SNSUN

I’ve turned TNT Sports off, deleted the app, turned my phone off, smashed my phone up, put my phone in the bin, taken the bin bag out, burned the bin bag, scooped up the ashes and buried the ashes in the ground. I then peed on the ashes and a flower grew. I then kicked the shit out of the flower. It’s a long road back from here, penalty miss changed the game. Please God not another 9 nil…

Ok game over then

A striker should step up for pens and he had to wait for ages but it should have been better. well United score. Didn’t take our chance, 1 nil down. Still not over.

Shit poor Archer.

SNSUN is an idiot. Here I am watching a dodgy stream at work that keeps buffering when I have TNT Sports on Discovery + on my phone. Bellendry of the highest order. Penalty Saints! Lovely Dibling

Although he did drop 2 of his favourites today which is progress.

Decent save Ramalamadingdong (The Edsels) United creeping back in. Defensively it's interesting as we struggled defensively last season with the back 4 and that's why we went 3 CBs but with Les and Suga added we should be tighter. I much prefer the 4 at the back than 3 CB though.

My stream is buffering like a beeyatch. But from what I gather, we're doing well.

Dibling is truly the bollocks

Good job they listed Taylor after Harwood-Bellis or it'd look like we only named 8 subs. 😁

Love it. Love. It. Probably still lose but that's positive. I even agree with the decision of Stephens over THB seeing as THB hasn't started the season brilliantly and has also just played for the U21s. That's got to be close to our best team.

Plus if we stay up, we can upgrade and we have a decent third/fourth choice CB.

I hope this spells the start of other contract renewals. #kwpwatch

Deserved that after last season. Is he upgradable? Yes, you could argue THB has a higher ceiling and ABK if he stays is a better defender but after his performances last year he's deserved the extension. More importantly even if we go down we have a strong complement of centre backs that aren't going anywhere.

I've just woken up but BL was confusing me until I eventually worked it out.

I'd like to think Russ would stop too much of the tippy tappy stuff at the back but...

Pass

Makes sense when we brought in BBD, Fraser and Cornet. (And so far have kept Edozie who I prefer anyway). Sulemana was always too raw for the money we paid for him.

A quick glance at the table even this early in the season (which I know you shouldn't do yet but still) and you can see the clubs currently in the bottom 6 may be the ones likely to be in a relegation battle. Palace have only played twice of course and they probably have enough quality to be OK, so really (pending points deductions elsewhere) you are looking at a bottom 5: Us, Everton, Ipswich, Leicester and Wolves. There may be a surprise team that drops later in the season but in my mind that bottom 5 or 6 already are the teams we're up against to fight for survival.

I see Sol Bamba died today which is sad - but it got me reading his Wiki page and Warnock once said to him ""Don’t be Beckenbauer. Just kick or head it. When it’s on, pass it, but if it’s not on, just put it up there" - a quote that I wish Russ would say to our defenders.

I'm not going to turn on Russ yet, this is his first time managing in the Premier League and it's a real baptism of fire - but he needs to stop being stubborn and realise quickly when something isn't working. I appreciate he has a philosophy of possession football but sometimes you have to understand that you don't have the quality of players for that. Once we start integrating the new signings (which he has time to do now with the International break) I think we will start to pick up, but we need to stop thinking we can be prime Man City with the way we play. I'm not saying we need to start punting it up the pitch long ball Burnley style, but just be adaptable and understand when, or when not, to spray it across your own back line. There's a ton of pace in the Premier League and against the top 6 we'd be ripped apart. Thankfully we have players that look like they can turn and play it forwards, Fernandes and Dibling are the two prime candidates and I hope we see more of them.

Amazing from Bournemouth. Everton looking like relegation fodder too. Ipswich and Leicester only a point better off. We still have time to get to safety in what is now a 35 game season.

Bella-Kotchap evwn with a dicky ticker would improve this defence today. Stop playing 3 CBs please Russ pleeeeease! Attack is the best form of defence. Just stick Les in front of the defence and go from there.

Time to reset, look at the 3 games, learn from our mistakes and... keep doing them.

This. Even one consolation would give us a bit of confidence going into the International break.