James

Bristol Rovers fans are definitely better than Mansfield fans

I think Chelsea are done

Guardiola is overrated in the sense that he is nowadays held up as an example of pure football when really he is an unrepentant drug cheat

Point at Old Trafford is a great result for any bottom five team. I don’t think they are out of it yet, Everton Leeds and Brentford should all be very worried as two of them could conceivably go down

We’ve turned around a 4 goal difference on Brentford as well as overtaking them, another goal would be fantastic on that front.

They are still waiting to Greg to finish work so they can start the meeting

We are now ahead of Leeds and Brentford but behind Burnley on points per game. Everton only marginally ahead.

would help if you knew the difference between the words enforce and reinforce

what do you want? Ashworth’s contract to be posted online for us all to inspect?

By keeping him on the books until September they are preventing lost future revenue relating to their scouting network which probably significantly exceeds Ashworths salary so it makes perfect financial sense. it isn’t anti employment because he is being paid very well and is serving his agreed notice period.

Thing is Ashworth knows the name of the 19 year old Argentinian winger, 16 year old Forest Green Rovers full back and 23 year old Slovenian goalkeeper that Brighton will be able to sign for a combined £3m in the summer. I don’t think Brighton will want that info passed on to other clubs so I think he will have to serve the full 9 months gardening leave.

Manquillo is good enough to be a back up full back next year. So is Dummett arguably when you consider home grown quotas for next couple of years. However for someone to be good back up you need to know they are robust physically and going to be available to cover. Due to their injury records we should therefore move them on.

Is he asthmatic? From a zoomed out camera it looked like Joelinton handed him something, took a puff and then thrown off the pitch

Dubravka

He was clearly carrying something last week makes sense to give him a rest

so many hystericals

Without ASM probably need to go a bit more direct and focus on crossing etc so Murphy ahead of Almiron makes sense.

In addition we should be having defences on the ropes knowing that if they foul ASM or Willock or Fraser or put out for a corner then Trippier is on the set pieces. this injury means that teams can continue to negate us through fouls etc

We genuinely aren’t ok defensively now, Krapth just couldn’t handle the right side there was so much space that was giving Aston Villa joy. The VAR call and the shock that it gave saved us as it scared Howe into making a tactical change. he will need help and the only way we can do that is to move to five at the back which has its own problems

If he can’t start I’d still have him on the bench then send him to warm up where he can be an extra coach on the sidelines

Mick, NE5 and HWTL takes it to 207.

rewatch the build up to the second goal, he played an important role here that allowed several players to break forward into space

It was a great cameo and would have liked to have seen more. got to remember however that Everton had been obliterated by that point though they had gaps everywhere

To be honest I was a bit emotional following the the third goal, it felt like a reawakening, a passion I haven’t genuinely felt since Sir Bobby

I’m sure he would have been able to run off that knock if we weren’t winning 3-1 at 90 mins