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Irritating but not worth getting annoyed for.

Don't forget it also - quite crucially - has been used to rule out goals when the ball has accidentally brushed off the hand of an attacking player in the build up. As long as those goals plus offside goals which need a microscope to establish an offside offence has been committed are ruled out then that's good enough for me. Who cares if penalties resulting from blatant dives not spotted by the ref are not cancelled out as long as there is the slightest conceivable contact between defender and attacker even if said contact was clearly manufactured by the attacker?

Yes pal!

By far and away the most likely scenario here is that Kat is trying to buy the club back from GAO because he has failed to take us to the next level like what he said he would.

Haitch out of Steps.

Sorry, but for me we are just a dreadful team at this level Ralph or no Ralph. We've taken 2 absolute batterings at home in a row. We throw goals away time and again, we create nowhere near enough chances to compensate for this, and we take nowhere near enough of those chances. We have a wafer thin squad that's going to be shown up even more when the injuries inevitably kick in. It's all about hoping there's 3 more dreadful teams than us and I'm really not sure there are this season. What a ****ing depressing state of affairs when you consider where we were pre-Puel (not saying it's his fault to be clear) and we were being openly touted as "the best of the rest".

Valery did very well there. Ings' Premier League goals of the season vid is going to ****ing impressive at this rate!

We're ****. Bang in trouble.

What the **** was that idiot doing there?

Lack of quality definitely our main issue but there's no doubt that Ralph is exacerbating that problem with odd and consistently inconsistent selections in defence, and for that he does deserve to be questioned. It also appears that there might be an ego issue with him, he took no blame for Bournemouth last week - no hint of accepting that his bizarre starting line up might have contributed to or even caused the defeat - and in his brief MOTD interview after Spurs he was critical of the players for not being able to break a 10 man team down. Well he's supposed to manage the game so they do that and let's face it there wasn't a lot of invention from him on that front.

Mildly annoyed to have lost that all things considered.

RIGHT BACK Cedric injured in warm up (ffs), why put feckin Vestergaard on as replacement when we have RIGHT BACK Valery on the bench!?

Looked like he'd just been booted in the shin. You have to worry this lad is a bit too injury prone when getting up of his seat is too much to cope with.

Nowhere near as bad as Elyounoussi.

Totally agree. He is really struggling I'm afraid.

Totally agree he hasn't looked any worse than Ings. The only problem with that is that Ings has been ****.

The last 4 words of this post sum up our problem quite nicely. Anyone who thinks we're in for a comfortable season is deluded.

I don't think he's going to make it. Several games in now, not really looking instinctive enough, not creating opportunities himself, missing the few chances that others create for him.

Well that was spectacularly 1 star in just about every conceivable aspect wasn't it? No excuse for that ludicrous defensive line up in the first half - how can you possibly justify starting with a cb at rb and an rb at lb with our only recognised lb on the bench. Ridiculous, but RH is owed massive amounts of slack from last season so let it go I suppose. As for the attack I think we have major problems. It's early days for Adams but he looks seriously OOHD. It's not early days for Ings and he looks........

Adams ain't going to make it imho. Ormerodesque in terms of effort, positional sense, and ability.

Surely put Bertrand on, no? He's our only actual left back (which is ****ing ridiculous in itself, let alone not playing him)

Well, you know, got to have a whinge and all that. Seriously if he was our best defender in that situation then we seriously do have problems.

Vest with a sh!te challenge again. He is ****ing cr@p.

**** me this is ****.

Geddin VAR.