiaye: Magnifique 🤌
McBurnie: took his goal well, if only he could head as well in front of goal as he does in defense, oh and stop falling over, the refs don't buy it!
Brewster: shame about another injury but unfortunately he won't be missed!

As for the injuries I have to agree this needs seriously looking at. It's becoming ridiculous now how many similar injury we've had this season!
 
Geordie Blade said:
Agree about Norwood’s shooting. As you know, I’ll defend him all day long but he had two very clear, completely unpressured shots today (plus another which was under pressure) and went nowhere near with them. He must improve on that.
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Norwood baffles me ! He hits 40 yd passes all the time some are high dipping balls to attract the fullback to commit,plenty of drilled passes which keep low.
If he shoots by drilling the ball he hits the target most times! Simple int it ! Obviously not !
he must have taken these simple observations on board and still hits wild shots.
The closest he came yesterday was when under pressure which drifted wide.The two attempts when he had no pressure ! He could have no excuse for not hitting the target ,looking at his mannerisms he knows it too (never seems to learn ) .
We must work on this in training so I assume he's one of these players who freeze when the chance of scoring appears.
I would say he could reach
double figures every season if he showed more composure.
 
Wards said:
Taking Fleck off made some sense in that Norwood was walking the yellow card tightrope so we could've potentially been relying on him to be available Tuesday, and with the game nearly won it was a low risk move. That said I'd have sooner stuck another midfielder in there instead of dropping Ndiaye back.
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Ndiah was totally lost obviously not played there before an experiment that went wrong but didn't cost us.
Hecki had a real problem!
Match coming up on Tuesday so the team will be travelling down on Monday evening ,no real time to assess who is available after WBA.
Having players building up game time after injury he had to gamble on us keeping them out while bringing on players who also were short of game time adding that to players playing out of position! A real gamble!.
Trying to build up game time without putting players in the red zone was what he did! We got away with it! Luckily playing a team who at this moment couldn't score in a brothel.
This reminds me of the Stoke game when we had a cobbled together team and lost,hopefully Bristol won't be the same.
I reckon the subs were to
Protect the players ! I hope !!
 
pommpey said:
Great win for us today. Plenty of mettle and some decent finishing and for once we put a struggling team to the sword albeit hanging on in typical fashion near the end. Still - three points and we are fourth, three points behind the leaders. With the way other results are not factoring against us we are still theoretically in with a shout of automatic but it will need a lot more than todays game to convince me we are over the hump as it were. We are still shipping injuries like gunshots and still tend to play hopeful balls up the pitch into empty grass or straight to the opposition for them to come straight back at us.

Good though to see the bench an later the onfield team augmented with injury returnees, if not regarding Brewster who is genuinely now looking to be our shittest signing since Ebrell. The conditioning team need fucking sacking now considering we have had so many defects in the same area. We need this addressing because this is one too many common injuries to forgive. Either players aren't getting the right manipulation and post training physio work or they are not warming and stretching effectively prior to coming on or kicking off. It isn't difficult to warm and stretch achillies/calfs and hamstrings, it is just intensive and needs doing in stages. Just jogging and doing simple plyodynamics won't do it.

First half though WBA were expecting some sort of New Manager Syndrome to kick in and for them to be all over us. In fairness we closed them down well and pushed them back into their own half. Our first was a lovely Doyle/Baldock combination for cool Mr N'D to slot in after McB had made a cats cock of the cross and McBurnies goal was almost Currie and Salmonseque in it's 'joined up football' nature. Great finish too, much to the bellendry of the Baggies commentators on ifollow. We could have had more to be honest with N'Daiye just terrorising their pretty static backline (O'Shea looked like he'd just got up after a night out on the sauce) and went in deserved leaders with hopefully more to come later.

Second half obviously the Baggies tried different combinations to unlock a way through, even to get a consolation goal to make it interesting. We looked firm and resolute though and from early doors likely to break out and put them further behind. The daftest thing though was bringing Brewster on for Fleck after an hour when we suddenly lost all our mojo. Brewster didn't give us anything we needed more than what N'Daiye was offering and we'd likely go further in front with his partnership with McB. Brewster's early exit then gave us JLT and Enda and Billy came on later as we were forced to dig deep to stop WBA getting something from this disastrous game for them. And they got fuck all. Boing, boing ... etc.

