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All credit to Ralph for rehabilitating him, but there’s still work to do. Given the standard of the other two keepers, I wish we’d made the same effort with Angus Gunn. There’s long term trauma attached to experiences like that Leicester game, and I think it speaks well of Ralph and the club that they didn’t just throw both of them on the scrap heap.

I thought he’d already had his suspension for five bookings.

Why was it bizarre? The goal was a cracker - that’s a compliment to MLT.

This has the feel of a corner-turning game. Utilizing squad depth, fighting off adversity, working for eachother. That kind of thing turns seasons around.

Superb effort. If Taylor had added thirty moe seconds Broja would have stolen it at the death.

We need to keep hitting clearances it at the centre circle because Broja is capable of handling it from there.

Forster needs to use his height and take the ball at its zenith, not wait for it to come down to chest height. Maybe it’ll turn out like that Arsenal game when he survived clangers and somehow saved everything they threw at him.

Edmonton. It’s a “Siberian high” - fucking Russians.

I’d go for a walk to avoid watching the second half but it’s -33 outside, so 9:04 am booze is the only option.

This is where the crowd needs to keep putting the pressure on him. And we need to keep winding Deli’s clock.

Unless you consider that Dawson didn’t get one for two fouls and a take down in the box two days ago. The inconsistency in the PL is an unfunny joke.

Offensively he lacked the courage and directness that made him such a good player, and sadly I think he’s a yesterday man. Like most on here, I wasn’t happy to see him starting. However, from about the 68th minute on, he put in a very good defensive shift protecting our left flank. That pretty much took the very dangerous Bowen out of the game and reduced the pressure on KWP. And Yarmalenko didn’t get a sniff either. Overall I’d give him a 6 or 7, instead of the 3-4 he’s been worthy of lately.

Fair do’s - I wanted him off too, but Walcott is doing a decent job helping to protect our left flank.

Ralph seems mentally paralysed again - waiting to me his predetermined 60-65 minute substitutions

The less the rumour detail, the more likely it is to be an exchange-listed company. There are serious penalties for leaking significant stuff. Or, for the skeptics, the less the rumour detail, the more likely it is to be bullshit. Me? I'm a glass half-full guy. 🤣

I’m not meaning to disrespect people’s views that are based on their own personal ideologies. We all have those - whether they’re about politics, religion, football or any other life stuff. I asked the question because I think it impacts how you see these debates - and the ways in which people express their views - if you’ve lost someone really important to you as a result of Covid. It can be frustrating (not really the right word) to see ideology overpowering painful personal reality that you wouldn’t wish on anyone. But I guess that’s what this forum is all about - for good and for bad. Very few, if any, of us have stood underneath a Premier League crossbar with gloves on, and very few of us have had a half chance in a professional six yard box, but we still stick our five eggs in every week. I suspect that we’d see things a bit differently if we’d had those experiences.

It’s not all in that direction though, Turkish. There are also instances in which people recovered from Covid but died from a cause it triggered. They would be here now but for Covid, but the cause of death on the death certificate wasn’t Covid. So they’re not in the stats.

Just as a matter of personal interest, has anyone in this debate lost somebody precious as a result of Covid?

Tie beteween Long, Djeneppo and Walcott - for the hope they give to little kids dreaming about becoming a pro footballer.

The football version of Tourrettes

Tactical switch - attacking threat for man bun. Interesting.

Run it at them, not hoof it at them.

Maybe because we’re trying to KEEP it rather than DO SOMETHING with it. As in, run it at them - they’re as bad back there as we are.

Taking on a familiar pattern, isn’t it?

Tella can snag one today if he keeps going at them, but I fear that Ralph decided before the game to take him off after 60-65, regardless of how he’s playing.