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That was because Murphy was defending, what has been suggested is that he could have pushed further forward and had the ball pumped to him rather than defend and attack their defence.

I think that you have missed the point that when SB went off Murray was isolated with nobody to give the ball to so the obvious move was either Manu or Murphy to replace SB to keep the pressure on their back four and stop them getting the ball forward and then put Stephens on to replace Skalak...

He seems to be getting into a position to be the successor to Stephens when he goes in January for about £2m.

If CH wished to replace SB for whatever reason surely the answer rather than Stephens was either Murphy or Manu and tell them to run to the corners and just hit them from defence with long balls to kill the game off. All the time the ball is in the opposition half they cannot score. This...

1 would settle for a similar result on 30 of the remaining 33 games. The only downside is that having dropped points on Saturday through taking Sam Baldock off CH did the same again this evening and we very nearly suffered the same fate.

Why? I thought that he was MOM and the players must be pissed off with AK keep getting it even after mediocre performances.