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Ok pal, nobody suggested we didn't have some very good players and decent strength in depth, but if you think we won't be just a teensy bit weaker as a result of not having Danny Ings available to play and score goals for us and our league position won't suffer as a result you are deluded. Then again Long is well known for banging them in regularly so maybe I am just a hysterical tart!

Yes AKA without Ings we are fucked. He is the one truely top class player we have. He plays in a crucial position and we have nobody even remotely at his level to replace him. If he is out for the season (please god no) watch us plummet from our agreeably lofty position like a molten pebble through already melted butter.

Yeah much more worrying that a first choice full back might be out than our only reliable source of goals.

It's significantly more difficult to hit the woodwork ('woodwork' lol when was the last time a top flight match was played with goals made out of wood?) than it is to score a traditional goal so maybe actual goals (in the traditional sense of a goal) shouldn't be goals anymore and only shots that hit the 'woodwork' should be regarded as goals.?

I simply cannot recall the last time we had a goal on target in a game that wasn't a 100% goal let alone 4. Get In!!!!

Agreed. Please stop scaremongering will you Mitch01. We have enough to worry about what with going into lockdown and all that.

Danny definitely hasn't snapped his ACL (not ITK but very confident on this), he did have a choice and almost certainly didn't drive himself home anyway. Should be fine after the international break.

Not really that worrying in the context of the injuries. If we hadn't sustained those we would not have conceded 3 imho. The injuries are in and of themselves the most worrying aspect of today.

Shine gone off the Everton look the real deal Ancellotti is a world class manager they could go all the way style comments del Twitter.😂

I kinda get that, I was having a little joke. Should've put a winky emoticon on it I guess. Anyway UTS!!!!

Riiiigggghtt, well that's not so reassuring then.

Was he driving himself? If so that is a good sign.

I think it might be the injuries that are curtailing the euphoria. I would be euphoric if we'd been 4 nil up away and then won 4-3 having conceded 2 late goals had not 3 important (one absolutely essential and irreplaceable) players sustained injuries.

Well it was heavily influenced by the injuries - which will be far more than irritating if serious - and AV did deserve credit for stepping it up.

Great game will be utterly ruined if Ings' injury is serious. Would be saying that if we'd won 6-0. Credit to Villa they came back very well, 10 more minutes we may well have lost after looking utterly imperious first half and still comfortable 2nd pre injuries (noted McCarthy made some very good saves).

Wow. Just fucking WOW. (apologies if you read some industrial language just then)

no mate, if challenges like that are reds then the game has..................like...............................gone.

Alan Smith

And not forgetting Redmond who was - utterly bizarrely - singled out by Alan Smith as MOTM. Anyway, whatever, excellent display, completely in control happy days.

He was. When he gets a few games behind him he looks so composed.

Niiiice. Noticeable how strong we looked towards the end. Could've won it.

The return of the bad gateway. Hopefully temporary but a shame for this to return after a few virus free weeks.

Right, having revisited the kit thread, (re)looked at the official website, and considered the photos of our new signing it would seem that replica kit with the Sportsbet sponsor logo and UA manufacturer logo does not exist, replica kit with the redundant LD sponsor logo and UA manufacturer logo does exist but regardless we will be playing in actual kit with Sportsbet sponsor logo and UA manufacturer logo. Perhaps my original question should have been why has the UA manufacturer logo been dropped from the replica kit with the Sportsbet sponsor logo? Anyway let’s hope this Diallo fellah is good whatever kit he turns out in.

Ah must be my imagination then that I read we have dropped them and pre-order kits on the official website have no UA (or any) logo.

Why is he in UA kit?