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Best performance of the season by a mile. Not taking our big chances - they weren't half chances - or being ruthless enough in really promising counters (Prowse and Hojbjerg making terrible, selfish decisions) killed us. Should've been 3 or 4 up before the inevitable late equaliser. If we could play every week with that level of commitment and endeavour, we'd scramble to safety. But I suspect we won't - there was no pressure on this game; a shot to nothing. We'll be expected to win the next few, and totally **** the bed. Thought Bertrand had a great game. What a difference he makes when he decides to turn up. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

For what it's worth, we've played okay. Look like conceding every time they attack, but what's new? When we inevitably lose in the second half we can at least take some comfort in having given Arsenal a good game for 45 minutes. Ward-Prowse shooting from the centre circle when we're on a promising counter attack, though... Never been a player. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Notice how Spurs were able to give Mourinho FIVE personally chosen coaches (all employed at other clubs) within hours of appointing him. He's apparently also steered them towards his preferred DoF. I could be wrong, but it feels like letting a new manager bring in just his own data analyst and expecting him to make do with the rest of the crap staff already on the books isn't really "backing the manager". Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Pretty much the only thing going for us is it's pretty toxic at Arsenal right now. The longer we can frustrate them, the more the crowd will go after their players and manager. They've got a few young heads in there that could drop. Realistically, though, a comfortable 3-0 home win. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

That generates precisely FA to our non-existant transfer fund. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I remember watching the play off final where he played in midfield. Early doors, Stephens pulled off a roulette in the middle of the park, surged magesticly forward to the edge of the box, players in his wake, and let fly a glorious shank miles wide. I thought we might've had a player in the making there... Swindon lost 4-0. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I thought the noises coming from the club when Targett was sold were that Vokins would move up the pecking order. He's been training every day with the senior squad since Hasenhuttl took over a year ago, yet has made only one substitute appearance in injury time in the league cup. Either he's extremely slow on the uptake, or he's just not very good. Regardless, the manager isn't prepared to give an actual left back a go when we've got no left backs available, which is a pretty weird state of affairs given that he'll play literally anyone there, regardless of ability or suitability for the role. For what it's worth, I think Vokins is quite promising - certainly a better left back than Valery is a right back. Not s ringing endorsement, I know, but hey... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Bednarek marking thin air again. Both goals are on him. Terrible. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Romeu's an absolute liability on the ball. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Might even be a worse first half than against Leicester - at least we had the excuse of being down to 10 men against a good team then. Appalling. Romeu and Ward-Prowse as a midfield two is suicide. They're both always three yards off the pace and so easily bypassed by Everton they might as well be playing against cones. We've got three forwards on the pitch but eight players utterly incapable of passing the ball to them. The goal was everything we've come to expect: Vestergaard beaten in the air for the flick on and Bednarek marking empty space at the back post. It's hard to believe any of our defenders could be overrated, but quite what people on here rave about with Bednarek is a total mystery. He's as useless as the rest. Somehow we're still in this game. And yet I have not even the smallest confidence that we'll turn things around. Think it'll end up 3 or 4 nil. Grim. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

"You're not good enough to coach our players... Also, can you take over the development of our next generation of players, the lifeblood of our business model?" Beautiful. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

It was overturned by an independent panel. The Premier League tried to justify the red card. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

After losing 9-0 last week, if you'd have offered us a one goal defeat away to Man City, we'd have snapped your hand off. Hopefully some confidence can be taken from the creditable, albeit losing, showings this week. It's still an uphill struggle: Newcastle winning has cast us slightly adrift. But at least we didn't fall to pieces. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Five at the back and three midfielders who can't pass forwards certainly limits our attacking threat. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Our need for a strong midfielder? I think our need for a midfielder who can actually run is a greater priority. Adding a broken Wanyama to the plodding brigade of Romeu, Hojbjerg and Ward-Prowse doesn't address any of our shortcomings. And STILL none of them pass forwards. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

This is just nonsense. Loads of teams on smaller budgets than us have somehow managed to accrue decent midfielders that are better than our options. Aston Villa signed John McGinn for just £2.8m, for goodness sake. Just because our useless recruitment team are in the habit of throwing £15m-£20m at any old garbage, regardless of talent, doesn't mean that we're operating at the maximum we possibly can within the current market. It just means we're really crap at recruitment. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I know they don't want to get thrashed, but there's nothing to be gained from just hiding everyone inside our own penalty area and waiting for our medicine. Rather lose 6-2 having a go than timidly accepting 4-0 having not laid a glove on the opposition. God know what the league game is going to be like, when it actually matters. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Away to Fulham in the league cup (won 1-0). It was during the period where Hasenhuttl was playing left back lucky dip - Danso was LB the game before, but against Fulham, bizarrely, it was Hojbjerg's turn. Danso also got moved into a back three briefly during the Bournemouth game, where he was having a nightmare at RB. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

We've won two games - both against 10 men - which we could quite easily have lost (Brighton dominated us until their sending off, Sheffield United would have had a penalty if this weekend's version of VAR had been in play). Unless we can play 8-10 more games 10 v 11, I don't see a lot of hope. We haven't looked a good team in any match this season, apart from against a League One minnow. And even they had chances. Can't defend. Midfield can't pass forwards or track back. Very little quality chance creation. Throw in a feeble mentality and a squad that apparently don't give a hoot, and it all adds up to a pile of crap. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Clasie has been utter rubbish in all his loans - we virtually had to give him away. Fair crack or not, he just isn't a very good player. Neither is Prowse, but that's a separate issue. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Just a cheery reminder that Yoshida - who was absolutely abysmal - is still the best centre back at the club by a distance. Usually, you'd say it can't get any worse, but then our next two games are Man City away. Hey, at least we're in the record books. Hughes was sacked with just 9 points amassed by the end of October, by the way... Not that a new manager will make a massive difference. This is a wretched squad any way you shape it. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

How bad has Valery regressed this season? Just terrible. 0-3. This is going to be 10. We're awful. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

This is going well... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Bank the point, move on. We played okay, by and large. Their penalty was a terrible decision, but we rode our luck on the two disallowed goals - Gunn made a poor misjudgement for the first and Cutrone's offside was by accident not design after a real defensive mess. Seems like we're reverting back to last season's grimly pragmatic 5-3-1-1 for the foreseeable future. A bit more solidarity, but not much going forward. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Wolves often play a lot better against the best clubs. So, given we're absolutely crap, we might have a chance... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk