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Isak is back for this surely?

Fucking hell what is with all these daft rumours today? Like Trippier people need to find reasons for errors beyond the person in question simply being fallible. Eddie Howe’s personal life is to blame for us not being able to string 3 passes together away from home.

At the peak of his ability he was sold by Bournemouth to us in the Championship. He’s also spent the last 2 1/2 years warming our bench because no club has ever shown any interest and he’s seemingly happy collecting a wage. I’ve no idea what this ‘influence’ is but we don’t need any of our players learning from his example if we want anything approaching a winning mentality.

That’s a complete fib, to be fair. As much as I’m happy to see him getting support this morning.

Burn will play LB against Luton surely. Why in God’s name would you play Dummett?

I think Trippier’s a lot mentally stronger than to let one of our pissed up daft words away at Bournemouth effect him 6 weeks later.

Problem is, you drop Trippier you’re taking away our most creative player by far. Don’t let 3 goals against 10 man Fulham fool you; everything goes through him. It’s something that needs addressing in midfield and out wide and I have a reasonable amount of confidence Eddie knows that. But until we spend money he absolutely has to play unless he’s totally fucked.

Trippier? He basically ran the first half against Milan 7 days ago along with Bruno.

We had a winger on the bench. You were seemingly happy Ritchie came on instead.

There’s a tonne of daylight between not working out as planned, and being behind Matt Ritchie in the pecking order.

Feel bad for him. Not a coincidence that these errors seem to happen away from home when we forget how to keep the ball, the front 6 go into their shells and he’s got no one to exchange with. Also it’s blatantly obvious and has been for a while he doesn’t like playing next to Lascelles.

With 40+ minutes left.

No one is saying it’s his fault that he’s shit. Or that he was chiefly to blame. The decision to give him a full half of football is indefensible thought. He literally can’t contribute.

At his very best he had no business being anywhere a team with our ambitions. To be getting minutes every game 7 years later is a disgrace. And yes, it does set a tone.

Fitting. 40 minutes of him with Hall - who can actually run and contribute - sitting doing nothing as per. Pathetic decision. We’re effectively down to 10 men with zero pace on the break all half.

To when, Burton Albion at home?

Hall must be utter shit in training. Matt fucking Ritchie ffs.

It’s a symptom of their squad as much as it Hodgson’s style of play. To call him the most boring by a solid margin is harsh.

You might want to look at how many goals Palace scored before they appointed him.

81 points is outrageous, mind. That’s super impressive, especially when considering the hard work Stevie ‘I’m hard’ Gerrard did to set them back.

Every time there’s a bad game between the ‘big’ sides someone comes out with a carbon copy of this post. Every league has shit games. Get over it.

Decent coach? Have a word. I don’t like Villa but Emery is superb. Easily the league’s most accomplished manager behind Pep and Klopp.

Have the 3 promoted clubs ever been as shit as this in PL history? They’re all just utter rubbish.

Was superb, as usual.

The guy’s a thick nonce whoever he is. Gets it wrong every time.