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Nee chance, he's got absolutely zero defensive positional sense because he's not a defender and has never been. If he's close enough to make a tackle in the box it's a coin toss as to whether he'll kick lumps put of them.

We can switch our focus to what Bruce will say in the aftermath of this. I can see him pretending that this is a good result and that it will have been an entertaining return for supporters. Then switching focus to the excitement of being able to welcome Willock into the side next week.

I would hope that this is a long way off our best defense. Fernandez is the only one who should be starting, potentially Murphy formation dependent.

Ritchie cannot play at fullback for us, too prone to errors and switching off because he's used to playing in advanced positions where you can get away with it.

He fooled noone, just the ref being an absolute fuckwit saying "oh that was England's Rice he can get away with that".

Shelvey forgot to be an English darling and to roll about on the floor and undo the strapping on his own leg after committing his foul. Something for Bruce to work on with him during the week.

How does Rice not get a yellow there, more horse shit refereeing.

I don't know what you're saying, but it was obvious he was shooting and would have been piss easy to attempt to block it. Think Clark was worried about being outpaced/beaten, but instead of being beaten he just became a useless passive nothing. Embarrassing.

Only Bowen was offside for the first and he wasn't interfering with the play. The other player was tight but onside.

Absolutely rubbish defense, just giving them so much space, Clark didn't even try to block the shot....

Apparently doesn't matter.

No excuse for us not being faster to get to the follow up - Ritchie sleeping, though he had two men to mark.

We always look panicked defensively. Is that really a penalty?

Noone following in to clean that up... Willock would have loved that

At first glance I thought it may have been a foul. Terrible lack of marking at the back post.

Murphy you beauty, nice lead up play and good cross from Ritchie.

Nice save Woodman, out defense looks to be in all sorts.

What's with the god awful lettering on the match jackets?

We gave them so much time and space in and around the box there, terrible defense.

So much for talk about actual football....

Wonder how disappointed the premier league would have been when they told Newcastle that Willock hadn't been registered in time to play in the first game...

The only way we have him for the next 6 years is if he turns into the next ginger Pirlo.

Yeah shocking, they missed the boat and won't acknowledge their failures. They've shifted the onus onto the population to get vaccinated as a diversionary tactic and because they have nothing else to turn to. It's almost as if they're politicians. Embarrasingly they keep saying they expect cases to rise for a few more days, as though after that they will magically hit a wall and start dropping. In the meantime it's leaking to regional areas (and Canberra) because all it takes is a few self entitled cunts to fuck a whole community. WA has had a good run of it because you're so far from everything and basically said FU to other states and Aussies overseas leaving the east coast and mainly NSW to shoulder the burden of return travellers. It was working ok until the first Melbourne outbreak and once that was under control until the current Sydney one which the government absolutely butchered the approach to. Sydney being delta is the big factor that will mean the cat is out of the bag and all eggs are now in the vaccination basket. Plenty of people are doing it tougher than I am, so always have to think of that when feeling down about the whole state of affairs.

The fact that he's joining us with his exit plan front of mind tells you everything you need to know. Like the rest of us he's no doubt hopeful of a buyout.

Another day of record cases for NSW