Chris27687

+1. Football fans are generally terrible excuses for human beings on a good day - trying to get everyone sacked because we are having a rough patch is the height of pathetic. People really need to remember how far we have come and how competitive the premier league is. Fortunately it's only a small % of fans.

He's only got to convert a meagre 10% of them and he'll end up somewhere around 40 goals for the season.

This has been great watching Long tear them apart.

Must win.

I think we will sack him now. I don't think it will achieve much. Don't seem to be many good managers about and I think this team won't be relegated regardless.

Yeah, pretty much this. I don't think changing the manager is going to achieve much though.

That was a nice surprise. Really ****ing hope VVD was the cause of all the problems and we can have a good cup run.

It's really good he's managed to leave before the transfer window has opened. Backing MOPE was 30-40m to spend on 2/3 players is the best option imo.

Time to get rid for £60m to City. Hopefully we've all learnt some lessons from the debacle.

Definitely 2 points dropped. Our performances are getting better, team seems to be gelling a bit more and creating more chances from open play.

Lemina needs to come on for JWP. He looks ****ed

Stephens has looked really good. Redmond has been so wasteful - he's clearly so low on confidence. Gabby/Long can come on in the second half and really capitalise on this back line. Boufal for redmond asap

Fair result, Charlie should have buried his 2nd chance, he buried 2 of them last week ffs! We might regret dropping 2 here with our upcoming fixture list. Probably though it's more about 2 mid table sides playing each other who are going to end up mid table. VVD was exceptional. Boufal, whilst wasteful is getting better and better every game he starts. He's probably my 1st pick on the team sheet. Hoedt was excellent aside from the mistake. Oriol was Oriol. Edit: Forster was good.

Forster Cedric VVD Hoedt Bertrand PEH Lemina Davis Boufal Gabbi Tadic Lemina/Davis can take it in turns to get forward with the 3 on the break. The only chance we have is if we exploit Delph at the back.

Depends if we play like we always do in December...

We really have to win this convincingly - they are at absolute rock bottom. If we don't i'll start getting worried about this year. 3-0 Saints.

This game was weird, in so many ways. We are mid-table and have to get a 1st team and style sorted before the FA Cup. 8-ish weeks to see what a pellegrino team looks like imo.

We've probably been a bit too happy to sit back since the goal - ultimately we are leading and they haven't really looked like scoring. When they get more open I can see us scoring on the counter. They'll struggle to score putting balls into the box with VVD and Hoedt in there.

With Lemina out we have to play the following: ----------Forster Cedric VVD Yoshida Bertrand ----------Romeu -----Davis-------Tadic -----------Boufal ------Gabby----Long Should be a ding dong if we do.

Some people are getting really riled up about a bunch of kids being a bunch of kids. Am i missing something, but is this really that bad?

You have to be kidding.

Tony Pulis summary of the goal has made it even better. 'Some people might like that goal' ..... 'Sure, he went past 5 players' .....

I feel that if he wants to progress he is going to have to step up and be a leader. For the first season he was happy to shun that role and just try a bunch of skills knowing it didn't really matter as there where others more in the limelight. This game and the last he has been good when he came on and looked way more complete. Hopefully he is going to be he AMC spark we have been crying out. We will have a dilemma though - with the diamond (The Puel Diamond) we lack width, without (still in a 4-4-2) we are too open. Maybe Boufal can be the solution to the 4-4-2 diamond, which he was signed to play in & we signed a manager who specifically played with a diamond to get the best out of.

What a joke WBA are - not even trying to play football. Lemina has been great - we are really missing some width, It really feels like we have no one on the right side of the pitch. If this continues we should win.

I will be disappointed if we don't score another. Palace have been shocking. Can see Gabby coming on and grabbing 1 or 2.