Lighthouse

I’m in the Geordie fans bar in Dubai. They’re going bananas.

That was a hell of a ball, stumps everywhere. 6 down now, I think the kit man can start putting the bats and pads back on the team bus.

By all means posts your thoughts in the match thread but I don’t think your vlog needs one of its own.

The time to be blaming the keeper is when you look generally solid and his howlers are the difference between a clean sheet and losing by a couple. When defenders like Fonte, Lovren and Toby are keeping the danger 25 yards away but low shots at the near post keep sneaking in, then I’d start looking at the keeper (no names mentioned). I don’t really see that with Baz. He could be doing better with some of the shots but TBH he faces so many from inside the area, a couple are inevitably going to get the better of him. The Leeds goal is a perfect example, many people pointing out that he could have done better but how many defenders f**ked up for their LB to be having a free shot, 8 yards out with Bednarek ducking out of its way at the last second?

Arsenal bottling their own title fight got us 3-1 up. The first goal was a howler, the third was laughably bad defending from a corner. Today was another chance gone begging, nothing more.

Or if perhaps we don’t surrender all initiative and spend the entire second half letting them slam crosses and shots into our six yard box.

An absolute nothing result that suits neither side. As others have said, even if we won we’d have followed it up with a lifeless, floppy 0-? Against Bournemouth. Any other fans in the country would have a bit of belief in their team, 3-1 up in the 88th minute and we were all convinced we’d lose.

TBF Arsenal have scored twice and Moi has spent a minute on the floor since that 8 minutes was totted up.

The Nigerian Burj Khalifa.

We last scored three at Arsenal in 1993. We lost 4-3.

This is an experiment by the club to see if they can make us actually care about a defeat, I’m sure. Not falling for it.

Is that you, Merrington?

Not a chance, this lot couldn’t defend a salad bar from John Goodman.

Never in doubt.

Fair enough.

You say ‘parked’ but unless I’m mistaken, that’s its headlights lighting up the tower block at 0:23? Might have been someone in it.

It really didn’t. We were composed and professional in the Chelsea game but only actually found the net from a JWP free kick. That was immediately followed by a couple of awful defeats to Leeds and Grimsby. He got four somewhat fortuitous points against Leicester and United, since then we’ve been crap.

3 wickets in 5 balls now, got them on the ropes. Looking good for a potential follow on.

Somebody has to manage the team, that’s how we ended up with Selles. We’ve already played the ‘going down so no point in keeping him’ card when we sacked Jones and gave Selles the job until summer. Personally I hope those making the key decisions are having a breather and a good hard rethink. We know the task in hand, we’ve got four months to prepare ourselves for it.

Can’t ask for a better start to the bowling than that.

Saints are basically the opposite of everything in that Rick Astley song, let’s be honest.

Yeah but this is our horse.

There’s the ton for Gubbins, Vince still there on 77. Inching towards that batting point.

Pah! I can do all of that with a copy of the Guardian, in the M&S cafe in West Quay.

There’s not much in it for me either. On the one hand Selles got dumped out of the cup at home to Grimsby, whilst Jones scraped past Lincoln. On the other hand Selles slogged out a 0-0 playing against 10 men for an hour, whilst Jones bottled it against Wolves. It’s like comparing paper cuts to inflamed haemorrhoids.