Lighthouse

Didn’t play at Spurs Started in a five against Leeds MotM in a four today Clearly we had a plan to ease him in gently in the right way and it seems to be working so far. Hopefully he can build a partnership with Sali after the tombola of dreadful CBs over the last five years.

Nothing says ‘Ukraine on the brink of collapse’ quite like a convoy of Russian tourists fleeing territory they’ve held for eight years.

I could tell you, but I’d have to ban myself.

Alternatively, Leicester and Bournemouth are gash, Palace mediocre at best but still had their moments. I’d have to see them in something resembling a tough fixture before passing judgement.

I’ve never heralded him as a genius but let’s maybe give him time to mould a team from these young lads before the public lynching.

Much worse teams than Spurs and Leeds wouldn’t have been able to score their goals, so if you assume we were playing Port Vale and Crawley instead, and won both games, we’re actually top of the table with 9 points and a plus 7 GD.

Several people were saying that he wasn’t fully fit and only trained one full day this week. In any case, people are going to move on from the idea of our best 11 players being the ones which start the game. With five subs now being the norm, it just means you’re going to have a significantly weaker team in the last 20 minutes. We could have started Stu and Adams but then what? We’re left trying to change things second half by bringing on Moi, AA and Walcott. It seems a bit weird talking about stuff we ‘should have’ done when we’ve just won away at Leicester.

Useless!

I can only assume you and Brett post this stuff because you want to be laughed at.

What choice do we really have? With the five subs rule, you need to have something on the bench to change things second half. Sure, we could have started with Stu but then if we needed to change things second half we’d have to do it with Moi, Walcott and Adams, which is a dreadful bench at this level.

After the end to last season, you’d prefer we hadn’t tried a different formation in pre-season to try and compensate for our defensive frailties?

Sum 41's front man being called Deryk Whibley. Possibly the least rock and roll name I can imagine.

Surely the fact that all the things she finds ironic are not in fact ironic is in itself... ironic?

How can you not count the JPT as a trophy when you do count coming 45th or 21st in English league football?

More likely it draughted out his nostrils.

I wouldn’t be against it personally. As good as he is at what he does, he has always limited the way we play by not exactly being the most mobile player, especially with the ball at his feet.

I don’t understand modern, abstract art.

Reminds me of David Bentley if anyone. Had bags of talent and played for Spurs at a young age but it all just fell apart for him.

We’ll cross that bridge if we come to it, plus we’ve already got plenty of Championship standard players. Sell him.

They really need to stop smoking, all these careless discarded cigarettes.

We don’t speak of it around here.

No, they’re sticking to their game plan of letting Liverpool have possession and hitting them on the counter. It’s worked so far, they could yet nick it.

A++ Sh*thousery there.

Define ‘accountable’. Look at Man United, they held Moyes accountable, then LVG, Jose, Ole and Ragnik. When does ETH become accountable for their current results, or does there come a point when you accept the limitations of the players and the ceiling of what they will achieve? No formation or tactical tinkering will prevent Salisu’s howler at Spurs, or stop KWP losing his man for the equaliser and they’re two of our supposed better players who nobody was arguing shouldn’t be on the pitch.

I don’t want to be mean to Jack but I think 122 PL appearances is more of a reflection of how consistently poor our recruitment has been than anything else. A few less Hoedts, Dansos and Bednareks and you’d probably looking at a quarter of that number.