Whitey Grandad

For it to be anything more than pointless it has to involve the whole team and all areas of the pitch. This requires the forwards and midfield to be constantly on the move trying to pull the opposition out of its defensive shape. Just passing the ball between the goalkeeper and the back defenders whilst the opposition and the crowd make their own entertainment is meaningless time wasting.

What was I saying? Perhaps I did not make myself clear. On possession, we agree. The only purpose seems to be to improve some meaningless metric.

Why do you insult our paying supporters and customers by calling them idiots? It’s this style of play that is idiotic. Just shuffling the ball about without purpose or intent.

All right, if you must. ‘Attempting to play out from the back’ What happens is the players involved get closed down and end up panicking and passing the ball between themselves. Sometimes they get caught out and it leads to a goal opportunity for the other side. Whatever, they make several passes and end up no further upfield. Boring to watch and as far away from the other team’s goal as possible.

A possession game doesn’t get you goals. There has to be a risk in there somewhere. A chance of losing possession.

But it isn’t “playing out from the back”. It’s playing around at the back and getting nowhere.

It’s otherwise known as gambling.

You don’t understand. If you score a goal you give away possession so whatever you do, don’t score a goal.

I’d pay a lot not to watch that.

Playing out from the back is nothing more than time wasting with the added threat of getting caught in possession in a dangerous position.

Best give him two games this season then. We could dump him eight games into next season.

But they will be jumbo adverts! I agree. Bloody annoying.

If something is broken that means that it doesn't work.

When we turned up for the Luton match and saw five at the back we knew that someone had lost their marbles.

Are they from people called Ainsley, Maitland and Niles?

Ryan Bertrand is out of contract in the summer. I’ll just leave that hanging out there…

Bournemouth are safe on 39 points. None of Everton, Leeds or Leicester can match that.

It’s always someone else’s fault with that lot.

Are those the version that can be land or sea launched?

Bournemouth are now mathematically safe. Thanks to us.

Why not? Some of the players have.

Isn’t Moi out of contract anyway?

Don’t even joke about it.

Bednarek? Watch again Fulham’s first goal on Saturday. Lyanco runs across to confront Reed and makes a hash of it and Bednarek rushes across to join him leaving Vinicius and Willian completely unmarked on the edge of our goal area but he slips up and falls on his arse for some reason. He does that a lot. To make matters worse McCarthy has also gone across to his near post. What is it about giving opposition players the freedom of our penalty area? Maybe they didn’t notice them because of their black kit. It was Keystone Cops defending.

For the first time I sat there wondering why I bothered going to our matches. Normally there is something to hold my attention, but no.