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By the looks of things he was holding Burnley back all this time...

That was as shit as it gets. Disorganised. Unmotivated. No quality whatsoever. I guess we'll find out about our new owners' mettle in the coming weeks - surely they can't continue to tolerate the abysmal standard of performances over the past couple of months. None of them good enough to wear the shirt tonight.

This is the kind of performance that ends up with a manager leaving "by mutual consent" at the end of the season. We'd be six down if it weren't for Forster. Against fucking Burnley! What a disgrace.

Gambling on the new manager bounce, I guess. Two wins could be all they need - Everton aren't picking up many more points.

Good lad. It'd be great if he could make a match squad or two before the end of the season.

He filled his non-scuffed quota for the season against Villa back in November. It's just shanks, shinners, and air shots from this point.

Are you doing our team talks?

Imagine losing to three crap teams in a row- all below us in the league. Really is feast or famine under Hasenhuttl.

We've been atrocious this half. No shape or pattern of play. Really poor from everyone.

1-1 h/t. Not really at the races early on, before a quick flurry where Broja missed a sitter and Armstrong scored. Then we went back into our shell and Wood equalised with about as basic a Wood goal as you'll ever see. Finished the half quite well - seem to have finally woken up. Broja out of sorts today. Even aside from his miss, his touch hasn't been there. Salisu's been a bit wobbly too. Don't think much of Newcastle, but I'm sure we'll manage find a way to gift them this.

Pretty tepid start. We don't exactly look full of beans.

He has to be sold this summer if he doesn't extend his contract, if we want to make a substantial profit on the deal. That's just the reality. I imagine he'll stay in England, though.

Salisu there - albeit seemingly training apart from the rest of the group with Elyounoussi. At least even if he doesn't make this game it looks like his injury isn't too serious. Tella back too. Improves the bench, I guess.

As long as he can walk he'll still be quicker than a pairing of Bednarek and Stephens.

Potentially seven players out: Lyanco, McCarthy, Tella for definite; Salisu, Elyounoussi, Walker-Peters, Long in doubt. Only three regular starters, but that would still be a big test of our squad depth. I'd take a draw with a patched up side.

Something was up: he's rubbish. Hasn't improved one iota as a footballer in three years. He's a bit better defensively, but has managed to get worse offensively, so it pretty much balances out. Only a year left on his contract in the summer. I think we'd be mad to offer him an extension, so I'd expect him to be moved on. Seems a nice lad, but the wild swings between extremely rare wonder goals and more frequent headless chicken meandering with his boots on the wrong feet aren't worth persevering with imho.

Fair play, we're giving it a go. Djenepo and Armstrong are shocking, though. That's £30m we won't get much return on. Diallo had a mental couple of minutes, be he seems to have recognised that passing to Saints players is the preferred course of action. Beautiful strike from Perraud - he's been threatening it for weeks. Defensively, he's been caught in some odd positions, mind you. Smallbone has been fairly decent. Let's see what the second half brings. We've done well to limit their set pieces so far.

Wow. That's... a collection of footballers. If Jack Stephens and Yan Valery can keep out a big, physical team who score a lot from set pieces, I'll eat my hat (provided it's made of cheese or something). There's literally no headers in that line up. Good luck, chaps. Stranger things have happened, I guess...

Brighton are doing it. https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2510189/albions-show-of-support-for-peace-in-ukraine

Remember that you support a club that once complained to the league because a referee slighted poor Adam Lallana by suggesting he'd "changed". Embarrassing indeed.

I think we're in a slightly curious situation where our best two strikers - Broja and Adams - aren't necessarily our best striking partnership. Broja doesn't seem to gel as well with Adams as he does with Redmond. And Adams has much better natural chemistry with Adam Armstrong. Broja and Adams are doing fine individually, but their combination play needs a lot of work. Primarily, I'd say that comes down to Broja's inexperience: not making the right runs off the ball, or holding onto it too long with his head down. But the only way it's going to get better is to keep banging away at it. I haven't checked, but I'd guess that they've only started together around 10 times. Possibly less.

In danger of fucking this up. Been way too casual this half. No intensity.

1-0 HT. Wouldn't say we've been amazing, but relatively in control. Norwich are quite well organised and we haven't exactly had a high quality cutting edge - Broja's having a poor game, Elyounoussi's been wasteful. We'll need a second. Norwich have looked fairly lively when they've been able to break. Come on, kill this off early in the second half and start preparing for West Ham.

We should be raiding them for Alex Scott, 18. Guernsey boy who spent some time training with us as a youth.

Yes, they're much improved. And playing better than Everton right now. Not a foregone conclusion by any stretch. Gunny's been doing quite well in nets too. Which is nice to see - got a bit of confidence back.