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It’s definitely a mental thing. Not enough players brave enough to make a forward pass, or turn, or step out 5 yards up the pitch. It means more at home. Away from home a mistake goes unnoticed. That whole issue needs addressing directly, “we don’t mind you making mistakes.” But let’s start with us fans, how many of us can say that? Most of us call the players “shit” when they make a mistake!

The passes were made by the players who came on

Very happy if this turns into a result,

My win was on Chaddy the Owl at 40/1 in the mascot race. Back then he did that run from one penalty to the other to kick a penalty. I remember thinking he was fast and so put a tenner on .

Exactly Why do certain people not understand this and say it was poor management from MM. It was a great opportunity to get into the heads of the fringe players. If they can’t motivate themselves to put some effort in and show they can contribute to the matches that really matter, then they are actually just giving up, waiting for the end of their contact. And many of them didn’t pass the test.

So BP, are you really suggesting that you make a decision which could cost us a league game on the basis of the accuracy of a weather forecast 4 days ahead. Wow you do talk silly sometimes!

Don’t we love to be right

The FA Laws of the Game Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct have not changed. section 3 Cautions for Unsporting behaviour A player must be cautioned if attempting to deceive the referee e.g. feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation). Football is still a contact sport. So inherent in that comment is the fact that some contact will not be a foul. So the change to asking "was there ANY contact" cannot possibly be right. VAR gives a great opportunity to negate the speed of the game you mention. It is easy to see in most cases when a player has gone down when they did not need to fall. In my book the only reason a player goes to ground risking injury, is because he wants to deceive the referee that he was fouled. When I used to play 5-a-side, I would never fall unless properly clattered. It hurt to much!

Is there a debate to be had around the changes in approach to this by refs recently. It used to be that football was a contact sport, so a foul was only awarded when contact was sufficient to bring the player down or seriously affect his balance so that he was unable to continue with the ball. It was simulation if a player fell over to influence the refs decision, and in fact a yellow card should be given for doing that. Now refs are just asking if there was any contact. Last night United were given a penalty when Fernandez suffered a minimal contact to his foot. For me that is not a foul. Do we like this change? Do referees have the right to change the rules to this extent?

Very happy to have those 3 points in the bag. Maybe this run of results will mean the MM doubters will have a couple of weeks off.

Scoring early doesn’t help this team. They just drop back into the stile of play which we have be watching since “you know who” became manager. Why can’t they just keep playing on the front foot for a bit instead of dropping back to defend the one goal lead. It’s embarrassing!

Lol, Monty ask me something else,

You worked hard to find a downside of the loan system! I’m not sure which of our multitude of players is missing his opportunity. They have been given their chance. It’s more of a problem in my book that bigger club from higher up keep young players in their youth systems till they loose interest and drop out of football, before breaking into their first teams. The loan system allows some of them to play competitively and progress. Most of the players at lower levels of football are on short contracts anyway. So many seasons the team changes beyond recognition during the summer.

Obviously we don’t know what his symptoms are, but it call that diagnosis into question. Maybe he has Chondromalacia Patella. LOL, maybe the physios in Wigan should read this!

Oh so it was a question. OK, Osgood Schlatter’s is caused because the infra-patella tendon attaches to the Tibia, (the main leg bone) over the soft growth plate of the Tibia. This growth plate fuses (becomes bone) at between 14 and 18 yrs of age. Any growth after that time does not involve the lower leg getting longer.

Not sure if that’s a serious question Monty. I’m assuming it isn’t

Osgood-schlatter’s happens to teenagers when they are still growing but training hard with a lot of sprinting etc. I suspect Stones is finished growing. It kind of suggests that diagnosis is not the real problem.

I was actually defending him Wardie. There are plenty on here saying they don’t like his body language and lack of smile and lack of goals in games when the team are playing badly. I never said he was greedy, and a little bit of arrogance in a striker on the pitch is a good thing. Off the pitch, less so.

LOL, I do love forums. There is always someone who will disagree with everything you said! I’m not sure the 3rd goal at Barnet proves Norwood is fast running with the ball. Once the defender fell over, Norwood was on his own. Even I wouldn’t have been caught! He is quick off the mark and gets half a yard. Great in the box. I stick with my opinion that fans are wrong to expect him to make a winning goal when the rest are playing poorly. He needs support and some decent passes to feed off. Then he will continue to show us what he does do well.

Maybe this shows a problem analysing football. Norwood is not fast enough or tricky enough to take a loose ball a distance from goal and make something out of nothing. (Those players are worth millions!) Norwood is a good finisher, so needs a team around him bringing the ball forward and giving it to him much closer to goal. So when our team is sitting back, not closing down to win it in forward positions, and passing badly, as has happened in our poor performances, how can Norwood possibly just win the game for us anyway? We really need to be realistic if being critical. Norwood is an arrogant personality, but at the moment we need him, even if he isn’t great for team spirit.

Really? How old is he?

And Until we bring in some pace up front and a midfielder who can pass forward and find them, we can’t be a counter-attacking team. OMG we are fecked!

If that’s true that it was the plan, it’s embarrassing. We are the home side

Not necessarily right. It is easy to pass past a player standing 3 m away. If that player is closing, he is a bigger barrier and makes me rush. It’s not rocket science.

Which kind of shows you what Norwood could be offering each week as he is our star player!