The Prophet

Obviously don't want to kick the geezer with everything going on, but what was Eales playing at here? Misses out on Dougie Freedman after a long and public hiring process, then panics and asks his mate to do him a favour without thinking through whether it was a good fit. Poor stuff.

They have been for a few weeks, but they probably have too many points on the board not to finish top five. Injuries and the schedule seems to be also doing a bit of a number on them too. They have carried a decent amount of luck this sesson mind.

The problem with VAR is that the utterly incompetent lads today could easily be the ones sat in Stockley Park. At present it's another layer of subjective officiating that's getting more and more scope to interfere. Decisions are still going to be at the mercy of the competency of incompetent officials.

Hopefully the "Howe out" brigade have created a bit of a seige mentality...

These like to play and will have a go. 2-2, before we press the life out of them at SJP.

Feels like they're letting the VAR debate detract from two honking officiating performances. After all, VAR if just another layer of subjective officiating.

Brilliant tonight. Unsurprisingly stepped up in the absence of Bruno.

On comms they said it was the latter.

Said in the match thread, we've been on the end of some absolutely honking officiating performances late. Chelsea, PSG and the worst of the lot tonight. Those fine margins are the last thing you need when the team and manager are up against it.

What did Trippier say?

Winning this should be our top priority now.

It'd be nice for at least one of the big sides to go out, but that's looking unlikely. Mansfield at home please.

Fucking hell, words fail me. Just astonishingly bad.

Absolutely clsss scenes, no idea how these cup results are discounted so readily.

Showed a lot of resilience there. Heads could have easily gone down after the woeful decisions. If we didn't have City on the horizon, I might start to believe its the start of another Eddie Howe run.

Get in! Kavanagh getting home to the neighbour bucking his wife would round off a top evening.

This legitimately be the worst refereeing display I've ever seen. I'm not exaggerating.

Have that you corrupt cunt.

They'll play into our hands thankfully.

Need to move it round with a bit more urgency like.

How can it be poor defending? They've held the line

Comfortably.

Between this, the PSG and the Chelsea games, we've been on the end of some absolutely rotten officiating performances this season.

We've been absolutely shafted here like.