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Haha, yes. Redknapp was trying to blame him albeit for "over-enthusiasm" rather than being crap.

No ricochet, just Hojberg getting robbed and then Barkley putting an unmarked Hazard through with a good pass.

Ricochet?

I would add that the lack of post match reaction threads in favour of reactions just being tacked on to the match thread is indicative of the overwhelming sense of apathy enveloping everything about our club and team atm. I'm ok with no man of the match poll today though.

TBH we are getting caned far worse than under the clown. Still think we'll be just about ok.

Prepared to wager a lot of money that Hughes will not be sacked if we lose to Chelsea and Wolves.

I’ll say 4/10. We are still cr@p but less cr@p than last year and at least our matches aren’t all painfully boring. However we’ve had an easy start and don’t have the points to show for it. Think we’ll survive but will be surprised if we are safe with any more than 2 games left go play.

I’ll take a wild guess at the Dutch league being utterly inferior to ours thereby making it easier for Tadic to become a bit of a hero.

Hmmmm can’t say I was particularly struck by how much Brighton were going for it in that first half. 2nd half yes. Anyway we were better against Everton last season than at any point so far this, albeit aided by the fact they were a complete mess of a club at the time. The outstanding highlight of Pellegrino’s 1 star time in charge.

Was worried enough when JWP came on, even more so when Davis joined him. These aren't the sort of players to galvanise the midfield of a team finding themselves under pressure are they? They didn't even let "dead ball expert" Prowse take the freekick in a dangerous position. If he isn't even trusted to do the thing he is supposed to be good at, WTF is he on the pitch for?

FFS again we prove we are incapable of handling a lead and managing a game in which we look comfortably the better team out to 3 points. Overall I still think we'll be just about ok BUT we haven't played anyone who is really good yet. Really worrying how we just crumble every ****ing time.

Long does my MF head in.

Not all his fault but he should've been out claiming that.

McCarthy should do better there. That was Fraser like.

It's the old Shane Long facepalm touch again.

Yeah, very nicely timed.

Nice

Agree, just not sure on the he'd be scoring loads if only everyone else was on his level stuff.

Thing is though he's never scored many goals throughout his career. Doubtless there's a degree of truth in the he's too intelligent for our insipid midfield theory but he can't have always been playing with less intelligent players, and he's got a career average strike rate of roughly 1 goal in every 5 games which is roughly what he's scored for us (9 goals in 40 appearances).

Yeah but he's always making amazing runs and that which our midfield can't pick out or something.

As others have intimated - what a complete load of old ******.

I totally understand it. Personally I take a photo of myself and post it on the internet at least once every 10 minutes because it's really important to me that people have the opportunity to see how much fun I am having or not having, and I'm really not sure how I got through life before social media came along and gave me the opportunity to do this.

Agree but this situation certainly wasn't one of them. Powderpuff effort that would've easily been saved by the keeper had the defender not intervened.

It was. Instinctive rather than crafted, but deliberate none the less.

Melt Long into Austin and you have exactly what we need. A mobile striker who scores goals.