Sheaf Saint

Time for some positive subs now Ralph please. Get Edozie on.

Oh Adams. Terrible effort on his left foot.

AMN looking sooooooo much better than Diallo so far. Actually getting his foot in and stopping Palace from attacking, something of which Diallo is utterly incapable.

Or at least in that position. He does have some useful qualitites, and is a decent ball carrier as we saw late on last week against Arsenal, but he's hopeless in the DM position. The fact that Ralph keeps persisting with it though - that's just baffling.

So may poor individual performances out there today it's hard to single out any one player. But if I had to - it would be Diallo. He is not, and never will be e DM. He's so lightweight and weak, and his passing is dodgy at the best of times, but fucking terrible today. It's all very well blaming Ralph for the tactical set up, but I don't think there is much he could have done/could still do today to improve things if the players are going to perform that badly.

So with KWP and Tino both injured, who would you play there instead? He's a long way away from the worst player on the pitch today.

He has been all season TBH.

Zaha getting proper wound up. He's lucky to still be on the pitch. Such a prick.

Adams off the post!!! Oh, offside.

Now Salisu with an awful giveaway. WTF is going on with our passing today?

Not at all. Terrible dive from Olise.

That should 100% be a yellow for Olise for simulation. Pathetic dive.

Lyanco letting Zaha know he's there!

That chance came from a panicked clearance by Lyanco.

Apart from forcing an early corner, we haven't really got into any passing rhythm yet.

Yep. Probably best available starting 11. We'd just better pray we don't get any more injuries in the defensive unit today because that bench doesn't fill me with any confidence in that department... A teenage LB, a midfielder who can fill in at RB, and a completely untested kid from the youth team.

People said exactly the same about Harrison Reed. But watching his performances for Fulham this season, and given how weak and lightweight our midfield is, I'd have him back here in a heartbeat. On current form, Tella would be a better option than A Armstrong IMO.

Hold on... the whole fucking point of Brexit, according to every person who campaigned and voted for it, was supposed to be to make Britain 'a better place'. So are you now admitting that it hasn't? Also, if everyone who is unhappy at the situation took your suggestion to fuck off and live elsewhere, and with Braverman in the home office trying to reduce immigration to near zero, what impact do you think that would have on the UK's economy?

I got my new passport through today. It's not blue, it's black. FFS, yet another much anticipated Brexit benefit turns out to be untrue. Was there even a single promise they made that has actually materialised?

And Valery!

I unfollowed him ages ago, so I just had a quick look at his Twitter timeline. I couldn't find this tweet, so either he has deleted it or it is faked. What I did find, however, is evidence that he has well and truly lost the plot now. He's just a useful idiot re-tweeting some of the most desperate, unverified bullshit imaginable, as long as it is directed towards a shared 'enemy'. Seems he has now started turning his attention towards climate change as well, or at least sharing other people's horseshit about it. But he clearly doesn't know or understand the first thing about climate science, he just agrees with anyone who professes to be standing up to the global elites and mainstream media without a single thought towards the validity of their claims, and his unthinking followers love him for it. Very sad to see.

And probably 95% of those bitching on Twitter about it are too young to even know who those two are anyway.

Penny withdraws

5 mins to go. All the sensible money is on Sunak, but if Penny Dreadful can somehow scrape past the 100 mark, she would probably win the members' vote. If Sunak couldn't beat the hopeless Truss then he doesn't stand a chance against a semi-competent candidate.

The very same Nadhim Zahawi who stabbed Boris in the chest hours after being appointed chancellor in July and has now flipped again and declared his support for Sunak. He's got the integrity of a snake with an uncontrollable crack habit.