My sweet Paddy Lane
When I see you again
Your servant am I
And will humbly remain
Just heed this plea my love
On bended knees my love
I pledge myself to Paddy Lane

Classic.

Seems like we have replaced what we have lost while improving our financial balance, which is a good thing. We’ have added on top of that, improving our depth. I think we have made some solid signings: Lane, Williams, Doyle and Marriott are good catches, while Fraser, Jacob and Kyerewaa feel like th...

Defs give Marriott and Ritchie a start. Garcia could feel a bit hard done by being dropped, so start him too.

oooh oooh Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never Paddy Lane (never Paddy Lane) And if you don't love me now (you don't love me now) You will n...

I can't sleep tonight Everybody's saying everything is alright Still I can't close my eyes I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all of these lights Sunny days, where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong Why does it Paddy Lane on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does i...

Humidity is rising, barometer's getting low According to all sources The street's the place to go 'Cause tonight for the first time Just about half-past ten For the first time in history It's gonna Paddy Lane-ing men Paddy Lane-ing men! Hallelujah! Paddy Lane-ing men! Amen! I'm gonna go out to run a...

What are Hunt's good attributes? What is Noel poor at? How easy would it be to improve his weaknesses, and who would be able to do that? Or can we bring in an assistant who could cover for these discrepancies 1. Loyalty and interpersonal qualities 2. Adapts players to plan, rather than the other wa...

Paddy Lane... rhymes with Train. Only train song I can think of is Ocean Colour Scene - Day we caught the train.... it might work Paddy Lane... rhymes with rain. Loads of rain songs. I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted, one time, to see you laughi...

LUX FWIW I thought Ahmed was good today too.

Aye, me too. Put in a good shift, got involved, made some things happen, tracked back, held shape. Like him, not sure why his performance was particularly polarising.

I’m not calling for Hunt to go - but I am betting increasingly concerned by our ‘second ball tactics’ we seem to have, especially at home. We don’t dictate games, teams play through us. I’d hope this long break means we can work on not being a second ball team - which I currently think we are. IF S...

Not a great second half of football. Seemed to keep our shape well for defending, but Burns was a point of weakness. Great goal from Lane - I like the look of him. Shame Marriott was debuted at the moment we decided to entirely give up on the attack - never keen on seeing us park the bus to protect ...

HT Positives: - Kyerewaa. Quick, fearless and creative. Fun to watch. - Lane. Has a bit of pace about him too, and seemed to be highly involved. - MoM. Defended from the front, found and created space, held the ball up well; lacking the goal that would keep him in contention for the start - I can se...

Related - feels like we've not got anyone that can really change a game or do the unexpected. Hmm. Surely Wing fits that category. But if you mean from the bench, yeah - I see a lot of solid like-for-likes which is great. But maybe not a wild spark that you can’t wait to see come on. Perhaps that w...

Lol, it’s funny how often two people can watch the same matches and get completely different takes. To me, Elliott looks like a player who keeps the midfield three ticking over while two more creative players take their chances. Fraser seems to fit that mould, and I’m not sure I’d want a midfield wi...

Yeah, Elliott/Fraser and Doyle/Savage are clearly interchangeable. It’s nice to have options there which wouldn’t disappoint if their names cropped up on the starting lineup. Decent backup in defence, out wide, and even up front now. I think the only thing we need now is time and consistency. A bit ...

People tend to think the dynamic third mid in a 4-4-2 comes from the 2, but it can come from the wide men too. That’s why you often saw a right-footed CM play wide on the left, as they could cut inside when out of possession or storming forwards, with the FB keeping the width. Wasn’t always very pop...

Difficult to say how much weight to give last nights game in terms of monitoring progress; cups can yield result outliers with their different pressures and team selections from both sides, but at the very least win with a changed lineup demonstrates we actually have a bit of strength in depth for o...

Think our two best performances were Lincoln and Wycombe, Elliott started both.. giving us a properly balanced midfield. Which does make it pretty bonkers that Hunt chose Fraser, completely throwing things off, for the intervening 3. If we'd played like that against Bolton and Wimbledon we'd have d...

As good a performance today was it concerns me that we have played well a couple of times and we've not won. If we had a decent forward we'd have scored a couple more and killed the game off. Really need a win next week. 4 consecutive home league defeat run needs to end. I think if you get your per...

Positives: - Didn’t lose, picked up a point away - Hunt made the required changes - Midfield looked more balanced - MOM is showing a bit of promise - Performance was there, just need to keep the consistency of it up While not as big as we’d have liked, a step in the right direction. Think our two b...