Micky

Agreed, I just think that is hilarious that a team of Evertons stature has to rely on such a crap striker to try to get them out of the shyte.

Underwhelming is an understatement in the extreme. We have been woeful for months.

Rondon, lol...!

It's not a sick bed they're laying on, it's a sun lounger, miles from SMS.

There no rush to bring someone in, we have a full preseason ahead. Mag to grid now so that potential candidates know the post is open.

It doesn't bear thinking about what they will do to us. Jeff Stelling and the team on Sky were saying how we are liable to folding, and that was against Brentford...! There is no fight or desire in this team so if it starts to go pear shaped early on it could well get embarrassing again. Our best hope is that VVD and Sadio take pity on us and ease up.

Is he still here?

I think that any new manager would have to work largely with what we already have, don't think that the new owners will be 'investing' much into this team.

Yet again, absolute dross. This club is in a right fucking mess.

Sorry, what defence?

Stop panicking, the players are getting one of Ralph's legendary half time talks. We'll be fine.

Why wait, why not at the end of the half.

And Ralph insisted we were not on the beach.... God we are shyte.

This can only go one way....!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-61331701

Can't see us going down, but agree we won't get anymore points this season either.

I'm struggling to remember too many games where we could say we were unlucky to lose, I'm also struggling to remember too many where we had lots of chances on goal and really tested a goalkeeper. Not only do we lack creativity, but also our strikers are all sub standard, snatching at, and missing, the few opportunities that we do manage to fashion.

At the end of the day, if it did happen it would serve us right. We had a chance to consolidate a top half position and, as last season, totally fucked it up. Unless things change soon, it's only a matter of time anyway.

Wasn't the reverse fixture our biggest win of the season so far? If our strikers hit form again it could be yet another win and 3 points. No, really, it could.

Cheers Ralph, enjoy your retirement.

Didn't bother following the game at all today, was out shopping in Chester. First time I looked at my phone was while trying on some new 'kegs', we were on 90 minutes and it was one all. Down to my shreddies, my phone vibrates and instantly without looking I knew what the alert was. Frankly I can't be bothered to read this thread to see if we 'played well', whether we were 'robbed' or if there were other 'extenuating circumstances'; we are crap. I've just looked at the premiereship top scorers and nearly every club is represented, but not us. Even Pukki at Norwich has scored 10 goals. Can anybody tell me the last time one of our 'strikers' scored because I am struggling to recall. People keep saying we need massive investment, hate to disappoint you but it won't be coming from this owner either. Quite how so called professional players can clock off so early in a season is beyond me, they very obviously are not playing for the manager and that can have only one outcome. We'll limp across the line with yet another spectacular collapse, but come the close season the board need to take some very serious decisions. Next season could well be a very stern test, total dross yet again.

I think it actually suited the government, as well as the Premiere League, to not scrutinized Abramovitch too closely, given the amount of other Russian money invested in and around the capital. Not that it takes much investigating as a recent documentary showed, very dodgy wealth with some very unsavoury contacts. And now there's Newcastle. Does anybody really believes that their money is being solely provided by a private funding initiative? Money talks, doesn't matter how filthy, dirty, smelly it is, somebody will take it.

Unfortunately I see nothing other than yet another loss. I rate Graham Potter and think he's done OK with what he got available to him. As far as I can tell, we have been on the beach for some weeks now. They say you're only as good as your last game, if true we need to go from absolute shyte to pretty good in the space of a couple of days to get anything. With our goal shy strikers we are relying on others to get the goals, so not looking good there. All of the teams below us have games in hand as well, we'll be lucky to finish above 15th at this rate.

Not sure that any of their squad will be with them in two seasons. Nearly 100 million spent just in the window, money is basically on tap, and like all big clubs FFP will be skilfully circumnavigated. They are a club on a different stratosphere to us now. Quite how the Premiere League can block Abramovitch and force him to sell, whilst allowing Newcastle to be funded as it is, is quite beyond me.

He is achieving the boards potential aims of the club, remaining in the Premiere League.

Yeah I get your point. To be honest I only want goals now to win some bloody games, but I do worry for us if we go into next season with this 'strikeforce'.