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The shambolic football has returned.

Need to stay calm and keep doing what we're doing.

Mistake by KWP!

How is that scissor tackle not a foul!

Bit unfair on Smallbone who has knitted everything together today and has a great understanding with KWP.

Yeah, it was reckless from Baz - he didn't need to rush out like that. Was a pen for sure.

Much better than decent for me. Play like that and we'll hammer some teams especially if Stewart gets fit and firing. Very easy on the eye today.

At last some sparkling football created by pass and move, play between the lines, players coming short - that half proves we can do it. We were so much more front footed, getting on the half turn. There were a few longer balls and quicker balls fizzed to feet. Pleasure to watch. More of the same please.

Should be 3. Great play again.

Super goal. We look so different today. The pass and move is all there. Brilliant.

Great goal and this is a proper start from us. Mixing it up and causing them loads of problems.

Your view is different to SR and RM then because they claim results are not important.

Start fast with conviction - build momentum and keep them under the cosh. Mix it up a bit and don't be afraid to use long balls in behind to utilise the pace of Sulemana whenever it's on - THB hits a good long ball. Encourage centre backs to surge forward with the ball because they're both capable and this opens up space ahead. Lots of movement into space, between the lines and off the ball, less walking football. Let's show some proper intensity.

I think our scoring of numerous late goals could be partly due to the fact that, at that stage of the game, we realise the tippy-tappy football isn't going to get us a goal in the time left so we abandon that and play without the handbrake on.

This is such rubbish. Check Spurs fans forum during the first half tonight and read them slagging off their team and individual players and they're top of the Premier League and playing some great football in the main. Football fans across the country are largely all the same.

Many good points here.

I don't rate him doesn't mean I dislike him.

I'd agree with him if we were playing quality football but we aren't.

Good young managers make a difference quickly and the ones with something about them soon stamp their style and personality on teams. Their methods bear fruit and their teams improve. For his whole time in management RM has continued to claim that his methods will work but are difficult to learn so time is needed. It's a bit of a con trick and when our owners eventually realise this he'll move on to another club and espouse the same ideologies.

We'd all love to see it work. The problem is he doesn't know how to make it work.

I don't expect us to beat everybody - as you say, that's arrogance. What I'd love to see is a team playing a system that works and produces some sustained periods of good football that is entertaining and exciting. What I see is a turgid team making a clumsy attempt to grapple with possession football with players continually giving the ball away cheaply leading to an embarrassing goals against tally.

This is key and it drives me mad watching us because we don't do nearly enough of it. There are loads of pockets of space but we ignore them. There are times when it's crying out for a forward or advanced player to drop off to receive a pass and nobody moves a muscle. Does RM watch how we play or does he just not know how to fix it?

But it's soooooooo difficult to learn! Yeah, especially when the guys trying to to teach it don't appear to have a scooby. It's all smoke and mirrors designed to deflect from the fact that RM is a pretty average coach presiding over a team that plays uninspiring football and let's in far too many goals. But hey, let's keep saying the system is hard to learn. We should be seeing signs of improvement by now.

Spot on.

Not certain he actually exists. There have been a few dubious sightings plus the odd photographs that look computer generated but nothing conclusive. I smell a hoax.