Match Day Thread: Northampton 2nd Dec 2025 (EFL Trophy)

No, what I was doing was highlighting that you need to set up the tactics to suit a player if they aren’t mobile. Bayo is just a very good example of it.

If we lumped it to him expecting him to run the channels, he too would have been shit and wouldn’t have been (one of) our greatest players in the EFL.

Just another Westergaard foul

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I think you’re way off the mark here. Bayo was so outrageously good in the air that we could place players near to him from goal kicks. Fink has lost 5 out of 6 aerial duels and has also lost every ground duel. He’s also misplaced over half of his passes. He’s totally ineffective

his career stats are horrific but dan’s computer must have seen something…

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Westergaard looks keen to do the Tunnel walk of shame tonight!

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Because we played to his strengths.

Kone was (relatively) awful when he was isolated.

Bayo would have been shit if we expected him to run the channels.

if the tactics don’t fit the players, the best aren’t going to look good.

Look, the elephant in this room is we don’t actually know what Finks strengths are. But the way he was isolated and the way the balls where just kicked to him, that’s clearly not going to help anyone.

The lack of passing quality in that first half killed anyone’s chance of looks good.

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Unlucky!

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How wasn’t that a pen?!?!

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Sky commentator doesn’t think so, Hardly mentioned compared to there non penalty appeal.

About 2M worth of signings on the pitch in the first half.

Yet again showing the atrocious efforts of Dan Rice in the transfer market.

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nice hair

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Disappointing so far from the Bigman.

I had a fresh update of a top of the hit parade song at the ready for when he scored…

All finked up I feel alive, all finked up I feel Alive.. etc

@midlander said he’s top quality.

We just need to give him a few more years, young lad new league etc.

Absolutely should have been. Obvious I thought

some of these players are just not good enough , this looks like a Dodds team performance

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signed the danes for the championship

signed fink for the premiership

o…k

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I think Westergaard might go entire games without touching the ball in the championship.

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Jan is a chance to clear out the dross. Let Duffman chose his own lads to strengthen

Swiss precision clockwork play from Bradley Fink tonight, …. just needs to be wound up, apparently 2-0 down doesn’t wind him up, please just sub him.

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Would love for him still to emerge as a big player but like Fink his skill set is hard to be certain about.

Sort of gets around a lot but without making any impact at all.

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