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Darlow’s hands are so weak.

Diame is also clearly our most intelligent player.

This is the most frustrated I’ve been all season.

You know you have a bad GK when your heart stops on a shot from the halfway line.

This is infuriating.

Only West Ham at home was more of a gift. We must win this.

Gayle for Murphy.

Excellent clearance by Clark.

Darlow made a good save assuming someone told him he couldn’t move his feet.

Murphy is a disaster.

Murphy anonymous so far.

They are all yelling at one another. This could become so fun.

Another good counter. We have to score. They are a mess.

They could unravel if we score. Atsu should have done better.

Yedlin may have killed Shaqiri, which would be his best contribution of the season.

This is the first Christmas period I feel like there’s definitely too many games. Is it any different than in year’s past?

I think our new owner or owners will be far more ambitious than Ashley ever has been or will. I don't imagine we will see mega money being spent, however. I think it was be gradual growth with an emphasis on investing on infrastructure, the academy etc. They haven’t even got the ambition to get the deal done. They haven’t understood announcing this would give us a much needed lift and some hope amongst fans for real change. Instead we roll in to tomorrow with no new players which is negligent in our current situation. All their decisions so far have been money first. We’ve had 10 years of that, it hasn’t worked. All they’ve done so far is upset the current squad and produce a load on uncertainty. Window is basically here and they’ve still not done the deal. Can’t with till the 20th and they are still taking their time on offering a revised bid. Should do wonders for our chances of staying up. I think these are the two worst posts I've ever seen on this board. Congratulations.

We should have at least two in before the Swansea game if we're going to do what we should do this window, but I'm not optimistic of that happening unless the takeover is done in the next 48-72 hours.

Give Rafa Zaha, Townsend, and a bang average striker (someone like Shane Long) and we’d be very comfortable. Zaha alone would transform us.

That’s in the running for the worst game of football I’ve ever seen.

Not sure that was a dive mind. At best a fanciful flop. No need for it.

Gayle needs to stop diving. It’s embarrassing.

His best days come too inconsistently and, worse than that, he has a penchant for being lazy without the ball. Add the fact he's liable to do something stupid at any moment and I'd have no problem shipping him out as long as the fee was at least what we paid and was definitely going to be re-invested.

Look at Otamendi in that picture. He's already running back to the line. Many defenders, especially ours, would be standing still protecting against a potential cross.

Aarons, Murphy, and Joselu (others too but those three especially) really lacked composure in the first half, which really hurt. Couldn’t take any of the pressure off. Gayle could have shot before or after the dive. Two other close chances. Any of those go in and it’s party time on here. I would have preferred we went for it though and lost 5-1.