Of shrills, shrugs and shrewd bench moves
AN injury to Karlan Grant allowed Danny Cowley to hold an impromptu team talk from the touchline midway through the first half, the result of which was a slight change of shape for Town with the wingers dropping in a bit deeper to make the formation more 4-4-1-1 than 4-2-3-1.
So how do you attract the attention of all your players at once to get them to come over? It helps if you have the ability to whistle as loudly as Cowley, who doesn’t need any apparatus to blast a shrill pweeep over the murmurings of the crowd. Impressive, and well worth looking out for next time you’re at a game and a Town player goes down injured.
JONATHAN Hogg was straight over to Kamil Grabara after his error with his arms outstretched by his side in a clear ‘what were you doing?’ gesture.
Jon Gorenc Stankovic offered a consoling ‘keep your head up’ hug but had to settle for a pat on the back, with Grabara shrugging off the defender and producing an air kick as if to say ‘this is what I meant to do.’
KARLAN Grant got all the plaudits for his wonderfully-struck equaliser, but it may have escaped your attention that Hogg was the man who played the forward in.
Hoggy has claimed just one other assist since the 2015/16 season when he played a one-two with Alex Pritchard to score early on against West Ham in the Premier League last November.
Hogg only has a further five assists to his name since joining Town in 2013, and bizarrely two of them came in the same game – the 2-1 win over Bolton in December 2014.
WE were not alone in the press box in thinking Rarmani Edmonds
Green was getting ready to come on in injury time to play out the final few moments of the game.
The defender got up from the bench and stripped down to his kit, only to put his tracksuit back on about 30 seconds later and sit back down.
This has happened before this season with Florent Hadergjonaj, so whether it’s a psychological ploy from the Cowleys, a couple of changes of mind, or (most likely) just us reading too much into a player taking his tracksuit top off, we’re not entirely sure.
A perfectly good ITV-style pronunciation here, with the announcer going for the very acceptable “Had-er-JON-eye”.