danjosaint

Ralph in no way should resign although that could be out of our hands in the summer if he feels he's still no backing . However questions do need to be asked not only about the 2 freak results but the record amount of points dropped in games, we as fans know about our soft underbelly but this desperately needs to be addressed either with correct personnel or tactics for game management, it is a huge flaw to think we can grind out results whilst playing this way, this season we will get away with it due to all the weird circumstances but next season it could prove to be a big issue

Des walker iirc

I'm sure I heard we are the only team to beat 7 reigning champions the following season

I know Stephens does get a lot of shit but I'm sorry he deserves it, how many headers did he jump under, and awareness has to be up there with the worse cbs in league

Nice marking and awareness from Stephens once again

Why the fuck did Bertrand duck under it

Nope

Not a chance, he wants 120k pw, unless Danny goes

But it shouldn't be just a clear and obvious mistake, it needs to be correct decision, just like goal line technology. The offside cannot ever be 'correct' decision as they haven't a definitive line of body to relate to, edge of sleeve is not definitove due to sleeve lengths/armbands etc. My team all forwards would have shorter sleeves, simple. The only way is tip of the boot, nothing else. Also frame rates would have to be addressed. The handball rule is fine but again its down to interpretation, a deflection off a body part is fine as long as the ball has its course deviated onto the hand, this wasn't the case with ours and common sense and understanding of the game would of seen this, will you've still got the 'old boys club' amongst refs and fa this won't change, they will keep making new rules to cover defect of last rule, 1st time last night I was that angry in a long time

What a crock of shit, yes Barclays run should of been tracked, Romeu was possibly our best player out there, but back 4 were by far in ok position wise, the 2 cbs were sucked towards ball and infact nowhere near the villa players, once again an opposing team has so much space in the box, jwp was a mile off Grealish , it wouldn't of happened if kwp was playing

Shit defending cost us that, bednerek and Stephens sucked towards ball, jwp caught flat footed and 5yds off Grealish, I can also see Ralph saying fuck it, we need big overhaul, upgrade on Stephens, Walcott, Redmond, Djnepo, Mccarthy , we obviously won't get that due to previous shit transfer debacles that we will aimlessly float around 10-14th place, really pissed of tonight

Yeah think matip went off injured again tonight

I missed first 20 but he's just wandering around almost lost then bang

Just watching Hojberg and he's been dreadful then he smashes in a screamer

And Northampton is a step to far for Valery

Awful from Stephens, dreadful awareness from valery

100% this, Diallo has done brilliantly and will take Romeu's place... but not yet, Romeu's passing in real tight areas is exceptional , his strength and aggressiveness is something we really need

Mental there's no Armstrong, so much of our good play goes through him

Thiago must be up there as well, just like against us keeps giving away silly petulant fouls all over pitch

Also am I missing something but from what I saw the ings chance that hit the post he was onside, only saw once and don't think bt replayed it

Diallo with some serious pace there to wind in pepe

But u would have Mccarthy on bench tho !

At no point has this been mentioned, it is more than that and not an injury as such due to the media lockdown over it , yes he wasn't fit when he turned up but that's not the main issue

If we said we've offered him £110k (plucked out of air figure but could be in ball park) so that's about £8.5m he'll be paid over the nxt 18mths, then he wants release clause of 20m, doesn't work for me, either remove offer and say you can go now for £40m or say we'll pay you £110k pw but we want minimum £30m release clause, also we could be pro active which we won't and go and get Daka from Saltzburg, shame we didn't go for Darwin Nunez, few rehashed websites mentioned us but prob all crap before he went to Benfica

Wow, the other all black one lower down is really nice as well, we all know how it ends tho