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We're over performing defensively. They haven't scored with every chance. And we've prevented any shots on target at their goal

The glaring weakness that's always been in JWP's game is receiving the ball under pressure. Hence his sideways and backward passing tendencies. That was something Oriol always bought us

Palace look rattled. There's not way they could have prepared for this team sheet

Jones gave them 2 weeks off when he joined. That's on him. If rumours are to be believed he's lost the changing room with his tactical preferences. He's failed to connect with the fans. Say what you like about Ralph he put a lot of effort into the fans when he joined. Part of the manager's job is giving players the freedom to express themselves. If you want to see the difference that makes just take a look at the England cricket team. They don't care if they lose as long as they are positive. All of these Jones can influence. Managing a Premier League team is as much about how you are with people as your knowledge of the game. Right now my impression is he's lacking both in man management and the football side of things.

It is in keeping with the lack of consistent plan or direction for the club.

Jones does seem to love giving players time off.

As a data nerd, one of the first things that should be (literally) beaten into you is that correlation does not equate to causality. So, at best, statistical correlation gives you an idea where to look and apply your judgement until you can rigorously test your hypotheses. You are also unable to really take advantage of the law of averages or regression to the mean over the course of a season because 38 games are an insufficient number of data points. So it's entirely possible that Ankersen is a genius but he's on a bad run. It's also entirely possible that his approach has failed to take something key into account and Brentford was a freak outcome.

There's still time for Everton to offer more money and us to miss out here.

Our best hope is a resounding Everton win to keep Lampard in a job and accelerate Jones' exit.

Pretty much. Broadcasters encode a signal in material that you can't see to let YouTube recognise copyright so changing the aspect or flipping it can scramble that and makes it harder for YouTube to automatically detect and remove. You'd also need to mess with the audio a bit if you wanted a good chance to fool it.

Still can't believe Jones gave the players two weeks off during the world cup. Chopping and changing players while retaining Moi and Lyanco is never going to result in a cutting edge or defensive stability. And don't even get me started on 5 at the back. Knowing us we'll fire Jones just after Everton have replaced Lampard with Potter.

We can't seem to score from open play and our defence seems to gift 1-2 goals a goal to the opposition. So, sadly 0-2 with the first goal being an own goal and the second coming from a set piece. Saints row announce the signing of an obscure Argentinian striker during the light show.

Oh dear. It's all gone a bit Angus Gunn

That's a lightweight midfield, error prone defence and shot shy attack.

It's way too early to judge the guy. He wouldn't have been my first choice. All I've seen so far is the Liverpool game and we went from the first half I've come to expect to giving them a game in the second. If, and it's a big if, that's a sign of what is to come then it seems like a good thing. I guess I'm looking for positives after the dross we've played this year, sitting back and waiting for the other team to score.

When Lavia is back fit our midfield two should be him and AMN

Jesus should be picking up a yellow for simulation there as well.

Given our injuries and and Arsenal's form this was always going to be a free hit. That being said - Ralph out. That being said, hold on until half time and then 3-1 after a stunning Saints revival in the second half.

I'm scared.

No other player broke up so many Saints moves tonight. It was worse than playing with 10 men.

Ralph to BBC Sport ""With the last pass or finish, we are not dangerous enough at the moment. We need more punch in the front. We need to create more chances. We have to find the players who can give you that." Conveniently forgetting he left all the players he "found" to give us that on the bench until the rest of the team were already mentally on the bus.

Gerrard should be apologising they didn't score 5

I can't remember a player making me this angry.

I sincerely fucking hope this press conference is going to be a protracted apology that ends in a resignation.

It wouldn't matter who we recruited if we persist with the same players.