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We really need another buffer between us and 18th like. We don't want to be the side looking over our shoulder.

Dubravka Manquillo Schar Burn Targett Shelvey Willock Joelinton Fraser ASM Wood Please.

I'm impressed by how he's easing senior players out of the side.

I love seeing players wasting time through injury but could Emil Krafth try and remain on the pitch next time. Dafty could have cost us the game. Fraser, Joelinton, Shelvey and Burn were all in contention this week for SHOTM, but the winner goes to Chris Wood for his great impression of Puss In Boots towards Kurt Zouma.

JT is our Shithousing specialist, I'm sure of it. He probably came up with the "meow" thing on his tanning bed.

What do you reckon for a fee? 14m?

Maxi and Manquillo and we win.

Said it before and I will say it again. Brazil national team soon.

That's crazy like. Offside by a millimetre and didn't give him any advantage.

Wow.

Yeah a result here is good for us.

You can't afford central players to go missing so often. Would be different if he played out wide and drifted in and out of games but he's exactly the type who won't put in the hard yards. He will win games for Villa but it will be detrimental to their team IMO.

Rafa will get the blame.

You know your shit when Shane Long is scoring.

We can't expect the bottom 3 to never pick up points and if they do pick up points, someone above us is dropping points. Leeds, Brentford, Everton must be cracking it.

I suspect Stevie G being a shite manager and Roy Hodgson being a good one is more likely to fuck us in the arse.

Thanks for that. I suspect the average has been going down over the last few years too. I'd say 35 points was a more reasonable target than 40.

I'd bet my bollocks that they won't win both games in hand.

After getting promoted? Honestly, I'm not sure how Eddie Howe doing a good job now means Rafa did a bad job. The two scenarios aren't even comparable. Not least because Rafa was not once backed during a PL transfer window.

Even if they win, they are 5 points behind us.

What is the average points it takes to survive? I would be very interested if someone was willing to do the maths.

This only annoys me because he said we had no chance against West Ham. Norwich and Watford playing well.

I'm a Howe fan boy.

It's a numbers game for him now. He just needs goals and assist on a regular basis, for a full season.

In January did we sign a Director of Shithousery and nobody tell us?