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Yeah the Carroll departure really drove home what we were and would always be under Ashley. Almost criminal that it was was more than a decade later he finally fucked off.

Could easily see that happening too.

He’s obviously borderline normal human intelligence. Was a ridiculous thing to do.

Europa League I’d love. Conference less so.

Can’t see any hope of us finishing 6th. We’ve been absolutely awful away from home all season.

Potentially but there’s just not enough quality behind him or on the right to get the best out of his ability and today was an example of that. He must have been frustrated as hell.

When has Barnes looked like a world beater? Looks like he’s good for a goal every 3 games but very little else to me.

Because it’s not down to injuries. It’s a conscious decision to play him and failure the properly address the issue of RW.

I meant more in the context of the fact we’ve spent a lot of money to be still starting a player that wouldn’t get a game for anyone outside the bottom 4.

Not sure how anyone can keep defending him at this point. Him as our backup costs us points.

4 wingers available and Jacob Murphy gets 68 minutes. Really needs to drop his proclivity toward the grafters.

I’m sure you said those exact words about Steve Bruce.

‘If he’s a Man Utd player I’m a Chinaman.’ Classic Roy Keane.

Not possible unless they lose their last 2 and we win all of ours.

We’d be 5th, 100%. Villa have been very good, to be fair. I think we’d be close to them with Pope, plus Tonali.

Not sure if he’s a good lad or not. He weirdly gets a free pass for defending Mike Ashley for some reason, too.

2 goals from a penalty taker is a cracking return, to be fair. Take it all back.

I just don’t agree. I saw a supposed winger with no pace, no goal threat (in the PL) and zero real ability to make things happen away from set pieces. Just a poor footballer who like so many before him benefited from our huge lack of ambition and lack of focus on targeted upgrades. I know your attitude is ‘well he’s only on the field for 10 mins, who cares?’ But to me, and admittedly I occasionally get irritated by daft things, it just screams ‘club not there yet / woeful academy’ when he’s coming off the bench every game. He doesn’t belong anywhere near a club with any ambition, let alone our ambitions.

Excellent? Have a word. Again though, Rafa left 5 years ago. He’s been here since then because no one else was daft enough to pay his wages.

Bit of a joke him trying to take the penalty mind after his noncontribution to this season.

I don’t know where the great servant thing comes from mind. Was excellent in the Championship but that was 7 years ago. He’s always been shit in the PL and has been paid a lot of money to barely contribute anything on the pitch for 3 years.

Only because Isak hasn’t hit his prime yet, mind. He’s going to be better than every one of that side.

Kluivert walks into that side. Incredible footballer, which we saw in patches here.

Nah, he’s not in Schar’s league right now but he’s younger, quicker.