Lenny

Literally no interest in passing the ball forward. Manquillo looks up, sees a man ahead of him and a pass on. Turns around and passes backward. Painful

We are so garbage to watch. Meandering, unambitious shite.

We are so far beyond “this is our worst performance for so long” it’s become a running joke. We have had 13 years of several performances of this standard a season.

O ye, of little faith.

The faux crowd noise when the whistle went

Above Man City though.

Considering there is no lack of unity or confidence in the squad, and Bruce has a relatively reasonable squad of players, this is totally on him. It's an unacceptable level of performance from pretty much every player (bar Almiron I suppose)

A shot so bad the keeper has to put effort in to usher it out of play

It’s not really though is it. It’s just another in a large catalogue of dreadful performances.

Solid attacking football today, as promised by Bruce.

But why would you go into a game with a player that has absolutely no chance of scoring a towering header?!

I’m guessing that today is the day that the reality of his choice sinks in for Wilson

A 25 minute poor performance (whilst likely carrying a knock) is enough to be deemed pathetic, a bottle job, and the entire remainder of his career determined. Laughable

How to obliterate any "good will" you've earned yourself in 7 mins. GG Bruce.

2 up front, yet no one within what might as well be half a pitch of Wilson when he has the ball.

The new whipping boy? They game looks over, they should throw Joelinton on to play his established role and spare poor Lewis Seriously man; if someone warrants criticism, they can be criticised without being considered a "whipping boy". I know. I just find it funny man. I know he's struggled, but have you seen this setup and team though man? I mean, my God That's a different subject, that is admittedly far more worthy of discussion and criticism. However, our tactical setup or lack thereof doesn't give the players a free pass when discussing/assessing their performance.

Embarrassing how off their pace we are.

The new whipping boy? They game looks over, they should throw Joelinton on to play his established role and spare poor Lewis Seriously man; if someone warrants criticism, they can be criticised without being considered a "whipping boy".

We are far worse today than West Ham were last week.

We're definitely getting a red or two, here.

This is tragic.

It's alright, Bruce has said we're going to be more attacking this season, so I'm sure we'll still win.

Playing Carroll today takes away any tactical credibility Bruce might have earned by playing him against "a big West Ham team". Unless of course Brighton are also a big team in his opinion, along with the rest of the division I'm sure.

Kane has always had good passing vision tbf.

£115m-ish on Man Utd's Centre back pairing and they're (rightfully) deemed not good enough to be a title winning pairing.