RRP: "More patience, less paranoia?" - Internationals, Coventry aftermath & some SAFC reflection.

Aye after a short but some might say blessed period where their editor lost his hearing and everyone lost their shit (it was peaceful my end at least) the lads returned to talk about how much they hate these breaks, before sort of contradicting themselves a bit whilst trying to look back on the last few fixtures with a little bit of perspective and of course ahead to December.
What's the crack?
Club before country - Have we mentioned how much we hate not just international breaks, but international fixtures? Aye that hasn't changed at all.
Safe to say reaction not just to Coventry, which the lads discuss a fair bit here, but just to the last few draws has cast a bit of a shadow on our achievements so far; Are Gav and Chris as concerned? Does this say more about the rising expectations that come with our position in the league?
The Coventry draw was definitely a situation where two points were lost, but is it a sign of anything significant besides just being a bit too relaxed coming back out and a few slices of luck for them in that second half?
Injuries - Apparently Romaine Mundle is looking at a while out and Browne won't be available for a little while either so which players would be looking to take advantage of this?
Ahead of Millwall and the puzzle presented to Regis Le Bris given Jobe Bellingham, Trai Hume and Patrick Roberts are suspended.. what are we expecting Regis to do? Will he actually look at a different formation and setup? Would he consider a switch to three at the back? Luckily it's not up to us like…
All this and more! Ha'way the Lads!
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[@johnfurness2346]

The coaching staff lost that for us, midfielder gets injured, we are getting overrun in midfield, lets bring a defender on??????

[@sj-30000]

It completely disrupted us... With mundle and Browne getting injured at the same time completely screwed us. We would have won that game if those two didn't get injured imo. We clearly dont have like for like quality on the bench, and they took advantage of that

[@paulmorrison4983]

There is also the added caveat that honeyman and watmore are playing well

[@paulmorrison4983]

May have to bite the bullet with Aouchiche and Ba or even Bennette

[@paulmorrison4983]

Should have brought mayenda on

[@stephenwatson7107]

Rob Edwards observed that we don't like being put under pressure. Coventry not only went more direct in the second half but also squeezed up and condensed the pitch. Our ball retention suffered..Quite right sit too deep and you're asking for trouble and RLB is a bit too keen to drop deep and try to hold what we have. which makes ball retention a bit more difficult.. a mate from Lancashire up for the weekend many years ago observed you are not football fans up here, massive Sunderland fans but not football fans. The apathy for the national team displayed here would seem to back his claim.. Baffling attitude to me. Charles Hughes, a statistician,n was responsible for the p.o.m.o theory. Graham Taylor regarded him as a guru.Idiot.