Pilko

Made to look like a total non event today. He'll have better days and hopefully they're point-winning ones soon.

Miggy for Murphy at 1-0 was lazy and obvious. Needed to get ASM and/or Gordon on earlier sadly.

Bruno has been a fucking waste of space today. Absolutely crap. Really could have done with him asserting even some influence on the midfield here but it's been a red zone all day.

Just feels like nowt's going our way here. Probably worth rolling the ASM dice soon.

Crap half really other than the first few mins. Ref is buying their bullshit better than ours as well which doesn't help. Once again, it feels like a right old laboured watch with nae Sean in the midfield. Not sure what we can do here to change it but sure Eddie will have an idea.

Brentford and Fulham can fuck right off, lying down and putting in the most insipid performances against these when they've played shit and stuttered to a barely deserved win.

A really interesting take, glad you took the time to post it.

Not so sure it was, he'd been in for months, we'd still only won once, didn't look miles better for it and he was still picking knackers like Clark. One shot on target at home versus a crap Watford team and a limp late equaliser. Obviously, benefit of hindsight, the massive corner turn was only a few weeks away, but it looked bleak at the time.

Bet you've never been wrong before either have you?

I was reading something about how it's possible to get Photo 39 on the back of your top rather than Bruno 39. The odds are so slim but there's this picture that makes it look like it happened.

Sure there was a 0-0 at home under Roeder too? We drew 0-0 with Chelsea the game before or after.

He'll want to put him in the shop window, just like he did with his Land Rover.

Agree. I'm normally first to bump this thread every week when we get landed with horrific or inconsistent decisions - thought the fella today was fine. Like you say, no big calls to make, but had a handle on the game which is rare these days.

Klopp isn't evil but he's at the very, very top of whatever the bracket below that is. If I walked past someone kicking the fuck out of him on the street I'd go and buy them a sandwich and a Red Bull so they could do it for longer.

To be fair to Gary O'Neil, everyone and their dog had Bournemouth nailed to go down when he took over there and he's steered them to safety with games to spare. They've still taken some hammerings but he's done well to get the points in early.

You can see the signs and the glimmers, he's just incredibly raw and lacking in decisiveness. Possibly trying too hard to impress. He will have some shit games (Villa) and some better ones. He'll be a good player in 2-3 years, hopefully it's with us.

Once again - no Longstaff in the middle and we look disjointed as fuck. Still got every faith we turn this around, can see Wilson and Isak getting time on the pitch together again. Be interesting to see what Eddie does.

I didn't explain it all that well like. I still think we'll win, just think it might be a closer, grind it out 2-1 job this time. Of all the games we've had lately this is the one you'd expect to rattle in 4, 5 or 6 the most so it might be subverted I think, that's all.

Get the feeling we'll be expected to piss this and it might be a scrappy struggle. Then again I said that before Everton

Glad to see him back. He was tidy and solid other than the yellow card incident. Hopefully he can start to challenge BDB over the remaining weeks.

Sad, jealous old wanker is bitter.

Reminded me a bit of that Berbatov Vs West Ham one where he dribbles along the touchline except even better. That one was replayed for years and years so I hope this one is similarly replayed. Between that today and the Willock assist at the weekend we're witnessing sheer footballing porn at the moment.

Has he forgot his whistle?