Away Toon

If Willock is going to play wide left he needs to produce a lot more.

Hope so.

Gordon must be really shit if he's not starting for this Everton side.

Do we know what the loan fee is?

It's a conditional obligation. If they are not met they dont have to do fuck all.

BBC are reporting a loan with an option to buy not even an obligation if if if and if various things happen. Probably back in the summer

If we had paid 10m for Wood we would have overpaid, the fact we paid 25m was ridiculous and has set a nasty precedent for the club.

Unfortunately for ASM I think we're a worse team when he plays, we lack cohesion and intensity when he's on the pitch. Compare his performance today with Mitoma for Brighton yesterday playing in the same position, I know who I would prefer.

So many freekicks and corners and absolutely nothing from them. Very poor.

Fulham look very well coached and organised, you can see why they are so high in the table. No easy points on offer here.

I used to think that Brighton were just really well coached and better as a team than the individual quality of the players, but Estupinan, Colwill, Cancedo, MacAllister and Mitoma are seriously top class players

Fantastic performance from Brighton and Mitoma has been tremendous.

If we can strengthen a bit in this window and get say 15 quality players in the squad rather than the 12/13 we currently have we should be looking at a top 5 finish especially with the current form Chelsea and Liverpool are showing.

I know that things are going well and it's amazing how quickly Howe has improved the players and the team, however I'm pretty sure we are not the third best team in the premier league and so improvements will sooner or later have to be made to the starting 11 and especially the bench. There are also less urgent changes to be made now but they are also coming in the next season or two. We need a starting LB pretty quickly, BDB can't keep this up forever, Targett's signing in retrospect was possibly a mistake as he doesn't appear to be the kind of fullback that Howe wants, and ASM is not starting as Howe is worried about the defensive capabilities on the left side. Both Trippier and Schar have maybe another season before they will need replacing. We are short of quality midfielders and there is a lack of goals from the current ones, Bruno doesn't get forward enough, Willock doesn't score enough and though Longstaff gets into great positions he misses. Big Joe is playing unbelievably well but whether he carries enough goal threat to play wide left or the skillset to play in midfield long term is questionable. Plus he's just done a very stupid thing. There are some quick fixes to some issues and the players we are linked with have premier league experience so Maddison would be a great addition if we can find a system that works with him as he scores goals and Trossard if he's not the twat that the press are trying to make out would carry a much greater goal threat from the left including ASM. If Almiron carry continue at the level he's at and Isak is as good as we think he is, up front we are pretty solid though the drop down to the level of Wood and Murphy is frightening.

No

I know a lot of people on here like Willock but in the end he just doesn't enough going either way. Apart from that spell he had when he couldn't stop scoring there is not much to look at.

The whole team is starting to annoy me. You can't keep missing the chances we do and get away with it for too long.

Looked like Leeds were going to do a Newcastle for a while there, but in the end their replacements did just enough.

He's very slow, so hes going to need some serious talent to make up for it

This. Big televised game on BBC, playing a League 1 team, we never ever fucking disappoint. Got what we deserved.

I'll accept the award. I'm old enough to have been born before we last won something, but most of you on here, aren't you just tired of supporting a club that most of the time makes no attempt to be competitive or win something?

We have won nothing since 1969, half the league has won something since we have, It's appalling and embarrassing. The team picked today was always likely to lose this kind of game, because it's shite and we don't know how to win games when they matter.

Not if we lose it isn't.

We are really a fucking embarrassment of a useless club. Permanently shite when it matters, and absolutely bottlers, there is a reason why we've won fuck all since 1969. If I was Howe I'd tell the owners buy me half a dozen quality players this window or I'll fuck off. Just scored and we might still get out of this but we literally only have 12/13 players who have any quality at all.

Pretty naff team overall, hope that they are not going to disgrace us with another cup upset.