Toussaint

Thinking about your last bit, I don't like Mings, but I think he's a good center back. Looking at their key positions, Ings, Watkins, Mings, Martinez, McGinn, I'd have all of those as first choice in our team. Moving the argument a little, I expect Gerrard was given a bit of a budget to improve the weakest positions (Targett) etc. Whatever happens this season, I'm convinced they will finish comfortably higher than us, and unlike us, they are on the way up.

I think that one may come back to bite you, hope not, but think it will.

And we had the excuse of ten men for most of both games

Crap as we are we aren’t the crappiest at the moment.

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Leeds are competing with Saints 0-6 with 15 to go

3 now

The crazy situation with the table at the moment is 2 wins and we could be 12th , two defeats and we could be bottom 3. We'll probably muddle through somewhere in the middle. I keep looking back to how fortunate we were to meet Leeds with 5 first team regulars missing and Villa at their lowest ebb who were also struggling with injuries.

I refer back to Semmens interview on gteh TSP again, paraphrased - Ralph was excused last year because of the injuries and lack of squad depth, we have addressed the squad issues over the summer, over to you Ralphie boy. In Ralph's position I'd be feeling really nervous. "It's a funny old game" as a wise man once said, a good return from our next two and we are right up there, a poor return then its getting a really squeaky bum time, which I'm not sure he'd survive, the stakes are just too high.

I I was only having a bit of a laugh me old mate (trying to), appreciate it doesn't always come across that way in text.

So would I, so would a lot of us, but I suspect Wreckit has some ridiculously flawed cunning plan

I only saw the last 20, I quite enjoyed the feistyness of it, we won’t perform if Palace get stuck into us like that.

Clearly when we win our next game! Have you learned nothing from this forum? If you look at the xg*p1(3xz) / hot dog x2 - 4-2-2-2 automated you’d have a better understanding of how good we really are and what a great tactician Ralph is. It becomes really clear that we are one of the best teams ever in the premier league, if it wasn’t for our dashed rotten luck we’d probably be top, if not higher!

Bizarrely you are still on target for your seemingly pessimistic forecast of 5 points. I guess the season starts here all over again? Palace then Brentford, get four points from those two and it doesn’t look so terrible again.

So apart from the defending and the attacking we were pretty good? At least that gives us something to build on.

Could be two sides of the same coin, but maybe he’s keeping the seat warm until the “imminent” takeover?

I’d say it was irrelevant who the assistants are, its seemingly Ralph’s way or the autobahn

What happens at half time? The players thrash around on the changing room floor gasping for oxygen, Ralph shouts werk against the ball, pressing ja! Automisms! Reddy, time for my back rub. The players trot out on to the pitch collectively muttering “how much longer do we have to put up with this loon”? Meanwhile, back at base Stuart Armstrong counts down the days Hogmanay and his January move to Leicester/ Villa / Spurs or the like.

Norwich, Burnley and Newcastle?

Willy is going to flop. Willy out!

Its potentially great for Willy though, clean sheet tomorrow with a couple of good saves and he'll be the best keeper in the PL, we should cash in.

Yes, MLG and TWAR have taken over the SWF

That's true, even when your as bad as us the premier league will not allow you to field two goalkeepers at the same time.

Hopefully that's where the similarity ends and Ralph is setting up to invade Portsmouth under some flimsy pretext for eradicating the axis of inbreeding?

Hope he's focussing on his football and not fannying around.