[valpayne]

Rondon looks good seems to like to roll defenders a la Big Vic but is quicker (however chelsea were aware of that threat and by and large dealt with it) lets hope he scores a lot more than BV though. Mcmanaman was a real handful today very quick and very tricky some nice step overs to get crosses away. Mcclean looked ok to. Mozza as mentioned apart from that awful pen was really quick and sharp puts a lot of tackles in as well these days he's toughened up a bit. Yacob broke play up well and always goes in full blooded (though Im worried red cards await him sadly) Like the look of gnabry you can see he's an arsenal youngster and I reckon he will improve and looks like he has a few tricks needs to think a bit more though when to pass when to shoot etc. Lambert one or two nice touches but one or two horrible ones. Our defence at times is far too often caught on the counter and some of the passing throughout the team in fact is frightening. We seem to get caught out with moments of indecision and either lose the ball having dallied around on it or make an utter pigs ear out of simple passes that go to the opposition or get intercepted. We really need to work very hard on that. When we defend well and with good organisation with everyone snapping at the oppositions heels we really look solid but when we get out of shape we make some absolute howlers that leave you screaming WTF? I thought TP was reasonably proactive today 4141 to start with the two wingers was causing them aggro and despite not being specialist LB and RB dawson and brunt link up nicely with the wingers and also get on the overlap pretty well Good idea to go 442 when they went down to 10 and did produce that crucial 2nd goal I also thought the substitutions were canny especially as despite how good they were the two Mc's were on yellows and seem to be the kind of players that can lose their rags Mozza also because he had run his socks off and was tiring. Massively disappointing not to get the draw I was actually starting to believe. However another horrible start to the season sees us bottom and facing bogey side stoke next week I 'm afraid we may still be there after next week :-(