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That counts as a non-set piece goal right...

Penalty. Here comes the 4-3 win!

Brighton's recruitment has been excellent. Similar to ours back in the early Koeman days.

I know people aren't fond of the 3 CB system but 4 at the back is hardly wowing us. ABK, Salisu, DCC - I still think those CBs in a back 3 is a no-brainer. If Jones wants to go with that system in the future then so be it. Can it be worse than this?

Yes he is. 😁

How much time did March get just then????!?!?!?!!? FFS we really are plop.

Fair play to Jones he's seen which of our players have been shit and is replacing them. Just a shame we can only use 5 subs...

If we go out in January and sign more "talented youngsters" I will despair of this club. That model works if we are a stable Premier League club. We are not. We need experience and we need it now. Some of the passing from us in this game has been shit. Half hearted running about. It's embarrassing.

Do we still forfeit a game 3-0 if we get 5 players sent off? Seems like a plan right now... 🙃

We are so poor. I'd have taken boring Dyche football over this.

Edozie dribbling at least gives us the opportunity to get free kicks in a dangerous area. And if not we keep the ball for a few seconds. We don't want to burn him out but he does need to play more when we are so short of decent attacking options.

Running around like headless chickens. Free kick to us

McCarthy has his flaws but surely we can't persist with Bazunu much longer...

Jeez Bazunu

This is the reason I personally think it's our season to drop. There are no weak teams this year, the likes of Wolves are dropping £40 million + on International players (yes I know that's not an indication of their success but still...) and our team lacks experience and is guilty of profligacy in front of goal. On top of that we've taken a massive gamble over an unproven lower league manager. I'm not saying we're doomed... ... because we stand as much of a shot as the others to get ourselves out of it (especially if we buy in the transfer window) but right now things are not looking good. We probably need around 30 points from 23 games so we need a better than one-point-per-game ratio which we've not even hit so far. I'm not going to say "We're better off in the Championship anyway" because technically we wouldn't be BUT I do think even with the odd sale we'd be in a good place squad-wise for an instant return.

Not to do it again.

Just seen Edozie’s miss. Yikes. But still a positive learning experience for the future.

Just realised, no Ballard or Morgan etc on the bench but Walcott was. Thought this would have been a good game to give them an opportunity.

I blame moving the game from tomorrow. Could’ve had an extra day to prepare. 😉

That was before we bought DCC and before ABK was settled. Makes sense to play 3 when it is our strongest position but the third should be DCC not Lyanco IMO. Just need better players in front of them which is the issue... and a fit Lavia would help.

We do but I expect the club spiel to be "We wanted Nathan to get used to the side he has before bringing in new players" or something along those lines, then 'panic' buy later in the window. And re: Gyokeres and Brereton Diaz, we can and should do better... but it's almost win/win if we do bring one in, as either they score the goals that keep us up or we end up with a decent Championship striker in the Championship (alongside the other Championship strikers we have!).

18. I kicked myself for a couple, then fluked a couple of others so it's swings and roundabouts.

It was a brilliant final, a great watch. Argentina thought they'd won it at least twice before they did, and I think Angel Di Maria is due a heart attack after watching his emotions through the game. Fair play to Mbappe for stepping up when his team around him wasn't but there's only one GOAT and that's Messi. You could see the Argies wanted this more. And back to domestic football where we've all temporarily forgotten how harsh football can really be!

I'd better stop bringing the wife then. For all your sakes.