Saint_clark

Listen, I was one of the ones that said we should give him another season at the time, but yes our performances went backwards under Puel compared to the last few seasons under Koeman and Poch. We finished 17 points worse off compared to the previous season, 15 points off the team just above us in 7th and the points tally we finished on would have seen us in 13th the season before and 10th the season after. It was also the lowest amount of goals we'd scored since coming back up, including our first season back.

The Puel era was a regression from where we were, if we become hard to beat now that's progression.

Because there's no transfer fee involved. Free agents will always demand a higher weekly wage.

Their Motm is based on votes by website users and as he's a Chelsea player they probably skewed it.

Well that's nonsense. Ings, Mane, Rodriguez, Lambert all got the fans excited and out of their seat. He might just be the paciest forward we've had though. Not sure if Jonno Quick.

I'd like to think it's a new rule they've introduced on the sly, but honestly the ref seemed to have no clue what he was doing the entire game. Ogbonna should have been booked for simulation there and the fact he stopped the game at the end when we were breaking away to give Antonio his second yellow...my god.

That chance he fucked on Saturday was criminal. All it required was for him to run diagonally across the last man - who then had to either let him go or bring him down and get a red/give away a pen- and then he'd have had a shot on his favoured right foot. Or just run straight and chance a shot on his left. But what he actually did should never have been an option. For some reason he is still well regarded in the wider footballing community, so for me we should try and cash in (anything about £10million) and move on.

I have to say I didn't think the centre backs were anything special today, West Ham didn't really do anything that required them to work that hard. Couple of good moments but Ralph going on like it was a top class showing doesnt really resonate with me.

Looks like a 2-2-1-3-2 there to be honest. Text it and it's probably a competition line.

Back to the old formation with Broja and armstrong up top, drop redmond please.

That's shocking from the ref. We were in!

Fuck how close was that!

What the fuck is going on?

Went down holding his head, gets treated for cramp. CHEATING PRICK!

You cannot let the game run for that long that we have the ball running down the wing and THEN stop it.

NO!

...how? He did brilliantly to try and create an opportunity for someone else. He's looked more dangerous than anyone else in the team so far to be fair. Except Broja!

Great run by Broja, shame there wasn't much else on for the ball in.

Oh god, redmond Djenepo and Moi are all still on after doing nothing.

KWP on at right back and Broja on for Redmond for me.

We have decent options ourselves, they just aren't being used.

Players literally shouting and pointing for redmond as they run into space and he still passes it backwards. What is that all about?

Diallos looked good since he's come on. Bit of urgency and directness about him.

Same. I was confident we were 1-0 up, then I was confident we weren't.

Get someone up alongside Armstrong ffs.