Davies 6/10: He's still a bit of a liability and his distribution was poor today. in particular finding the ever willing McBurnie. Much went out of play, into empty grass or to their back four. Good stop in the first half but a bit of a flap could have had them an undeserved equaliser
Baldock 7/10: Full mark for a decent volleyed cross and the other six for his hour and a bit of battling with Townsend and Wallace
Anel 6/10: Not a classic Anel outing but he was robust in phases and came out to attack the ball and stayed involved. Still a class above
Egan 6.5/10: Slightly better performance from him. Some key interceptions and headers and defensive solidity when needed. Their frontline though was a bit bobbar on balance
Basham 6.5/10: Improving in small steps but still vulnerable to pace where more agile players leave him standing. A real Basham tackle late in the second half and looked pissed off to be subbed
Osborn 6/10: Another fairly decent outing from him though in truth he was run ragged at times by Phillips down that flank. Still don't reckon he's anywhere near what we want in a LWB
Doyle 7/10: I like Doyle. Works his socks off and uses his youthful eagerness to the full to do the fetching and carrying and making the option on the right side of the team as well as tracking back to assist with the defending
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.
Fleck 5/10: Not really back to John, or even Jimmy Fleck at all. Time we shipped him out before we have to pay a club to take him off us. If we are looking at Autos, he isn't the solution at LCM
N'Daiye 8/10: Missed a point because he was pushed back into midfield after an hour and completely disappeared. Superb on and off the ball in an attacking stance and a really lovely, coolly-taken goal
McBurnie 9/10: Looks like we've got a striker now. Effective at both ends of the pitch and okay ... some shithousing ... but another well taken front-man's goal and showing us what we expect from such a signing.

Brewster (unmarked): Gutted for him.
JLT 6/10: Great to see him back. Got stuck in straight away and looks happy to be back in the action.
Stevens 5/10: Not much to comment on but again a timely return with us struggling on the left side of the pitch
Sharp 5/10: Stanard graft and grit from Billy winning free kicks and being the receiver of our clearnaces as we dug deep

HJ&SMcCL 8/10: Good to see us pressing and attacking in the first half to stamp our mark on a clearly struggling WBA who couldn't answer to anything we had. Nice also for him to present JLT and Stevens back and us still to hang on effectively. Another long trip on Tuesday against a team who were beating Swansea at one stage today. It's a big journey and one we can ill afford to come away with nowt from considering next Saturday is a massive game v Burnleh which will define our pre WC fortunes
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Wards said:
Taking Fleck off made some sense in that Norwood was walking the yellow card tightrope so we could've potentially been relying on him to be available Tuesday, and with the game nearly won it was a low risk move. That said I'd have sooner stuck another midfielder in there instead of dropping Ndiaye back.
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Taking Fleck off made perfect sense as he was awful
 
jim2007 said:
Up to this point I’ve been in the injuries are just pure random chance camp.

However, another hamstring? Summats not right somewhere.

And what Illy can do with the ball at his feet in a ruck of players is just astounding. Have we ever had someone that good in those situations? I cannot recall one. I go back to 1976. A joy to watch. He must be terrifying to play against.

A top-drawer away win with recent events: injuries and loss of form.
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Sabella
 
I said last week when you play your best 11 without rotating to keep ppl happy you get results . Doyle , McBurnie & Ndiaye who came on rescue us last week made all the difference & I thought all 3 had cracking games again yesterday all 9/10’s for me .
We desperately needed a win to get us out the recent rut & also needed a clean sheet again after pissing goals in for fun of recent … and we got both in a very professional performance .
In addition to the 3 mentioned above I thought Norwood again played very well & it’s no coincidence this happens when he’s got Doyle’s energy & work rate to allow him that space .
Back line we’re back to solid & organised again & both wing backs contributed offensively to , particularly Baldock who I thought had his best game of the season.
Only downside AA’s yellow meaning he’s suspended for Tues & Brewsters injury FFS .. Sorry he’s me little rant .. there needs to be a thorough inquiry as what in fucks name is happening in the fitness & conditioning training ? We’ve now had 12 months if this since the new management team came in & the amount of muscle tears & tendon injuries is beyond ridiculous & will be our undoing , yes I accept you’ll lose players through knocks / injuries etc but I’ve never known this amount a 12 month period ??? This now needs looking at & sorting .
Rant over .
All in all an important 3 points & clean sheet that hopefully will get us back in the rails with another tough away day ahead of us on Tues night & nice to see cameos from the returning JLT & Enda .
UTB ⚔️
 
Big Hitter said:
This dont make sense,!!!
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Fleck was the protection out left in front of Ozzie , he was to fill in for Doyle when Doyle advanced and be the buffer between our defensive midfielder - Norwood - and our advanced midfielder - Doyle

Fleck did none of this whatsoever so

Others doing two man jobs

Not hard to understand
 
We must have (and according to Hecki)done a thorough investigation into these muscle injuries and changed any methods that maybe lead to this.
Little is a very experienced man as are Hecki and McCall can't them pushing players beyond there abilities fitness wise! .Maybe a lack of professionalism (which I doubt).Having 5 subs does give us the chance to change the team when players entering red zone,we did this to good effect yesterday although a bit of a gamble towards the end.
 

pommpey said:
Great win for us today. Plenty of mettle and some decent finishing and for once we put a struggling team to the sword albeit hanging on in typical fashion near the end. Still - three points and we are fourth, three points behind the leaders. With the way other results are not factoring against us we are still theoretically in with a shout of automatic but it will need a lot more than todays game to convince me we are over the hump as it were. We are still shipping injuries like gunshots and still tend to play hopeful balls up the pitch into empty grass or straight to the opposition for them to come straight back at us.

