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Murphy > Barnes & Gordon on RW for me. They simply aren't suited to play there. Start Gordon at LW, run him to the ground, put on Barnes for him around the 60-70th minute mark. Use the squad rather than putting square pegs in round holes.

That's probably my preferred starting line-up minus Botman.

We'll play surprisingly good, only to be let down by one dumb mistake or a shit decision. We'll hope that we can at least take the performance with us to Brentford only to lose 2-0 in a lacklusture performance. There'll be some nearly creaming themselves with delight over being able to paint everything black on here while others will be on suicide watch.

I'd be totally fine with it if he managed to squeeze in "I am for inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in football, but personally due to the way I interpret my religion, I could never be anything other than a straight CIS male" with really small text. That could of course be what he means with his messaging, but making these statements and not elaborating on them he opens himself up to scrutiny.

I get that, and said as much in my previous post. The question was more specifically to Segun when he wrote "One can acknowledge they exist without wearing the group's paraphernalia at their place of employment. Refusal to do so does not make them hateful or evil, no matter how much certain people will protest." as I was curious if he had the same opinion if the refusal was racially motivated.

Going back to the point @AyeDubbleYoo raised a few posts above. How would you feel if our captain refused to wear an anti-racism armband because he though black people were inferior? Genuine question btw. I don't think people choose their sexual orientation or identity same way people don't get to choose the color of their skin.

It's impossible to keep politics and religion out of football, like most things in life. There are religious LGBTQ+ people and allies as well, so I find it difficult to accuse him of having bigoted views unless he comes out and specifies exactly what he meant by this statement. Since he seems to be a near and good friend of Gordon who seems to be a canny person I want to give him the benefit of doubt and hope it was with good intentions. Sam Moresy refused to wear a rainbow armband for Ipswich against Forest, which would obviously be a better way to go about it if he had something against LGBTQ+ people.

Going through a few threads and its Howe out, only transitional manager anyway Isak brittle and not worth £100m+ anymore Pope lower table quality Gordon fucking shite and first choice purple to get canned for money Trippiers influence on squad so high his personal issues are affecting the whole team and we didn't even lose

Awful defending by Joelinton, awful goalkeeping by Pope letting it in on the near post like that. Still, fully deserved for Palace I guess. A point is still a robbery

Trippier for Livramento would be good around now to calm things down and keep the ball a bit more.

He's really not good at dribbling. Can only knock the ball past the opponent and hope to out pace them.

Guehi forgetting which team he plays for

We're not behind and 2nd half can't possibly be more dull, so there's that

Good game this

While I agree we should play our players where they are best, the mistakes Gordon have made doesn't have anything to do with him playing right or left wing. He's just playing really poorly.

Oof, Gordon really stinking the place up

Let's hope we don't allow Will fucking Hughes to seem like prime Pirlo this time.

I get it, and I didn't mean to say there isn't any corruption/favoritism/incompetence from the referees at all. Generally speaking though, over a season, the better teams tend to have slightly more penalties on account of having the ball more often in the oppositions box, but other than that it seems bad decisions evens themselves out.

Merely pointing out that your feelings and reality might not be properly synchronized.

Liverpool 1 with more penalty than us over entirety of last season up to date. Refs everlasting favorites Man Utd with 3 less than us.

If he continues on current form throughout the season he can't blame many but himself for not qualifying for Europe with the number of good chances not being converted.

Clock is right once a day and all, but wasn't surprised at how this went. A classic Newcastle result At least I'm not on the list of whom to blame:

How many crosses is that from Murphy now?

Been browsing N-O so much he's starting to warm up to the out of position nonce brigade.

The amount of popping up when things are going against us compared to when we're doing well is staggering