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There's a lot of chat about this squad 'only' being good enough for somewhere around midtable, but I'm not sure I agree. I definitely don't think we're good enough to fly out of the league or anything, but when you look at our best eleven and compare it with almost any team in the league, I'm...

This isn't quite a six pointer, but we really do have to win this evening. Back of a fag packet maths show that (assuming that at least some results go in our favour) we could end this evening closer to the playoffs than the bottom three - seven point gap vs nine points gap. Not for a second...

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I agree, but his lack of end product is still immensely annoying. I don't expect him to randomly become a clinical finisher overnight, but you'd think that out of the chances he had against Oxford and Birmingham, he'd have hit the target with at least one of them. Hard to criticise him too much...

Won tickets to this months ago through some weird SkyBet competition that appearingly no-one else did. Glad to save the £40 it would usually cost for two seats, but am expecting to be sat in the bumfuck middle of nowhere completely on my own

Widdell's work rate unlike anything I've ever seen before. Tried to find stats on how much ground he covers, but was unable to. Did find this, however - he's effectively in the top 5% in the league (at worst) for every individual metric off the ball

I thought he was good enough for more gametime tbh, particularly once Key struggled at fullback. Thought he was excellent against Man City in the Carabao

Throw into this that he's a breath of fresh air personality wise, and it's hard to argue that he's anything other than a smash so far

Ben Lloyd staying at Newport until the end of the season (didn't realise it was due to end in Jan, can't lie)

We looked really promising for a solid hour of that match, shouldn't have been anywhere near extra time, never mind losing on pens

Eom, Widdell, and Ronald all looking bright, but the first two have been so much better under Matos

Two, I repeat, TWO good crosses in a row from Ronald. Reports of football being ended nationwide imminently

He's a replacement for Santos who can also play right back, and brings a lot of experience. It's a no brainer really, assuming he's on pennies

Bollocks, we've probably deserved it tbf

Made that needlessly uncomfortable for ourselves. If we were even 'decent' in the final third, we would have blown them away

Couldn't write it. The two most pilloried players in the squad, and one makes a fantastic tackle to win the ball, the other twats it top corner from 25 yards. Fair fucking play.

Yalcouye has to start in our best midfield imo. He's the creative midfielder we need, and is honest to God one of the smoothest footballers I've ever seen. I'd go Stamenic/Yalcouye/Galbraith, or Franco if Galbraith needed at right back. Really like Widdell, but feels like his physcial ability...