Agree with a lot of the above. didn't see the game as was laid up badly but from what i have read and the extended highlights, we were well below par against a team who are a bit of a bogey side for us. I heard an interesting stat about Bamford that he hasn't scored a goal when coming on as a sub for a very long time.. he's very rarely an effective sub. The loss of Bogle and Byram i think probably cost us the win in the end, i suspect we would have defended better when we went 1 up. Strujik defending was poor for the goal also, he should have blocked the shot. Still results went for us and Sheff U have had a horrendous Christmas which is great. Nice 3 point gap now (plus excellent goal diff) will do. Hull on Saturday is an important one. We need to go hell for leather at them then rest everyone for the Cup. Use the Cup to get mins in Bamford and Joseph along with Ramazanni - then play the young lads. Debayo, Crew etc.

[quote="chapylad":2yap3ngb]Yes Ampadu is far better in midfield. Personally I would have gone Wober alongside Rodon and Schmidt LB. Hull were or still are the worse team in the league for goals scored and they had 6 or 7 players missing surely Schmidt should have come in for this game. James had a shocker against Blackburn too and I think we should have given Ramzanni a game especially against so called poorer teams. If it`s not working you have the likes of Byram and James or Gnonto to come on.[/quote:2yap3ngb] To be fair to Blackburn they’ve a new manager in there now who’s definitely made them better, they’re recent games have been much much better then under old manager. Wober gets beat to easily by someone with pace when he’s at LB. Agree re Ramazani, I thought he’d come on along with Gnonto when we went 3-1 up and also Guilavogi to help us defensively

[quote="tad rhino":3orqie3x]did I mention the inbred hull scum with Turkish flags. threatened to get out of hand big style[/quote:3orqie3x] What a r. Tad did you say the Leeds fans were having a go at Meslier?

[quote="tad rhino"]wait till you see them. one was middle of goal. 6 inches out and he takes his eye off it. I know he scored but he was very poor today. /quote] The radio commentary team and papers agree with you. Funny thing is they also slated your mate Piroe who had another really poor game by all accounts. You seem to have a real agenda against James, yet fail to ever mention Piroe’s long standing underperformance. There’s only one out of the above two that has plenty of credit in the bank, and it isn’t your mate Piroe. For me, James is currently our player of the year despite his last couple of underwhelming performances. Piroe ? , I really don’t think we’d miss him if he didn’t play again this season.

I can see us in 3rd after the next 4 or 5 games. We had a good opportunity to get some sort of a cushion with a home win against Blackburn and an away win at Hull. So for me that`s 4 points dropped and Sheff Utd and Burnley have what looks like a few easier games than us coming up.

4 from next 5 are st home inc cup. We'll still be top 2. Cup coming along is perfect timing imo. Time to have a look at Darlow and rest the main guys. Today may focus the minds a bit that there’s still improvement required and an incoming player in Jan would be welcome