Good though to see the bench an later the onfield team augmented with injury returnees, if not regarding Brewster who is genuinely now looking to be our shittest signing since Ebrell. The conditioning team need fucking sacking now considering we have had so many defects in the same area. We need this addressing because this is one too many common injuries to forgive. Either players aren't getting the right manipulation and post training physio work or they are not warming and stretching effectively prior to coming on or kicking off. It isn't difficult to warm and stretch achillies/calfs and hamstrings, it is just intensive and needs doing in stages. Just jogging and doing simple plyodynamics won't do it.

First half though WBA were expecting some sort of New Manager Syndrome to kick in and for them to be all over us. In fairness we closed them down well and pushed them back into their own half. Our first was a lovely Doyle/Baldock combination for cool Mr N'D to slot in after McB had made a cats cock of the cross and McBurnies goal was almost Currie and Salmonseque in it's 'joined up football' nature. Great finish too, much to the bellendry of the Baggies commentators on ifollow. We could have had more to be honest with N'Daiye just terrorising their pretty static backline (O'Shea looked like he'd just got up after a night out on the sauce) and went in deserved leaders with hopefully more to come later.

Second half obviously the Baggies tried different combinations to unlock a way through, even to get a consolation goal to make it interesting. We looked firm and resolute though and from early doors likely to break out and put them further behind. The daftest thing though was bringing Brewster on for Fleck after an hour when we suddenly lost all our mojo. Brewster didn't give us anything we needed more than what N'Daiye was offering and we'd likely go further in front with his partnership with McB. Brewster's early exit then gave us JLT and Enda and Billy came on later as we were forced to dig deep to stop WBA getting something from this disastrous game for them. And they got fuck all. Boing, boing ... etc.

Davies 6/10: He's still a bit of a liability and his distribution was poor today. in particular finding the ever willing McBurnie. Much went out of play, into empty grass or to their back four. Good stop in the first half but a bit of a flap could have had them an undeserved equaliser
Baldock 7/10: Full mark for a decent volleyed cross and the other six for his hour and a bit of battling with Townsend and Wallace
Anel 6/10: Not a classic Anel outing but he was robust in phases and came out to attack the ball and stayed involved. Still a class above
Egan 6.5/10: Slightly better performance from him. Some key interceptions and headers and defensive solidity when needed. Their frontline though was a bit bobbar on balance
Basham 6.5/10: Improving in small steps but still vulnerable to pace where more agile players leave him standing. A real Basham tackle late in the second half and looked pissed off to be subbed
Osborn 6/10: Another fairly decent outing from him though in truth he was run ragged at times by Phillips down that flank. Still don't reckon he's anywhere near what we want in a LWB
Doyle 7/10: I like Doyle. Works his socks off and uses his youthful eagerness to the full to do the fetching and carrying and making the option on the right side of the team as well as tracking back to assist with the defending
Norwood 6.5/10: Again, some good, some bad (but less bad). Very much involved in the graft in the middle of the park however he does tend to pump balls up the pitch or into passing channels without actually looking first. And I'm sorry ... you can have all the fucking 'stats' you want to reference his worth but his shooting is abysmal. I can't understand how he gets so much instep under the circumference of the ball with such power to bang it over the bar. And it doesn't happen rarely. He had a great shot on goal a few games ago which the keeper stopped wonderfully, the volley v Blackpool and of course the free kick but he's had a dozen other efforts which have cleared the bar by several feet.
Fleck 5/10: Not really back to John, or even Jimmy Fleck at all. Time we shipped him out before we have to pay a club to take him off us. If we are looking at Autos, he isn't the solution at LCM
N'Daiye 8/10: Missed a point because he was pushed back into midfield after an hour and completely disappeared. Superb on and off the ball in an attacking stance and a really lovely, coolly-taken goal
McBurnie 9/10: Looks like we've got a striker now. Effective at both ends of the pitch and okay ... some shithousing ... but another well taken front-man's goal and showing us what we expect from such a signing.

Brewster (unmarked): Gutted for him.
JLT 6/10: Great to see him back. Got stuck in straight away and looks happy to be back in the action.
Stevens 5/10: Not much to comment on but again a timely return with us struggling on the left side of the pitch
Sharp 5/10: Stanard graft and grit from Billy winning free kicks and being the receiver of our clearnaces as we dug deep

HJ&SMcCL 8/10: Good to see us pressing and attacking in the first half to stamp our mark on a clearly struggling WBA who couldn't answer to anything we had. Nice also for him to present JLT and Stevens back and us still to hang on effectively. Another long trip on Tuesday against a team who were beating Swansea at one stage today. It's a big journey and one we can ill afford to come away with nowt from considering next Saturday is a massive game v Burnleh which will define our pre WC fortunes

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