benjii

Yep, this is incompetence on a grand scale and has been since the start. They are afraid to do anything difficult until there's not really any choice, by which time the best time to do the thing in question has long passed. Weak messaging, lax enforcement, contradictions and hypocrisy.

I tend to agree with this. We have Armstrong, Redmond, Walcott and Djenepo who are all fairly similar players who rely on movement and dynamism and I don't think he's any better than any of those. A more creative ball-player / passer "number 10", is something we lack.

Bizarre post. I'm sorry you've had such a shit life though.

You know that review you quoted is a joke, right? Just some armless fun.

Long and Ings is a very different proposition from Long and Adams so I don't think Long coming in would be too catastrophic if Ings is fit.

The Arsenal shout is a nonsense, I'm afraid. Never a foul, just sloppy desperate play by Djenepo, and Bednarek committed more of a foul in our box in the first half which wasn't given, so we weren't hard done by there at all. The West Ham offside, I agree, looked tight with respect to their right back so I'm not sure why the lines didn't appear, but he was probably off. The Adams kick in the head was a complete accident and wasn't a high foot so I can see why no action was taken. The Fulham penalty shout would 100% have been given as a penalty in the first couple of months of the season. They seem to be trying to row back on giving handball now, which is silly because changing the rules mid-competition doesn't make much sense. However, again Bednarek also handled in our box so we could also have conceded a penalty. I have no idea how the ref didn't give the free kick on KWP. The Man City one did really annoy me. I don't know why we didn't get a penalty for Sterling's handball. It came up off his leg but I don't think that means it cannot be a penalty; they still need to consider arm position, reaction time etc. We've been fairly lucky too. The penalty we got at Brighton was a little farcical with the officials clearly having no real idea where the foul occurred. If there was no VAR and only replays, no one (apart from our biggest weirdos) would have seriously been claiming we should have had a penalty for that, and it won us two extra points we barely deserved.

Are you having a laugh? It was an excellent tackle.

This is similar to the City match. Plenty of neat football and long periods of control but no quality in the final third.

Does anyone apart from me quite like the idea of Djenepo up front with Adams for this one? Means we can leave Walcott playing where he has been and Djenepo should be less likely to pick up a yellow card in the first half.

A good analysis of the deal for those interested in cutting through the government propaganda.

Are kids still moving between classrooms during the day? If so, that's stupid. The teachers should be moving, not the kids.

And Dunk has just clearly handled then scored and VAR says its OK. WTF?!

If it makes anyone feel better, Burnley got rogered hard by the ref today.

No they didn't. The ref awarded it on the field.

I think a point would be a decent result. They outplayed Liverpool recently and our spine and bench looks pretty Championship today.

We bought Salisu because we needed an upgrade at centre back. Sticking Stephens in would be completely retrograde, if Salisu is fit enough.

Epstein should have hung in there. He'd be free now.

Disappointing not to see Chilworth, Wellow or Lyndhurst on the area round-up.

People who begin answers with, "Listen,....". Blair seemed to start this and now loads of people do it. Rude, arrogant, aloof, slightly sinister, cuntish way to converse. So, people who begin sentences with, "So", as well. Jelly-brained morons.

I'd start Redmond upfront and let Walcott continue in midfield. Walcott is finding great pockets of space in his current role and it seems a shame to lose that as well as losing Ings. Give Redmond a crack up front and if it's not working we've still got options on the bench. Also, Armstrong back in for Djenepo.

Are factless Allen’s books written as well as his articles?

I'm reading that the UK paid more than double the EU, per-dose of the Pfizer vaccine and, had we joined the EU's purchase scheme, we would have saved half a billion pounds. Also, I see lots of EU countries imposing unilateral border restrictions. How can that be?! We need to leave to take back control of our borders, don't we?

Not a handball because it came up off his leg? Seems a bit perverse. It's his fault it hit his arm.

Their shout under the Bednarek challenge in the first half was as much of a pen as our second half shout. We got what we deserved. We hardly created any real pressure on the goal all match. The one time Romeu decides not to foul someone going past him.... Still a decent enough performance. Ings is not playing at his max so let's hope he gets back to it soon.

That's been coming. Piss poor defending.