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I honestly wonder if having Ali Dia on the pitch would be more productive. Moi is just completely useless. Contributes nothing whatsoever.

Great. Now we're without PEH for the next 3 games then. Just what we needed.

Yep. We committed 4 players forward for a press and that was the result.

Just seen the replay of Aguero's goal before HT. F*ck me, McCarthy has to do better with that. He has been given a lot of goodwill on here on the basis that he isn't Forster, but he has been very questionable recently.

Oh Bedders. You can't do that FFS!

Commentator ripping Long for his goal record, saying you would be disappointed with that even as a CB!

At least Valery's was a genuine attempt to win the ball. FFS Targett. Way too pedestrian. Had time to do something with that but gets caught out.

Surely Sterling was offside though? Looked clear to me from the replay.

But isn't that because he's so lightweight? Regardless of how easily he went down, it's still a blatant push in the back and a foul.

I can't put into words how f*cking angry I am with this ref. He didn't hesitate in ruling out that pen and then smiled about it. Blatant push in the back. Maybe JWP went over a little easy bit it's still a penalty all day long FFS!

Game over

Oh FFS! Yet another ridiculous deflection costs us a goal. Why does that kind of sh*t never happen in our favour!?

How is that not a penalty!?

Yep. Lemina blows hot and cold regardless of who we might be playing.

Why is Spurs losing a bad result for us?

Like I said in the match thread: to get caught unsighted by a long range shot once can be forgiven. For it to happen twice in 2 games cannot be put down to bad luck. As for the second goal - it was a decent hit but it was centre of the goal at head height. I think he will be disappointed with both of them.

I'm not going to pretend we didn't deserve to lose that, because WH were clearly the better team, but with the ref missing the rugby tackle on Bednarek right before their second goal, and Mccarthy being questionable for both of them, it's not unreasonable to suggest we might have got something out of it.

Or maybe he should sort his positioning out. To get caught out by unsighted shots twice in 2 games is not just bad luck. Wouldn't happen to a top 6 club keeper.

And he couldn't see Billing's shot for Hudds at the weekend either. Once is forgivable; twice is questionable IMO.

It was terrible defending to give WH that chance on the break, but for the first time I'm really starting to question Mccarthy. He will know he could/should have done better with both of their goals.

Well we may not be at our best, but it's an enjoyable game nonetheless. Two teams going for it, just as football should be. I'll be surprised if it finishes 0-0.

Yes, it was Uriah Rennie, I remember now. Couldn't remember the result though.

I seem to remember a game v West Ham in the late 90s. Ken Monkou scored a perfectly good goal from a corner, but the ref disallowed it because he managed to turn Razor Ruddock so well that he ran into his own team-mate and ended up on his fat ar$e. Possibly one of the worst refereeing decisions I've ever seen. Can't remember if it cost us any points though.

It's moving the boxing day game that has stuffed it for us. There's no way we could play on 27th and on NYD with a game in between, because we would have to play twice in 48 hrs. It's a bit sh*t really.

Happy beer/wine/cheese/chocolate feast to one and all. And especially to Ralph who has brought hope through the darkness.