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Right then lads. Get another 2 then let Fulham beat spurs by 2 and we're 10th tonight

I kinda like Moyes, would hate him as our manager but he's a likeable chap. This isn't a Moyes team though, they've done it badly but they've tried to play rather than just grind something out. The only Moyes thing about it is a player called Barry playing for Moyes Everton

It's certainly more common to see them score after scoring an own goal

Can he play the left of centre role? Would love to see a run of Tonali, Bruno and Miley.

For all his good finishes there is a real good chance that he would have over thought and bolloxed up the third goal today

Pretty sure I've just cum in my pants with that dink

Geordie to Geordie past Mackem. Lovely. Better goal than the Brighton away back heel?

Nah, Schar didn't deserve to be dropped but the form of Botman and Thiaw rightly kept him out. Burn is unlucky in having to play left back but the red card gave Schar a chance and he took it. It's Thiaw and Schar on form

I'd stick him on the bench if we're going to have 2 keepers there anyway. Match day experience, integration and being part of the teal talks etc. And you never know we may be in a position where we are 3 up with 10 to go and we can give him a jog out

You can see the logic. This season's a write off already and Ange always wins something second season

Teach? Schools? In Liverpool?

Howes ringing the changes for this one Pope Tino Schar Thiaw Burn Tonali Ramsey Joelinton Gordon Elanga Wolte

Bit generous on to give him credit for Barnes goal

Yes but you haven't been in and around training sessions and playing at the highest level possible at his age groups for 4-5 years. Neave would have in all likelihood done little mother than provide a pivot up front and a focus to play off. But he may just as possibly attacked that header or made the ball just before half time. Either way he contributes more than Gordon tonight

There wasn't anything in Dubs and Pope but Dubs coming in last season was a big part in the winning run just by being in form

He knows the role. We saw it when Wood signed, just having a striker playing as a striker helps the rest of the team. You can also point to his lack of challenge when Thiaws header was cleared off the line and that 'whatever the fuck that was' just before half time as moments which would have won us the game. But yes overall Pope cost us the game, not Gordon. Gordon just didn't do anything to positively influence it, which you need and should expect from your attacking players

That would be fine if Tino hadn't played left back. Same xi but Tino RB, Burn LB. I'm the first to moan about the predictability of our approach, Burn at LB and lack of plan B, but the 5-4-1 is proven to get far less than the sum of parts. I'd say Burn at LB is the lessor of the evils

I know he has a a kid but Neave would have been better upfront. At least he knows the role and a continental game is less physical than the premier League. Burn staying on and Schar going off when chasing the game was also the wrong decision

Thought he could have stood up better for the second as well. Yes he has to guess a bit at that distance but you stand up not drop down. May well have gone in regardless but still the wrong move. Writing was on the wall in the Liverpool game, the pre shoulder injury Pope saves 2 of those goals, yes they would have been incredible stops but that was his strong point

Add Gordon to that list

Well we played more than 6 so the minute was added on

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Only thing he got wrong was giving a foul when their keeper went down. Burn landing on his head would have stopped the game anyway so even that didn't impact anything

It was obviously ever so slightly dramatic but it's not that far off the mark 🤣

We really are quite bad at chasing games. And seeing them out. Not bad at taking a lead, but that's often the worst thing we can do.