Yep. Agreed.

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Agreed... Mateta to start on Sunday... he does shoot hard on sight and is more physical than Edouard.....

Did anyone not see how good he was from the moment he arrived? It's like Olise, some players you can see within minutes that they are absolute class.

The worrying thing is that last night (to an extent) proved how vulnerable we are if we lose him. It was the same in preseason, when he wasn't on the pitch we offered little to nothing.

I only saw the highlights but JRS didn't look like he had much of an impact and probably could have done more to prevent both goals in terms of closing down. If he's still here I'd start JPM on Sunday as his confidence should be up and Edouard just doesn't look to me like his heart is entirely in it.

We compete every Saturday against teams that have a squad full of decent players. How good our team was when we were playing scunthorpe 15 years ago is pretty irrelevant to our ability to compete in the Premier League. Hodgson agrees - see his statements saying that we're three or four good players short of a proper squad.

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It's all been said about him but maybe, everything crossed, he'll be our le Tissier and is happy to stay.
Also as previously mentioned Edouard has a style of play that in some ways is like Berbatov in that he doesn't bust a gut Ayew-style so it looks as though he's not trying. Maybe we haven't, and won't, find a way of getting the best out of him but in the meantime he offers a different option to Mateta. He's not a target man/poacher but is better at running onto and with the ball.

I was at the game at the end were scored. I can confirm many of the comments. We started well and for 5 mins knocked it around as if it was training. They didn’t have a touch until they broke away got in a cross and we were behind. We couldn’t handle crosses all evening. Tomkins was misjudging them, Johnson missing them, Mitchell allowing them.

The team then looked as though they had not met one another, let alone not played together. Individually there are some ok players there who could plug a gap from time to time but together would not stand a chance in the PL.

I hoped that halftime would sort it out but within a minute we were 2 down to a great strike. Then we made the changes and everything was different. Eze has rightly been credited but Ayew also deserves praise. They could not cope with him either. The Plymouth defence crumbled as Eze, Ayew and Schlupp ran at them they backed off. All 4 goals were assists by those 3. Mateta looked awful up to then, unable to hold up the ball and passing to no one. When fed balls into channels to run on to, he was totally different.

What looked like being a painful night turned into a fun one. It’s not often you see 4 second half goals smashed in under your nose at an away ground! But the need to strengthen was clear.

The thing that concerned me most was the absence of Doucoure and Andersen.

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