After 11 games!

Maybe so but it is their intensity in their press and the long ball which means you are under the cosh for large parts of the game. I don't think Luton had a lot of skill about them and the real class moments came from the two Sunderland goals.

They seemed to revert back to the long ball game when Ross Barclay moved on. I think they were praised last season in the Premiership with their possession based football

Ballard will struggle to get back in the side m8

What a luxury, not to have to rush Dan back from injury, ensuring his full recovery 👍

I’ve been thinking this, we always look like we play it short, so when we come up against front foot teams they start with a high defensive line and players ready to press our short goal kicks. We then have Patterson lump it over the high defensive line to the striker (especially because you can’t be offside from a goal kick). Either works as a 1 time thing or keeps the opposition guessing and more cautious in the press

He was man of the match v Hull, 2 assists in 2 from a 6 role. Been quality since his Watford mistake. Entitled to your opinion but not sure football is the right sport for you.

@@LDHallstar Motm v Hull ?? - and what was his assist - giving the ball to Isador 80 metres out!!! As a midfielder he doesn’t score goals. Jobe has goals, even Brown has goals, Riggas goals - but nothing from Neil despite many chances. As for football not been my sport. ! Signed professionally as a player and coached a semi professional team. Over to you!

@@birtlee2078 so did I , but you're still wrong

On one of the occasions he gave it away he got a clear shove in the back, and throughout the game we barely had the ball on the floor

Agree with you on Roberts. I was frustrated watching him down the right, predictable in his approach to continually cut in on his left and lose the ball allowing Hull to counter-attack. As we now have a CF in Isidor, maybe it is a better option to find his head with a cross instead of trying to walk the ball into the box. Saying that, the two things which I subsequently thought in defence of Roberts' play was that Hull did sit deep, frustrating Sunderland with Roberts trying and failing to find gaps and secondly, Hume and Rigg could have shown themselves more to Roberts who did have space down the right. Maybe too tough a comment on Robert's and SAFC's play as we did defend well and we won, but remembering teams parking the bus last season, SAFC did sometimes fail to break them down. The irony being that we scored from a counter-attack after sitting back for a time absorbing Hull's attempt to attack. We have to buy Mepham like. SAFC!

@@L12Bong You are right Hull did make life difficult and Roberts could have had more help but what space there was was on the outside and he never even thought of trying to exploit it. Hume or Rigg could've gone there but by not taking his space they left him room to work in. Any wide player has to vary their game or it's just too easy to defend against. compared to Clarke he's ineffective when he does cut inside. Clarke cut in on an angle giving him a natural angle to shoot from. He placed it or put a slight bend on it in a controlled manner. Roberts runs parallel to the goal at a high pace and invariably shoots from the center of the goal and has to wrap his foot right around the ball and ends up lashing it. So much talent but seems incapable of learning.