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This is correct.

Feels like this cliche gets trotted out every other game. Aye. Losing 3-1 to Fulham will make them all better players.

Bimpy, why do you have such a problem with people being defensive of Rafa? It's pretty fucking natural, like. Mistakes or not.

I don't think we've got a choice but to try 4-4-2 at home now, like. We won't, though.

He asked for 2 players before the window started and nothing happened. Not his fault he was ignored but it's time to change the approach at home now.

Losing 2-0 at home to Wolves was worse. Wolves.

The thing for me is (and I love Rafa) is he doesn't get how to use the home support. That where Keegan nailed it. Then you need to look at your support, because he was a master of exactly that at Liverpool. Playing good football would help. It's terrible to watch. It's true, mind. We play passive, predictable and ineffective stuff at home and it's hardly conducive to getting the support involved.

One good result then.

Been brilliant all season? Been one of the main reasons we're probably going up? You don't just turn on players based on one game like. Well generally when a player is subbed the reaction is based on his performance that day rather than the whole season. Sorry, are you saying Dwight Gayle deserves to be booed off or something?

I'd forgotten about that for a few minutes.

Yeah let's not go mad. He's getting it wrong at home but we're still top of the league with players who are Championship level all day long.

You're an idiot, like. Losing at home 0-3 to Fulham would suggest that maybe i'm not the idiot here. You are, though. Dummett returned from injury for the last 6 games for which we won 3 and drew 3. Got us relegated indeed.

Keeping anything but Rafa has the potential to take us back down. Gayle, Shelvey, and Ritchie are the only players I'd definitely keep, and not necessarily starting either. We don't need an overhaul, though.

Bringing a defender on?

Time for a trip to the woodshed now, like. For Rafa more than anyone else.

Before this game we'd been unbeaten at home for 6 games, and have only lost 2 in 12 games. 6 clubs are better than us at home and you're actually defending it? You're a fucking parody, man.

I bet you're still glad we didn't sign Townsend.

Pitiful. The absolute shit in this league and we're genuinely not even a top 6 side at SJP.

Why'd you have to talk so much rubbish all the time?

It's hardly a question of effort. It's just a combination of a passive approach and players collectively unsuited to breaking teams down.

Our last loss was 6 days before the six nations started

Getting Colback off and adding another attacking threat will create chances though that's just common sense Well, yeah I'd put Perez on at this point. I wouldn't bring on Murphy yet, though.

Not sure how playing another striker is going to remedy the fact that we aren't creating chances, like. We need a different approach. By the sounds of it moving up and compressing the game a bit.

Have we even worked their keeper once? It's pretty abject, like. We had the 7th best home record in the league before today. Doesn't work.

Problem is in certain positions everything we have available is of pretty poor quality.