Lighthouse

That ball from Redmond back to Romeu is everything I don't like about him. He's right down by the by-line and instead of trying to beat his man and getting a possible cross or corner, he passes it back deep and central to a position we're never going to score from.

FFS Redmond, get your arse in gear.

Reminded me a bit of the first goal we conceded against Wolves.

Oh yes! Tadic, that is what you need to do every game!

5 games in 1 goal which wasn't a penalty. Failed to score in 4/5, all against mediocre to poor opposition. Conceded twice at home in 3/4 games. 13th after the easiest start we could possibly have hoped for. I dread to think where we'll end up when we've played some good teams.

Has Boufal ever actually created a goal for anyone? I vaguely remember him having a touch in one of J Rod's goals at Bournemouth but that's about it. How does giving away offsides and goal kicks equate to tempo?

Long instead of Gabbi.... Glad to see Yoshi back in for JS.

I guess I walked into that, although the goal was all about Ibe really.

First Prem goal for Drew Surman

I think our saving grace could well be that there's some absolute gash in this league. Bournemouth, Brighton, Udders, Burnley, Swansea, West Ham, Newcastle and Palace really don't look up to much. Leicester have had some tough fixtures so I'd cut them some slack for now but the jury is well and truly out on Everton. How's Defoe's 3 year contract starting to look now?

Doesn't matter. So long as the club can stand there and say 'we banned him for 3 years, we've done all we can' it shifts the blame away from them and on to the individual.

That thought had occurred to me. When I saw the pictures of the Manchester bomber I could tell straight away he was an absolute f**king crayon eater. Rubber dingy rapids bro!

True but it still comes down to the same point. If someone ends up seriously injured or killed one day, they will all get dragged up in front of a board of inquiry and scrutinised on a microscopic level. Why did the stewards do this, how many did you have, how many Police were in the ground, what segregation was used, why were known pitch invaders not banned, who was in charge of Policing, was he qualified, has there been any previous trouble between these two sets of fans, was there trouble in town before the game etc. etc. The club is just covering their arse. They will quite happily make an example of a couple of fans if it makes the rest think twice before doing it in future.

Yes but Rooney has come home and scored 2 goals to silence his critics, or something.

What happened wasn't exactly bad but it's more what could have happened that they're getting punished for. The Hammers fans weren't exactly pleased about it, a fair few of them were trying to get on the pitch to have a friendly discussion with them. So what happens if they go on the pitch too? A fight, where suddenly everyone wants in and before you know it 3 dosen blokes from both sets of fans are kicking 3 shades of sh*te out of each other on the pitch. Not to mention attacking the poor stewards trying to control the situation, the Police outside the ground and in town afterwards. Eventually someone goes one step to far and someone gets stabbed. Then it's all minutes silences, flowers outside the stadium and screaming, frothy mouthed hysterics about how the Police could allow this to happen. We've all seen the amount of sh*t South Yorkshire Police are still getting 1/4 of a century later for failing to control a crowd. Are you really surprised they come down hard on incidents like this?

I think it was more in retaliation for the West Ham fans who ran on the pitch when they equalised.

I'd got with Gabbi and Boufal up front and Tadic in behind if we were to play that formation.

I like the use of the word 'drop' as if it's that simple. From where exactly, because a formation of B52s flying over NK is pretty much going to start a war regardless of what they're dropping. I think we should just play Genesis Greatest Hits across the border from the South until they either commit suicide or just die of boredom.

There isn't a creative player in that team at all. It's 5 defenders, 3 hard working midfielders and 2 rather bored strikers getting no kind of service. I know Tadic, Redmond and Boufal have been pretty abysmal thus far but one of them needs to play.

Probably didn't mean to be on the pitch, he was just a long way out of position.

As do the exhausted ball boys.

Double penetration

I didn't think playing our best player counted as desperation.

You have an odd outlook on the situation.

Austin showed at QPR he is capable of 10-15 goals a season. Gabbi showed what he is capable of in the cup final. Tadic showed what he is capable of under Koeman Hojbjerg, JWP, Redmond and Boufal all have talent in varying amounts but are yet to produce results. We can't keep going on about losing Mané and Pelle. Yes they are a big loss but 18 other teams in this division manage to score without them.