BotleySaint

I don't get why Perraud is left out by Ralph. I've not seen a lot of him, but he certainly looks competent at LB from what I have seen.

Bit wierd that all 3 title contenders won with a penalty today. As for our game; decent training match or Arsenal.

We may well lose. But Ralph is going nowhere. Not even under threat I don't think from the board's perspective.

Looking at the bench, who is there to throw on anyway? Nothing will change the game now.

They bring on Pepe, their £72m signing... It's out of our league.

Nobody at the club with their hand on the wheel. Who would even sack him anyway?

If we can't get Adams, Armstrong or Broja fit for those two games then it's hard to see where a goal is going to come from. What's up with Stuart Armstrong? We've really missed him this season too.

Broja injured. It is all a bit like last season. No fit strikers, no goalkeepers, and Romeu out

Good save. Could have been 4-0. Looking at the clock still ages to go. I'm going to predict 6-0 FT. We are all over the place.

He came too late. Made a right mess of it.

Keeper error.

Fortunately not a goal. But it's coming.

Needed someone to follow it up but nobody else was forward.

Surely must be part of Ralph that thinks "i've done all I can here". But I guess you don't resign from a £6m a year or so job.

I don't think AA has been a poor signing. He's still adapting and deserves time. But he's clearly not up the Ings standard. But we knew that already. We've got more players to cover things than last year but overall the quality is still lower I think.

Well, might as well forfeit the rest of the season 🙂

That's true. It'll be refreshing not to have the usual hanging on waiting for the inevitable. We'll be out of sight by HT unless Ralph changes things at the back. Nobody seems to know what they should be doing.

He had something extra last season. Quality, confidence. Whatever it was, it has gone now and he's back to normal sadly.

Probably not worth the pain to be honest.

Unmarked, just allowed to head in. Everyone ball watching.

Well, that's that then. Can't see us coming back from 2. Going to get worse as their confidence is high...

I think that's what so frustrating with us recently. The goals scored against aren't even good or hard to score. Just mistakes and poor defending. We need a new defensive coach...

Long time to go yet. But you have to fear the worst if they get two.

Well, that ws pretty easy. Just run through, no marking and bang. They do actually have some high quality players when they put their mind to it.

Good solid first touches there. Very weak.