Lighthouse

Oooohhhh, Hoj

F**king yes!

Decent team. Might have gone for Armstrong over O'Bafemi but like the look of it otherwise.

That's flawed as it implies there is no competition on the internet. People will travel with whoever gives them the best deal for the best price. Internet or high street doesn't really come into it. I can sit in front of my computer for a couple of hours, looking at hundreds of trip advisor reviews and comparison wesbite until I find the best deal for me. The though of having to go into a high street store, which is only open during working hours, and sitting their twiddling my thumbs whilst Sonya puts exactly the same stuff into exactly the same website just seems like a waste of time. I like a bit of high street shopping but only for material goods like clothes and electronics, which I can't properly appreciate from online photos. Anyway, horrible stuff for the staff, who probably still have their own summer holidays to pay off and only a couple of months before Christmas shopping. No the government shouldn't have bailed them out. It would be like the FL bailing out Bury or Bolton. It sounds nice but really it's just encouraging reckless financial management and isn't fair on other, properly run companies.

I’m not sure you can really compare the two as there is no ‘black man voice’. Overall I would say they tend to have deeper voices and perhaps different inflections due to the shape of the nose and mouth but nothing you could really mock or imitate. The Bob Marley comparison doesn’t really make sense as you’re talking about a Jamaican accent, not a black one. FWIW I wouldn’t think that offensive as it’s a regional mannerism, rather than a racial stereotype. Same as doing a Scouse, Brummy or Oz accent.

I think the crux of the matter is; is the person’s skin colour the punchline. I don’t think someone dressing up as a specific black person is racist. Examples being a fancy dress Mr T, Dianne Abbott at the darts or whichever Barca player dressed as a Harlem globetrotter. If you’re just doing it for the sake of being black, then it becomes offensive.

This. I’ve no idea why so many think it was a stonewaller. They both went for the ball and their legs caught each other. Just a 50-50 and both fell over.

I doubt that.

Woah, easy tiger. Ings and Adams may be out of form but if that’s the answer I don’t want to live on this planet.

Very unlucky not to get two at Bramall and whatever you think about him tonight, the only time we looked close to beating the ‘keeper was from a penalty he won. I have faith. J Rod’s first goal was a long time coming IIRC and he had a similar record and attributes at Championship level.

Tested? Their ‘keeper made three routine saves. The first was miss hit, the second straight down the middle from 25 yards and the third right at the ‘keeper’s feet. We’d have been fuming if Gunn had let one of those in.

Right then Ralph... think very carefully about the team you want to start this one.

I can’t remember anyone actually saying Boufal is lazy, it seems to be the biggest straw man on this board. The criticism I have is that he plays with his head down and his awareness is badly lacking, tonight was very much in that mould. Three shots, all straight at the ‘keeper, and numerous opportunities to pass missed when he tried to take on two players instead. He wasn’t terrible and he did play a few decent passes but they were hardly defence splitting.

Remember when we had Clyne, Fonte, Toby and Bertrand starting every week? That got Forster into the England team. I’d rather see Gunn behind our strongest defence for ten games, rather than judge him on the team we seem to pick with a pre-match raffle.

Villa, Sheff Utd, Wolves, Palace and Watford all look worse than us right now. I agree with your second sentence but we aren’t one of the worst three teams in the league. In short, we aren’t as bad as we were tonight and we aren’t as good as the team which has won three consecutive away games.

WTF was that first half team Ralph?! Is the back four just a pre-match sweepstake these days?

89:50 into a 2-1 defeat, let’s casually play it around the back five.

I really haven’t seen anything to rave about from him either. He’s made poor decisions more often than not, running into trouble or trying to pass through two defenders.

That’s not a pen. Just stuck his left foot in front of Cedric’s right.

Come on, make this count!

I genuinely feel sorry for Danso. I thought he was supposed to come in and be a decent CB and here he is playing a different position every half an hour. No wonder he looks lost. Valery - Yoshida - Danso - Bertrand Give that defence five uninterrupted games in a row, then see if we’re any better.

Bertrand for Vest please Ralph. This is one of those ‘so crazy it just might work’ defences which George Burley used to use to engineer 3-0 defeats.

Great lofty ball in towards Cook from Cedric, that’ll work.

Appalling.

All started from Cedric having the ball in acres on the left and looking to play it back across our back line instead of getting forward and crossing. Bizarre line up from Ralph.