Whitey Grandad

Shush… Let’s hope none of our ‘management’ team find out until it’s too late.

I was wondering during the game what sort of training our defenders did and then it dawned on me. They practise by defending against our own attackers. No wonder they’re not very good at it.

Lack of someone better. He was only ever one for the future but the failure to sign an experienced goalkeeper has left him as our only realistic choice. McCarthy has be injured a lot of the season.

Did they smuggle it in tucked under a jersey?

I was never a fan of Stephens but he is a better defender. If nothing else he wouldn’t now be helping Bournemouth get victories.

Without the goals.

You cannot possibly compare his run of games with the others. Drawling against Arsenal and winning at Bournemouth or drawing with Tottenham and winning at Chelsea. Not much in it.

No, you have jumped to a wrong conclusion. Again. I was referring to the ball out to Ayew who was unmarked on their left wing. It was he who skipped past AMN.

We were in the Premier League when he joined us. He’s the reason we shall not be in the Premier League next season.

Nothing random about last season. It was the one immediately before this one.

I’ll watch it again before commenting in detail but anytime an opposition player skips around your full back and gets to the goal line inside your penalty are you’re going to be in trouble. I said to my grandson at the time, “far post”, and lo and behold there it was. I couldn’t fault AMN’s commitment after that but he’s never going to be a full back. We’ve got two competent right backs in KWP and Bree and Perraud is not the worst of left backs.

Why did they allow the drum? Surely we can just say NO

AMN was the main culprit for that first goal.

Ralph is the reason we’re deep in the shit.

I put a lot of it down to the recall of Benarek. Everything goes through him and everything slows through him.

It would be a stay of execution.

We are far beyond the stage of playing percentage football. Nothing less than going for the throat will do any good.

Was that the season when Prutton missed a sitter away to West Brom?

They're not the only ones. Remember. This is what you 'voted' for.

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Just go for it FFS

Wood (had to be done)

Whatever anyone might think of his positioning and performances you can bet your boots that this is the way that he has been coached. He’s not some kid that your mate has brought along to play between the posts.

You’re absolutely right WSS and we all (most) understand quite clearly what is meant by share as a proportion of total GDP. But this is not the same thing as share of a market, for example, where the gross total is limited. it is not a quantity that is ‘shared’ out. I cannot see why anybody bothers to calculate such figures. To try to compare such a ‘share’ from one year to the next is a fool’s errand.

That’s when it all began.