Manuel

I thought I saw a stoat once. Turns out it was a weasel.

Please replace Cedric in January, he’s killing us going forward.

His crossing seemed awful today (watching on tv).

Fair enough, and VAR ain't going anywhere any time soon. Guess we'll just have to get used to it.

Just to put things into perspective, I still don't have a satnav and didn't get a mobile phone until everyone else in the country had one for 10 years.

Why would you have been Livid, it was offside, Can't argue with that.

He seemed level to me. I know we've discussed VAR to death, but a centimetre ahead when analysed by forensics just doesn't seem right to me. Still, in our favour so who cares!

Agree with that re the ref, thought the Palace players were getting hysterical about very little. If we had been on the wrong end of that VAR decision though, I'd have been fuming.

Considering how badly we were playing from the start of the season, amazing to think that with a couple of January additions, we could have a half decent squad again. Credit to Ralph for getting us playing something approaching football again. Fortunate too that we haven't been hit by injuries too hard.

Thought Boufal could've had a shot there after getting himself into the box.

Can see Boufal drawing a lot of fouls near their box too, or preferably in it.

Probably an unpopular view but I'd like Cedric to keep his place for the foreseeable. On the right that is!

Boufal for Armstrong then. Ings for Obafemi.

Tough one. Arguably we've found our best team/system so it would be nice to stick with it. But there must be some tired legs out there. What to do, what to do...

Was bloody marvellous. To be a bit nit-picky, on the replays I'm not sure Armstrong gets the penultimate touch before Redmond scores, isn't a slightly lucky bounce off a Chelsea defender into Redmond's path? Not sure.

 

Didn't we get a goal in the Championship days where there were somethign like 35 Saints touches of the ball leading to the goal?

I'm sure Lallana got one in the Poortvliet total football days that sounds similar. Guessing that must have been 2008ish though.

As much as Armstrong is playing very well with the short turnaround wonder if boufal might come in for him.

I thought Boufal slowed us down when he came on. Struggled to get into the game and got a needless yellow.

Boufal vs West Brom for me.

This one goes down as a personal favourite too. We really needed a win that day!

Best I've seen us for a good while. Have to give Ralph credit for the turnaround in performance. Let's hope we can kick on from here...

May favourite Tadic clip...

Long is actively trying not to score.

Surely we can't mess this up now...

The bigger and more valuable the club becomes the more it moves away from being local to being global. I can't think of many exceptions to that in the Prem. It is regrettable, but as another poster suggested, it seems to matter less when we're winning.

I'd have thought it would be pretty easy to have a good deal of local interest and business feeding off the club. All food/beer in the concourse to be sourced locally? Would that really be so hard? Programmes to be printed locally. Pre match entertainment (if we really must have it). Probably lots more.

The BBC are very left wing in everything they do, except when it comes to a few weeks before an election.

Long pointless...subs way too late...where was Boufal?

Foot injury, so I hear.

WH were too strong for us, defended better than us, better going forward. Thought Romeu improved us.

I remember Antonio playing for us on the wing (in League 1?). At the time he was young and the general consensus was that he had pace but not enough skill or strength. What an improvement. Shame he couldn't have done it through our coaching system.

Anyway, in the duckhunter household it’s a Tory whitewash , as me & my lad voted sensibly. My daughter, “couldn’t be arsed” (her words), so that’s one leftie less, and the snap dragon is asleep in the chair, so unless I wake her up, it’s another lost leftie vote. ......

Ha ha. Drugging the missus on election night is still frowned upon these days you know.

Turns out we can "spoil" our ballot paper, not "soil" it, as I was lead to believe.

But low tax and individual wealth creation are the basic staples of Tory policy and always have been. Is that a change in priority for you at a different time of life?

Yes to some extent. Very broadly speaking, in my nativity I saw most business, especially big businesses as greedy, to be viewed with suspicion and to be regulated and taxed as much as society can get away with. I now believe we are better off letting business thrive and we all benefit as a result, whilst of course keeping a very close eye on corruption, exploitation, conditions etc. We do pretty well in this respect, in this country, in my opinion.

Secondly a change in my overall view is understanding the difference between equality of opportunity (desirable and arguably more Tory) and equality of outcome which I see as undesirable and see evidence of it running through particularly left wing thinking and policy.

Thanks. These are kind of party baseline fundamentals, yeah, I know that's tautology. That would make me imagine that you are pretty much a "career" Conservative voter. Do you think there are any circumstances under which you would ever vote Labour or Liberal?

I have only ever voted Lib/Labour in the past. Like I say, I always thought of myself as pretty central and could easily be swayed slightly in either direction. This time I see myself as slightly to the right than I have ever considered myself though. I am thinking about not voting at all for the first time as I feel a little conflicted.